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The first time a player quit on me after I castled.

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Pezers opening by the way.
Ive found this to overwhelm low players.

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lost a shitload trying then came back to finally be allowed the same buildup

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ok so below 1500 is truly complete dorkhood.
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I los three times in a row from a timeout out of a beautiful position because a faltering connection. Very irritating, so I went on losing the next games in irritation.

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PostSubject: Re: Schaak Schaak Icon_minitimeSat Feb 03, 2018 7:12 am Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
Want to play a few games for practice/training purposes?

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Must one not first hate oneself, in order to love oneself? …
I am your labyrinth …”. -N

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I find that doesn’t work, I can only play on equal footing. Its better if you beat me than if we get stuck in theory. Ill learn from any game against a good opponent.

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That makes sense. I’m always up for straight up games too.

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Alright nice.

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dude took my queen, thought he was out of the woods

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Jezuz that’s brutal. You’ve gotten really good with tactics and tempo. Nice.

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Must one not first hate oneself, in order to love oneself? …
I am your labyrinth …”. -N

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Haha, thanks.
I discover in these situations that there is an incredible power to the king, as it directly directs the other players moves.

Also I find its a difficult art using a queen and not have it be a precious mantlepiece that mustn’t be broken
When I check my analytics I see that most of my “average centipawn loss” is by far the highest with my queen. Some fundamental rule about the queen must exist, of which Im not yet aware.

do you have any rules where she is concerned?

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We talked about the queen and the horses, or you did, but when I read that I was also contemplating a strategy using queen and horses as complementary halves of the core unit of a strategy. I havent been able to implement anything, as I don’t master the queen well enough. Have you worked with this complementary knights/queen idea?

edit - knight is “paard”, horse, in Dutch.
Bishop is “loper”, walker.

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I remember thinking about how the knight exactly covers those squares within a three square radius that the queen does not cover, their attacks map onto each other perfectly. But the queen is also dangerous because of how she has to move away when attacked, except by another queen where you can do a trade. I like your idea about the king and it’s power to direct all other pieces. This seems to go well with those Fischer games where he brings his king out right away. I’ll have to think about his more.

Centipawn loas is something I never took the time to understand. I’ll have to look at that too.

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We shall outdo each other in cool setups and scenes.

I found this in an old mail to Pezer from the Rosemont Entertainment account.

“In the future, Canada is the most powerful nation on the face of the planet. As global warming has wiped out most of the warmer continents the masses have come to the north to swarm Canada’s unfrozen bays in the North, where a new culture is sprawling, Some call it: New Atlantis. In reality it is still the British Crown. The United States fulfills the function of a filter and takes up all the scum and puts them into private prisons, paid for by a barely sustained populace of the new 2nd world, Northern Europe and the US. A transit zone to the New Lands, which in fact are centralized in Denmarks rule of Greenland. In the South, Argentina has become a center of refuge and is inexplicabily dense with evil. We will come to that nation in the course of the story. But the story is devastating; due to the climatological disasters, not only have lands been wiped out but diseases have spread and man has been narrowed down some 20 percent but proves remarkably resilient on the whole. Other species die out but strange mutations are seen in sea animals. It seems like more primordial times are arriving; but this is only a matter of speculation and for ridicule as far as our hero, Dan Brown McConaugheyw, is concerned… he is only after the truth. In his back pocket he carries “On the Road” and the Holy Bible - he is one of the last remaining Christians.”

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That is a fantastic setup. And I love the character’s name lol.

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I was 17, drivung with my brother on the highway. I go to switch to the fast lane but the car behind decides fuck me and doesnt slow down. I swerve out just in time. Angrily I swerbe back in and right back out again as some asshole decides he’ll zip through anyway. Appearently that asshole didn’t like this.

So he switches back in front of me on my lane and starts slowing down. I try to pass him but he blocks me, all the time slowing down. I’m in a 97 Accord, he a 9something Corolla. As the exit comes up we are almost at a full stop. I aim at the middle between highway and exit and he is forced to let me pass, see where I go. The exit is to my neighbourhood so I take it. Fly down a very sharp curve, Corolla in tow.

We get to a red light on usually busy intersection so I stop. Guy gets out. Not dirt poor but certainly not rich. Does he have a gun? They often do and people get shot for far less. He comes up to the window and starts banging on it. Something whispers to me but then I remember my brother is with me and he dont like battle, doesnt do well in it. So I run the light fast. He runs back to his car and gives chase.

We are going very fast in a very residencial area.

I zip and zag and cross and accelerate, but streets too narrow to gain speed. I see a street I know leads to a more major one, and its an oncoming lane. I drive fast into it, maybe he’ll think it’s not worth it. He doesn’t though. There is a small cue of cars looking angrily back at me. I swerve past em with angryman in tow.

I finally decide if I wont batyle and cant outrun, Ill drive past police station very fast and honk. After I swerve into a much wider and more busy oncoming, swerving and dodging, anfrydude in tow. Then the popo pull us over. Angry gives his version, I give mine, a concerned citizen that appearently followed us from the highway hives his calling angry a crazy.

Popo decides to let me go, wait 5 and let crazy go, and leave well enough alone.
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seems like we’ve had many of the same experiences
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I don’t need to throw bottles at anything. If I let it it just finds ne.
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haha, fair enough

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watch all games in real time speed. that’s the only rule of chess games posted in this thread.

and try to develop speed, accuracy, power.

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lichess.org/Vpogwa0Z/white#61

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lichess.org/9Nr8eR8r/white#89

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Must one not first hate oneself, in order to love oneself? …
I am your labyrinth …”. -N

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oh yeah lichess.org/nIc8c6NZ/white#71

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lichess.org/nZ7Qoods/white#49

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Must one not first hate oneself, in order to love oneself? …
I am your labyrinth …”. -N

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everybody wang chung tonight!

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632935

6255239

3328455733

1283744329234

1 4 7

4 4 7

4 4 4

1234 5

(1)

916 414 747 268 386 9711

7518

9*3= 77
9+3= 2

77
2

2
77

768=867

7125 is 717 is

89

with (2)

to communicate some numbers are needed,

7777 for sure and also 4545 and 817653942853769991615141323132999

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Defenders of the Earth wrote:

to communicate some numbers are needed,

7777 for sure and also 4545 and 817653942853769991615141323132999

m trying to help out here. Let me see. Just stepping into the fucking storm.

737

848

20

09

13

24

28/38

9

8

9

etc (14 (6+7+1), 21, 12, 41 (6x7-1))

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1111111111 = 1

222222222 = 9

33333333 = 6

4444444 = 1

555555 = 3

66666 = 3

7777 = 1

888 = 6

99 = 9

1 = 1

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7

1234567 = 28 = 1

35791113 = 30 = 3

8121610224 = 27 = 9

933771246 = 42 = 6

126101483610 = 33 = 6

“7” = 13966 = 1312 = 7

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From some comment section:

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Nadlers Pants I Like My Crumbs • 4 hours ago
Yesterday proves that AMERICA IS NO LONGER at the MERCY of the middle east for oil anymore…Thanks President Trump… If anything that just might scare the Iranians showing them they have 0 power…The Price of oil is stable today…what would a barrel be if this happened during Obamas Presidency…25 more today…

jpatriot18 Nadlers Pants • 4 hours ago
A very good point!

DougS jpatriot18 • 3 hours ago
Iranians themselves ushered in this terrorist regime and it’s up to THEM to get rid of it if they even WANT to…

The Bush clan convinced many of us (myself include admittedly) that bringing freedom to the Middle East by force would be welcomed & stabilizing… well THAT costly experiment has been run and once again confirms that freedom is NOT a universal value.

Some cultures don’t WANT freedom & much prefer some despotic regime lording over their lives.

If they deserve it - fine… sanctions, maybe some ordinance, whatever… but using our own blood & treasure to bring freedom to those who gave theirs away is no longer in my value system.

He said “my value system”.

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And yet the first guy makes an excellent point.

Todays headline on the mainstream paper was peacetime in Baghdad. A picture of an intellectual coffee-hall kind of sunlit bar with wooden tables and reading people made me forget all misery of the west for an instant. No one needs Iran or the way it has been self-valuing. But… this is all out of our hands. Iran has been clamouring for war for ever and that is quite literal, as they have in their thousands of years of existence not very often been loved for their peacefulness. The current Athenians have not named the entrance of their harbour “Themistocles” for nothing.

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another commenter wrote:
The phone company can not cut your access to phone service because they don’t like your speech content.
YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are now means of communication–they have become the 21st century phone–as such they should be considered utilities and open to all regardless of content.
Time for legislation to bring the first amendment into cyber space.

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Curiously enough the war in Iraq did, in the end, due to Trump coming to power, result in the long desired secular peace in Baghdad. Intellectual freedom might emerge there, as we are at risk of squandering it in the west.

Not that I think we will end up squandering it definitively. I think some psyches on the left are beginning to allow for some self-reflection. Why do I think this? In part because Ive just finished Bret Easton Ellis’ non fiction account of it all and because this book, which very explicitly tells the story of the rise of leftist insanity, is very prominently displayed in a popular bookstore in Amsterdam, my mom who gave me this book told me. It is absolutely a good sign that this book is allowed here.

But back to the East - Im noting this about Iraq in response to a moralistic RT article that states that the US plans to make tactical strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities based on this tanker incident point to a refusal to learn from the lessons of the consequences of Powells lies. But - there always was good reason to end Saddams reign, the ostensibly false WMD narrative was just a means to get the hypocritical UN behind it - I remember watching Powell exhibit it and not believing a single word and yet not minding it all because I wanted Saddam gone - it may all be terribly immoral, but I really don’t want completely savage fascist regimes obtaining any global power whatsoever, and I am extremely relieved still that Obamas policy of making Iran into an atomic superpower has been cut short, and I don’t believe for a second the majority of Iranians would be terribly upset if not all their countrys wealth went into attempts to destroy the US Europe and Israel, but went into cultivating Iran as a civilization.

Iran is perhaps the most bellicose nation on Earth, seeing how long it has existed and that it has since its days as the Persian Empire never been at ease keeping to itself. In fact there are accounts of Iranian warfare going back over ten thousand years into some parallel history described by Rudolf Steiner, when it was supposedly at war with Turan.

I might not be opposed to Iran having nukes in case it converts to a rational, cooperative, sane kind of power, of which I consider he population highly capable. In fact if they convert to being sane, there may not be a way to stop them from obtaining nukes, simply because there won’t be sufficient reason to deny them the right.

But that is not the case now. If Iran obtains nukes now we have the certainty of nuclear Saudi Arabia and a nuclear Turkey and this means all European nations will want to arm themselves. I think this is a possible future which might as well be averted.

Plus, Iran wants war. It has been cultivating nothing besides the expectation of being attacked. It constantly proclaims doom on all of the western world, and is constantly disrupting life in neighbouring nations. It would take history a great afford to avoid rewarding action with reaction.

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Iran is open about having spies throughout the west, and it routinely assassinates Iranians who have escaped to our countries here. It is a country at open war with over a dozen nations. But it is so successful in employing antisemitism to blame Israel for all of its actions, that it has gone on uninterrupted except my Israels constant efforts to prevent its own destruction at the hands of Iranian proxies, off which the Obama administration was one of the most efficient. I don’t know that they need to be this intrusive. But then perhaps this is simply the genetics of the current regime; war on all foreign nations at all costs. Remember it is at odds not only with the west but with virtually every nation in its region as well. It doesn’t have a lot of allies other than Russia, and I have no fucking clue what Russia is thinking at the moment. It doesn’t say anything, hasn’t been expressing anything for quite a while. I take this as a sign that they’ve received some respect they were due, like for example the US withdrawing from Syria and leaving Assad, and Trumps recognition of Crimea as a done deal, and probably a whole lot more. Sanctions are an ongoing show of hostility but beneath that surface, Russia’s interests have, compared to what was the case in 2013 and 2014, been somewhat secured, or so it seems to me.

Russia is sill foolishly flirting with China and 5G, which will come at massive cost to any nation that takes the contract. Mas-sive, massively massive cost. On the one hand one can’t blame them for keeping close to China, on the other, it may be as bad a bet as any of the others now available. Perhaps each country does best now by turning into itself, and ceasing to act on globalistic ambitions. Iran however will not turn into itself, its current self valuing is anchored in, draws its life from, its warmongering vis a vis the west.

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Irans technique for enriching Uranium was even stolen from around the corner from where I was raised, at the same hadron collider site where my dad developed his memory chip in the early 90s, and smuggled to Pakistan. I already think it is unbalanced, given this fact, that the Netherlands do not have nukes and Pakistan does, but Pakistan expresses and commits no hostilities on us. Iran is another mater. If they use our technology to build the bomb, we will need to develop it as well. And so will Italy, Greece, Serbia, Lithuania, Hungary, any nation that is being threatened and/or compromised by Iran directly or indrirectly. This will apply most of all to all Sunni muslim states. There is no way one could convince them to not develop nukes if Shia Iran, so explicitly out to harm those who experience God differently, is permitted one. This would definitely be good for Uranium stocks but otherwise I don’t like the idea very much at all.

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jpost.com/International/Sin … sts-592892

badass!

J-Post wrote:

‘SING HALLELUJAH TO THE LORD’ EMERGES AS ANTHEM OF HONG KONG’S PROTESTS

For the past week, the hymn has been heard almost non-stop at the main protest site, in front of the city’s Legislative Council, and at marches and even at tense stand-offs with the police.

Hahah this is incredibly awesome.

Atheism is dead.

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These look nice
rt.com/russia/462135-mig35- … et-russia/

Meanwhile,
Russia, which owns thousands of nukes, criticizes Israel for having 90 nukes and being against Iran acquiring nukes.

Not judging, just observing the cognitive level of newscast-based propaganda. We could decide to get beyond that kind of thing as mankind.

I think instead of newscaster companies we want only individual sources we can select from a list of millions.

We should have a radio-dial like interface for selecting sources by latitude and longitude.

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Jesus is pretty damn fucking powerful.

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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P69z9-fggU[/youtube]

“It’s frustrating. But then again this is Iraq.”

That’s a Democrat.

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Fundamentalist old world medieval theocracies with nuclear weapons is a bad idea.

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In general its a bad idea to allow any new nations to acquire nukes. Given the entitlement-age we live in, every godforsaken shithole on the planet will start developing these bombs.

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Is matter an expression of perception or perception an expression of matter?

When an event happens such as a car wreck did was the mass pushed there by the infinite collisions in reality or was that mass pulled there by the need for the occurrence of the event or the desire of maybe the collective perception?
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Abstract wrote:
Is matter an expression of perception or perception an expression of matter?

When an event happens such as a car wreck did was the mass pushed there by the infinite collisions in reality or was that mass pulled there by the need for the occurrence of the event or the desire of maybe the collective perception?
You are Abstract! Smile

Our experience of matter is an expression of perception. You and I may perceive a tree differently - qualia - but at the same time, we see the physical tree and its characteristics basically the same. No?
The soul of the tree, on the other hand, we may perceive differently.

Insofar as we are made of matter - and we as matter are doing the perceiving, then one can say that perception is an expression of matter.

Insofar as the car wreck is concerned, I tend to look on it as a continuity of cause and effect. Everything is connected to everything else and in a sense that is what caused the wreck. Realistically speaking, it was human failing that caused it or just some fluke. But there are or appear to be a lot of things that are unexplainable in the universe that appear to have meaning because of random actions and what appears to be synchronicity - are we placing meaning on something because of the good or the bad that comes as a result of it and ought we to?

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You are Abstract! Smile

Our experience of matter is an expression of perception. You and I may perceive a tree differently - qualia - but at the same time, we see the physical tree and its characteristics basically the same. No?
The soul of the tree, on the other hand, we may perceive differently.

Insofar as we are made of matter - and we as matter are doing the perceiving, then one can say that perception is an expression of matter.

Insofar as the car wreck is concerned, I tend to look on it as a continuity of cause and effect. Everything is connected to everything else and in a sense that is what caused the wreck. Realistically speaking, it was human failing that caused it or just some fluke. But there are or appear to be a lot of things that are unexplainable in the universe that appear to have meaning because of random actions and what appears to be synchronicity - are we placing meaning on something because of the good or the bad that comes as a result of it and ought we to?

I think often we place meaning on a specific domino in the line of infinite dominoes because that one is the one that if effected and called the cause, will prevent (as best as we know) the problem from happening again… we punish the murder to prevent further crime not to revenge… (or at least so it should be IMO)

What is to say that we are matter rather then matter is us? that is to say it is just an expression of our perception…I think for that there is no telling, but given where we are in thought now it seems more beneficial to work out the equations so as to ‘science’ under the assumption that matter is the base rather then perception.

But to the topic; if time were reversed would perhaps the result not be seen as the cause… and who is to say which time perceiver has the ‘right’ point of view.
Perhaps rather then asking which is the cause we should see that their is no cause.

(perhaps someday they will find that there is no limit to speed but rather that things that go faster then the speed of light simply can’t be perceived…by us… anymore…which might explain why if you are going as fast as light the light beam directed at you from a stand still would still appear as light… because what you are really seeing then is the stuff that was going faster …)

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I think often we place meaning on a specific domino in the line of infinite dominoes because that one is the one that if effected and called the cause, will prevent (as best as we know) the problem from happening again… we punish the murder to prevent further crime not to revenge… (or at least so it should be IMO)

Hmmm…but if we consider that one domino as a human being, let’s say, then we would have to see that it was not the cause so much as it was a continuation of or a continuity of flow (for lack of a better word/phrase). In order to find the cause, one has to begin at the beginning or work backwards to the beginning. If I understand what you’re saying here.

We might punish the murderer to prevent further crime but as you may know, punishment in itself can be, at best, only a deterrent, and does not get at the cause or the root of something.

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What is to say that we are matter rather then matter is us?
Can you explain the distinction you are making here?

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that is to say it is just an expression of our perception…I think for that there is no telling,
Unless I am misunderstanding you here, I don’t think of ‘matter’ as ‘just’ an expression of our perception. It is a word that we have coined to ‘mean’ and to ‘describe’ something, unless that is what you meant. We all ‘perceive’ things differently, in the larger sense of the word, as the way in which each individual first sensates and then ‘sees’ it - but we recognize them within the category which we’ve given them. You and I recognize the ‘sky’ – at the same time, the words which we might use to express the way in which we ‘perceive’ it - because of our personal sensations - may be worlds apart. I hope that makes sense.

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but given where we are in thought now it seems more beneficial to work out the equations so as to ‘science’ under the assumption that matter is the base rather then perception.
“Base’ as in physical evidence? Perhaps we ‘may’ also consider ‘perception’ as a base - perception as the base under which we tend to adopt our beliefs, for instance, but of course, I’m digressing here probably.

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But to the topic; if time were reversed would perhaps the result not be seen as the cause…
Psychologically speaking - yes.I suppose that I could see it that way. In terms of my own life, accepting everything as it is and loving that – as in Amor Fati, I could see both as being the same…or the result being the ‘real’ cause …but one could only see that in hindsight. Aside from that, one might say that considering how things did turn out, could it have turned out any other way – the end result is always determined by its beginnings and its continuity of flow.

There is also a school of thought that the Big Bang is actually the end result of another universe destroyed…so not the beginning as many think but an end which gave rise to a new beginning Rolling Eyes . It just depends on how one looks at something. Cause and effect is not so black and white.

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and who is to say which time perceiver has the ‘right’ point of view.
There really is no right point of view – it just depends on where you are standing when you are looking.

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Perhaps rather then asking which is the cause we should see that their is no cause.
Well, I am not so sure that there IS NO CAUSE. But there is not just one cause – the cause is the whole of it.

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(perhaps someday they will find that there is no limit to speed but rather that things that go faster then the speed of light simply can’t be perceived…by us… anymore…which might explain why if you are going as fast as light the light beam directed at you from a stand still would still appear as light… because what you are really seeing then is the stuff that was going faster …)
Is this somehow tied into cause?

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I think often we place meaning on a specific domino in the line of infinite dominoes because that one is the one that if effected and called the cause, will prevent (as best as we know) the problem from happening again… we punish the murder to prevent further crime not to revenge… (or at least so it should be IMO)

Hmmm…but if we consider that one domino as a human being, let’s say, then we would have to see that it was not the cause so much as it was a continuation of or a continuity of flow (for lack of a better word/phrase). In order to find the cause, one has to begin at the beginning or work backwards to the beginning. If I understand what you’re saying here.

We might punish the murderer to prevent further crime but as you may know, punishment in itself can be, at best, only a deterrent, and does not get at the cause or the root of something.
Well my point would be that “cause” is ultimately not a reality just an abstraction. There is no cause… because the dominos stretch back to the beginning of time… “beginning” of time is a contradiction so realy there is no beginning things just are… The point of identifying what might be called the cause is to find that which when prevented deters as I said… and yes often our punishments don’t work…I feel we need more 'corrective in our corective instituion of course… perhaps though the reason what corrections we make don’t really work is because we are trying to correct the wrong thing…perhaps a symptom rather then the actual problem.

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What is to say that we are matter rather then matter is us?
Can you explain the distinction you are making here?

