K: Tom, I appreciate your comments and let me say first of all, you have no
need to tip toe around me…like my writings, don’t like it… I don’t really give a dam…
I am far too old to really give a shit anymore what people think of me or my writings…
I admit I have an agenda when writing this and I have stated this time and time again…
I am working on saving philosophy… philosophy has for a number of reasons, lost
its place in the world and has lost itself…philosophy has gone into a cul de sac
and it cannot escape… so in my effort to save philosophy, I have gone back
and reviewed philosophy… from start to finish… so I spent a year studying ancient
philosophy and then spent the next year studying medieval philosophy and now I
in the midst of Renaissance philosophy and shortly I will hit “modern” philosophy…
I have over the years in this thread listed what I have found out… This is in part,
part of my goal… to report my findings of what I have found in my study of philosophy…
You can go back and read them at your pleasure…
In my time, I have also discovered many different aspects of life and I have reported those
as well… the interconnectedness of life and how Spinoza was right (not to anticipate
too much of what I have found) and science is focused on the how and philosophy is
focused on the why and the why is what I am after…I believe I have made
some major philosophical discoveries as in my connection between Hegel and
Nietzsche for example…and it really doesn’t matter to me if every single person on planet
earth disagrees with me…I know what I have done… so, another aspect of my
agenda is to “wake” people up… I have learned that it is the radicals that shakes up
the world… Descartes, Spinoza, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche… all of them
have done some radical, radical thinking and in doing so, have gotten people to
reevaluate, rethink what it means to be human and what is possible philosophical
to learn… it is not enough to learn for one own pleasure… we have to share
our gains with the world, even if the world isn’t listening or cares…
I know no one here understands or even cares what I write and that is fine with me…
My audience is probably not even born yet…and I can live with that…
if I can get even one person to rethink or reevaluate their thinking, I have done
my job…
I argue against spirituality for a specific reason and for philosophy for a specific reason…
spirituality leads people away from themselves and to something outside of them…
Philosophy is about people and what is possible for people… Perhaps, perhaps
I put too much faith in people… but I must… I stand for the here and now…
Not some far off reward and not some imaginary god, but today and for people…
I argue for people and life… I reject spirituality because it rejects people in the name
of some far off emotionalism… if you want something bigger to believe in…
something to live for, something to die for… I offer life…I offer the possible
greatness of people… I offer something more tangible then some pie in the sky…
I offer us a chance to become more human… to become what we need to become…
the first step is to finding a solution to any problem is seeing there is a problem…
and that is another step in my agenda… showing people there is a problem
and then solutions may be found…I have a multiple agenda and have taken a while
to reach this point…
Finally, I have often asked, what is next? What is possible? Are you…?
I have not offered solutions, I have offered questions because I am not,
to phrase it in religious sense, Jesus… I will not be the messiah… but I am
the messenger, I see myself more as John the Baptist… I proclaim the coming,
but I am not the coming…I leave it to those I leave behind to create their own
solutions… the Jews Messiah, Nietzsche overman/Ubermensh… the same thing…
the creator of the new laws… the person who creates the reevaluation of values
is not me, but it will be someone soon… the old ism’s and ideologies have failed
and new ism’s and new ideologies are needed and this is why we need the
messiah, the new ubermensh… to create the values that will lead us into the future…
human values… values that say, life is valuable and is worth saving and here is why…
however that is not my job… I am simply trying to get people to see that there
is a problem… nothing more and that is my only job…
Kropotkin