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Yeah, definitely an existential nihilism in the Nausea.

Even better - playing it. https://youtu.be/Al2oTRNTIE8 Meditation - and it's power to permanently alter brain wave patterns - is a more responsible so...

Sure. But the game can be played. If you reject the game of chess you just stop playing it. You don't get on a soapbox about it - unless you're a very...

Language games a la Wittgenstein. Banno is the forum expert on it. It's just a sideshow to me.

I thought you thought Wittgenstein ended metaphysics. No?

If Wittgenstein put an end to metaphysics, why are you still playing the realism game? Seems like a waste of your time and talents.

You just don't know how or don't want to play their game.

Some people know how to use the word 'quale' and find it apt - if awkward and mootable. Some people don't know how to use the word 'quale' and find it...

Nice. Thank you. :smile: Every translation is its own interpretation...

Lovely stuff: Rest your shining spirit and embrace the One. Can you forever hold onto it? Concentrate your breath and attain the utmost softness. Can ...

What a wealth of translations: Abolish study and you will be free from care. "What the distinction is between 'yea' and 'aye'", "what the difference i...

A cute translation of chapter 20: Don’t spend too much time thinking about stupid shit. Why should you care if people agree or disagree with you? Why ...

Good question. I wasn't familiar with the term. I know CBT has been successful with these kinds of obsessive, self-destructive habits of mind. I hope ...

Just call me angel of the morning, angel! https://youtu.be/NmxICK-4AG4

One thing I have yet to locate is a clear picture of what communism in action would look like according to Marx. My latest lead is his critique of the...

"Oh lucifer, son of the morning!" Just so lovely and brilliant. A breathtaking poet, Isaiah. :fire: :heart: :fire:

Are democracy and egalitarianism incompatible with excellence?

In fact, however, when the limited bourgeois form is stripped away, what is wealth other than the universality of individual needs, capacities, pleasu...

Etymologically speaking, a prophet is "one who speaks for a god, an inspired preacher or teacher." The connotation of fortune-teller was, to my unders...

On the Mad Pride movement: "Paul Levy eloquently described the initiation process in general terms— but in a manner that clearly reflected his own lif...

Far more ridiculous to bitch at length about a man whose books you've never read. Take care. :smile:

I'm still in the reading phase. The phase you skipped over. Have fun.

Kind of like a reading group. And to encourage the ignorant to quit talking out their ass.

I understand it enough not to have to read it. Good.

This might be a good time to read Marx. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/12938/fromm-on-marx-myth-busting-marx “There is continuous reference...

I appreciate your confessing to a quibble. The above we kind of agreed has some connection to flow states.

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To unhappy people, there's nothing more annoying than happiness.

Hi there. When you post for a particular forum member, you can use the @ button to get their attention. Like this: @"ArielAssante" You'll find the @ b...

No problem. It was clear that this particular post was a serious attempt to contribute. It's fun to play the clown on sites like this too. :joke:

There is a close link between mania and Maslow's "peak experience." The first is typically centered in delusion. The second, in spiritual growth and h...

I appreciate this serious attempt to address what's at stake in these fascinating worldviews. Samsara, or the ephemeral - this first-blush existential...

I agree the obscurantism of the book is a good part of the point. It forces us to learn the Tao on our own; we have to fill in the blanks. It's not ob...

Yes. It will look like a self-soothing solipsist alone in a room.

One last thought on desire before we move on. I'm excited to get to the rest of the book. I take desire, whether conscious or unconscious, to be a kin...

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I really like the substitution. It adds clarity and therefore beauty. To my mind, it retains "the sense of striving and grasping"... Maybe "desirous d...

I went ahead and made the substitution ("discontent" for "desire") and now the thing makes a lot more sense to me. Take a look. :smile: Alternate Vers...

Just speak your mind. I've been thinking for myself for a loooooooooong time.

I don't get that sense at all, no sense of imposition. I take your view to be just one of many possibilities. Though I do appreciate your concern.

So if we take contentment to be the opposite of desire we may be able to substitute the word "discontent" where we find the word "desire." That's maki...

The focus on contentment, understood as the opposite of desire, also rings true to me. https://www.meaning.ca/article/contentment-as-the-way-of-nature...

The distinction between craving and aspiration seems solid to me. Not sure how this is reflected in the Tao Te Ching, but maybe you can point me in th...

I had a close look and was still having trouble getting it so I turned to a secondary source. Interested in your take on this: "Taoism, like Buddhism,...

Neither is socially acceptable.

A heist is more socially acceptable than shoplifting?

Do you mean watching a heist movie in place of orchestrating a heist? That would be sublimation.

Is a jewelry heist socially acceptable behavior? Not sure what you're getting at.

"In psychology, sublimation is a mature type of defense mechanism, in which socially unacceptable impulses or idealizations are transformed into socia...