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that is to say it is just an expression of our perception…I think for that there is no telling,
Unless I am misunderstanding you here, I don’t think of ‘matter’ as ‘just’ an expression of our perception. It is a word that we have coined to ‘mean’ and to ‘describe’ something, unless that is what you meant. We all ‘perceive’ things differently, in the larger sense of the word, as the way in which each individual first sensates and then ‘sees’ it - but we recognize them within the category which we’ve given them. You and I recognize the ‘sky’ – at the same time, the words which we might use to express the way in which we ‘perceive’ it - because of our personal sensations - may be worlds apart. I hope that makes sense.
I believe what I meant was that perhaps matter is just a thing we have created with our spirit/mind/perception…and really all there is is thought… ( that i believe is one of those things like the concept of god, it cannot be proved or disproved…)

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but given where we are in thought now it seems more beneficial to work out the equations so as to ‘science’ under the assumption that matter is the base rather then perception.
“Base’ as in physical evidence? Perhaps we ‘may’ also consider ‘perception’ as a base - perception as the base under which we tend to adopt our beliefs, for instance, but of course, I’m digressing here probably.
What I meant was the actual reality = base… the true ‘thing’ that all is made of…

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and who is to say which time perceiver has the ‘right’ point of view.
There really is no right point of view – it just depends on where you are standing when you are looking.
but if you are standing in the same spot as another and think something else is the right point of view then which is right…?

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Perhaps rather then asking which is the cause we should see that their is no cause.
Well, I am not so sure that there IS NO CAUSE. But there is not just one cause – the cause is the whole of it.

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(perhaps someday they will find that there is no limit to speed but rather that things that go faster then the speed of light simply can’t be perceived…by us… anymore…which might explain why if you are going as fast as light the light beam directed at you from a stand still would still appear as light… because what you are really seeing then is the stuff that was going faster …)
Is this somehow tied into cause?
Lol… scratch I have no idea why I said that…

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Well my point would be that “cause” is ultimately not a reality just an abstraction. There is no cause… because the dominos stretch back to the beginning of time… “beginning” of time is a contradiction so realy there is no beginning things just are… The point of identifying what might be called the cause is to find that which when prevented deters as I said… and yes often our punishments don’t work…I feel we need more 'corrective in our corective instituion of course… perhaps though the reason what corrections we make don’t really work is because we are trying to correct the wrong thing…perhaps a symptom rather then the actual problem.
But an abstraction ultimately points to something concrete, some truth, right?
I think that there has to be a cause - as in meaning that something was affected by something else. Speaking of the origin of the universe, isn’t it a bit unrealistic to say that there was no beginning? I do understand though what you mean by no cause - since everything from the ‘beginning’ has continued to be affected by everything else as in a continuity - or as you say, the domino effect.

Perhaps the only reason things do not get corrected is because we do not get at the root of the problem. We need to go back to the very beginning in order to see it all or we are taking things out of context. There cannot be healing or movement without total seeing.

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What is to say that we are matter rather then matter is us?

Can you explain the distinction you are making here?
It was Vaeros Tanarg who was asking for the distinction here. The only thought that comes to me here is that, as matter, we ALSO happen to ourselves. We do not simply make things happen. You may find that a bit silly.

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that is to say it is just an expression of our perception…I think for that there is no telling,

I believe what I meant was that perhaps matter is just a thing we have created with our spirit/mind/perception…and really all there is is thought… ( that i believe is one of those things like the concept of god, it cannot be proved or disproved…)
What do you mean here - as the buddhists believe - that it is all illusion? Are you saying that matter is not real and that it has no physical properties? That it is simply illusion? Try pinching yourself, Abstract, do you not feel or hurt when you do that?

Matter isn’t simply a concept - it’s also reality. It’s physical. God is a concept which cannot be proven except within our minds and hearts. Unless I am misunderstanding your meaning. As a thing of matter, Abstract, do you see yourself as simply a concept - or do you see a physical you…though the physical you barely touches the surface.

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but given where we are in thought now it seems more beneficial to work out the equations so as to ‘science’ under the assumption that matter is the base rather then perception.

“Base’ as in physical evidence? Perhaps we ‘may’ also consider ‘perception’ as a base - perception as the base under which we tend to adopt our beliefs, for instance, but of course, I’m digressing here probably.

What I meant was the actual reality = base… the true ‘thing’ that all is made of…
Beautiful swirling atoms? I think that there has to be a zillion ‘things’ that all is made of. If we ever come to truly know the thing that all is made of - then we might just touch on god…know that which can, in reality, at least for now only be a concept.

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and who is to say which time perceiver has the ‘right’ point of view.

There really is no right point of view – it just depends on where you are standing when you are looking.

but if you are standing in the same spot as another and think something else is the right point of view then which is right…?
That’s a really good question, Abstract. Not so easy to answer. I suppose that I would say that each individual must move to another location and see what they see, without judging, just seeing what they see. Their perception might change. Carl Jung said that truth needs the concert of many voices. Here truth would need the concert of many different vantage points and perspectives. I suppose that you might also say that the point of view which is correct or more correct would be the one which actually held the most intelligence, logic and validity. But in order to know this, both parties MUST BE interested in knowing the truth - not in proving a point.

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(perhaps someday they will find that there is no limit to speed but rather that things that go faster then the speed of light simply can’t be perceived…by us… anymore…which might explain why if you are going as fast as light the light beam directed at you from a stand still would still appear as light… because what you are really seeing then is the stuff that was going faster …)

Is this somehow tied into cause?

Lol… scratch I have no idea why I said that…
The only reason truly that I asked that question is because I didn’t know how to respond. scratch I am not really scientifically inclined though I enjoy science and am very curious about it. The only thing there that came to my mind is how we are still able to see the light from a particular star and don’t even realize in that moment that that star may have long ago died out but the light is still reaching us. Smile

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why if you are going as fast as light the light beam directed at you from a stand still would still appear as light…
Perhaps that would be because if you are going as fast as the speed of light you would have some of the characteristics and qualities, be of the same nature as light and so you would recognize it…no matter how swiftly it was going. We can only recognize that which we are a part of - true? Aside from that…

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Where the black hole of physics is supposedly born from a collapsing star, I theorize our ethical black hole is born from (though now only an incipient form) the collapse of the natural order; an attempted hiatus from aeons of evolutionary engineering, a moratorium from the harsher side-effects of natural selection (or more like double interest but no payments for a century).
Excellent analogy.

But my way is to step over the mountain of past thought, beyond the Sea of turmoil to a place of inevitable future, then mark a path from there back to the present, thus avoiding the need for such mass calamity and horrendous and endless conflict and noise.

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I ask you: Is preserving life inherently good? I’ll neglect the more ambiguous issue of genetic decadence and ask of our burgeoning, soon to be (if not already) turgid, population: what of them? Death, War, Famine and Pestilence: man has systematically domesticated not himself but the four horsemen. This is indeed a black hole that I will need hours to write something I’ll be satisfied with, but let us run through this ethical singularity with a fine-toothed comb and see where we arrive…if you feel so inclined.
Very precisely define exactly what Life is, imagine a means to ensure that such an entity is everlasting in its form, and you will have answered that question.
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To stay on population for a moment, I’d like to know your proposition (as I assume you’re well aware that we’re at—or just below—7 billion right now and projected to exceed 10 billion by 2055 and the medical, social, political and economic issues this causes—especially when considering the ubiquitous computerization/mechanization of industry—I’ll spare you the sermon)…how do you plan to combat this, or do you just wait for it to solve itself by running full steam ahead into the growth cap where we can no longer house, employ, provide medical attention for, feed, educate, etc. a substantial (more so than at present) body of the populous? There’s only so many free condoms you can hand out…

But honestly, I’d be very interested to hear some ideas, as most of mine are…not something I’d like to do.

And of life, I think the answer is: Inherently? No. As you pointed out, life is alchemical in that some must be lost for another to gain. So another approach to the question would be that the preservation of life should be regarded discursively, which still is somewhat like contending that the preservation of life isn’t inherently good.

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Aleatory wrote:
To stay on population for a moment, I’d like to know your proposition (as I assume you’re well aware that we’re at—or just below—7 billion right now and projected to exceed 10 billion by 2055 and the medical, social, political and economic issues this causes—especially when considering the ubiquitous computerization/mechanization of industry—I’ll spare you the sermon)…how do you plan to combat this, or do you just wait for it to solve itself by running full steam ahead into the growth cap where we can no longer house, employ, provide medical attention for, feed, educate, etc. a substantial (more so than at present) body of the populous? There’s only so many free condoms you can hand out…

But honestly, I’d be very interested to hear some ideas, as most of mine are…not something I’d like to do.

And of life, I think the answer is: Inherently? No. As you pointed out, life is alchemical in that some must be lost for another to gain. So another approach to the question would be that the preservation of life should be regarded discursively, which still is somewhat like contending that the preservation of life isn’t inherently good.
Always take care to consider the False Flag, the over emphasis of a specific possible target/cause so as to request and receive authority to control the situation.

In the 1960’s it was clear that the population growth rate was merely 2.5:2.0, 2.5 children per set of parents. Yet the emphasis has been that the population is expanding exponentially at incredible rates and thus… “we, the government, must institute control measures.”

The truth is that every life form on the planet loses incentive toward reproduction as soon as it senses harmony in its life. Cut a branch from a tree that was merely beginning to bud, and the buds suddenly race to complete their endeavor to spawn seed. The threat of death is the more fundamental cause of the urge to reproduce, ask any Nietzschean. Remove the perception of need, and there is no effort to meet. Does a natural creature long for food if it feels no hunger?

Yet look at what has been promoted since the 1960’s; sex, promiscuity, sexual rights, father’s obligation to pay both the state and the children’s mother, government control mechanisms for the rampant sex rage that magically never actually stop it.

So my first comment and note is that you have accepted a “clear and present danger” that is a False Flag, created so as to bring this very conversation of how the government should handle this “emergency”.

I have already spelled out my solution. The Constitution of Rational Harmony inherently takes away the incentive to reproduce more than one can manage. And it does it without oppressive government or having to chose who lives or is exterminated for sake of an imagined future utopia under supreme rule.

The government’s preferred answer is;
“life is alchemical in that some must be lost for another to gain. So another approach to the question would be that the preservation of life should be regarded discursively, which still is somewhat like contending that the preservation of life isn’t inherently good. So what really matters is evolution of the species, our (not your) specifically chosen design of future life”

Lust for Domination, Evolution, and Mutations.

If they cannot see the firmament in the clouds of rampant chaos, they cannot blame it for our reign.
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Two simple questions in one;

What is the incentive and fears of Eugenics?

A) Incentive - Control of all Life (thus promote the need; “False Flag”)
B) Fears - That people will blame us for our designed changes. (thus create a cloud of changes/mutations to hide in)

But then what are the highest notions concerning the “proper Utopian society for Life”?
Socialism/Communism;
Total control of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie - even their genomes.

Health by designation of the State?
Survival of the Fitted?

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I’m skeptical of bringing conspiracy theory into discussion predicated on accurate information, for if we are to take the conspiracy as plausible (any conspiratorial, clandestine, collusive act by the government) all information is rendered as equally true and false and all discussion thus made aleatory, hypothetical and more or less a form of intellectual masturbation. I say this because you are either speaking of just the US (where I am talking of the world) or are implying a ‘world government’. If just the US, I would feel obligated to point out a country whose judicial government is in utter imbroglio over a relatively innocuous issue such as abortion would be the last to enact totalitarian measures of population control—remember the outrage over China’s one-child policy? I’ll analyze just the US situation in detail for now. If we are to believe the US government is feeding us nothing but agitprop, that figures from the Census Bureau etc. are wholly false, then by all means we should cease this discussion immediately to avoid otiose banter[1]. If however you think the Census Bureau may have some semblance of accuracy, you may want to read the following paragraph. Otherwise, simply skip to the 3rd and 4th.

2.5 is not a rate deserving of the term ‘merely’. If you have 100 couples, each of which has an average of 2.5 children, your succeeding generation (this hypothetical first group of offspring) will be 250 in number. They follow suit, so your 2nd generation numbers 625. By the 5th generation you’re already at 9765.625. The logistics of demographic predictions are obviously more complex than that: you must incorporate birth rate weighted by infant mortality v. death, emigration v. immigration, life expectancy, etc. almost all of which have inherent margins of error. However, from the CIA’s 2010 numbers, using just the factors listed above, we can generate a relatively accurate figure. A birth rate of 13.5/1,000 weighted by an infant mortality of 6.22 deaths/1,000 live births gives us a birth rate of 13.42/1,000. Subtracting migrants (4.32/1,000), (we’ll add the legally documented immigrants momentarily), and subtracting deaths (8.38/1,000) we still have a positive number (though admittedly small). Multiplying that figure by the 2010 census and adding the legally documented immigrants[2] gives you a ball park estimate of 1,258,746 net additional lives. This is, however, an incomplete analysis. Contrary to what I generated (about .41%) the actual 2010 US growth rate was .97% (2,994,831) —a far cry from the 2.5 you labeled ‘merely’. Still, just under 3 million additional lives in a single year is not to be taken lightly. Extrapolating that rate annually gives us 311,740,369 for 2012; 320,900,292 for 2015; 336,768,831 for 2020; 353,422,072 for 2025; 370,898,816 for 2030; 389,239,786 for 2035; and breaking 400 million in 2038 with 400,676,888 (the US Census Bureau projects 439 million in 2050). That’s at the lowest birth rate in a century. Now when you start to factor in things I’ve already mentioned such as medicinal supplies, the relegation of labor to computerization, housing, sustenance, etc. with a country in economic decline and no signs of improving, this appears as hardly a ‘false flag’.

I’m curious about your contending that life stops reproducing when “it senses harmony in its life.” I can see where you may say this from an angle of ascetic spirituality (we are transcendent, our goal is nirvana and thus we are freed from all burdens of the flesh) but I’m not sure why you think this applies to man and further how this presupposes a ‘natural solution’ to the population issue (you have yet to substantiate your claim that it is merely a false flag, a simulacrum). This issue is compounded by the double articulation of love—its content (emotion) and expression(sex)—wherein the physical expression is deterritorialized, becoming at once both an expression of love and reproduction. My point is that I find it difficult to enlist axiomatics for an inherently discursive, and more over, theoretical position. Because I am not an amoeba, I can’t say if it even has the ability to sense harmony, let alone whether the relative state of such determines my reproductive instinct.

Your addition to my statement that you quoted shows you completely misinterpreted—or vitiated through some application of conspiratorial implications—what I was contending. “So what really matters is evolution of the species, our (not your) specifically chosen design of future life” in no way factors into my point here, and indeed I may note a trend from the reason this thread was made in the first place (to discuss your arguably invective denouncement of a few sentences of mine—to which the applicability of at least two of your objections were predicated on the misinterpretation of my words—in a separate tread dedicated to the tangent topic). The point I was attempting to convey is of the discursive nature of value judgments on something as variable as the multiplicities of life. In other words, that there can be no axiomatic answer to the question “Is it inherently good to preserve a life?”—that every case is incommensurable, digressing for instance to instance, strata to strata—ergo discursive. I say alchemical because life is certainly that. In order for you to continue living, other entities experiencing the qualitative state of life must necessarily forfeit that state.

[1]I tolerate conspiracy theorists about as much as creationist Christians; they’re interesting to listen to for about five minutes but attempting extensive discourse is inadvisable. Point being, your implication of—in the US?—approval of full on eugenics being disseminated surreptitiously, subliminally by the Government just doesn’t coalesce with any trends in the juridico-social infrastructure, unless of course you’d care to provide convincing citations. Now I’m in no way declaring you to be a conspiracy theorist; I’m merely noting an afflux in your ideas.

[2] 1,042,625, Homeland Security, Office of Immigration Statistics: 2010 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics

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PostSubject: Definitions of life, population/s & health, conspiracies Definitions of life, population/s & health, conspiracies Icon_minitimeTue Feb 07, 2012 9:35 am Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
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I tolerate conspiracy theorists about as much as creationist Christians; they’re interesting to listen to for about five minutes but attempting extensive discourse is inadvisable.
Therein lies the issue. You have already prejudiced your perception. If you didn’t do that, you would have seen that in these presented “conspiracy theories”, the USA hasn’t been the focus at all, merely a point of origin for many aspects. The UK and Israel play a heavy part in that origination, but Iraq was the current center for the DU radiation problem. The GMO displacement of foods is world wide and significant in Europe. Neither can be stopped by political borders.

This issue was raised by Capable’s concern of a government healthcare system. Thus it only makes sense to see what a government views as “health”. Everything I have presented is strictly focused on that issue. I presented what health actually means in the sense of a harmony of a system, your life. I have now presented only a small portion of what governments around the world have already decided is “the proper state of health”. As Bill Gates recently announced, “science has shown us that it is immediately urgent that we substantially reduce the population” even though Science has absolutely no means for actually doing that.

If the population is to be immediately and substantially reduced, it only makes sense that we see by what means it would be reduced “for sake of health”. How can you justly ignore conspiracy theory? The truth is that no nation has ever risen without substantial conspiracy being its backbone. In light of the 800,000 agents of Homeland Security legally required to keep all activities secret, how can anyone be dubbed a “conspiracy theorist”? The conspiracy is not only legally required, but very well proven to exist, thus hardly a mere theory. But of course, in the eyes of the intolerant, such obvious facts are at best merely wild guesses because they (you) have no tolerance with which to examine the evidence.

So okay. You don’t want to see or hear anything but what you preach. How would this then constitute a “discussion”?

Do you want for me to just accept your statistic of which I am already aware and go along without counterpoint or objection? I am seriously not the guy for that. I am a solution seeker, a “trouble-shooter”, seeking resolution to even the most condemning of realities. I don’t look for existing dominations with whom I can join, but rather I look for unresolved problems that might have hope.

You are skeptical of conspiracy theories and should be to a degree. I am skeptical of same-ole-same-ole preachings of how all people should go along with this dominating, “lets surrender to our masters” thought.

Frankly, I would have no problem surrendering to those masters if I could find even one of them that seemed to actually understand even WHAT life is, not even hoping that they could comprehend how to manage it to the advantage of life instead of trying to dictate it. Life WILL NOT be dictated, else it is not life.

Life happens to have a rather unique properly, somewhat mystical in that it defies entropy and does so beyond anything else. It does not need to be dictated to by the small minds of men. It will, once cornered, remove those men and go its merry way with or without homosapian. At least Life knows what health means.

So go ahead, preach your speech. But stop asking questions if you don’t want the answers.

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PostSubject: Re: Definitions of life, population/s & health, conspiracies Definitions of life, population/s & health, conspiracies Icon_minitimeTue Feb 07, 2012 11:31 am Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
Firstly, if we are to discuss something, please do me the favor of dropping the erroneous presumption on my intentions and your generally bellicose attitude. If you wish to quarrel, I want nothing to do with it. That said I will address each paragraph as a numerical point:

I) Who is it precisely that you are addressing? To my knowledge, I have yet to comment on depleted uranium.

II) DU ammunition is not a statement on various governments definition of health. It’s a statement of myopic/unethical wartime practices.

III) I said nothing of immediate reduction of the population. What I think are necessary are methods to reduce the rate of growth.

IV) I clearly state that I would like you to instantiate your points. My objection is not to another perspective but to one that is composed only of claims with no supporting evidence provided. I’m asking you to give me a reason to believe that what you’re saying is accurate. Is that wrong to ask of a discussion?

V) If you’re already aware of the Census Bureau’s statistics and you find that evidence inadmissible to the point of labeling the issue of population growth as a false flag, then I have no evidence to back my claims with and thus any point I make would be pure conjecture. Because I entertain some semblance of intellectual honesty, I’m not going to contend a point on something as paramount as this issue is on pure conjecture. I asked for solutions and you said “there’s no problem”.

VI) Again with the straw man—and I cringe to have to use that term. What exactly is “same-ole-same-ole” about what I am saying, and where am I talking of dominating? Sure, I’ve mentioned some possible methods that could be accurately construed as dominating, but I in know way extolled them; quite the contrary.

VII) I’m not sure where this “master” issue applies to what I’m talking about.

VIII) Please provide some sort of comprehensible exegesis here.

IX) Refer to the last sentence of section V.

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: - I am in te middle of the dark, and see the point of light - they are floating in the dark and see only mist. This is gravity, without which no spirit or lightness. And without them no gravity - what is escaping from the self except an invitation to the self?

How can we talk to ourselves, without making errors at the crucial moments? Belief is broken in knowledge. To see the picture in its source, to know the mind of the spectator, to radicalize desire into belief, faith, will towards - x. To steer away from the treacherous shallows into the stability of the wave, the tides, the rhythm of greatness. Poseidon is of all the Gods the greatest as he knows no bounds but his own boundlessness, he can create continents inside of him and be a threat to them, but he can not win their sympathy. Only those who seek to die through the limit of the animal selves into the vast expanse of the unexpected, so set sail, accumulate wind, expect - speculate - trust - that the unexpected is more substantial than the expected. Truth, awaited, received in bounty.

Science must submit to this science knowing that discovery is the apprehension of the not formerly apprehended - not therefore projected, expected. The scientist aims at the horizon, knowing that land will appear. He is also methodical in his perceptions and dynamic, polarizing in his conclusions. His aim is not to synthesize concepts but to make synthesis possible at a calculated instance of teleological tyranny. The image of the goal - the known goal - a deeply miserable prospect is all the dying science is driven towards – ever more absurd, ever deeper obvious, almost equal, gone. What remains is the scientist and his horizon.

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Assumed “We”, “know” “from” “void”
“what?” is not necessarily the question.

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Fixed Cross wrote:
Assumed “We”, “know” “from” “void”
“what?” is not necessarily the question.

Perhaps “why not?” is the question? Very Happy

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.” -Socrates
“Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.” -Cicero
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Fixed Cross wrote:
Assumed “We”, “know” “from” “void”
“what?” is not necessarily the question.
So, what can we know from ‘scratch’ assuming we know from ‘void’?
Is this the way your question would run?
Are you asking in terms of a tabula rasa and an empty space or emptiness?

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

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Fixed Cross wrote:
Assumed “We”, “know” “from” “void”
“what?” is not necessarily the question.

