Hello all, I've been away from here for quite a while primarily as the result of becoming involved for a considerable time in several Krishnamurti discussion...
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jennyx3
Jun 14, 2004 7:15 pm
I went to F.I.U and its philosophy department was not so good. I suggest you look for a school with small classes. Small classes are the best for philosophy....
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jeannedarc714
Jun 21, 2004 5:57 pm
Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Notes From Underground" is probably one of the most important contributions to existentialist thought/discourse ever written. It is a...
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jwyattehrenfels
Jul 20, 2004 7:03 pm
At the heart of my high-level sociological critique of psychological inquiry is that, as a tree, it has surrendered both its roots in phenomenology and its...
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masqueradeux
Jul 28, 2004 12:14 am
how do you explain the following contradictions in the bible: The father is GOD, the son is GOD the Holy spirit is GOD. With "Thou shall not take any other God...
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wbakervt
Jul 31, 2004 12:39 pm
A good friend of mine has been studying the philosopher Sartre, and we have been discussing his ideas, therefore his notion of developing one's "essence" is...
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David Newman
davenru
Aug 9, 2004 6:41 pm
as he rolls the rock up the hill in Camus famous tale?...
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new_trail_blazer
new_trail_bl...
Aug 10, 2004 1:22 pm
Hi Dave, I'm more concerned with why nearly everyone I see, save for a few children and young folks here and there and now and then, have a look of quiet...
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David Newman
davenru
Aug 11, 2004 11:56 pm
I guess if I had to roll a rock up a hill for all eternity, I doubt I'd be smiling. Hopefully the pay would be good though. Therefore I think Camus tale is...
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new_trail_blazer
new_trail_bl...
Aug 12, 2004 2:19 am
And just what do you think was inside Thoreau that enabled him to follow the beat of a different drummer along with sensing that virtually all those around him...
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Randy
randaldhurt
Aug 12, 2004 5:53 pm
... in himself. I've always liked YHWH's description of Godness, "I am that I am" so it is with Sisyphus....
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Een Enkelte
ienkelhed
Aug 12, 2004 11:14 pm
Dear theexistentialsociety, I am Dane who has been reading Kierkegaard for some 10 years, and a student of Wittgenstein, Socratic and Pre-Socratic philosophy,...
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David Newman
davenru
Aug 13, 2004 1:00 am
I think Thorough was probably a pothead Bob, based on no evidence, except that of introversion and aversion to a life of quiet desperation.. On Thu, 12 Aug...
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new_trail_blazer
new_trail_bl...
Aug 13, 2004 11:54 am
Good Morning Dave, I doubt that Henry was a pothead. If that were the case I don't think Emerson would have put up with him as much as he did. And for sure I'm...
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new_trail_blazer
new_trail_bl...
Aug 13, 2004 12:02 pm
... A line of Nietzsches comes to mind here, Een. "We must seek the truth whether it brings us a profit or a fatality." Bob M....
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Een Enkelte
ienkelhed
Aug 13, 2004 8:34 pm
... From: new_trail_blazer Date: Fri Aug 13, 2004 12:01 pm Subject: Re: A First Contribution ... A line of Nietzsches comes to mind here, Een. "We must...
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neurom9999
Aug 17, 2004 8:54 am
Bob, Do you mean there's an existential alternative to quiet desperation? ;) What's worse? To find that all your efforts pushing the rock to the top of the...
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new_trail_blazer
new_trail_bl...
Aug 17, 2004 10:57 am
Be grateful for the setbacks Dennis, no pain-no gain. Just keep on getting out of bed, regardless of which side you do. Bob M. ... pushing ... the ... Hydra, ...
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new_trail_blazer
new_trail_bl...
Aug 17, 2004 11:18 am
Good Morning Een, Do you think O.W. was disgusted with himself or with what he saw all around him from the mountain top, not that he necessarily had everything...
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neurom9999
Aug 18, 2004 6:22 am
Een, An individual who did not want to be kept alive by means of an artificial life-support system would be willing his own destruction. But, ethically viewed,...
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Een Enkelte
ienkelhed
Aug 20, 2004 11:13 pm
Do you think O.W. was disgusted with himself or with what he saw all around him from the mountain top, not that he necessarily had everything exactly right?...
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Een Enkelte
ienkelhed
Aug 20, 2004 11:24 pm
An individual who did not want to be kept alive by means of an artificial life-support system would be willing his own destruction. But, ethically viewed,...
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neurom9999
Aug 21, 2004 7:57 am
Dear Een, By bringing in the idea of "bad faith," I was drawing a distinction between the concepts of being "willing to be the self that one actually is," and...
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Een Enkelte
ienkelhed
Aug 21, 2004 9:08 am
Dear Dennis, Thank you for your reply, and further clarification. It may be that the difference in the thoughts behind our expressions may also now be ...
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new_trail_blazer
new_trail_bl...
Aug 22, 2004 8:29 am
Hi Een, I find that one can have a 'perfected consciousness' without having all of the answers or all the answers perfectly correct. My M.O. would be keep it...
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Een Enkelte
ienkelhed
Aug 22, 2004 10:05 pm
Dear Bob, ... all the answers perfectly correct---- In what perfection then, if any, does it consist? Perhaps, as in your O.W. reply, it consists in being...
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new_trail_blazer
new_trail_bl...
Aug 23, 2004 12:45 pm
... Hi Een, You'll know it when you experience it Een, be it only for brief moments initially. Genuine and complete surrender is the ticket. Die to the known...
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Een Enkelte
ienkelhed
Aug 24, 2004 3:49 pm
Dear Bob, I am saddened to see that you do not rise above autobiography and/or sloganising; indeed, it is the sloganising autobiography that I find saddest of...
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new_trail_blazer
new_trail_bl...
Aug 24, 2004 7:17 pm
You're the boss Een. I like straight forward souls. No argument here. And above all please don't be saddened, at least not on my behalf. Live and let live-live...
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neurom9999
Aug 27, 2004 5:23 pm
Dear Een, I suppose that, at bottom, I don't perceive that the self qua self is bound by any ethical requirement which pre-empts the individual's freedom,...
