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Mary
agignesthai
Oct 1, 2006 2:17 pm
To the fifty and sixty-somethings amongst us: "They talk of my drinking but never my thirst." - Scottish proverb Slįinte!...
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bhvwd
Oct 1, 2006 10:17 pm
For some number of far past years this would be the season of solitary drinking. My birthday was usually the initiating factor and I would actually take a jug...
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Peter Ciccariello
ciccariello77
Oct 2, 2006 1:05 am
Mary, "Here's tae us; wha's like us? Gey few, and they're a' deid." - Scottish Toast, probably of 19th-century origin. The first line appears in T. W. H....
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Mary
agignesthai
Oct 3, 2006 1:57 pm
I find the arguments which claim Kierkegaard was a Christian existentialist and Nietzsche a Christian nihilist strange but interesting. If xtians,...
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louise
hecubatoher
Oct 4, 2006 12:43 am
Ok, so I don't like the term, yet find myself stuck with its associations. This is existlist, after all. My instinct is to reach out first for what is...
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wsindarius
Oct 4, 2006 1:09 am
L, It has only been over the past six years or so that I have been such so rabidly anti-religion. It would be disingenuous of me to pretend that my revulsion ...
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louise
hecubatoher
Oct 4, 2006 2:31 am
Yes, it is a slow process also, to clarify our respective subjective revulsions, beliefs, scepticisms, in relation to objectively statable claims, made up of...
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Trinidad Cruz
cribprdb
Oct 4, 2006 3:04 pm
It is a known fact that domesticated animals over time develop smaller brains than their wild ancestors. One should actually wonder, (given the ordinary...
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Mary
agignesthai
Oct 4, 2006 3:12 pm
When passion is numbed by the world, ideas come along and help us feel alive, but they fly back to the hive when desire can no longer be denied. To breathe, to...
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bhvwd
Oct 4, 2006 6:09 pm
Louise can be excused for her dislike of politics, especially America`s bombastic variety. This administration has gleaned much of its power from religous...
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wsindarius
Oct 4, 2006 6:35 pm
"Yesterday a right wing pundit spoke openly of the obliteration of nonbelievers within the US. She proposed a sort of Krystalnight pogrom of philosophical...
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mischke@...
fmischke
Oct 4, 2006 6:50 pm
you could place the word "government" in the place of "religion"; and it would also make sense. Anyone who worships religion or government is equally evil. ...
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Larry Betzel
betz_ak
Oct 4, 2006 6:57 pm
I guess they forgot acceptance of other beliefs and opinions only applies when we are talking about shades of the left . . . How about a new bumper sticker - I...
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wsindarius
Oct 4, 2006 7:25 pm
Are you saying that antireligion means Left? Was Nietzsche on the left; or Mencken; or Ingersoll? And who ever said anything about hating intolerance? Not me!...
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bhvwd
Oct 4, 2006 8:25 pm
Louise can be excused for her dislike of politics, especially America`s bombastic variety. This administration has gleaned much of its power from religous...
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Chris Macchione
macchionec
Oct 4, 2006 9:17 pm
How do we rid ourselves of the power hungry groups that have melded religion and government together? (Where all thinking and living is planned for you.)Maybe...
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bhvwd
Oct 4, 2006 9:19 pm
You should tolerate other beliefs but you should not have to pay for them. When faith based groups promulgate laws that restrict personal freedoms from their...
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wsindarius
Oct 4, 2006 9:23 pm
If the mainstream doesn't wise up, no solution will endure. Fringe or marginal groups, no matter how well-intentioned, cannot do it. WS ... From:...
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Chris Macchione
macchionec
Oct 4, 2006 9:40 pm
Unfortunately, history demonstrates that the "mainstream" won't wise up until it realizes that the button pushing won't deliver the satisfactory shock anymore....
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Judy
judy_10025
Oct 5, 2006 3:40 am
I just want to say hello - I am new to this group - I am very interested in existensialism from a variety of standpoints - this exacerbated when my...
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Chris Macchione
macchionec
Oct 5, 2006 4:09 am
Judy, I would recommend Martin Buber's "I and Thou," for your personal reading library. A great introductory overview is this groups main webpage: ...
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judy meibach
judy_10025
Oct 5, 2006 4:27 am
Dear Chris: Thank you for your post - I love Martin Buber - and I have read part of his works, but I need to reopen some of the discussion - and regarding...
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Trinidad Cruz
cribprdb
Oct 5, 2006 2:56 pm
I still think it's a question of grasping limitation. Without certain facts we can only live in what seems to be, and wait and see if it is. Dawkins puts it...
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Knott
fictiveparrot
Oct 5, 2006 6:27 pm
... I'm not sure if I am countering or agreeing. It seems to me that persuit of absolute understanding and perfect knowledge -- perhaps called fact -- is more...
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wsindarius
Oct 5, 2006 7:19 pm
Dawkins' latest isn't too bad either, if you are interested in a full attack on religion. WS ... From: cruzprdb@... To: existlist@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
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Mary
agignesthai
Oct 5, 2006 10:45 pm
Yes, I suppose that's a cleaner perspective, that ideas don't have to include facts. Interest is similar to following one's bliss, and who knows where that...
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bhvwd
Oct 6, 2006 2:09 pm
As often happens when posting matter that affronts the established order the message was "lost " in cyberspace. This situation repeats and repeats beyond any...
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Trinidad Cruz
cribprdb
Oct 6, 2006 3:10 pm
... "Yesterday a right wing pundit spoke openly of the obliteration of nonbelievers within the US. She proposed a sort of Krystalnight pogrom of philosophical...
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eupraxis@...
wsindarius
Oct 6, 2006 3:34 pm
Sing it, brother. ... From: cruzprdb@... To: existlist@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 10:09 AM Subject: [existlist] Re: Demon religion ... ...