“From scratch” we would probably only have the briefest self-sense of the knowledge’s own faculties and methods of knowing; these methods interacting with “nothing” or next to nothing would revert to mere proprioceptive self-registry.

Then again this might be “intuition”.

And absent subjects into which methods of knowledge might flex and practice, these methods would not really have any knowledge of themselves, or anything else, even void, until they had build up a sufficient knowledge-base, by trial and error, against which the possibility of void, and consequently also of direct self-expression and encounter could be set, or at least inferenced.

So maybe:

total ignorance, blindness, absence
barest self-registry as self-sense, groping, feeling
“light”, colorless, undifferentiated
colorization of light, subtlization and differentiation based on crude formulae of division
increasing subtlization, sufficient substantial juxtaposition and capacity to infer quality from the mere quantity of the self-sense as proprioceptive self-registry
increasing knowledge and increasing self-encounter… eventually leading to equation of the one with the other

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What is the value of provocation, in the realm of theory, political discussion or engagement, rational argument, philosophy writing and publication, whatever?

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Put a clever word in them! —
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I am your labyrinth …”. -N

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PostSubject: Re: The value of provocation The value of provocation Icon_minitimeSat Jun 30, 2012 8:47 am Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
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What is the value of provocation, in the realm of theory, political discussion or engagement, rational argument, philosophy writing and publication, whatever?

I wonder if the value would be the same, depending on the motive[s] of the provocateur?
Does the end ever justify the means? At first glance, I am never quite sure of that and my response is usually a ‘no’. Why?
Because I intuit that at times our ‘justifications’ are simply our perceptions, or our own desires to view things in a particular way and act on them, which may serve our own purposes but not necessarily that of the other person.
So ultimately, I feel that the value would depend, would have to depend ‘ethically speaking’, on the perception of the individual or entity being provoked; for example, as in hindsight, one coming to realize that the provocation produced/bore good fruit and growth to the person, despite what the intentions of the provocateur might have been. In other words, a curse becoming a blessing…or as I like to put it…making lemonade out of lemons.

So, some value in provocation might be in finding truth; creating reality out of illusion; giving the momentum and the courage to an otherwise fearful person, to stand up for him/her -self, thus learning self-value and worth; transformation out of chaos; opening up a mind which has been a steel trap to explore and discover new realms of thought; shedding light in a dark place; fighting the establishment and winning for the common good of all…

which all may come down to personal human evolution and enlightenment and perhaps the same for society…but not necessarily because of but in spite of the provocation or at least the motives for it.
But as with anything, provocation is a double-edged sword. It may be as fruitlessly destructive as it might be creatively fruitful.

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There are three basic types of people: the Tyrants, the Adventurers, and the Sheep.

Tyrants seek to establish what they decide they will get established.

Adventurers seek to react to situations, and have a taste for situations.

Sheep survive, and do so much better when they adopt pastors, or complicated industrialized systems of control.

And, as Nietzsche so kindly pointed out, there probably doesn’t exist a person that doesn’t have each to some degree.

Hell, they are probably evolutionary mechanisms of behavior that have different triggers, like who ends up in what position of a dog pack.
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There are three basic types of people: the Tyrants, the Adventurers, and the Sheep.

Tyrants seek to establish what they decide they will get established.

Adventurers seek to react to situations, and have a taste for situations.

Sheep survive, and do so much better when they adopt pastors, or complicated industrialized systems of control.

And, as Nietzsche so kindly pointed out, there probably doesn’t exist a person that doesn’t have each to some degree.

Hell, they are probably evolutionary mechanisms of behavior that have different triggers, like who ends up in what position of a dog pack.

Interesting breakdown. I like your middle distinction between sheep and tyrant, the “adventurer”: someone who wants to experience life, situations, occasions, new experiences, who finds themselves most in reacting to novelty. A type that does not desire power over others nor expressly desire escape from the powers of others over him or herself. To the adventurer, survival might not be as important as the quality of life lived, risky experiences are justified because they are adventurous, they bring thrill, novelty, new possibilities (unlike the sheep, for which risk and even novelty is a thing constantly to be avoided).

I have my own breakdown of “types of people…” that I tend to think of: that there are two types of people, those who see and directly know the power and reality of thought/consciousness, and those who do not. Those people who see thought, affect, indeed all internal subjective experience as substantially real and practically powerful in its own right, and those people who tend to not see this or who see thought/feeling/consciousness as less-than-totally-real, or subservient to an “actual reality” that is more materialist-physical. I would classify writers, poets, philosophers in the first category, and (most) scientists and most “average” people in the latter.

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I am your labyrinth …”. -N

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There are three basic types of people: the Tyrants, the Adventurers, and the Sheep.

Tyrants seek to establish what they decide they will get established.

Adventurers seek to react to situations, and have a taste for situations.

Sheep survive, and do so much better when they adopt pastors, or complicated industrialized systems of control.

And, as Nietzsche so kindly pointed out, there probably doesn’t exist a person that doesn’t have each to some degree.

Hell, they are probably evolutionary mechanisms of behavior that have different triggers, like who ends up in what position of a dog pack.

Interesting breakdown. I like your middle distinction between sheep and tyrant, the “adventurer”: someone who wants to experience life, situations, occasions, new experiences, who finds themselves most in reacting to novelty. A type that does not desire power over others nor expressly desire escape from the powers of others over him or herself. To the adventurer, survival might not be as important as the quality of life lived, risky experiences are justified because they are adventurous, they bring thrill, novelty, new possibilities (unlike the sheep, for which risk and even novelty is a thing constantly to be avoided).

I have my own breakdown of “types of people…” that I tend to think of: that there are two types of people, those who see and directly know the power and reality of thought/consciousness, and those who do not. Those people who see thought, affect, indeed all internal subjective experience as substantially real and practically powerful in its own right, and those people who tend to not see this or who see thought/feeling/consciousness as less-than-totally-real, or subservient to an “actual reality” that is more materialist-physical. I would classify writers, poets, philosophers in the first category, and (most) scientists and most “average” people in the latter.

The adventurer may have any number of moral codes, so novelty of feeling is isn’t everything. There is a code to uphold, out of respect for the gods. The tyrant can also have any number of their own moral codes and, of course, sheep.

The “types” are descriptions of goals, wants, “wills.”
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There are three basic types of people: the Tyrants, the Adventurers, and the Sheep.

Tyrants seek to establish what they decide they will get established.

Adventurers seek to react to situations, and have a taste for situations.

Sheep survive, and do so much better when they adopt pastors, or complicated industrialized systems of control.

And, as Nietzsche so kindly pointed out, there probably doesn’t exist a person that doesn’t have each to some degree.

Hell, they are probably evolutionary mechanisms of behavior that have different triggers, like who ends up in what position of a dog pack.
What about the Individual him/her -self?
Do you see no human beings as individuals who listen to and follow their own calling - who march to an entirely different drummer than that of others? I would, in actuality, say that your above three - all react to situations.
The individual, on the other hand, chooses to create his own situations and thus responds accordingly…although I suppose one could say that the tyrant, the adventurer and the sheep also create their own situations but it is the motivation/intent which separates them from the individual. The tyrant seeks to gain power and control over others and to abuse; the adventurer seeks to defy and transcend death’s meaning by ‘diving’ into life (not such a negativething of course) and the sheep seeks to surrender his will and autonomy by creating a scenario in which he is helpless but also gains delusional strength by attaching himself to the herd.

The tyrant…the adventurer…and the sheep …is this where evolution has brought us to? Do you see any other categories of people?

And those ‘triggers’ themselves - these are what we need to always be consciously aware of. Our instincts are wonderful and work for us as tools when they are in harmony with our intelligence and rightful intentions.

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up."

“If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I would feel trapped.”

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Pezer…

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The tyrant can also have any number of their own moral codes and, of course, sheep.
Could the tyrant live by what can be considered a ‘moral’ code - doesn’t moral imply what is just and right? Or does he simply live by what satisfies his own needs/desires for power? Wouldn’t that, in itself, conflict with a sense of morality?

The sheep may or may not have their own moral code - but I would say that it is usually built into what is good for the herd - and according to its beliefs and that may or may not necessarily in itself be moral either. Am I wrong?

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up."

“If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I would feel trapped.”

Thomas Nagel
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Pezer wrote:
There are three basic types of people: the Tyrants, the Adventurers, and the Sheep.

Tyrants seek to establish what they decide they will get established.

Adventurers seek to react to situations, and have a taste for situations.

Sheep survive, and do so much better when they adopt pastors, or complicated industrialized systems of control.

And, as Nietzsche so kindly pointed out, there probably doesn’t exist a person that doesn’t have each to some degree.

Hell, they are probably evolutionary mechanisms of behavior that have different triggers, like who ends up in what position of a dog pack.
What about the Individual him/her -self?
Do you see no human beings as individuals who listen to and follow their own calling - who march to an entirely different drummer than that of others? I would, in actuality, say that your above three - all react to situations.
The individual, on the other hand, chooses to create his own situations and thus responds accordingly…although I suppose one could say that the tyrant, the adventurer and the sheep also create their own situations but it is the motivation/intent which separates them from the individual. The tyrant seeks to gain power and control over others and to abuse; the adventurer seeks to defy and transcend death’s meaning by ‘diving’ into life (not such a negativething of course) and the sheep seeks to surrender his will and autonomy by creating a scenario in which he is helpless but also gains delusional strength by attaching himself to the herd.

The tyrant…the adventurer…and the sheep …is this where evolution has brought us to? Do you see any other categories of people?

And those ‘triggers’ themselves - these are what we need to always be consciously aware of. Our instincts are wonderful and work for us as tools when they are in harmony with our intelligence and rightful intentions.

The person you are describing sounds like a mix between tyrant and adventurer, but tyrant at the core. It is a missunderstanding of these categories to think that a tyrant seeks to “abuse.” A tyrant seeks only to impose.
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The tyrant can also have any number of their own moral codes and, of course, sheep.
Could the tyrant live by what can be considered a ‘moral’ code - doesn’t moral imply what is just and right? Or does he simply live by what satisfies his own needs/desires for power? Wouldn’t that, in itself, conflict with a sense of morality?

The sheep may or may not have their own moral code - but I would say that it is usually built into what is good for the herd - and according to its beliefs and that may or may not necessarily in itself be moral either. Am I wrong?

Give me some time to answer these questions on morality, which is a very complex issue.
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I’ve been thinking about it and this is a good list. However, it is important to note that it is only a narrow slice of the unfathomable pie of human psychology.
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The person you are describing sounds like a mix between tyrant and adventurer, but tyrant at the core. It is a missunderstanding of these categories to think that a tyrant seeks to “abuse.” A tyrant seeks only to impose.
So…what I described the ‘individual’ as being was…

Do you see no human beings as individuals who listen to and follow their own calling - who march to an entirely different drummer than that of others? I would, in actuality, say that your above three - all react to situations.

The individual, on the other hand, chooses to create his own situations and thus responds accordingly

Well, I suppose that you do have a point there. Without other criteria, these words might ALSO describe a tyrant. A ‘real’ individual in my book though would ALSO live by a certain code of ethics in which to the best of his/her ability, no harm would be done to others. But one must put ‘ethical individual’ there.

But I don’t understand why you would think such an individual, without the word ‘ethical’ in there, would necessarily have to be a ‘tyrant to the core’. What do you base that on? Doesn’t the fact that the individual marches to an entirely different drummer than others presuppose that he is not a tyrant? Tyrants march to the same drummer as many others - they just march as the leader of the pack, the herd. Could a tyrant BE one without his mindless herd? A real individual needs no herd - a tyrant does…though a real individual, as a human being, obviously desires the company of others who live within the same spirit of life and meaning as he/she does. There is a difference between solidarity and the herd mentality.

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A tyrant seeks only to impose.
And you see nothing abusive about that? At the very least, it borders on abuse, at least in my book.

An individual, and an ethical one at that, senses and knows the value of free will and autonomy within self - and so chooses not to impose his/her will on others - simply seeks understanding and harmony with others - which is not an imposition - unless taken to another level and forced.

But I will agree with you on this point - it is within all of our capacity to become as a tyrant n particular moments or situations - if we are not careful and conscious of ourselves. It is not always an easy thing to allow, to live and to let live and to let go. But I think that unless we strive to live this way, we lose the freedom which we ourselves seek.

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up."

“If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I would feel trapped.”

Thomas Nagel

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I’ve been thinking about it and this is a good list. However, it is important to note that it is only a narrow slice of the unfathomable pie of human psychology.
A narrow slice…more like a little corner of the most vast galaxy in the universe. But I agree with you, as human beings, we are unfathomable, and it is so important to discover, to come to know just what we are capable of - morally and immorally speaking that is. We are capable of being so corruptible and even the best of us; for instance, the missionary, the crusader, the teacher, the saint…to simply name a few …anyone, could become, by nature of his/her humanity and lack of understanding and self-exploration and transcendence, a tyrant.

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up."

“If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I would feel trapped.”

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You missunderstand my use of the word tyrant. I don’t mean it as a literal allusion to being a political tyrant of a country, I mean it as a psychological type.

An individual that makes his own rules and allways follows them is a tyrant because he is imposing his will on himself.

Not “to the core,” “at his core.”
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You missunderstand my use of the word tyrant. I don’t mean it as a literal allusion to being a political tyrant of a country, I mean it as a psychological type.

An individual that makes his own rules and allways follows them is a tyrant because he is imposing his will on himself.

Not “to the core,” “at his core.”
I understand what you’re saying now but I personally would not use the word ‘tyrant’ in this way. Aside from having a negative connotation, I don’t think it portrays the above individual in his ‘real’ light. But it might just be me.

An individual can live by a certain code and not digress from that code (perhaps except in extreme circumstances) but the only way he becomes a tyrant to self is if his self-imposing will causes him to become miserable because of it; deprives him of his joy and doesn’t allow for change ever. What comes to mind here is one who has an over-the-top extreme sense of duty. I may be wrong, but I sense that this person is a bit of a masochist…and one’s own enemy. And truth to tell, I think that one who is so hard on himself will ultimately be hard on others. As we treat ourselves, we treat others - and vica versa. Smile I learned that somewhere along the way. And then that tyranny is not simply self-imposed.

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up."

“If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I would feel trapped.”

Thomas Nagel
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The 3 kinds of people are actually just those who can count and those who can’t.
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The 3 kinds of people are actually just those who can count and those who can’t.

Nono there’s ten, those who understand binary and those who don’t.
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Nono… it is “those who count and those who don’t”
…it’s a socialist thing. Twisted Evil
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You forgot the fourth kind of person. The Solitary. He doesn’t seek to impose his laws on others, nor does he respect the laws of others. Why try to make slaves out of beasts that cannot perform the tasks you would want performed, that cannot live up to your standard? He doesn’t seek out new experiences or dangers either, and cares not for adventure. He doesn’t like the herd, so he avoids it. Mostly just because he doesn’t like their stink, and also because he simply enjoys being with himself more than he enjoys being with others. Unlike Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, he never goes down from his mountain. Why? People come up to him, of their own accord. And he graciously offers to them some of his riches, simply because it amuses him that someone would actually make it to him and be able to scale the mountain by themselves.

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You forgot the fourth kind of person. The Solitary. He doesn’t seek to impose his laws on others, nor does he respect the laws of others. Why try to make slaves out of beasts that cannot perform the tasks you would want performed, that cannot live up to your standard? He doesn’t seek out new experiences or dangers either, and cares not for adventure. He doesn’t like the herd, so he avoids it. Mostly just because he doesn’t like their stink, and also because he simply enjoys being with himself more than he enjoys being with others. Unlike Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, he never goes down from his mountain. Why? People come up to him, of their own accord. And he graciously offers to them some of his riches, simply because it amuses him that someone would actually make it to him and be able to scale the mountain by themselves.

It is almost as if here is described wisdom itself.
But what does such a solitary do if he is, like Zarathustra became after a long solitude, overfull?

" The strong do what they can do and the weak accept what they have to accept. "

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Ferment, like all over-ripened fruit.

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If he needs the consolation, if he suffers from over-ripeness and excess vitality, he can always take consolation in the thought of the eternal.

" One of the greatest antidotes to the scruples and the sufferings of conscience is the thought of things of eternal significance, or what we call “wisdom.” Indeed, if human wisdom requires its sanction on the earth, as all other things do, I would have to find it in the fact that it is perhaps the sweetest drop of ambrosia yet to be squeezed from the poppy bud of mortal esperance, and constitutes that profound sleep of heart and soul which every promising case of genius requires if it is not to perish of its doubts, skepticism, and indecisiveness. Should a philosopher then presume to bear the truth? Not in the sense that he should aim to speak the truth for the truth’s sake. He should aim only to entreat such promising cases to the picture of what is, was, and must be, to the image of the eternal and of truth, for they will need such an image in which to repose from the contests and the avarice of the perishing and of chance, as well as from the promises of their own nature, which are heavy pains upon their conscience." – Hamartia

" Let us bear our witness to man, who is in death given but a loam of dirt to mark his grave which, even if this loam of dirt be the whole earth, makes little difference; man, whose seminal were by Adam communicated but to the grave, from which his sad progeny only can be reckoned. Death’s the rounded vault and bright company the course of life does trace, that solitude and lone star attenuate. It is the living but are the exiled, bereft and deserted, and death the great repatriation; old sheol were our only promised land. Let us look at what a frail and trembling, naked, creature he is, or this human will, this so strange a thing, which for us aims to resolution of all the quandaried aspect of our passion. There is little sympathy between our passions and our acts; man’s passions are too powerful to be translated into his actions, and man’s actions, alas, too powerful to be comprehended by the heart. Love forever dawns, and it no morning knows; in the barren womb of thoughts, our passions die before they’re ever born, quenched in the very fire that gave them life.

All mark themselves with their own flame, and the sign of Cain were properly in our own hand, for all that we began in tentative advances ends up a confession, and all confession quickly runs to thoughtless repetition. The image of man is offered by the philosophers and saints as the image of all the universe’s struggle, and yet it is but a splintered icon of the mute striving that can be read in living creation, and so blear and ruined an image! Yet, we must admit, of the infinite still high emblem, and immortality. One ruined fragment does repose in our glad youth, to which the knowledge of love belongs, and but one more conferred to the heart aged and pensive, which discovers reverence and pious worship. Yet, when we these thus repair, we find the one’s truth proves the other’s falsity, one’s sickly vice the other’s justice. Man is not the measure of all things, and man is not even the measure of man. In the clement modesty of the nightingale at song of which Ovid, Keats, Ruth, and so many others told, I find a still better compass of the world; that strain without answer or chorus, and well-instanced requiem for each starveling era, stanchless of its heroes and romances, but forever sated with his lonesome call." – Till Hope Creates.

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As being the only species that tells stories. No, there are stories in the birdsong, the collective harmony is no doubt a narration of their physiological memory. In this sense we are one large flock, and our coherence is chanted through the fibers, as I watch Walter White arrive at the old Indian’s house and know that all people who know this guy are affected by the same event that just transpired. Cinema is not dead, it has just shifted shape. Stories have gotten bigger - to the archlength of Homeric episodes. But the Gods are made invisible. So that they can be revealed only in acts.
This is good. A beginning of an epistemic space where coherent ethics no longer serves to captivate. Character study necessarily requires this psychoanalytical unraveling, of a man, a city, a football team, a crime outfit, an advertising agency or an undertaker family, so really, a film is never a truly comprehensive epistle.

All films were trailers.

I love those people who can commit to a story and finish it.

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So what is film? It is not the unraveling or making of a life, because it only captures a few phases in the life of the people involved. It does not suffer climax after climax after climax to end up in a place where no one had expected anything to ever go. What can it do best? This is clear suddenly: the unreal, the “ray pattern”, the trip, that which does not expose itself in every direction but is itself a direction. Film points somewhere. The Sopranos does not point to anything at all. It’s in the end self-contained, clear enough from the beginning, but clearer in the end. It was not even necessary to film an ending.

It is fitting that the road out of nihilism (which as far as American pop culture was concerned started in 1977, as Star Wars changed the market of the erotic imagination from the death drive to a moral glorification of the Universe and its cosmic child, man, “Skywalker”; Zeus-progeny) is such a very apparent deception - a projection that is seen to fate in and out - means of “deception” (creation of an emotional value where there is no practical ground to attain it yet), the justified means of life affirming politics.

It arose out of the most favorable conditions man had known since ancient Greece - Coastal wine country in the richest nation in human history.

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The next step in this process is to affirm the Earth in a practical sense. This means not simply dwelling and thinking, but also fighting and scheming, suffering and corrupting. The new series are a getting into the grit of sociology, man is coming to learn of himself in ways that had (or so writers of shows I admire say) been unthinkable before this kill.

It’s in a sense the reversal of the moral code set in by Star Wars. From the optimism of the straight line to the cynicism of the full circle, a ground of tragedy where “great style” is possible.

I’m sure there have been some moments of what Nietzsche meant by this term by now. The only road out of nihilism is by positing the future as a forbidden realm, visible and attainable.

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I hate that if I look out the window, I see about two hundred other windows.
I hate that I feel like drawing the curtains when it’s dark, because my desk faces outside.
I want my desk to face hillsides, an ocean, a valley, or Central Park -

This city is so tiny. Most cities are so tiny.

The best view I’ve ever had was on the 33rd floor of a Lower Manhattan apartment facing south.
The second best view was from a bedroom I once had, a balcony window from a villa on a slight hill in Tuscany.

I’m thinking what else. Mostly crammed-in city. I don’t even want to think about how much this has influenced my attitude.

No, wait - my child room - it was in a street facing the other side of that street, but it was on top of the house, above the houses opposite. But I always had my curtain drawn! The sun came in too brightly, I could not watch tv, play my nintendo, later edit my movies.

