lower case people, either paying homage, or tolerating. that is, i mean to say, obliquely, noumenal god. confrontation generates synthesis. combination gives...
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Oct 1, 2005 4:13 pm
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Simon Critchley from Continental Philosophy: ".....Christian metaphysics turns on the belief in a true world that is opposed to the false world of becoming...
" . . . when we realize the shabby origin of our moral values....our reactive response is to declare that existence is meaningless." The key to this sentence...
Oh, we have that innate ability all right. But a closer look at the bloody [at times barbaric] nature of human history to date shows it is in competition with...
Human beings must be wholly considered and this requires an account of death that recognizes personal mortality, not in the sense that all men die, but rather...
Can you be a Niliest and form a philosophy, That is Positive to the individual humans (or countries).I think Yes. Its called accepting reality. Then move on...
True. Even though the list of Human atrocities is endless and continues today. I think you are right. That we are more social than hostile ape like creatures....
Nihilism is reality. I Accept that and still want to leave a better world no matter now pointless. And I think I have rational reasons for thinking this. ...
... the effect of post-colonialism is an issue in many post-Soviet countries today, including small indigenous groups in Russia. the terms of course are not...
Aija Veldre Beldavs
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Oct 2, 2005 5:43 am
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... so the innate ability to care is what there is to work with. the other innate tendencies (whose selection for success and dominance are increasingly...
Aija Veldre Beldavs
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Oct 2, 2005 5:43 am
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_existlist@yahoogroups.com_ (mailto:existlist@yahoogroups.com) Trinidad Cruz wrote: [below] Hi Trinidad, An excellent piece of writing. Is there any more of...
... yes, but most who confront their dead (wo)man state aren't heroes, they need a touch on the shoulder, or at least seeing others picking up their stones. ...
Aija Veldre Beldavs
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Oct 2, 2005 1:01 pm
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My kingdom for a stone. Or as the great rock song laments," Who do you love"? I just attended a sixth gen wedding. They didnt have to call out the National...
Hi Ms. Louise; Who could ignore such an intelligent and wonderful 'speaker' as yourself? re What you state about: 'Christ'; 'Superstitious'; 'Religion';...
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Oct 2, 2005 11:45 pm
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I need to present the topic of guilt and innocence in Existentialism for my English class tomorrow, and I'm having a bit of trouble understanding it. I've...
Each and every one has plenty to deal with the business of understanding the cosmos and surviving within its immutatables. For a rough accounting you might...
George wrote: "And it doesn't change anything regarding the profoundly problematic manner in which we construe and then manifest our political and ethical...
... a ... then ... Hope I might hitch a little response to your message, returner. True I tend to hope too much. Cautious, anyways. I'll ditto this one. ...
... "Please give it to me, I promise to use it to my best benefit." An interesting request Bill, one I would be inclined to agree to if I only was sure of the...
... If you really want to get tangled up in the guilt innocence quandry try Stuart Hampshire and Isaiah Berlin. Should keep you busy for years. To keep it...
Getting blindsided could be excused as a function of a forward looking orientation. The powers in education and business prey on the newbies and suck profits...
... "I keep my interest as spotless as an altar bread. I worship it even though I cannot understand its origins nor predict its ends." This is a rarely trodden...
Agree with Georges Part Completely. Issue is with Jeffs response. I think it does change the equation. For one you take out the concept of one Myth Vs another....
Robert, I see your point, although there have been plenty of bloodthirsty atheists bound to impose their idea of morality with the sword. We can start with...
Aside from the poor souls who have legitimate reasons for their suffering, why is it that so many of us struggle to be happy? In each generation there is a...
... not all religious orientations are equally exclusive or prone to violent solutions. it is too simplistic to say that religion separates people rather than...
Aija Veldre Beldavs
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Oct 4, 2005 3:21 pm
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... among many balts the two are not seen as polar opposites, but two different branches of the same xtreme. they're even popularly called the red and brown...
Aija Veldre Beldavs
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Oct 4, 2005 3:22 pm
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aija, I probably should have extended the quotation marks to include that thought as well as the preceeding sentence. (Although the quote, "Where do we go from...