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I appreciate the wordplay - Hammurabai - Nietzsche - meditation -a Nietzsche work whose title includes that word. Yeah, I think the I covers a multipl...

I agree. I do agree, with almost all of that. Through and through. But, jesus, there's something to this sort of thing that reminds me of a subselecti...

Yeah, not discussing. I do think it can be partially shared, but not in that way. I've been meditating more and more regularly the past few months. I'...

I agree with you about german idealism. It's something you contract, it clogs up your head. I was pretty ensorcelled by it for a long time and still r...

I hear you man. Mental illness sucks. I hope you're riding this whole thing out ok. Message me anytime if you want. I've struggled with a lot of menta...

Yeah, but also here's a chance to figure out how to take it, right? If I was speaking with my phil-hat, I'd say something like, idk, we're offloading ...

Ah. The question of neuralink and mental health is a complicated one. I suffer from mental health issues so I understand the pressing need for relief....

Neuralink is an unequivocally awful idea. That it's considered seriously by anyone is alarming. Any new introduction of tech tows with it, almost with...

Still some of the best stuff out there.

If you could bracket all the deaths and suffering- and you can't, but if you could - in my experience, this whole thing has had a net positive effect ...

stray thoughts, slow sunday: -It is very strange to try to capture the structure of the world in a game of claims and defenses. I think, by nature, th...

Yeah, I think it's fair to make a distinction between professional philosophy & spontaneous questioning. I also agree that most people don't know or c...

I have a lot. Before I write them out, I want to make sure: are you asking about individual stories of people outside academia who care about philosop...

don't ignore philosophy entirely. Most people do worry and care about it even though they don't have to.

Most people don't though. I mean that literally. They just don't scratch much, because of what else is on their mind. They have responsibilities (or d...

Right, but think of what we're talking about. The guy on the street doesn't know philosophy. The guy who does - Azner Baez - is sketching how to go be...

Right, that's what I'm saying! It feels a little like we're taking a long walk from philosophy as a folk tradition to philosophy as something only und...

I disagree. Empirically, anecdotally... i just mean reflecting on people I talk to day to day. A lot of people are interested in philosophy - that's w...

@"Snakes Alive" I do think that philosophy is closer to Kabbalah (something evolving, ramifying and so on) than a fixed tradition whose core we can is...

Oof.

That was the bleak moment. All in All, there's actually a giddy feeling of camaradarie I've noticed. I almost prefer it, tbh.

I'm working at home now. I finished my day and went out to smoke a cigarette on my porch. A very drunk man walked by, looked up, made eye contact, and...

I don't think it's impossible, necessarily, but it does seem like you'd have to do some work to show that much later philosophy is essentially doing t...

Everything you've said makes sense to me. I also think you can't connect with others if you can't be by yourself (in reasonable doses.) If you scour o...

Yes. I'd like that too. The real history, I mean. So, the conversation on the thread has since outstripped me, but I did want to respond to this. I su...

Next stanza tomorrow. The 'Grand Galop' stanzas are monsters, and I'm back from bar trivia (first!) with fumbling fingers.

I have!

I think we just posted the same idea, essentially, at the same time.

The big question for me is : Laruelle sure reads a lot like a parisian Intellectual, so is this just a magisterial one-up in a known tradition of one-...

Yeah, I agree with that. & I don't want to jump too in the middle of your conversation with fdrake, but I think (I think...Laruelle sprang to mind whe...

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The dog barks, the caravan passes on. The words had a sort of bloom on them But were weightless, carrying past what was being said. "A nice time," you...

Agreed mostly all around. Still Hadith (or midrash, say) are the go-to analogies rather than, say, Sufi Dance or Quilting etc. Though those can just b...

Same here, but mostly the second half of what you've said. Emphasis on flux is good as a counterbalance to an overemphasis on permanancy, but neither ...

Yeah, I think there's a lot of truth to that. I was going to say that the tradition itself, in philosophy, tends to become a tradition of self-reflect...

That's a good way to look at it. Still it's a particularly decadent and weirdly self-reflective folk tradition. The participants seem particularly con...

8. 'knowing' philosophically seems, inherently, to have something of the umbilical cord tied to something fixed. At the limit, you can do a thing of h...

Some scattered thoughts on this: 1. All three of Holmes' categories get scrambled when you add more detail. A few quick scramblings: Plato did have es...

Water Drops from an air conditioner On those who pass underneath. It's one of the sights of our town. Puaagh. Vomit. Puaaaaagh. More Vomit. One who co...

Cynicism about finance echoed and accepted, but, I mean, it seems clearcut the 'triggering' is corona ( or the perception of corona, if you want to pu...

All things seem mention of themselves And the names which stem from them branch out to other referents. Hugely, spring exists again. The weigela does ...

Back to it. New poem, much longer stanzas. Called: Grand Galop

The better Nietzscheans here can answer your questions better. Until they do: One thing I can say confidentally: Nietzsche wasn't looking to supplant ...

Can anyone who knows more about markets break down why and how and what it means when the stock market plunges so precipitously? I hate to kvetch abou...

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The Big Problem Of Suffering is just the town bully who messes with people who try to leave town, to attempt something better. That's a threat to him....

or the next two seasons! thats a list. i feel like thousand plateaus is a boss in an rpg you fight too early and only confront prepared later on.

my call center job's requiring me to work from home for two weeks because my roommate came home from a vacation to Japan. This virus sucks, but that's...

Just checking in to say - heading out to vote for Bernie now!

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