But then in summer I was outside most of the time. My game was my view.

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I just finished the first season. This is disturbing to me, more so even than the black mirror episode I saw, the one with the pig. This creeps up on you. Modernity in its violent complexities.

I had no idea Claire Danes was such an awesome actress. I liked her in Romeo & Juliet, but hadn’t heard from her since. This is the most interesting female performance I’ve seen in any of these HBO type series and the male lead gives a true portrait of religion.

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In Spanish, we call the kind of love that leads to romance being inloved. This much more practical for being precice term tells us right away that we are trapping ourselves.

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I woke up this morning.

I think eating too much meat is not something man has evolved to do effectively…and consuming too much animal product leads to disease because our digestive systems evolved in more austere environments.

But then again, I just might be a closet carnivore who hates meat-eaters because they intimidate me.
I eat my meat in secret, and I hate myself because of this secret passion of mine.

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A bitch I hooked up with last night is coming over to cook and clean for me.
I promised her a bit of crack.

Yeaup…I’m a ladies man, and you wish you were I.

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I’m a philosopher.
I know Game Theory, Existentialism, Ontology, Metaphysics, Stoicism, Perspectivism, and many other words associated with academic philosophizing.

I dare you to prove I am not a philosopher.
I don’t read books, but I’ve heard the words.

And the ladies luv me.

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Really, I assure you, no one gives a fuck.

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Must one not first hate oneself, in order to love oneself? …
I am your labyrinth …”. -N

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Capable wrote:
Really, I assure you, no one gives a fuck.
How dare you sir.
Why so jealous, homey?

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I took a nap…got up, emptied a bottle of Metaxa and had a burger.

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Did you ever make wine?

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I woke up this morning as well. How interesting is that.
There was a whole month where there were only mornings I went to sleep.

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Did you ever make wine?
Are you joking…I’m drunk, or high, half the time. I post on these forums only when I’m pissed…'cause I’m cool, and modern, and…happy.
I drink to deal with my latent homosexuality…it helps me endure the penis up my rectum which I…luuuuuv, by the way.

THIS is philosophy, my friend…this is what your kind has made of it.
THIS is who YOU are.

When speaking on a subject you are made uncomfortable, go for the personal, sexual, insinuation…like a good little whore.
I’ve seen it happen a hundred times…in a dozen different, so called, “philosophy” forums, populated with simpletons with large vocabularies, good intentions, and tiny little cowardly minds.

You should be ashamed but I’m not holding my breathe…so why should I not toy with you, as I’ve done with others on your level in the past?
It usually gets me banned.
They must protect the weak…who instigate what they cannot deal with…underestimating their adversary…just, like, you, did.
Or haven’t you heard of Satyr, turd?
Abusing me, you see, you stupid turd, like you did with your little comment, is acceptable, making snide little insinuating personal comments is acceptable…but if I reciprocate, I’m the one who is compensating, or ill, or aggressive, a bully no less.

See, I have to tolerate imbeciles, like you…not because you have something interesting to contribute to my awareness, but just because you were born, you are of the human species, you speak English, and you have an opinion.
Isn’t respect, and love, deserved?

I hope that one morning you REALLY wake up.
That you use a Hellenic symbol as your avatar is embarrassing.

Are you or are you not going to suck my cock, you bitch?!
Because you exposed yourself as just another bitch…and I’m going to treat you exactly like you want me to.
Tell me about Greek man-boy love and how you want to taste that forbidden fruit…because there’s nothing wrong with it - just another life choice.

Choose well.
Play with me boy…tell me I’m a homophobe.
Be creative.

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I did underestimate your ambition to assert yourself. I always overestimate your ability to say anything.
Of course you want to get banned, that’s the only form of acknowledgement you know.

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See how easy it it to understand me?

Only four words to remember:
Sexist…Racist…Homophobe and …afraid.

Ambition?
You asked for it…I deliver.
Nobody loves me…I get no attention…you’ve gor me pegged, turd.

This is the only “philosophy” I can expect from minds like yours.
I squeeze what I can get from a rock.

Please…do go on.

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“Sexist…Racist…Homophobe and …afraid.”

Not noticed any of the first three - just a bit of self-loathing.
Afraid? Of what?
You have nothing to lose.

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I’m still not entirely convinced he isn’t some sort of bot.

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Well he is, but a human one. He’s as neurotic as to be virtually electronic though.

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Hm… yes.

I recommend not wasting any further time on a merely broken machine.

“Be clever, Ariadne! …
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Must one not first hate oneself, in order to love oneself? …
I am your labyrinth …”. -N

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…at least until that machine demonstrates some signs of sentience or intelligence.

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Must one not first hate oneself, in order to love oneself? …
I am your labyrinth …”. -N

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My daddy was a machine…my mother flesh and blood.
I’m a hybrid…and that is why I hate myself.
I knew hate was in there somewhere.

It miraculously always comes up when speaking with simpletons like Fixed.
It was part of me being in the closet.

Oh well.

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That was a bit disappointing. More predictable than I wished to predict.

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I banned him and Lyssa, they’re the same. I had hoped for at least a little bit of substance to go with the enthusiasm.
In any case I consider my social experiment at ILP to be successful - in the face of Satyrs lies I feel I have to assert this again. I am sure that he did come here on account of my crack-talk to Smears.

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Bitches be installing cabinets… shit. I find this a befitting name for the author of a “what are you doing” thread. We can delete what’s obscene (as I deleted his photo and changed his name) but I’d like to keep the thread as a reminder of this experiment with Smears.

Seriously, I make a couple of threads about Smears and crack, then this guy comes posting about crack in a copy of the Smears thread in which I put part of that satire. Playing the goat and stirring the sheep, this is what happens. I don’t think God was playing dice here.

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I’ve been drinking coca cola during this charade and there’s no clarity in my mind yet about whether there’s any value at all in keeping this little piece of theatre on the forum and certainly not whether or not Mr. Oikos is a good name. I do like “Modern Greek”, the what are you doing thread, and the fact that there are certain power struggles between forums and combined points of reference - like for example, the KT hierarchy structure is copied from Sauwelios old Nietzsche forum. He got banned, of course, but saw the merit.

“Bless Satyr” would be an obscenity, but to at least affirm his existence as part of the eternally recurring world in which all this philosophizing drama unfolds is possible.

Become awake
and chop the heads of these snakes
That’s better off than dying
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The snake inside yourself that
be the first head you take

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Christ you guys are pussies.

One day of KTS and you ban 2 of the Prytanes. Plus you were so sore you needed to expend some of that frustration by some superficial vandalism of Satyr’s profile.

Have you got nothing else, you dickless faggots? No arguments, no rebuttals, no comebacks? Only banishment?

Same turds floatin around, different toiletbowl.

Very disappointed, fellas. I was expecting more… Before The Flight.
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Ehm… you’re disappointed?

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Capable - you’re right, a straightforward purge is more sanitary.

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Yes.

But I’m perhaps naive to have expected more from apaosha, at least.

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The horoscope of the site suggests such a duality – a Mars-Pluto conjunction, which suggests much the force and ‘illegality’ which Gobbo is protesting, as well as the reality of the will to power which I am forever investigating – is tied to a conjunction of Saturn and Venus, which immediately evokes the idea of the suppression of values and valuing capacity. Perhaps more accurately it restricts the valuing capacity to the purely Saturnian, austere, ‘bitter’.

Perhaps what must become evident first on that platform is its nihilism. Capables post on Kitaro can not even be properly read there as it could be here. The question is whether this clinical environment can be used to some kind of advantage. At this point no one wants to come within a hundred yards of the site – it is quarantined.

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would atheists happen to be governed by saturn and venus or the opposite?

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I don’t know if that’s a question that can be answered, but religion is tied to Jupiter and Neptune, and both these planets make harmonic aspects with the Venus/Saturn block… so for the sake of argument I’d say the atheist is more tied to the Pluto/Mars block. Or rather, less to the Venus/Saturn one.

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well i tripped balls last night… and part of that trip was seeing that it happens to be atheists that are in control of the powers that be at the moment… as such it would make since to me that after such a realization would come a sign that there will be a growth of the opposite… alien

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There will certainly be a growth of religious feelings the coming decade if I look at Neptune. But this also means an increased susceptibility, a tendency to believe stories if they sound good, if they make one feel exalted.

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Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
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To side with those who favor fire.
But I know that ice,
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So, I was having a walk in the warm Caracas thunderstorm, having a bit of a religious epiphany, feeling in awe of Zeus and feeling as one with my Nordic brothers plus all babilonians, when I asked myself: how did the native americans worship the rain?

This came to me:

In the case of the indians in Jungle regions of what is now Venezuela, whether near the coast or in the amazon, the answer was:

We be chillin, getting high all day in this crazy mother of a jungle.

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The Earth is good.

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Verily, I have stood my ground always,
To the meek and the lovers of order!
Without a single shard of disrespect,
Or injury from my person emanating.

From infancy I have been loved by men,
When at the hight of their honor and,
Exploratory bravery they feel and see.
Never has a man in me seen ordinance.

My enemies strong have always been!
And jelous, adding only to their strength.
In the end I have always been pardoned,
Out of fear as much as unadmitted respect!

Wise old men have always wanted me,
For a son and their only one apprentice.
In my betrayal they have ne’er felt chagrin!
But pained love and honest endearment.

I have received from lovers admiration,
And interest, and friendship as well.
From fighters always nothing less than,
Loyalty! And brotherly sweat and self-joy.

From the brave I have been offered warlord-
Ship. The wanderers offer to settle for war…
Always in me they sense a vast horizon and hope!
Which is decidedly secondary to my animal sense.

The wise… Ah, the wise! The wise have noticed me,
And respected the arts of my own wisdom as true.
Never a bellicose thought toward me from them,
As wise men’s only interest is the food I bring.

In my own lands I have been seen as a stranger,
Though to the heart closer than a patriot seems…
In foreign lands I have always been beheld with,
A bewildering familiarity and brotherhood unkown.

And so, not wanderer, or soldier, or leader or show,
Not commander of many or hermit or snow,
Not wise or skilled or great or slow,
Not big or small or faint of glow,

I am that I motherfucking am!
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We fight only against what we fear.
The fearless man is the peaceful man.

Suffering is the path of fulfilling desire.
Nirvana is not absence of suffering,
but having less desires.

The Buddha is a soul at the old stage
experienced enough to know what is worth desiring.

Satisfied with less
by seeing more.
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Abstract wrote:
We fight only against what we fear.
The fearless man is the peaceful man.

Suffering is the path of fulfilling desire.
Nirvana is not absence of suffering,
but having less desires.

The Buddha is a soul at the old stage
experienced enough to know what is worth desiring.

Satisfied with less
by seeing more.
Is seeing something, for instance, as harmful, and fighting against that, the same as being fearful? Is awareness the same as fearfulness? Is having the ability to see into the future by being aware of the present and acting on that - is that the same as being fearful - albeit fear can be a tool for survival.

The fearless man may also be the unaware man or the fool. Just saying.
Does the ‘peaceful’ man give up his survival instinct?

Suffering may also be the path or the fire by which we burn away our ‘empty’ and genuinely meaningless desires.
I thought nirvana was more an experience of wonderful and complete emptiness…a ‘being there’ sort of place.
But is more seen - or is ‘enough’ seen? But I understand what you mean by more - ‘complete’ is a far better word to me.

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

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VaerosTanarg wrote:
Abstract wrote:
We fight only against what we fear.
The fearless man is the peaceful man.

Suffering is the path of fulfilling desire.
Nirvana is not absence of suffering,
but having less desires.

The Buddha is a soul at the old stage
experienced enough to know what is worth desiring.

Satisfied with less
by seeing more.
Is seeing something, for instance, as harmful, and fighting against that, the same as being fearful? Is awareness the same as fearfulness? Is having the ability to see into the future by being aware of the present and acting on that - is that the same as being fearful - albeit fear can be a tool for survival.
hear I am thinking of fear as being regardless of anxiety, and thus mostly concern of the future. So awareness is not fearfulness, being aware of the future in a manner that leads to the desire of action for prevention…perhaps… Perhaps being fulfilled by the now one does not need so much of a future, and need not worry about it. The more people the more concerned for the future the more people taking action to change it and the more of that there is the harder it is to change it and the more suffering must be paid for what change of it is desired.

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The fearless man may also be the unaware man or the fool. Just saying.
Does the ‘peaceful’ man give up his survival instinct?
If a person can be fulfilled in a moment now what need is there of survival into a future?

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Suffering may also be the path or the fire by which we burn away our ‘empty’ and genuinely meaningless desires.
Absence of suffering comes only after one has suffered. Suffering is required. It is balance that should be sought.

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I thought nirvana was more an experience of wonderful and complete emptiness…a ‘being there’ sort of place.
But is more seen - or is ‘enough’ seen? But I understand what you mean by more - ‘complete’ is a far better word to me.

Seeing more of the infinite things in each single thing. be that thing physical or an idea.
Complete emptiness is as complete absence wherein there is absence of absence and thus presence…
Nothing is “complete” it is by limitation that anything “is”.

Nirvana is emptiness of the Right things
It is balance… Perhaps of what is called the Middle Path…
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Is seeing something, for instance, as harmful, and fighting against that, the same as being fearful? Is awareness the same as fearfulness? Is having the ability to see into the future by being aware of the present and acting on that - is that the same as being fearful - albeit fear can be a tool for survival.

hear I am thinking of fear as being regardless of anxiety, and thus mostly concern of the future.

So awareness is not fearfulness, being aware of the future in a manner that leads to the desire of action for prevention…perhaps… Perhaps being fulfilled by the now one does not need so much of a future, and need not worry about it.

So perhaps you are thinking of fear in terms of an unproductive focusing on the future. But one may live in and feel fulfilled by the present moment and at the same time, have the awareness of knowing that one must ALSO plan for the future. There are those who live only in the future and miss the present and there are also those who live ONLY for the moment and see no future.

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The more people the more concerned for the future the more people taking action to change it and the more of that there is the harder it is to change it and the more suffering must be paid for what change of it is desired.
Can you please explain what you mean by this a bit more.

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The fearless man may also be the unaware man or the fool. Just saying.
Does the ‘peaceful’ man give up his survival instinct?

If a person can be fulfilled in a moment now what need is there of survival into a future?
I think that I may intuit what you’re saying here. When we are fully living and flowing in the present moment, there is no thought of a future or a past either. Time stands still or even disappears. There is only the core self. Unless I am misunderstanding your meaning.

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Suffering may also be the path or the fire by which we burn away our ‘empty’ and genuinely meaningless desires.

Absence of suffering comes only after one has suffered. Suffering is required. It is balance that should be sought.
Yes, I am with you on this. Suffering is a process that one must go through if one is to come out “on the other side” so to speak and it does require balance. But at the same time, it requires that nothing be forced nor sacrificed but only experienced in the moment.

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I thought nirvana was more an experience of wonderful and complete emptiness…a ‘being there’ sort of place.
But is more seen - or is ‘enough’ seen? But I understand what you mean by more - ‘complete’ is a far better word to me.

Seeing more of the infinite things in each single thing. be that thing physical or an idea.

As Blake said: “To see the world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wildflower, is to hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.”
Now that is living in the ‘complete’ moment - having an experience “come to us” like that.

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Complete emptiness is as complete absence wherein there is absence of absence and thus presence…
That’s sort of difficult to wrap my mind around. But basically, I think what you are saying here is that there can never be complete emptiness. Can you explain why?

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Nothing is “complete” it is by limitation that anything “is”.
I have many moments when I am feeling ‘complete’…no thought of any limitation…when time stands still and there is just the being there…perhaps there is not even that.

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Nirvana is emptiness of the Right things
It is balance… Perhaps of what is called the Middle Path…
nir•va•na (nîr-vä n , n r-)
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often Nirvana
a. Buddhism The ineffable ultimate in which one has attained disinterested wisdom and compassion.
b. Hinduism Emancipation from ignorance and the extinction of all attachment.
An ideal condition of rest, harmony, stability, or joy.

According to this definition, I wouldn’t so much think of nirvana in terms of the Middle Path as I would of ‘being there’ or 'having arrived" as I stated above or “heaven”.

I think that the middle path is a state or a process of remaining balanced. But maybe I am not understanding it for what it is. Perhaps when one actually walks the middle path, there is no effort to remain balanced.

Thank you, Abstract.

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Is seeing something, for instance, as harmful, and fighting against that, the same as being fearful? Is awareness the same as fearfulness? Is having the ability to see into the future by being aware of the present and acting on that - is that the same as being fearful - albeit fear can be a tool for survival.

hear I am thinking of fear as being regardless of anxiety, and thus mostly concern of the future.

So awareness is not fearfulness, being aware of the future in a manner that leads to the desire of action for prevention…perhaps… Perhaps being fulfilled by the now one does not need so much of a future, and need not worry about it.

So perhaps you are thinking of fear in terms of an unproductive focusing on the future. But one may live in and feel fulfilled by the present moment and at the same time, have the awareness of knowing that one must ALSO plan for the future. There are those who live only in the future and miss the present and there are also those who live ONLY for the moment and see no future.
yes i would think that some non-nowness is necessary less what you are in is not really a moment anyways…a moment should be a line… to be completely in the now would be like being a point on the time line… which in itself (a true monad) has no value…
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The more people the more concerned for the future the more people taking action to change it and the more of that there is the harder it is to change it and the more suffering must be paid for what change of it is desired.
Can you please explain what you mean by this a bit more.
If you have 2 people concerned for the future and taking action then only so much change is occurring and thus for your action and predicting you only need to take into account those two people… but the more people doing this the more must be taken into account and thus the more chaotic it all becomes; the ability to predict the future in any reasonable manner (which is much of what consciousness is) is reduced the more action there is being taken to change the future…perhaps…

(which makes me wonder if the ability to be conscious of a species is reduced the larger it gets with more things trying to change the future…)

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The fearless man may also be the unaware man or the fool. Just saying.
Does the ‘peaceful’ man give up his survival instinct?

If a person can be fulfilled in a moment now what need is there of survival into a future?
I think that I may intuit what you’re saying here. When we are fully living and flowing in the present moment, there is no thought of a future or a past either. Time stands still or even disappears. There is only the core self. Unless I am misunderstanding your meaning.
Plausibly… but who knows… I would think fear that such is not the case, is preventative of achieving that…

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Suffering may also be the path or the fire by which we burn away our ‘empty’ and genuinely meaningless desires.

Absence of suffering comes only after one has suffered. Suffering is required. It is balance that should be sought.
Yes, I am with you on this. Suffering is a process that one must go through if one is to come out “on the other side” so to speak and it does require balance. But at the same time, it requires that nothing be forced nor sacrificed but only experienced in the moment.
yes, One should come to where they should be when they are ready… There is no need to seek Nirvana as some Buddhist writings suggest, rather it will come when it comes…

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I thought nirvana was more an experience of wonderful and complete emptiness…a ‘being there’ sort of place.
But is more seen - or is ‘enough’ seen? But I understand what you mean by more - ‘complete’ is a far better word to me.

Seeing more of the infinite things in each single thing. be that thing physical or an idea.

As Blake said: “To see the world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wildflower, is to hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.”
Now that is living in the ‘complete’ moment - having an experience “come to us” like that.
perhaps all that is needed is to realize that given that we live in an infinite universe any one thing is a compounding, a product, of the infinite… and any product of infinity (math) is itself infinite.

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Complete emptiness is as complete absence wherein there is absence of absence and thus presence…

That’s sort of difficult to wrap my mind around. But basically, I think what you are saying here is that there can never be complete emptiness. Can you explain why?

if everything is absent then so is the very absence of things…

Given complete emptiness then everything is empty of even emptiness…

The complete emptiness has no ‘thingness’ such as to be present anywhere, non-existence cannot exist by its very nature, thus existence is all there can be…

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Nothing is “complete” it is by limitation that anything “is”.

I have many moments when I am feeling ‘complete’…no thought of any limitation…when time stands still and there is just the being there…perhaps there is not even that.

The incompleteness of things is the complete nature of things… imperfection is perfection.

In other words limitation is the perfection. Yet we are so limited as to not truly-know anything including what our limitations are and as such it is best not to assume you are limited from doing anything.

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nir•va•na (nîr-vä n , n r-)
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often Nirvana
a. Buddhism The ineffable ultimate in which one has attained disinterested wisdom and compassion.
b. Hinduism Emancipation from ignorance and the extinction of all attachment.
An ideal condition of rest, harmony, stability, or joy.

According to this definition, I wouldn’t so much think of nirvana in terms of the Middle Path as I would of ‘being there’ or 'having arrived" as I stated above or “heaven”.

I think that the middle path is a state or a process of remaining balanced. But maybe I am not understanding it for what it is. Perhaps when one actually walks the middle path, there is no effort to remain balanced.
Perhaps, if nirvana is a goal, then the middle path is a means to that goal. But not an achievement left behind when the goal is attained, but rather a state maintained.

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Our fallen friend had a lot of wisdom when it came to the nature of fear and desire. His notion here, of the fearful as the fearsome, is sound on a primal level that reminds of what Parodites described somewhere as the origins of humanity as a form of resisting and arresting all the new possibilities in violences such as cannimalism and (self) mutilation. This fearsomeness of mind itself is the reason why humans become fearsome. Violence is the first negotiating term of man with his mind.

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If nirvana is buhdda in his old age, then chaos is what we seek if we aspire to it. If fearlessness is what waits at the end of the road, to respect that wisdom one must seek fear everywhere. Thus, when we reach our own old age, we plan to overcome Buhdda.

The power that Abstract found in Buhdda was great, he was fearsome. His writings are still full of fear.

