... I just want to say, amidst the absent rumor, that i had nothing to do with this. In fact, I find some of the wording offensive. "There is no nothingness...
... The psychotic need for attachment as the basis of religion is the driving problem here, rather than the intelligence. and as suggested (mary jo?),...
Albert Camus (1913–60), French-Algerian philosopher said: "Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate." A...
George's post is a sober one for a sobering theme. In regard to politics' relation toward existentialism, the lesson is not to trust a French colonial model....
" ... Modern metaphysics first comes to the full and final determination of its essence in the doctrine of the Overman, the doctrine of man's fully absolute...
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Mary, Bill, CSW, Tommy, etc. Regarding our previous and ongoing dicussion on the recently posted physics article: Since Einstein physics and philosophy have...
My husband Paul has a degree in applied physics and electronics. When I started encountering substantial hardback tomes by Christian evangelical creationist...
Be aware that in Britain Rolf Harris is an adopted Aussie folk hero. In my childhood he was there on the screen slapping paint about in amazingly evocative...
... Damn, i guess my several pints puts us at intellectual odds. In other words, my dear, I've lost your train of thought. It is difficult to tot up my actual...
Damn, Are you one of those sloppy beer drinkers Bill was referring to? We didn't get his progress report New Year's Eve. Hope his wife didn't get him into too...
Steve Earle - respected American musician, married five times, convicted felon, drug addict, alchoholic, anti-death penalty advocate: "If there's one thing I...
... I keep well groomed, and do not tend to sloppy. Those who brew do not tend toward 'sloppy', as such would be for amatuers. Each bottle aged as fine wine,...
Trinidad, I had to wait upon some quiet time before I could digest your proposed model; and now that I have, I must say it's quite logical and profound. The...
Nihilism is a cognitive construct. It's scope is limited by the cognitive capacity of the human individual. It is unreasonable to assume that all that is...
look, who are you, anyway? do you think you're god or don't you? i've never assumed so. what has the quantity of beer we've consumed got to do with an...
Since there was a legitamate excuse for our aberrent behavour, our fifteenth wedding anniversary, was a subtle gas. I bought the bride a fine outfit from...
Clumsiness I must admit to. After nearly a year at my post - or should that be outpost? - here at existlist, my intellectual stamina wanes. I sit here...
... I am as good a gawd as 'duard, but that isn't saying much. The reference to gawd is only that I am gawd if I am, as i perceive, the only world view....
Bill, That is a fine vignette. I am struggling even to find words to describe my own response, except by couching in negatives. As soon as I might use a...
Knott, I very much like fencing with you, but if any kind of god is the subject, we seem rather doomed to be self-enclosed. You refer to 'duard, who seems to...
Reasonably things are never obliterated only changed. Hydrogen is hydrogen. Oxygen is oxygen. In another formula they are water. The objective universe is only...
Good evening everyone. I'm lacking inspiration, I'm afraid. Unlike old Aeolus, or his bag. When going out for one of my walks today, I waited over a minute...
... Interesting, Knott, that you characterise/understate/parody the conception of deity by calling it gawd. A cartoon theology, rather than an historical...
What is rudeness? I think it's different from impertinence which I hate with a passionate hatred. The former issues from love. Mischievous children abound in...
Trinidad, I agree that formula and dynamic are evolutionary. The objects in our universe, although necessary, should not be the focus of phenomenology. They...