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May not be the best place for this… (I have the answer…at least that I would give…)

How does one win the unwinable?

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May not be the best place for this… (I have the answer…at least that I would give…)

How does one win the unwinable?

By desiring to lose.

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Or by simply not striving to win or lose.
Why pursue what you perceive as a loss?

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Often we discover and learn far more through losing than winning, especially about ourselves.

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Or by simply not striving to win or lose.
Why pursue what you perceive as a loss?

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yes that works too it would seem

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Or by simply not striving to win or lose.
Why pursue what you perceive as a loss?

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Actually maybe not… because if you do not desire to lose then you have won nothing … the question is how do you win the unwinable… not how can you avoid losing the unwinable… but with reagards to the concept that is fair enough… one need simply to not care, ultimately…

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Thomas Merton, the christian mystic has a nice translation of the Taoist Sage Chuang Tzu talking about the topic at hand… Chuang tzu had the right idea I believe :

When an archer is shooting for nothing
He has all his skill.
If he shoots for a brass buckle
He is already nervous.
If he shoots for a prize of gold
He goes blind
Or sees two targets-
He is out of his mind!

His skill has not changed. But the prize
Divides him. He cares.
He thinks more of winning
Than of shooting -
And the need to win
Drains him of power.

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Than of shooting -
Yes! Those who excel simply do not care so much if they win or lose as much as they care to so what they do well.

A prize, acclaim, may be the result, but it is strictly a contingency. This is also the reason perhaps why often, real artists are made uncertain by acclaim, are distracted from their true skill, seek after success disgrace so they can ‘hate’ the world as they did before, when they were unknown and had only their art.

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May not be the best place for this… (I have the answer…at least that I would give…)

How does one win the unwinable?

By desiring to lose.
Your answer to that question ALSO sounds like buddhist or daoist thinking to me. Rolling Eyes
And what would be the reason for desiring to lose in the first place?
Practically speaking, if one desires to lose, its best to leave something alone, no? Or to think out the situation, question why one does feel that way - is the desire to lose based on wisdom or fear or insecurity? And then to take that and to question it further and further and further…
To begin by automatically assuming that what is ‘unwinnable’ is, in actuality, unwinnable, is a defeatist attitude.

The only answer I would give to your question - “how does one win the unwinnable” and of course, there are legions of answers, but the first one that comes to me is simply to begin by changing one’s belief, perception and thinking - by ‘seeing’ that there is always the possibility of ‘winning’ and acting on that, until one has exhausted all avenues through action and within their own mind, and comes to the conclusion that it is ‘unwinnable’ - even though in fact it still may not be…or wins.

The mind is a mirror of the will or a lack of it. Transcend your mind and your will will rise with it.

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up."

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May not be the best place for this… (I have the answer…at least that I would give…)

How does one win the unwinable?

By desiring to lose.
Your answer to that question ALSO sounds like buddhist or daoist thinking to me. Rolling Eyes
And what would be the reason for desiring to lose in the first place?
Practically speaking, if one desires to lose, its best to leave something alone, no? Or to think out the situation, question why one does feel that way - is the desire to lose based on wisdom or fear or insecurity? And then to take that and to question it further and further and further…
To begin by automatically assuming that what is ‘unwinnable’ is, in actuality, unwinnable, is a defeatist attitude.

The only answer I would give to your question - “how does one win the unwinnable” and of course, there are legions of answers, but the first one that comes to me is simply to begin by changing one’s belief, perception and thinking - by ‘seeing’ that there is always the possibility of ‘winning’ and acting on that, until one has exhausted all avenues through action and within their own mind, and comes to the conclusion that it is ‘unwinnable’ - even though in fact it still may not be…or wins.

The mind is a mirror of the will or a lack of it. Transcend your mind and your will will rise with it.
Yes I think that is basically the point… to change the self to overcome the situation… nothing is unwinable, even what seems such can be overcome by the state of mind…

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.” -Socrates
“Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.” -Cicero
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May not be the best place for this… (I have the answer…at least that I would give…)

How does one win the unwinable?

By desiring to lose.
Is it even logical to suppose that we can even desire to lose something which is 'unwinable". Wouldn’t that be like grasping thin air?
For me, at least in this moment, the answer is by desiring ‘nothing’ either way. If we are ‘desiring nothing’ we are in total detachment.

There are many answers to many things…some more valid than others…depending on one’s own perception. I may change mine yet again.

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up."

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Is it even logical to suppose that we can even desire to lose something which is 'unwinable". Wouldn’t that be like grasping thin air?
For me, at least in this moment, the answer is by desiring ‘nothing’ either way. If we are ‘desiring nothing’ we are in total detachment.

There are many answers to many things…some more valid than others…depending on one’s own perception. I may change mine yet again.
I think i agree with you it seems more reasonable to desire nothing then to desire to lose.

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Is it even logical to suppose that we can even desire to lose something which is 'unwinable". Wouldn’t that be like grasping thin air?
For me, at least in this moment, the answer is by desiring ‘nothing’ either way. If we are ‘desiring nothing’ we are in total detachment.

There are many answers to many things…some more valid than others…depending on one’s own perception. I may change mine yet again.
I think i agree with you it seems more reasonable to desire nothing then to desire to lose.
At the same time, isn’t it true that if we ‘desire nothing’ we might have to be dead?
We have to desire something sometimes. After all, we’re human.
It comes down to learning to be discriminate human beings. lol

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Is it even logical to suppose that we can even desire to lose something which is 'unwinable". Wouldn’t that be like grasping thin air?
For me, at least in this moment, the answer is by desiring ‘nothing’ either way. If we are ‘desiring nothing’ we are in total detachment.

There are many answers to many things…some more valid than others…depending on one’s own perception. I may change mine yet again.
I think i agree with you it seems more reasonable to desire nothing then to desire to lose.
At the same time, isn’t it true that if we ‘desire nothing’ we might have to be dead?
We have to desire something sometimes. After all, we’re human.
It comes down to learning to be discriminate human beings. lol
Perhaps what one should desire then is not to lose but rather to simply not desire to win, or in otherwords have no desire regarding at least winning in that case.

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Perhaps what one should desire then is not to lose but rather to simply not desire to win, or in otherwords have no desire regarding at least winning in that case.
And in what position does that then leave the ‘one’? Smile

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i dont follow Question

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Well, that’s a good thing Abstract - especially if the leader has no idea where he is going. Forge your own path.

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Perhaps what one should desire then is not to lose but rather to simply not desire to win, or in otherwords have no desire regarding at least winning in that case.

And in what position does that then leave the ‘one’?

I don’t suppose there is actually only one answer to this question but I had one in mind. But, what would you say is another position? A hint, don’t let the written word throw you or mislead you. scratch

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i dont know… there is desire to lose, desire nothing, simply don’t care… i don’t know what else there is

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This is another question that is pertinent to what we’ve been discussing and takes to it from a whole different angle.

My answer here is that we win the unwinnable by considering the road to be the goal, without actually saying so; we bravely move toward a goal, but secretly know that this goal is only a means to the end of moving, expressing our strength, being alive.

So we win the goal for us, we place it in our bosom without actually reaching it, thus without neutralizing it. To win the unwinnable we must set unreachable goals. A bit like the moon might be said to have the goal of plummeting into Earth.

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Aristotle once said, “I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.”

What do you think you have gained from philosophy, what have you lost?

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Aristotle once said, “I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.”

What do you think you have gained from philosophy, ?

My Self…an ongoing process…

A much more expansive perspective (still working on it)

My doubts and skepticism about a deity - ignosticism (that’s a good thing)

The possibility that there may be some First Cause which we can never ever solve the mystery of. And that that First Cause will probably remain completely foreign to our puny brains; even if in fact there is one to begin with. And why would we choose to solve that mystery?

The value that comes from examining and doubting your beliefs (an ongoing process)

A brighter mind (mind you, I said “brighter” not brightest Mad )

A world of brilliant awesome thinkers…I would not have known otherwise…

The insight that I do not know how to love such as I previously thought…

The light that still shines and lingers from a tsunamic friendship…

A complicated look - a conundrum of sorts, into the ethics of “to do no harm” and how one’s sense of that can be balanced - to do no harm to self, and at the same time, to another…how that can be accomplished - it is not an easy problem to solve, it’s a never-ending process which seems to have no solution. Does that mean I’m on the right track or the wrong track.

Obviously, an even clearer sense and vision that Life is an ongoing process - and it is that process which makes life worthy of being lived.

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my [s]elf… (an onging process)

Tunnel vision (still working on that too)

a worn-out juvenile belief in a deity.

The luxury of living in the matrix (still working on it. lol)

Meaningless realizations (still working on it)

Actually, when thought about, none of the near above are losses…they are all gains…

and so forth…

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It’s not what I’ve gained, it’s what I have lost, namely enough to be prepared to die. Philosophia est moriendi ars.

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Aristotle once said, “I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.”

I never had need of philosophy to do that, in as far as it means crass criminal behavior. This points to how new the idea of existential gravity was to the Greeks that had it. They had it as a point, rather than as a field in which they could move. This accounts for that profound superficiality Nietzsche regarded as their most enviable virtue, what is behind the absolute and unmatchable perfection of their art. One hook in truth and no room for error. Life as the perfect circle drawn from a fixed point. Life as a circle produces the immortal.

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Among other things, friendship.

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Innocence.

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Drinking in honor of Abstract today.

Gained from philosophy? Pride. Sanity. Clarity. A cold mountain-like distance above things. Also a deep familiarity with the Earth.

Lost? The ability to “be” in that Earth, to flow in the tectonics that are self-unknown and thus beautiful. Philosophy forever strives to reclaim that which it lost, sacrificed, in the name of its other god - truth. We can either “be” truth, or we can “know” it. To know it is to elevate the entirety of existence; to be it is to reap the benefits of all that former knowing, knowledge in which being itself cannot really partake. All philosophy is in a sense “anti-being”.

Other things seem to even out. I’ve lost some happiness, gained other happiness. New sufferings afflict me as a consequence of philosophy, but then other sufferings have vanished as a consequence of it. New experience recede into impossibility, while others open themselves up before me like rose-buds, or whores.

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A Theory of Movement and Response to Parmenides Based on Nietzsche’s Theory of The Eternal Return Empty
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This also aims at Parodites’ theory of quanta.

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Child Tyrant

A philosopher takes it to over 9000 by filtering everything like a child’s tyranny: I take what I like, I respect nothing but my own taste in your words. This way, true collaboration is born: by absolute egoism. The flip side is that no part of anything can be disregarded: as Capable says, there might be a clue in there.

Woman’s Role for Men

Why be desperate at the fizzling away of meaning at high speeds? Maybe a woman watched it and was tickled by it! What comfort… What center. The center is not the cause that fizzles, but the consequence that enjoys. The cause is only movement, with befores and afters.

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One of the things that impresses me about Tolkien is how he reversed Nietzsche’s procession. First, with The Hobbit, he was a child, then, with The Lord of The Rings he was a Lion, and finally with The Silmarilion he was the Camel. I guess he would have gone into chameleon if given enough time, though maybe his studies on linguistics represent this.

The Hobbit, by the way, is a fantastic book to read as an older child, 8 to 13. So awesome. His original conception of dwarves and hobbits was to give children powerful figures to relate to.
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Great insight about the reverse procession of Nietzsche’s idea. Although the child in Hobbit is more of an incipient, expectant state rather than the result of a former completion and passing-beyond as in the case of Nietzsche’s child post-lion, post-camel, but in either case the characteristics are similar there - much overcoming by the end of the book. I very much enjoyed reading The Hobbit as a youth, I had this really nice edition of the book, large with graphics and an ornate, old-looking binding and cover. I remember when I saw it in the book store, I immediately fell in love with it and begged my dad to buy it for me… it was winter, the snow was falling in big slow flakes, and then we went to McDonalds after buying the book. In some ways, the experience of reading that book at a young age and for the first time, may have been my original introduction into philosophy.

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Must one not first hate oneself, in order to love oneself? …
I am your labyrinth …”. -N

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I had the asthetic experience with The Lord of The Rings, which I read from a library in its original 9 book format, each one black with a different symbol. So medieval…

I think Tolkien is almost a perfect mirror for a philosopher: like a Maerlin, he shows in reverse the truths of immmediate insights. The Lord of The Rings is what Medieval literature would FEEL like in modern times, not because of a more cynical perspective which he explicitly condemned but because of a wider field of experience. What we now know, so to speak, about princehood. Some of his battles read like a Homeric chapter, a dry list of fallen Nobles with Adjectives, evoking a greatness so immediate that the distance takes form as concrete distance. Gandalf is a dangerous motherfucker who just Happens to be on the hobbits’ side, a return or rather update of the original wild wizard. Lore Master (philosopher).

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Pithagoras found nature immediately as mundane as any unthinking man, the same with mathematics as boring. What made nature misteriously transcendental was that he had the code, the number. Numbers are transcendental inasmuch as they decode the normally mundane nature into a mediate knowledge that imprints power on the brain itself… The feeling, the almost smell of wisdom in trees comes from the knowledge that numbers can be applied to them and almost make man commune with nature in terms of man instead of of nature.

Pithagoras was a badass. But he had no transcendental knowledge, only an applied philosophy that gave a feeling of mistic communion.

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The moon loves cause, she reaps its consequence. In her dwell in outmost joy all causes that reach her; but the cause that makes her happiest is the Sun. When he shines on her, she smiles! She is happy, all other causes are too faint and too cold to bring her such a smile, such as makes men dance, in which all other causes are dimly reflected, sharply unified. Men are all astounded at the great causes when they gaze upon her, and dance to their reflected beauty on the pale earth of her light. And women… They look at the moon and can feel no greater pride. Her identity is their possibility, a reflection of their act, and they feed from her consequence both symbolically and directly. O woman! I love to be loved by you. O moon! I love to be shown by you.

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From a message I sent Capable: “I think the day philosophy is overcome will be a sad day, a buddist tired kind of day. The uberman, for example, is still below, still loves philosophy.”

The only reason I separate superman and philosopher is that philosophy must neanmois always be the ultimate overcomer. The superman, if he is a philosopher, is the only kind of human left, and even then he can live and love side by side with a philosopher. Philosopher: he who keeps the art pure and of itself.
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I don’t think philosophy will ever be overcome. It is the art of overcoming itself. It will change shape, though, when science has been liberated from its superstitions. It will not always remain as free, at one point it must come to actually rule. We are perhaps enjoying philosophy’s freest moment: it is discovering that it’s nature is quite omnipotent, but this discovery is not yet communicated.

I can imagine the intellectual wars that will break out once these notions break through into different intellectual establishments.

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Next to the Philosophers Clan video series we decided to pursue a small form of improvised fiction. After the first one came about in an unfathomable way that was supposed to lead to something very different, we decided to keep the form and stick with it, in the sense of haiku, calligraphy, a form of Japanese repetition.

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We’ve set up a youtube channel for our Montreal based film company, Before The Light Studios;
youtube.com/channel/UC86mxs … 67Jc6cHQ2g

Keep an eye on it. Things are rolling along quite nicely.

Ive PMed Capable about screenwriting. He said he’s interested. In 2012 I had a correspondence with Parodites, working on a script, about two types of heroism. That was a tremendous setup, which I hope to continue working on some time.

In any case I invite Capable and Parodites hereby to join the studios as concept developers and screenwriters, to write philosophy for the screen.

" The strong do what they can do and the weak accept what they have to accept. "

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Yes I’m interested. And trying to work on some things. I’m having a difficult time trying to find a way to personify pure force, any suggestions? I want, within the film medium, for some characters to be ephemeral or unformed, imprecise yet functioning personas that act within the story; basically I want to find a way for the sensation and idea of a pure force or power to take the form of a character without needing to be represented in a concrete body or actor.

I’m toying with the idea of using an object, coupled with a voice over and some cinematic effects, but I know that’s been done before. Another idea I had was to use brief glimpses of an article of clothing, somewhat suspended in the air or a boot on the ground, but making these fleeting and giving the impression they’re disconnected from an actual unified whole person wearing those clothes, and then doing a voiceover on top of that. Or simply the power or suggestion, have other characters act as if another person were in the room but never actually show that other person. Use clever camera work and cuts and angles and sounds to create impressions of people where there are none.

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I am your labyrinth …”. -N

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I realized that film can not be invented, it must be obeyed. He who obeys it best is the mightiest. Like handling the sword.

To violate laws is only viable in the context of reestablishing, re-acknowledging them on a higher level of story development; one can cause a disorientating sequence to be released in a stabilizing finale where a person is shown to have gone through a delirium or physical duress. The physiology is challenged, and in the state of shaken-ness the viewer is given an image to identify with, in that state, as that state.
In as far as a story is carried by physiological nuances, it works as a script.

Actors are nervous people; high strung natures that are used to and not afraid of feeling their nerves reeling; they enjoy it. They ride on the currents of mans expectations and somehow fulfill what man can not attain while purely in the flesh.

Im impressed by the thread about politics, I follow it happily and share it with intelligent politically interested people. They appreciate it. My father said he thought much of Parodites’ analysis of Trump. Other people communicated interest but wishing to understand in simpler terms. There is a magnetism to this; Trump is a story and who understands the psychology of man can tell where the story is headed.

Let’s think up a political thriller. Analogous to the dynamics i this election but heavily altered so as to resemble only in the sense of mechanism. It is interesting to think up a future that could follow in say 50 years. I am thinking here of your view of women as the positive substance, C, as that which is far enough from the self-devouring ground of consciousness as to be properly within consciousness; ‘objective’ - or even ‘object’.

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Today LOin3b0

Jupiter year about to close.
Int he opening of the thirteenth month at the cusp of the new sign Jupiter is joined by Venus and Mercury; yesterday all were on the 27th degree, a degree where many philosophers and other men intellectual pride have placements; Nietzsche’s Mars to begin with.

Pluto opposes Vesta which is conjunct Sirius (Pluto, Earth, Vesta and Sirius are in one line) at 13 Cancer, the ‘birth degree’ of the USA. (Sirius is the planet the Egyptians attributed to Isis, or, in Modern Faraoic, $)

Astrologers in my native country have predicted well over two decades ago that when Pluto runs opposite to this degree, the US will start falling apart, losing its mask reveal itself to itself; beyond this point, no one can see; Pluto determines power so deep that its workings are largely invisible until they’re well and done.

Today Plutohigh-res

My own prediction is more optimistic; a few years after this cataclysmic transit, Pluto returns to its US birth degree, for the first time. No human experiences a Pluto-return; the Uranus return occurs at 84, the Saturn return at 29; a nation however, can and often will. It tends to break apart and/or solidify into a new form. Pluto will return to its position of 1776 quite soon.

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PostSubject: The absolute necessity of atheism. The absolute necessity of atheism. Icon_minitimeSat Sep 24, 2016 9:50 am Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
Or, the necessity of absolute atheism.

Atheism is much more than a disbelief in God and theisms. Atheism is a way of believing, a pure form of subjectivity: we should state openly that we do not care if or to whatever extent theism is correct, because that question of “is God real? Is there some reality to the theistic idea?” is the wrong question. Parodites has written about this, about how theism is a structure of subjectivity and the content of that structure doesn’t really matter, what matters is the form of the subject who believes; lack of theism (atheism) is also a form of subjectivity regardless of questions about the truth of some content of any theism, and the atheist subjectivity is higher than the theist subjectivity in how theistic subjectivity still grants to those questions of God and theism a kind of reality that is actually entirely absent or withdrawn from the subject itself, therefore theistic subjectivity in fact represents a kind of self-contradiction sublimated to the level of ignorance. The ignorance is one of self-ignorance in how this person doesn’t understand that their own beliefs in God or theism don’t actually even matter, and not just in general but don’t actually even matter to that person themselves.

Pure believe in God or theism is the first stage, a stage that children are often at; if you ask them it is clear they truly authentically believe in God or their own theistic construct of cosmology (this also seems to be the stage that most Christian and Muslim fundamentalists are still at). They believe in the same way they believe in other things like tables and chairs. The next stage is pre-philosophical doubt that questions the theistic beliefs, so that one gains the further authenticity of being able to admit that one honestly does not know if God or theism is really true; this reflects an unconscious understanding that the nature of belief in God and theism is different than the nature of belief in tables and chairs, and a person can be at this stage but still retain a kind of openness and desire for God and the theistic while still admitting they do not know. The final stage is the atheist stage that openly states it does not believe in God or theism.

Now these three stages correspond to three kinds of subjectivity, and the belief itself only functions to mark those stages: 1) subjectivity is unable to identify the structural differences regarding the nature of theistic beliefs vs. beliefs in things like tables (I’ll call this latter kind of belief “material belief” for simplicity sake); for this stage the self has no capacity to distinguish between the form of material belief and the form of ideological belief; 2) the self becomes capable of drawing this distinction between these teo forms into conscious reflective subjectivity and so asserts a fundamental difference here when it comes to each kind of belief, and this difference which is asserted takes the form of separating how we believe in something like God vs. how we believe in something like tables and chairs. This second stage is symbolized by doubt and uncertainty toward the ideological beliefs; then 3) this distinction goes from the unconscious to conscious level and is able to inform the self directly, so that we become capable of admitting and knowing fully that the way of believing in God or theistic ideas is totally different from the way of believing in tables and chairs. Stage 1 is hard religious, stage 2 is soft religious/agnostic, and stage 3 is atheist.

Note that these stages have nothing to do with whatever actually real content might be the case with respect to beliefs in God or theistic claims. It doesn’t matter if God is real or not, it doesn’t matter if a given theistic belief-set has some actual reality and truth to it or not. The stages do not at all correspond to any kind of access to true knowledge about “what God or theism really are”, the atheist at stage 3 is just as ignorant about the “reality of God” as is the hard religious at stage 1, but the point is that the atheist is capable of recognizing this ignorance.

So now there is introduced a stage 4, which reflects a differentiation within atheism: stage 3 atheism is unconscious atheism, the kind of atheist like Sam Harris or Richard Dawkins that makes statements like “I know there is no God”, they must instantiate their atheism with clear statements about God and theism because they are still treating the question of God like the question of tables and chairs. This means that their subjective development toward honesty and philosophic depth is still at an unconscious stage, is still unable to recognize itself except where it recognizes its rejection of theism as such; the atheist like this gives God too much credit by assuming that we can meaningfully ask “is God real?”, when in fact that question is not only unanswerable but totally meaningless. Stage 4 appears when the atheist realizes that it doesn’t matter if God or theism are the case. This stage 4 therefore reflects the final honest authenticity of subjectivity able to acknowledge the absolute distinction between ideological and material believing.

Pascal’s wager is an example of anti-philosophy, the exact opposite of what we should be doing. We shouldn’t be saying “I choose beleif in God or theism because if I’m wrong it doesn’t matter, but if I’m right then I gain the benefits of that belief”, we should say “I choose not to believe in God because believing in God is meaninglessness as such, and even if God exists it doesn’t even matter”. The point is that taking Pascal’s route we abandon our own subjectivity to impotence, we remain cowards before ourselves; the further step that Pascal should have taken is “even if God exists I still have no reason to believe in God, and even if I die and go before God in judgment God will still have to admit “yes it’s true you had no reason to believe in me-- good for you for rejecting believing in me!””.

Once we reach stage 4 we can begin to analyze subjectivity directly and understand the clear function of religious ideological believing. No amount of questions or attempts to answer “is God real?” ever in fact grounds any kind of religious (or agnostic or atheist) subjectivity at all. But neither should the stage 4 self fall into the trap of saying that it is impossible for a God or a theistic order to exist; it is clearly not logically impossible for such a being or beings to exist, but that was never the point anyway. Many things are theoretically possible but absolutely unverifiable, and whether or not they truly are the case is irrelevant because we couldn’t know in the first place and because belief in God and theisms operates existentially at the purely symbolic level of subjective-conscious being: the fact that our kind of subjectivity is unable to authentically treat gods and theistic possibilities in the same way that we treat things like tables and chairs demonstrates that God and theisms occupy an entirely different categorical order for which “believing or disbelieving” doesn’t even make sense.

I associate religious believe with ideology because I see religion as a specific form of ideology, just as I see ideology as the general form of religion. Ideology is precisely the failure to recognize this difference in the categorical orders that I just mentioned; ideology is the confusion of one order with another. Namely, ideology is displaced subjectivity.

Political beliefs can also fall into this ideological trap, not necessarily because it is always impossible that we could authentically believe in the assertions of a political belief but because how the political subject treats his or her own political beliefs is the same as how the religious person treats his or her own religious beliefs. Most people do not go about trying to philosophically or empirically verify the grounds of their political beliefs even if those grounds could in theory be verified like that; politics is a kind of surrogate religious system that is treated as if it were religious in nature when in fact it really isn’t religions like that. Thus these kind of political ideologies demonstrate that a subject is unable to fully assume a stage 4 subjectivity and is still using various kinds of beliefs as a means to instantiate and ground the more fundamental displaced subjectivity. This happens because as we all probably know, ideological believing feels good, it can act at the level of pleasure and desire-excess and it can act as a subjective glue holding us together in difficult or changing experiences. Philosophy is anti-entropic, but that requires therefore a high level of energy input to maintain; much easier to at times concede to a form of limited entropy where certain beliefs are assumed in order to relieve some of the burden of that energy requirement. Stage 3 is the naive atheist (the religious atheist) while stage 4 is a continuum: the low end of that continuum is partial acceptance of the categorical divide between subjective forms of knowledge and justification while still needing to relieve psychological pressure now and then by conceding to “small ideological errors”, and progresses all the way up to the high end where no such concessions are allowed.

Being capable of philosophy means that we already understand that the question of “does God really exist?” is utterly meaningless to us, to the kind of subjectivity-structure that we are. And I think politics is quasi-religious because politics is capable of engaging an ideological need even when that need is incapable of employing religion. Politics is still necessarily different from religion, but the two often go hand in hand because of how politics can give the impression of a stage 4 subjectivity method while secretly looping back into stage 3 routes of escape for our entropic discharges of high energy requirement. So in this sense the philosopher at least makes political ideology into something useful and in part justified as a release valve keeping open the active possibility of his philosophizing in different directions… Thus we see that the limit of philosophy approaching politics is the limit of losing this utility of the self, of being forced to subsist in our philosophy on nothing but those energies that can be taken from nutrients palatable to philosophy as the ultimate standard.

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I was looking at the map of the Russian-proposed transsiberian-atlantic highway from London to New York, when my eye fell, as it usually does when I stare at Russia on a map for a while, on Nova Zembla.

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Look what it looks like, a straight razor, forcing the ships Northward. Truly horrible to be caught there.

Colonial ships from the Netherlands sometimes tried to discover the Northern Route around Asia to “The East-Indies”, rather than having to go all the way around Africa. Obviously, you were unlucky if you happened to be on one of those expeditions.

One of them came back, its sailors lived to tell the stories and put fear in the Dutch of this island named Nova Zembla.

A few years ago a film came out, the DP was an old friend of mine but the film was utterly shit. They actually had a guy in a bear-suit, playing the polar bear they had scripted as they couldn’t get one from the zoo or something. Ayway, dont go to Nova Zembla. Or if you do, bring an extra pair of socks.

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Must one not first hate oneself, in order to love oneself? …
I am your labyrinth …”. -N

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Put a clever word in them! —
Must one not first hate oneself, in order to love oneself? …
I am your labyrinth …”. -N

“A man is not great if he is not small, and he is not small if he is not great. Concepts flirt with the loss of their significance in the oscillation between ambiguous states, and this is in part the function and purpose of concepts.” -Primer on Meaning
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That is superior to “God” as I see it - that is pure Man.

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Yes I agree. Whatever God means, is what Man already meant.

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Don’t ask.

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The samurai where weak the moment they invoked Budha, invoked anything, in the grappling with the immediate.

This is a valid criticism only because the Samurai were the strongest ever in the face of the immediate, the bravest.
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PostSubject: Re: Japanese Weakness Japanese Weakness Icon_minitimeSun Oct 30, 2016 5:33 pm Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
I dont see that they much did, though. You are right about their immediacy - Buddha was Indian and he only managed to arrive in Japan as “chan” or “zen” and then only through the zen of action.

The only way I can see any delay or sublimation or dissolution of the immediate is into massive dream visions like Anime, but these do not represent a loss of grappling-focus. I think. But then I am far from an expert of Anime.

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I’ve resisted making a Banalities topic here at BTL, but this would definitely qualify. On the radio a woman called into a discussion on health insurance with “experts” one of whom is part of the Clinton group that supports Obamacare. The woman said she is self-employed and buys the cheapest possible state insurance plan, which increases by 60% this year in cost, to now it costs $20,000 a year for her to buy health insurance (which is legally required to do now), and her deductible is a few thousand dollars above that. She said she literally cannot afford the insurance and even despite that she can’t even go to the doctor because if she does it counts toward deductible and she can’t pay out of pocket either for that, when her health insurance each month is half of her rent payment.

Guess what the response from the radio host was? “But you’re just the kind of person we need in the insurance risk pool!”

Really makes you want to strangle someone. These clowns have no fucking clue what they are doing to people. A few at the top like Obama and Clinton know, the rest are too stupid and brainwashed by syncophantic politically correct soullessness to even know it. When faced with the reality they literally shut off mentally, you can see it in real time.

Health care and university education are two massive bubbles right now. These bubbles must be popped. Try to imagine paying $20,000 a year for your health insurance (not even health care), and on top of that you can’t afford to see the doctor. Lol.

Talk about “American pride”, these sort of things are precisely why people are voting Trump. They’re sick of being told they need to stop complaining about being fucked in the ass.

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PostSubject: Re: Health insurance Health insurance Icon_minitimeMon Oct 31, 2016 6:09 am Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
Excellent topic. Touches on many aspects of life in America.

However. all I will say at the moment is: “Obamacare sucks big time.”
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Beyond the politically correct hype and feel-good, Obamacare had two purposes: to enrich insurance companies and keep the healthcare bubble alive, and to eventually destroy the health insurance market making it necessary to have a single payer government system of healthcare. The payout to the insurance giants (remember that the individual mandate was first a Republicsn idea) is a short term hook, like a shot of heroin, that is meant to weaken and ultimately destroy the insurance companies. I’m sure the CEOs of the insurance companies know this, maybe most of the shareholders do too, but they all get their payout so they could care less.

The number of blatant lies Obama told about the affordable care act is stunning. It was almost enough for me to jump on the conservative bandwagon back in 2010 or whenever that was it was being debated. If Trump wins then we can perhaps dismantle it; but the Supreme Court has already made it plain, twice, that they will go beyond legality to uphold Obamacare. It’s clear something far more ideological is going on.

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PostSubject: Re: Health insurance Health insurance Icon_minitimeMon Oct 31, 2016 7:47 am Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
What in the living fuck.

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Yes that about sums it up.

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I’m not “proud to be an American”, I am not “an American”, no one is. I am a human being who just happened through no choice of my own to be born here. Associating one’s identity and self-image with a nation one had nothing to do with is sort of pathological, if you think about it.

But I am proud that America exists.

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PostSubject: Re: Patriotism Patriotism Icon_minitimeSat Oct 29, 2016 11:32 am Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
Well, I’m still a proud American. Sorry if that hurts your feelings. Smile
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Taking personal pride in something you personally had no hand in at all is the road to insanity.

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Taking personal pride in something you personally had no hand in at all is the road to insanity.

Oh, but I very much did have a hand in everything I am proud of regarding my pride in America.

I do not accept responsibility for anything I did not have a hand in nor do I accept any responsibility for anything regarding America that I am ashamed of and did my best to prevent from happening.

So I suppose you should rethink that last statement of yours.

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You personally had a hand in creating America to be what it is?

Ok then.

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PostSubject: Re: Patriotism Patriotism Icon_minitimeSun Oct 30, 2016 11:10 am Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
I’m irritated to not be an American sometimes.

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What have been the American battles and wars that you’ve fought, won, and lost, if I may ask so much, Sisyphus?

I do believe that a single citizen can have a structural impact - even someone who isn’t a citizen.
One of my boy hood heroes has been Arnold Schwarzennegger, and I dont think Ive have ever been as amused by anything in politics as when he became Governator. And amusement is by far the best thing public Politics can be - if it takes itself rigidly seriously in the public eye, it is likely to have grave doubts about its future.

Politics is essentially the struggle of clans with enough power to build infrastructure of any kind. Social, geographical, transport, electrical, petrochemical, aerial or orbital, mineral, transactional, all this is about who can provide the Value. It is all about honor, and government is built to stand in the way.
But ideally, only as flashing lights and crossroads. Warning: cross here and you will be contended with by your opponent without other forces coming to your aid.

English international politics, the Empire of Balance.

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What have been the American battles and wars that you’ve fought, won, and lost, if I may ask so much, Sisyphus?

I was involved in the Vietnam War.

But wars are not what builds respect for a nation. It are the good will ambassadors, those who visit other countries, try to learn a little of their language, learn their culture and customs, treat them with respect, etc.

I did those things. And I received respect in return. Not just respect of me but also of my being an American.

Wherever I was stationed during non-duty hours I was likely out and about mingling with the natives. And I never hesitated to mention that I was an American.

This was my role in building respect for America and Americans.
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Ah yes, murdering Vietnamese clearly helped contribute to what makes American pride. Thanks for clarifying.

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PostSubject: Re: Patriotism Patriotism Icon_minitimeMon Oct 31, 2016 1:15 am Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
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Ah yes, murdering Vietnamese clearly helped contribute to what makes American pride. Thanks for clarifying.

You are such a pessimist!!!

I murdered no one. Don’t be judging me based on your ignorance!

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PostSubject: Re: Patriotism Patriotism Icon_minitimeMon Oct 31, 2016 1:40 am Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
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Capable wrote:
Ah yes, murdering Vietnamese clearly helped contribute to what makes American pride. Thanks for clarifying.

You are such a pessimist!!!

I murdered no one. Don’t be judging me based on your ignorance!

You are being deliberately dense. But of course that is your right.

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Capable wrote:
Ah yes, murdering Vietnamese clearly helped contribute to what makes American pride. Thanks for clarifying.

You are such a pessimist!!!

I murdered no one. Don’t be judging me based on your ignorance!

You are being deliberately dense. But of course that is your right.

Would you please consider that it is you who is being dense by judging something before you know anything about it?

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PostSubject: Re: Patriotism Patriotism Icon_minitimeMon Oct 31, 2016 2:05 am Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
Look, I am not going to be trolled on my own fucking site. Listen up.

I made the point that it is pathological to associate oneself and one’s identity and pride with the place one just randomly happens to be born. When we are born somewhere, we had nothing at all to do with making that place what it is when we are born into it. People who go around feeling “patriotism” and “I am an American! Yeah!” are fucking stupid, they are just using national pride as a religion of the self to generate something resembling self-esteem and a sense of subjective meaning for themselves. I get why they do it, but it is stupid.

You replied by saying that you had a hand in everything about American that makes you proud. You neglect to list what it is about America that makes you proud, or how you had a hand in it, but whatever. I don’t expect you to put in any serious effort here, so I will let that slide.

Then you, surprise, did apparently try to make such an effort, which is great, except that… your argument for how you had a hand in everything about America that makes you proud, was to say that you were a soldier in a war. And not just any war, but Viet fucking nam. Wow, really. I had no idea that the Vietnam war was the pinnacle of American pride and greatness, in fact I believe it is quite the other way around and example of what is most deplorable, stupid, reactionary, unthoughtful, petty and vain about America.

Your retort is that you didn’t personally murder anyone. Ok, so you really weren’t “in the war” the, is what you were saying? You just walked around in some jungles and never had to man up and take another life, like a good soldier would do? How the fuck does that make you more justified in your argument rather than less justified in it? Your unstated assumption is that it is better for you not to have killed anyone in that war than to have killed them, which leaves me wondering what the fuck you are using the war itself, in which many many people were killed, as some kind of paragon for what makes American pride?

And lastly, on top of it all, you accuse me of being a “pessimist” without offering a single reason or explanation of what you mean by that. So, again, I am not going to be trolled on my own fucking site. Start offering some real substance here or stick to that regard-troll Myki in his little corner (I think I will rename his topic The Insane Asylum, now that I am thinking of it).

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PostSubject: Re: Patriotism Patriotism Icon_minitimeMon Oct 31, 2016 3:20 am Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
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Look, I am not going to be trolled on my own fucking site. Listen up.

Well, you are doing an excellent job without even trying. Just think how much more efficient you would be if you actually tried.

I made the point that it is pathological to associate oneself and one’s identity and pride with the place one just randomly happens to be born. When we are born somewhere, we had nothing at all to do with making that place what it is when we are born into it. People who go around feeling “patriotism” and “I am an American! Yeah!” are fucking stupid, they are just using national pride as a religion of the self to generate something resembling self-esteem and a sense of subjective meaning for themselves. I get why they do it, but it is stupid.

So I am fucking stupid. Okay. But then I don’t give a shit about your misinformed prejudgements. Yes, I am an American. I was born here. Yes, the military was my career. That was my choice. I am an Atheist and have no religion. I am who I am and I m proud of most of it. So you have no self pride. That’s fine. So you take no pride in being a part of what you are. That’s fine. But you know what? I don’t believe that shit.

You replied by saying that you had a hand in everything about American that makes you proud. You neglect to list what it is about America that makes you proud, or how you had a hand in it, but whatever. I don’t expect you to put in any serious effort here, so I will let that slide.

I gave you a fucking list but you ignored it because you have a Jane Fonda complex.

Then you, surprise, did apparently try to make such an effort, which is great, except that… your argument for how you had a hand in everything about America that makes you proud, was to say that you were a soldier in a war. And not just any war, but Viet fucking nam. Wow, really. I had no idea that the Vietnam war was the pinnacle of American pride and greatness, in fact I believe it is quite the other way around and example of what is most deplorable, stupid, reactionary, unthoughtful, petty and vain about America.

I didn’t say that I had a hand in “everything about America”. I said that I had a hand in many of the things that cause me to be a proud American. I have my limits. But I do what I can and I have no regrets.

Okay Jane. Bitch at me for following orders I had sworn to follow but say nothing about those who issued the orders (Kennedy and Johnson). You know why Jane didn’t criticize Kennedy or Johnson? Because she was chicken shit. Either one of them would have had her killed if she actually spoke the truth.

You just don’t fuckin’ understand about standing true to your commitments, do you? I swore to follow the orders of my president and those in the chain of command who had authority over me. That takes a lot of fuckin’ pride.

So you want to base my entire career in the Army on the fact that I spent 11 months in Vietnam. That is your choice. But you are totally wrong by doing so.

Your retort is that you didn’t personally murder anyone. Ok, so you really weren’t “in the war” the, is what you were saying? You just walked around in some jungles and never had to man up and take another life, like a good soldier would do? How the fuck does that make you more justified in your argument rather than less justified in it? Your unstated assumption is that it is better for you not to have killed anyone in that war than to have killed them, which leaves me wondering what the fuck you are using the war itself, in which many many people were killed, as some kind of paragon for what makes American pride?

So you are a fuckin’ pacifist who will allow anyone to do anything they want to do to you and then bitch because no one protected you. Wow!! And it was you who accused me of murdering people without even a thread of knowledge simply bacause you listened to the bullshit Jane and the like were spouting off in order to get some public attention. It didn’t matter to them who it hurt. It didn’t matter how many lies they had to tell.

It was you who started the talk about the Vietnam war, not me. You were trying to put me one the spot with your pacifist ideals and you failed miserably. And I never said I didn’t kill anyone. I said I never murdered anyone.

But you go ahead. No patriotism, no ancestral respect, no self respect, no sense of responsibility, no action, just words. Impossible ideals. Isn’t it time to get real?

And lastly, on top of it all, you accuse me of being a “pessimist” without offering a single reason or explanation of what you mean by that. So, again, I am not going to be trolled on my own fucking site. Start offering some real substance here or stick to that regard-troll Myki in his little corner (I think I will rename his topic The Insane Asylum, now that I am thinking of it).

So you wish to ignore the truth rather than justify your own position. Fine. And I did mention “pessimist” in response to what you said. That is evidence enough.

It was you who was trolling by trying to denigrate me and show yourself superior. It didn’t work. If you think I am here only to troll then perhaps you should suggest that I leave “Your” site. I am trying to have constructive discussion of Nietzsche’s philosophy. If that isn’t a good enough reason for me to be here then something needs to change.

It’s your ball. You can throw it anywhere you want. But at least acknowledge that it was you who threw the ball.

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Sorry if I’m being a dick, I’m trying not to be. I agree that it’s nice you partook in local cultures when you were abroad, that is indeed an approach that rings true of a proud American. But you haven’t even said what your role in the war was, much less how that contributed to American pride. By most accounts the Vietnam war wasn’t a source of American pride but a stain on that pride. The only possible argument I can think of to defend the Vietnam war in terms of American pride is that it represented an excess of American valuing, an excess that strayed into the irrational. I don’t know what point you’re trying to make with it because you haven’t made it yet.

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PostSubject: Re: Patriotism Patriotism Icon_minitimeMon Oct 31, 2016 3:24 am Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
Just to be clear, this is what you said: “Oh, but I very much did have a hand in everything I am proud of regarding my pride in America.”

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I still don’t see a point in this new post of yours that shows what it is about America that you’re proud of or how you contributed to it. Swearing loyalty to follow orders while you’re in the army might take pride, or in some cases im sure it takes the opposite of pride, namely a lack of it, but even so that still isn’t making your case or refuting the point I made in the OP.

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And I’m not a pacifist, just to be clear.

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This place here is for philosophy. I’d like to see arguments that at least aspire to that.

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Sorry if I’m being a dick, I’m trying not to be. I agree that it’s nice you partook in local cultures when you were abroad, that is indeed an approach that rings true of a proud American. But you haven’t even said what your role in the war was, much less how that contributed to American pride. By most accounts the Vietnam war wasn’t a source of American pride but a stain on that pride. The only possible argument I can think of to defend the Vietnam war in terms of American pride is that it represented an excess of American valuing, an excess that strayed into the irrational. I don’t know what point you’re trying to make with it because you haven’t made it yet.

Great! We are beginning to talk “with” each other rather than “to” each other.

The Vietnam War was a total disaster for the United States. I thought and still believe that it was a very stupid war. But Kennedy and Johnson wanted the war for personal reasons. Kennedy to make up for his failure with Cuba and Johnson so he could make lots of millions of dollars.

We had no right being over there. The reasons told to the American people why the war was necessary were all lies. We started the war, not the Vietnamese. But lots of Americans made millions of dollars from it so in their opinion it was a good thing.

I mean, they were putting American soldiers in harm’s way so they could make a buck. They didn’t see any problem with that as long as they didn’t have to go over there.

To think that I am proud to have served in Vietnam is an error. I simply did what I had sworn to do - comply with the orders of the president. All of us felt that way.

To suggest that we were combating Communism was the biggest lie of all.

I didn’t have a job when I was in Vietnam. My skill was not needed. I was sent there in 1970 only because I hadn’t been there yet.

But I did an excellent job at staying alive so that I could return to the USA after my tour of duty.
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Just to be clear, this is what you said: “Oh, but I very much did have a hand in everything I am proud of regarding my pride in America.”

Excellent. Now please read it over and over again without adding words or removing any of my words. Pay special attention to “… everything I am proud of …”

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I didn’t have a job when I was in Vietnam. My skill was not needed. I was sent there in 1970 only because I hadn’t been there yet.

But I did an excellent job at staying alive so that I could return to the USA after my tour of duty.

I like this warstory.

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I still don’t see a point in this new post of yours that shows what it is about America that you’re proud of or how you contributed to it. Swearing loyalty to follow orders while you’re in the army might take pride, or in some cases im sure it takes the opposite of pride, namely a lack of it, but even so that still isn’t making your case or refuting the point I made in the OP.

We will find it difficult to gain full agreement here. America isn’t only about how badly my government fucked up by starting the Vietnam War. It goes so much further than that.

It has to do with an area of land that is governed in accordance to standards established by its founding fathers. Freedom from a lot of the oppressions that people of other nations have to live with.

My Army service was only a small part of my life. Freedom has always been a part of my life. And I live by the code tht I should not make promises I cannot keep. Therefore my pride in having been an honorable soldier.

So I still must insist that one who has served their country has a right to be proud, even if they did not agree with the laws of the politicians of the time.
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And I’m not a pacifist, just to be clear.

Okay. I was just testing you.
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This place here is for philosophy. I’d like to see arguments that at least aspire to that.

I am doing my best. There is, in my mind, a philosophy of taking responsibility for our thoughts, words, and deeds. There is a philosophy of self-realization and self-actualization.

Your philosophy gave you inspiration to start the thread on patriotism. I disagreed with your conclusion. This is all based in our philosophy of life.

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I officially fucking hate people.

Not all of them, just most.

(The few who are worthy of not being hated, are truly great.)

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I officially fucking hate people.

Not all of them, just most.

(The few who are worthy of not being hated, are truly great.)

Come to Canada, theres less of em here.

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I officially fucking hate people.

Not all of them, just most.

(The few who are worthy of not being hated, are truly great.)

Come to Canada, theres less of em here.

Americans are ok. Weird and anti-philosophical, but ok.

The larger tragedy is that I ran out of alcohol, and can’t get more because the stores don’t open on Sundays…

Can you imagine, the Puritans landed at Plymouth rock in 16… who the fuck cares blah blah, and now its 2016 and I still can’t buy booze cause it’s the “sabbath day”. Haha.

Yeah, American is pretty fucking cool.

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ive not yet said this to anyone
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Capable wrote:
I officially fucking hate people.

Not all of them, just most.

(The few who are worthy of not being hated, are truly great.)

Come to Canada, theres less of em here.

Americans are ok. Weird and anti-philosophical, but ok.

The larger tragedy is that I ran out of alcohol, and can’t get more because the stores don’t open on Sundays…

Can you imagine, the Puritans landed at Plymouth rock in 16… who the fuck cares blah blah, and now its 2016 and I still can’t buy booze cause it’s the “sabbath day”. Haha.

Yeah, American is pretty fucking cool.

It is no doubt the country with the most contrasts. That alone could simply define it as the greatest as in the deepest, the strangest. China was perhaps in its young days a kind of US of magical travelers.

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Canada is my bitch.

I was born here, I live here, and I will die here.

America.

True American spirit: fuck everywhere else.

I think, if Clinton had won, mass suicides would have followed.

The electoral college is pure genius; “the people” do not elect, the 50 states elect. Fucking right. For better or worse.

America + UK + Russia = [future]

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I appreciate that attitude. Canada doesnt really do any work for the US though, rather the opposite, plus it seemingly has the future, if the earth warms further up. Thule. In the economic sense Canada is simply the Crown on the work of the Crown. Pure privilege; Socialism in the only form it can exist, as it existed in Holland in the cold war - a chosen element in capitalism, the pure excess. Plus Canadians liberated the Netherlands… I’d never see them as inferior to Americans. But I realize the attitude is prevalent, even among Canadians, to consider them weaker. I just take James Cameron as already sufficient proof of that being some serious bullshit. Besides, Hockey is by far the most manly game of all of the ones that are popular on this continent. However:

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master over all men, if possible, and best of all God.” This attitude
must exist again.

Englishmen, Americans, and Russians

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From now on there will be more favorable preconditions for more
comprehensive forms of dominion, whose like has never yet existed. And
even this is not the most important thing; the possibility has been
established for the production of international family unions whose task
will be to rear a master race, the future “masters of the earth”; --a
new, tremendous aristocracy, based on the severest self-legislation, in
which the will of philosophical men of power and artist-tyrants will be
made to endure for millennia–a higher kind of man who, thanks to their
superiority in will, knowledge, riches, and influence, employ democratic
Europe as their most pliant and supple instrument for getting hold of
the destinies of the earth, so as to work as artists upon “man” himself.
Enough: the time is coming when politics will have a different meaning.

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master of the earth.-- Moralities are the expression of locally limited
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perish through their contradictions. Thus a drive as master, its
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for the activity of the chief drive.

The highest man would have the greatest multiplicity of drives, in the
relatively greatest strength that can be endured. Indeed, where the
plant “man” shows himself strongest one finds instincts that conflict
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Indeed, the electoral college works like the brain forms a decision. Indeed it is the way of the future.

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Pertaining to your earlier question, as to how to move on from here, I had given my answer before you had requested - allow, after rigorous grooming, meritable sovereign nations to enter the Union as states, with a single electoral vote, and the full privileges and burdens effective through federal law. In fact this is the only logical answer I have to Parodites’ question of how to move to the fourth phase from a few months back, when it was still looking like everything might collapse - yes, suicide rates would have skyrocketed, along with murders and war casualties, and I feel strongly she might not even have survived the first year - plus Russia would have started open war in Syria, and her clique would have joined. Now, we see that Trumps plans can be pushed through and plan 1 he always had was building shit. Things like bridges arent simple tools, they are the mightiest symbols mankind has at his disposal, symbols of his might to cross the abyss, to negate nothingness.

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Capable wrote:
Fixed Cross wrote:
Capable wrote:
I officially fucking hate people.

Not all of them, just most.

(The few who are worthy of not being hated, are truly great.)

Come to Canada, theres less of em here.

Americans are ok. Weird and anti-philosophical, but ok.

The larger tragedy is that I ran out of alcohol, and can’t get more because the stores don’t open on Sundays…

Can you imagine, the Puritans landed at Plymouth rock in 16… who the fuck cares blah blah, and now its 2016 and I still can’t buy booze cause it’s the “sabbath day”. Haha.

Yeah, American is pretty fucking cool.

Move to Georgia. You can still buy moonshine from the country sheriff after church service on Sunday.
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Indeed, the electoral college works like the brain forms a decision. Indeed it is the way of the future.

We have always had the electoral college in the USA. There is absolutely no reason to change anything. (Even though I would prefer election by popular vote.)

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I’ll start.

No. 2.

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I went through five Google search pages in looking for a simple review of this new Ghostbusters remake, an honest review that takes into account the genuine dislike of how they remade this movie with all women… still can’t find one. It’s a flood of basically the same story: “if you dislike this movie you’re a sexist”. Maybe we should have said, if you take a beloved classic film with a huge cult following and deliberately fuck with it, and make it blatant that’s what our doing, then you have no right to complain when people get pissed off.

They could have remade the film with one or two female characters and no one would have even noticed. Yet they did a huge and deliberate “fuck you” to the film series, which is strange since they are remaking that series. Why would you do a nice big fuck you to the very series you want to remake?

Let’s say it went the other way… someone decides to remake Sex and the City but with four dudes. They’re not gay, they’re just four guys and it’s called Sex and the City just like the original, and the premise is the same etc etc (I don’t know what the premise is of Sex and the City, but let’s say they basically copy it). What would the reaction be?

“That is sexist”. So basically you have sexism against men either way: if they remake a film and replace all male roles with female roles, and if you don’t like it, then you’re sexist, but if they remake a film and replace all female roles with male roles that would be called sexist too. Lol.

The deeper thing here is that Ghostbusters is a typically male film. It appeals to boys and adult males, it has an overtly “male” tone and appeal. Sure women like it too, but basically the ethos of the movie is one that appeals first to men and second to everyone broadly. It’s a story about some scientists fighting ghosts with cool energy guns and in cool suits with a cool car, I mean it doesn’t get more quintessentially male appeal oriented than that. This is the same reason why comic books and super heroes have traditionally been male territory. It isn’t rocket science, this is just where the appeal is.

Anyway, it’s funny to see Google in on it too. After so many page searches and not finding a single honest commentary like the one I’m making now, especially considering how simple and honest this insight is, it’s obvious that Google is suppressing pages that say basically what I’m saying here, and actively promoting pages that push the whole “you’re a sexist!” like against anyone who doesn’t fall over backwards to love this new Ghostbusters film. I saw this same thing with Google after the shitty Disney remake of Star Wars came out, every search result was blind syncophantism.

I’m not saying this new Ghostbusters is a bad movie, I haven’t even seen it. Maybe it’s great. But the point is that’s the obvious and obviously deliberate genderism in the remake is going to cause people to get upset, which is the whole point, since they get to piss people off and then stand there and shame those people when they do exactly what you knew they were going to do when you deliberately genderized a cult classic film. Plus, you can’t remake Ghostbusters, no matter the gender makeup. It’s a classic for a reason. This goes to the heart of the same bullshit that people like Jar Jar Abrams pull when they remake great beloved classic films and try to just shamelessly appropriate the magic of the original to their own half-ass attempt. Yes the new Star Wars, Star Trek, Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and probably Ghostbusters too are entirely half-ass. Yes it’s fucked up to deliberately genderize a film and then pretend like it’s perfectly normal and you didn’t even know that’s why you’re doing it that way (what’s next, Transformers remake where it’s literally “trans”-formers with every role played by a transgender person?), but the real grievance here is these shameless and totally half-ass attempts to appropriate the love for an original classic film or franchise. These people aren’t fooling anyone. If you wanted to truly do justice to the originals then you would try a hell of a lot harder, and probably end up admitting that it’s an impossible thing to do.

Edit: I’m renaming this thread Capable’s Film Corner for Honesty. I will probably write more film-oriented commentary or reviews here at some point.

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Id been following news on this Ghostbusters for what feels like ten years, first it was just that Bill Murray wasn’t going to be in it which means like a Godfather without Al Pacino or a Terminator without Arnie. So I was not going to watch it anyway, but then it turns out they’ve made it into a sexist and racist vehicle… it is of course sexist to attack a movie franchise with Gender as the only idea in mind - they’re just wretches that made this. The complaints that I read now besides it being a very boring and bad movie, are also that the black womans part has been written as a kind of negro-slave.

As I say in a rap: fuck feminism in the asshole, double time it, triple upon it, just protect your motherfucking daughters.

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Looks like a Deadwood reprise as a movie is in the works.

Fucking right.

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The Shield:

(A few small spoilers)

This show is excellent. Vic is a character with significant depth and really all the major characters have good complexity and human-ness to them. The show focuses on the contradictions of each person and how this propels them forward to both good and bad ends. Vic is really interesting because he doesn’t care for truth at all, he only cares for his own values; he totally subverts truth to the ends of his values, attempting to turn truth entirely into a means and never into an end. Despite how good he is at this, an even perfect attempt at doing that is going to start to break apart one’s reality and we see the cracks slowly spreading through his reality, the consequences of his badass heroic attempt to subvert truth for the sake of his own self-valuing. The tragic dimension comes in where he is unable to foresee certain subtler consequences of his choices, more generally of his method, and as his excess is ramping up over time (I am currently in the middle of season 2) this tragic dimension will only grow.

The show reveals that the only way to successfully manage a method such as Vic’s, one of heroic self-valuing without regard to truth, would be to also have a very firm control over one’s own excess, and yet it is his excess that makes him able to self-value like he does. And he isn’t stupid by any means, he is very smart and knows how to slide through even the toughest situations through acts of sheer will and human-relating. He is so ‘political’ that he is like the anti-politician: he would never be able to value his own methods and means when they would be used for ends outside the scope of his own values, which includes a significant breadth of humanity and moral sentiment. The line between what he values and what he does not value is near absolute, and he would never compromise that line except for one of his own values. In other words he can never be bought or corrupted.

In season 2 I am beginning to see the quality of the show’s writing dip just a little bit. It’s a small dip but still noticeable given the superb writing of the first season. But even as the writing is slipping just a little bit, the tension is being ramped up, so I notice there is a slight trade off of internal consistency for the sake of added intensity; for example, Vic decides not to bust the mob’s money train because he wants to take it down on his own with his team and keep all the money… that doesn’t really fit with his character, as a member of his own team points out, but it does increase and stretch out the tension in the plot. And at least by acknowledging the inconsistency the show is attempting to work it logically into the plot, most likely we are supposed to read it as Vic is starting to slip in his judgment due to all the pressure against his values, notably from his wife and kids being absent and from the hit put out against Vic and his team. Yet this angle doesn’t really work, because we see Vic would rather take time to stake out and plan a heist of this money train rather than work on finding the Mexican drug dealer who has put out hits on himself and his strike force team… this reveals a shallowness that isn’t really a part of Vic’s character no matter how much stress he is under. In fact, the added stress would normally propel him more into catching the drug dealer, more into a “moral certainty” that cannot be compromised, but instead we see him basically ignoring the drug dealer and not even worrying about him, in order instead to keep flirting with women, working mundane cases and planning a heist that has no real-world value or good except for enriching his own pockets. It just doesn’t make sense even if we assume he isn’t really himself right now.

The other side of it is that he basically leaves his family unprotected except for a “security system” and a few private investigators keeping an eye on them. Probably Vic is thinking to use the money from the heist to pay for the 24/7 protection for his family, but the heist is by no means certain and still a month or two away. Plus he isn’t the sort of person who would just pay someone else to protect his kids-- Vic would go storm through the gates of where the drug dealer is and put a bullet in his head, neat and clean. We keep hearing him say things like “don’t worry, [to his team] we will find him before he finds us”, but then basically doing nothing to actually find him (the highly dangerous drug dealer who put out a hit on him).

So yeah, a slight problem in the internal consistency of the writing. But as I said, the trade off is that the suspense and tension are through the roof. As I keep watching I’ll have more to say. Overall this show is among the best I’ve seen.

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I’ve seen similar happen with other good shows, namely Deadwood and Boardwalk Empire. These two shows have perfect first seasons, from start to finish absolutely flawless, and then season two starts to unravel at the seams in small ways. I think it was Aristotle who talked about how the plot should flow naturally from the characters and tensions should appear and resolve with perfect internal consistency given the nature of the characters and situations. I think the problem is maybe that the writers can do this for the first season, but after that it’s more up in the air as to how many more seasons they will have, therefore sort of like an author writing a novel but the author isn’t able to know in advance how many chapters his novel will be able to be, therefore it’s impossible to sustain perfect internal consistency from start to finish. The only sure thing is the first season, so that one gets written perfectly.

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Movie: Inglorious Basterds

Does anyone know if this movie is any good? I am considering watching it, but not sure if I should waste my time or not. Thoughts would be welcome.

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I think its by far Tarantino’s worst.

Its in no way relevant to the suffering brought on by the nazis, and yet tries to act as a vengenace-flick. It offers only insult to the victims, it acts as if the war was a big and rather painless joke. Tarantino does not have the darkness/depth of soul to address this type of bleakness.

Nevertheless there are some scenes that are plain genius. Nothing against the man, the director - he isnt to blame for not being able to address the true horror and true resilience of another world. It’s not a horrible movie by any stretch, just worthless as a warmovie.

Django Unchained is a better attempt at morality. And the most recent one, Hateful 8, is to my mind an awesome remake of Reservoir Dogs.

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Hi-D asked me about Odin, and Odin does not hesitate to answer her. Odin likes the forthright and bold, and those who test everything on themselves. No virgin can know Odin, nor perhaps can a man who has not found his match in a fight, or who has never vanquished a strong opponent. Odin lives only in the environment of experience. Most of all the experience deep and fulfilling enough that it creates the possibility of solitude. To be most comfortable when alone in the rain, I believe this is a common quality among men of Odin. I was clearly born to this god as my earliest memories involve a lot of waiting for the rain, and pure bliss during the rain. I could sit for hours on end simply listening to the rain washing against the window, and of course nights of lying awake with fire in my heart staring at the tent roof in the dark as the rain flagellates the canvas. Explosive happiness at the mere sound of an element. Odin is a happiness to those that aren’t bound by their mind, but drawn out by it, fair to say; those whose mind is equally in the thunder as it is in the brain - and that goes, I would say, for all great minds.

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FC wrote:
Odin lives only in the environment of experience.

This I like. Is there more to share?
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A rather insolent thread, my words were too familiar and pompous. I inserted a storm.

and yet the definition isn’t entirely without merit. Another storm:

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“this I like” - does that mean the rest you dont like?
If that is the case then there is little more to share, as the thunder and the rain and the wind, these are Odins elements, as well as the snow. Bright weather is Tyrs realm, or Baldur, or Freya.

Or even Heimdall who guards the bridge beyond the storm.

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Odin and Skadi perpetuate the path of ice on which only the truly balanced dont fall. Nietzsche said Wotan is the god of bad weather, and this is the case

Odin
Wotan Woden, good fellow
Wuotan, woeden: raging.

Wind god, wolf god, Ragnarok is past, and from your bones we now draw runes, o Odin, and we awaken thee, into our Aeon, hail Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche!

[Value Ontology] Poseidon give us a Shell, an Ornament -

Yes, yes,
the wind is never fully stilled. Odin lingers in the seeds of the ash
as silent but imminent potential, to use a roman term, or Kraft - Macht - zur – (stormen, woeden…)

Die Macht zum Untergehen
the power to go down.

This has been the silent power behind Nietzsche’s theory: the already fulfilled quest for the heights, for existence-pure: in Bismarck Nietzsche relied, not in Wodan, as in Wodan is no will to power, but rather the climatological fact of change of power.

Control change, control rage, control magic.

Runes are the paths of change.

Draw a rune on a stone with a good, strong edge.

Ha! Now you have drawn a rune.
So it begins.

What?

Rune-drawing.

Fate: the sharp edge of time

" The strong do what they can do and the weak accept what they have to accept. "

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This is why we prefer to draw runes on a tree that’s alive and flexible enough that it can flow around our rune, and perpetuate it in time, not just in mind - which is beyond time, above it, it can contain whole centuries in a moment and produce a new one. But a tree just is, and projects, inwards into peoples hearts from the outside. We breathe the rune that the cloaked man carved in a tree. Such is life!

Being is like wind - it can never be still.
Like 0 degrees Kelvin is not possible, the absence of Odin is only relative.
the presence of Odin however is absolute.

Ha -
Nature likes to hide
Odin speaks in riddles
Zeus laughs. Poseidon is angry. Hades …

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“drew the shortest straw”…

As I said. Fate is a rune, it has sharp hooks in the road.

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Hrimnir’s daughter, Heidr or Hi-D

When asked about my weather inclinations, Odin frightens me for the most part. Odin confronts me more often than not

into a panic. I am a Sol worshipper with a penchant for calming forces, gentle warm rains, cool breezes, large snowflakes

that flutter down in slow motion. Shoes offend my senses.

Read that Odin gave sight to Heidr who told him of Baldur’s eventual

demise. What I find interesting is my likely alignment with Baldur based solely on his described traits before it was

tied to my actual given name wherein Heidr foresees so specifically Baldur as if there was an established relationship

of sorts between Baldur and Heidr that went unmentioned, a friendship or something even more intimate. My romantic

silliness or there’s way more going on than meets the eye. I know my God favors me greatly, lives a richer existence

as I am enriched. Smiles on me throughout the days and curses me throughout the nights. A strange relationship of love

and obsession.
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How beautiful! Thank you for sharing.

" The strong do what they can do and the weak accept what they have to accept. "

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I like what you say of Odin, and fright. Surely this sensibility will please him. It is said of him that he comes to favor only rare men, those who are not afraid of being out-cast. One can not be favored by Odin as an adapted person, one has to live life in exile or kingship, either/or, or alternatingly, or perhaps both at once. Odin has been compared with the will to power itself in some places.

But the greatest friend to Odin is Apollon !
Hail thee, Bright One!

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Wolves guard Apollons winter home in Hyperborea, where his mother was from.

“Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans; we know very well how far off we live. ‘Neither by land nor by sea will you find the way to the Hyperboreans’—Pindar already knew this about us. Beyond the north, ice, and death—our life, our happiness. We have discovered happiness, we know the way, we have found the exit out of the labyrinth of thousands of years. Who else has found it? Modern man perhaps? ‘I have got lost; I am everything that has got lost,’ sighs modern man. This modernity was our sickness: lazy peace, cowardly compromise, the whole virtuous uncleanliness of the modern Yes and No. … Rather live in the ice than among modern virtues and other south winds! We were intrepid enough, we spared neither ourselves nor others; but for a long time we did not know where to turn with our intrepidity. We became gloomy, we were called fatalists. Our fatum—abundance, tension, the damming of strength. We thirsted for lightning and deeds and were most remote from the happiness of the weakling, ‘resignation.’ In our atmosphere was a thunderstorm; the nature we are became dark—for we saw no way. Formula for our happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.” [Nietzsche, The Antichrist]

It should be clear that Odin and Apollon both are gods and friends to the Shaman.
And this gives to understand the difficult, painful and slow initiation process.

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“When a being is vigorous, it projects loftiness in its own future without having to consciously undertake this; this is nature itself. It wants more experience of itself, which means it can neither stay the same nor cease to exist.”

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The only true law is that which leads to freedom.

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I have a problem with the word “law”. I am an anarchist.
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I have a problem with the word “law”. I am an anarchist.
Agreed. I’ve become a lot more anarchistic myself recently.

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Im a constitutionalist, in that I believe law is required to keep people from making more laws.

The entire point of the constitution, leading up the article 9, is a resistance against government and central power.

So the law of the USA is originally this: you let me be or I shoot you in the head

very good law in fact.

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My stance is that every human that has force-applied into another humans bloodstream a shot of brain-chemistry altering drugs, must be put against the wall and executed. Thats the most merciful stance I can come up with for the pharma-gestapo.

The absolute worst are the people that think they are doing it for the persons own good. I cant express what I wish to do to them, for their own good.

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Indeed it is almost impossible to fathom those depraved depths.

A constitutionalist is a good way of understanding anarchy principle, I think.

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Yeah sure, it’s the lust for freedom to put it bluntly. The pathos is of ruggedness and comparable if it isnt European punkrockers, but anarchy nominally aims for the absence of central power - whereas Constitutionalism has power as a symbol to sanction its violence against those that infringe on the liberty of being.

Before these Koch brothers or whatever turned it into such a travesty wth Sarah Palin for gods sake, Libertarianism always had my sympathy. I like Ron Pauls consistency.

It will be amusing to start it up again and cover Trumps flank on the Right. We can show that Trump is in fact very moderate and placating.

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Yes precisely. It can be sufficient simply to say “you know Trump never said Mexicans are rapists right?”. The religion of anti-trump is as fragile and unreal as it is ugly.

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Fuck Palin and dumbass goons everywhere.

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I have a problem with the word “law”. I am an anarchist.
Agreed. I’ve become a lot more anarchistic myself recently.

But I’m not going to accept responsibility for that. Just sayin’.
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Fixed Cross wrote:
Im a constitutionalist, in that I believe law is required to keep people from making more laws.

The entire point of the constitution, leading up the article 9, is a resistance against government and central power.

So the law of the USA is originally this: you let me be or I shoot you in the head

very good law in fact.

Yeah, but things have changed since then. We are not allowed to shoot people any more.
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I have a problem with the word “law”. I am an anarchist.

I understand what you mean. I also have a problem with some words. One of them is being labeled a feminist when I am simply for rights on both sides, both men and women alike. Like many words, it has taken on a muddy connotation. We don’t wish to see individuals, only “sardines in a sardine can”.
What word then would you substitute for “law”?

Laws are logical, are they not?
Granted, they are not always logical or reasonable but if we do away with the more logical/reasonable ones, how long might our species survive?

Granted, laws can sometimes appear to be “fickle” – to name two, the prohibition law and the abortion law.
But on second glance, we can see the wisdom of overthrowing the first to give way for the second though nothing is black and white…and there is wisdom and practicality there - I almost shudder to say.

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Sisyphus wrote:
I have a problem with the word “law”. I am an anarchist.

I understand what you mean. I also have a problem with some words. One of them is being labeled a feminist when I am simply for rights on both sides, both men and women alike. Like many words, it has taken on a muddy connotation. We don’t wish to see individuals, only “sardines in a sardine can”.

I have never considered you a feminist. And I agree, equality amongst all people.

What word then would you substitute for “law”?

I have none. Well, maybe “limiters”.

Laws are logical, are they not?

No, not always. Anymore, not mostly.

Granted, they are not always logical or reasonable but if we do away with the more logical/reasonable ones, how long might our species survive?

I will admit that without laws many, perhaps even most, people would not do the right thing. Ten commandments were good enough for the Jews for a while. “Harm none” pretty much covers the need.

Granted, laws can sometimes appear to be “fickle” – to name two, the prohibition law and the abortion law.
But on second glance, we can see the wisdom of overthrowing the first to give way for the second though nothing is black and white…and there is wisdom and practicality there - I almost shudder to say.

What right does any government have to tell me what I can and cannot drink? What right does any government have to tell a woman what she can and cannot do with her body?

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“People do ridiculous things, all the time.”

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“People do ridiculous things, all the time.”

Al Schmidt, City Commissioner

This is true. So the government says, “Let’s make a law forbidding these things.”

So now we have people doing ridiculous things but now they are also criminals.
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“I knew that if I hated high school, I was really gonna hate Vietnam.”
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“I knew that if I hated high school, I was really gonna hate Vietnam.”
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Wait till you start looking at governments.

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I will be driving to see the solar eclipse in totality. It is not an option to not do this.

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I will be driving to see the solar eclipse in totality. It is not an option to not do this.

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Good for you!!! I considered it but opted out. But I am still leaving room to change my mind. It really wouldn’t be that much of a drive for me.
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8.21.2017 Total-solar-eclipse

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Great picture. Thanks.
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I didn’t go, because there were storms. I was going to drive about 5 hours to see it, but would have needed to drive 8-9 hours instead, to get clear skies, which was not doable. But I still saw a partial eclipse. It wasn’t that impressive though.

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Yeah, many things in life, if not edible, caressible, or fuckable really are very impressible.

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The above should read: “… aren’t very impressible.”
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Haha yeah I got that.

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Git more money, more money, git more money more money. Lol.

Gangsters and drug dealers are infinitely more honest than the Fed Reserve. The worst crime is not to sell drugs to people who want drugs (value), but to invent money out of thin air without reference to value made.

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This,

Must learn how to judge and pass sentence upon this,

Money is the beautiful flow of earthy value Federal-Reserve-Dee

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Fuck. I like the way you say that.

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Ive been listening to some rap now with the money keyword -
obviously when I got into it in the nineties that was the wrong thing to say,
to be commercial was evil -
haha.
Not that I ever wrote a single verse talking down on money or those who try to get it -
I just avoid the subject, until I started working with Pezer.
These lyrics we started writing last year, thats some juicy stuff, I cant quote them here as I still need to put them on record.
But thats when I awoke and found myself able to write some real hiphop.

If rap is to do what you say, its got to up its game.
So let analyze some money hounding hiphop for its merits and deficits.

What can be used, what needs still to be invented.

Ill use pairs or sets pertaining to a particular theme.

Theme 1:
Paris
as a signifier of serious, severe, post-ghetto wealth - the lure of European royalism as an expression of superior standards of prosperity - or if not superior, simply more enviable. “Player with a passport”.

A) A$AP Rocky - Goldie
B) Kanye West and Jay-Z - Niggas in Paris

A

B

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Yes definitely. I like how Kanye is turning rap toward a more complex political position. He and others need to step up and support Trump more. Then there is another rapper I can’t remember who, who was interviewed about black lives matter and said he hated them. Lol.

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I want to see major label rap songs about how to tear down the Fed Reserve and return money and currency coining to the people. About how money is representation of value made, and about how selling drugs and hoes is infinitely more noble than selling treasury securities.

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But selling treasury securities isn’t bad either. Creating money without reference to value made can still be justified if in reference to future value to be made. What is bad is when this gets out of control and vampirizes its own future-valuing.

Modern leftist financials are about this vampirizing. Sucking the future of life for the sake of immediate gain.

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Yes, I think taxation is essentially the problem that stands in the way of philanthropy, which is what Id cal investment in the production of actual valuables.

If only the government would let its money work on the market a bit more intelligently, there would not be a need for taxation at all.
There should be government agencies that simply exist to invest in foreign markets so as to both stimulate the desired industries and to increase the national budget. Im sure this is being done, but it doesn’t seem to be going well. I suspect that this is because of a reluctance to invest in foreign economies, especially the Chinese one. Its been successful with Japan, but China is considered an enemy - whereas China does use this strategy on the US, where it buys up its ports where it can. Of course the Chinese are more protective of their own stuff, but on the other hand I am certain that there are ways in which they would welcome American capital. It would have to be invested in a sector that is meant to grow with American expertise.

Investment is very hard to make profitable inside ones own holdings - the American economy may have become too convoluted, coiled up to reduce its deficits. It should pool up in several tectonic knots of the world economy, and rather than use military threats, use investment strategies in South America. There is a lot to be gained there, if it is approached so that it can respond; in a chivalrous manner, threatening with respect, as Snoop did to New York to soothe their anger.

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Thrasymachus wrote:
Git more money, more money, git more money more money. Lol.

Gangsters and drug dealers are infinitely more honest than the Fed Reserve. The worst crime is not to sell drugs to people who want drugs (value), but to invent money out of thin air without reference to value made.

Yes, I too like the way you said that.

But there are many who believe they were born for the government to take care of. What can the government do but create money to give to these worthless people? Did that sound harsh? I wish I could say “Sorry” but I can’t; it would be a lie.

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The depth of money is not really understood. Existential depth. Money concentrates valuing power in the same way that love does. Money is a pressure on the soul which evokes power and will. It would be impossible to do something for money that we did not already want to do.

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Reminded me of the quote; I will likely misquote it and I don’t remember who said it:

Man cannot do that which his soul will not allow.

If earned honestly, money can oftentimes be used to determine a man’s worth. To steal my money is basically destroying a part of my gross worth.

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Theft is indeed a grave sin. This is why many businesses fail. Greed is fine so long as one contains it and prevents it from causing one to steal. When greed leads to theft, greed is death personified.

The impulse to steal is a psychological ruination. It has causes but those are less important. Having causes is not very interesting, since everything has them.

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Thrasymachus wrote:
Theft is indeed a grave sin. This is why many businesses fail. Greed is fine so long as one contains it and prevents it from causing one to steal. When greed leads to theft, greed is death personified.

The impulse to steal is a psychological ruination. It has causes but those are less important. Having causes is not very interesting, since everything has them.

Yeah, the older I get the more I am offended by theft, doesn’t matter who is doing it or their reasons why. (Although I would make exceptions for the extremely poor.) And this includes scamming people out of their money.
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Money is a symbol of the will to power Middle world between the necessity of acting and the necessity of knowing.

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There’s not many places on this planet where a person needs no money in order to live equally with the rest of that society.

I don’t produce my own food or manufacture any of my own clothing. I must somehow pay someone else for doing that for me.

But, money is only a means to an end, not an end in itself.

What good is the money if you are not going to use it?
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Thrasymachus wrote:

Money is a symbol of the will to power Middle world between the necessity of acting and the necessity of knowing.

“Bank Roll Mafia”.

Haha.

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I’m interested in a phenomenon I learned about recently.

Medium and large branches, as well as small trunks, are arranged in a circular like fashion around a tree or small group of trees sorrounding an outcrop of rocks. A string of some sort having belonged to a personas is tied around one of the branches.

What do you think about this?
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Little other thought than that I want to do it.
Few things feel cleaner than working with such materials, and this sounds potent.

Unfortunately there are no rocks to speak of here, in this land below sea level -
and hardly any space to do such things in private.

What if any is the special purpose to this ritual?

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Unclear.
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We’ll have to find out in practice.

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Actually, it is some fuckfaces crowding on my shit. I am in the process of dismantling it.

I know enough about witchcraft to know that if a personal effect is involved, it is usually some kind of curse anyway. Plus the dudes I noticed working on it where skinny jean wearing hipster looking motherfuckers.
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where is this?

" The strong do what they can do and the weak accept what they have to accept. "

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A wood atop a hill.

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Bullshit.

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the psychological phenomenon morality
Postby Fixed Cross » Sun Jun 21, 2020 5:43 pm

Morality is impotence but still a form of will. It is alike to the will of a man with erectile dtysfunctioning to have an erection. A form of self-recognizing helplessness, from which a first conception of power, wholly erroneous because not grounded in power, is conceived. It is the vast difference between suffering and power.

Morality is as a plasma that screams I want to be solid.

Morality is therefore an infectious mass phenomenon. Everyone thinks of everyone else that they can and will enforce what they themselves can not, but want to. A vast displacement scheme at the top of with is a froth of disowned will which is harvested by whoever is willing and able to pose as a moral authority. But that is not the issue I want to describe; I mean to indicate the gap between morality and enforceable values.
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Postby Fixed Cross » Sun Jun 21, 2020 6:16 pm

Everyone I dare say, exceptions so few that they’d “confirm the rule”, has a degree of this morality plasma in them.
I wish to emotionally access this plasma, which itself is not able to make itself felt in true emotions. Because it is a negative entity, a pure lack not grounded in a power to be quenched, a lack of something which indeed does not exist;
a lack born of a mental frame in which we are all brought up; language. The objectifying framework in which we operate as human lifeforms produces this illusion of an objectively enforced set of rules for pleasure-distribution.

Morality is thus grounded in our reliance on language. The absence of power to set values which we can personally enforce is the same as the reliance on our spoken languages. All of these are primitive tools inadequate to the spirits self-reliance. This is what morality is a yearning-for; spiritual self-reliance.

We can access this self-reliance only by forging a positive (as in, real, substantial) bond with the suffering which underlies morality; all good therapy attains this end. Disentangling us from our language-driven context, which often is a life’s work, is the same as addressing the structure of our humanity which has not evolved adequately to be spiritually self-reliant.
We must pass, as a species, are passing now with what is here and what is coming, through the resistance the bulk of humanity has to experiencing this suffering consciously; morality is now being enforced at full force, at all cost, as it perceives itself as the only answer to a constantly pending hell (which is this “shadow”, this absence of might).

The might that we do have as spirits is hidden well behind this veil of recognizing the suffering, as spirit is not concerned with the sort of power the lack of which produces morality; after all this power does fundamentally not exist.
Then what is the might of spirt? How does it exist?
Nietzsche puts it darkly: spirit is life that cuts into life, and so learns through pain. However it leaves out a part; the healing which spirit undertakes after it has (been) wounded.
This is life, this is spirit; the power to self-reconstitute, to draw the world into oneself from both the phenomenal realm outside and the pure fire of the inner crevice.

So morality can be abandoned when the power to self-reconstitute (“heal”) is adopted as ones fundamental nature. This is an emotional process, deeply troubling and much more than that, satisfying. Such shamanism begins with creating emotions out of the plasma that yelps moral wishes in absence of true emotion; art, storytelling in true form, be it tragedy, comedy, cynicism, romantic nihilism (fatalism) or anything other than moralism, all help us to become self-reliant spirits. But at one point a decision has to be made, a knot cut; one must at one point show oneself ones own colours. However all moral life is too pale to show any colours. So there is a path which seems without reward, the dark night of the soul it is called, which leads up only to the point of getting sufficiently ill satisfied with ones approach to oneself so as to have a glimpse of ones spirit beyond ones approach to the self; in fact, the spirit is what approaches the self but must do so through the paths of the instincts.

The spirit speaks to the self through the waters of life, it has no other passage. Our emotions and our drives tend carry some of our spirit and much that is external to us. To make us lifeforms into self-reliant spiritforms, the spirit has to come to command these drives and emotions, walk as a dragon on the miasmic ground of the I-nor-not-I, and breathe its truths into our consciousness.

The building of this inner dragon is the meaning of this thread.

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Who is the God of America?
Postby Fixed Cross » Mon Jun 15, 2020 5:16 pm

I think the God of America is America.
The country is its own God.
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Re: Who is the God of America?
Postby Meno_ » Mon Jun 15, 2020 6:20 pm

I think other befits best because my choice would be 'none of the other’s for which there is no category given, therefore maybe I really shouldn’t have voted anyway by voting I negated myself choosing other , implying an other choice, is none of the other, other than the one I voted for!

Does that make sense?

You bet. It means that even if you are apathetic to vote in the most general sense, even then vote!

It almost reinforces the idea that voting is a duty, regardless of whether the choices are all inclusive, or mostly exclude some unknowns .
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Re: Who is the God of America?
Postby Fixed Cross » Wed Jun 17, 2020 11:26 pm

Orbie with you its always, or almost always, I have to decide whether or not I am going to understand you. Mine it, what you say, for oraculous chimeras to pertain at my discretion to contexts I may have for you to synthesize so as for an image of truth to appear. Sometimes it is a disturbing image, often times there is a Marxist-Hegelic dialectic implicit in the base premises, the fatalitarian crux of the “-haft”, which is the Dasein in your particular literatorics. At least there is a Dasein! I appreciate that.

Regardless. I left out a lot of options which are absolutely necessary for a fair questionnaire-opinion survey, namely first and foremost, the EARTH. Because like, Native Americans…

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Re: Who is the God of America?
Postby Silhouette » Thu Jun 18, 2020 1:52 am

Narcissus.
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Re: Who is the God of America?
Postby Meno_ » Thu Jun 18, 2020 4:05 pm

Vampire/Beauty/Beast : It is an inexplicable road, under and over ground, with variable and determinate gaze, that is consistent and inconsistent with others.
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Re: Who is the God of America?
Postby Fixed Cross » Thu Jun 18, 2020 4:25 pm

I need you all to find another gear, people.

Narcissus is not a god, Sil.

Orbie, straightforward relativisms are, it seems to me, below you.
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Re: Who is the God of America?
Postby Silhouette » Thu Jun 18, 2020 5:10 pm

Fixed Cross wrote:
Narcissus is not a god, Sil.

Only a half God in Greek mythology, sure, but he is to America, that’s all I’m saying.
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Re: Who is the God of America?
Postby Fixed Cross » Thu Jun 18, 2020 6:10 pm

Silhouette wrote:
Fixed Cross wrote:
Narcissus is not a god, Sil.

Only a half God in Greek mythology, sure, but he is to America, that’s all I’m saying.

Phaer.
Lets think about that very deeply for one second.

since Narcissus’ god was Narcissus -
America’s god presumably being America,
yes, food for thought.
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Re: Who is the God of America?
Postby surreptitious75 » Thu Jun 18, 2020 6:26 pm

Money is the driver of capitalism and America is the greatest capitalist nation so its god is money
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Re: Who is the God of America?
Postby Silhouette » Thu Jun 18, 2020 11:09 pm

Fixed Cross wrote:
Lets think about that very deeply for one second.

since Narcissus’ god was Narcissus -
America’s god presumably being America,
yes, food for thought.

It occurs to me that I’m thinking of America as Americans - but as you point out, the group identity of “America” works in just the way you say too.

Americans’ gods are themselves, in the sense of individualism and the whole atomistic conception of the self as a distinct, self-built-solely-unto-itself moral entity - such as is consistent with the mindset of original sin, its absolution and vicarious redemption via a single self-sacrificing heroic martyr.

Politically any latent collectivism can sublimate as nationalism: “America’s God” being America, but a country can easily be nationalist without being particularly American.
Likewise, money can be and is a driving force in many countries, but it’s the attitude towards money that makes America American.
It’s not a surprise that its identity emerges from its history as a go-it-alone, slapdash adventure, every man for himself - but the result is a nation of people clamoring all over each other to be seen and heard in a largely decentralised circus. That’s what America is, and it’s that entrepreneurial seed that grew into it.

Even protests against the current state of America have the same heart behind it: hear me, see me, venerate me. This is even for movements away from individualism - only in America can suggestions to be more social come across so much like self-interested virtue signalling. But this is always a criticism of progressives - either they live in their preferred way against and outside the system and have no support, exposure or power, or they are accused of hypocrisy for using the system to gain support, exposure and power.

Yet, like Narcissus, it is this individualistic obsession that on one hand exudes a distinctive aesthetic attractiveness that places it apart, but it’s also the source of all its woes and flaws and which may well lead to its own demise. But that’s a prediction that’s been thrown around ad nauseam. For all the signs, it’s taking its time.
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Re: Who is the God of America?
Postby zinnat » Fri Jun 19, 2020 8:17 am

As much as I am able to understand about US so far, individualism is the only god for the majority of the Amaricans, irrespective of which political ideology they follow.

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Re: Who is the God of America?
Postby Meno_ » Fri Jun 19, 2020 3:09 pm

Fixed Cross wrote:
I need you all to find another gear, people.

Narcissus is not a god, Sil.

Orbie, straightforward relativisms are, it seems to me, below you.

All right, then, it is an ominous sign that Capital has a negative intrinsic quality, that is approaching an unintended objective which may soon enough reveal a hidden transcendental.

I long ago , and not infrequently predicted a major appearent flow, that was not used even by Marx, that is, an ill conceived and unconvincing rationale .

The rationale regarding class dynamics patently ignores the question of the underlying pressure cooker thermodynamic considerations, that drives the conceptual indexes in modern corporate America.

Since this phenomena is unevident, the idea of suppression, intentional or otherwise, may merely be a sign that it is part and parcel of it’s own reason d’etre.

The limit I predict is , the trillion dollar acquisition of personal holdings, and I may, with a fairly probable certainty, sustain a belief, that an internal correction has to occur, at around that limit.

A self induced correction , where the political, social and economic integration will uncontrollably become unhinged.

I think it may even be sensible at this time to interpret the frantic deflationary moves by the Fed, to signify at least a partial uber-control to avoid a calamity, which the Pandemic may merely signify.

A whole lot of undifferentiated ‘thermodynamics’ is cooking below what others may see as a metaphor of Susan Sontag used to coin as devil ing into the symptom .

This symptomatic revelation need not bother interests who have vested an absolute objective can steamroll come he’ll or high water, because this would cause investiture on principle to disintegrate.

Therefore I shall call an unlimited application of the feeding of capital on itself a vampiristic, an imported concept originated by a female vampire living in the backwoods of Transylvania, a dark princess, who fed her beauty on hundreds of young women.

Capital feeds on labor as a commodity, and middle men become gorged on both labor and the market.

The essential need to universalize Capital, shows the idea that an absolute engorged system with in a submerged classless work force is a predictable requirement.

The vampire is the God of America.

It is an affable form of governance only when reasonable limits of social benefit are interjected with systematic application.
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Re: Who is the God of America?
Postby Fixed Cross » Fri Jun 19, 2020 4:11 pm

Meno_ wrote:
Fixed Cross wrote:
I need you all to find another gear, people.