... insurance company is nearing bankrupcy. The FDIC upping insured amounts is the real cool aid for the insurance boys. If we put in 700 hundred billion...
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wsindarius
Oct 1, 2008 7:03 pm
No, I meant the Jonestown punch. Our friend was getting too wide eyed for his own good. Wil ... From: bhvwd <v.valleywestdental@...> To:...
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bhvwd
Oct 1, 2008 7:45 pm
... US ... see ... insurance ... deconstruction ... country ... for ... to ... we let it tumble? Can we stop it at all? So that is the rough process that is...
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louise
circean_delay
Oct 2, 2008 12:52 am
Wil, I entirely disagree. Herman's post offers a great new direction for our musings and discussions at the list. When the primordial, when feeling finds its...
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wsindarius
Oct 2, 2008 1:00 am
Perhaps, but the discussion between Herman and myself has already passed onto the domain of hyperbole and lampoon just a little. And I mean just a little. I...
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bhvwd
Oct 2, 2008 1:47 am
Have all pure beings splashed into the sun? Modernism is so mundane but the royalists are set to by their own dogs. Look to the mental health amendments ,...
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Herman B. Triplegood
hermanbtripl...
Oct 3, 2008 3:19 am
Wil: I am pursuing another reading of things that has another goal and another urgency in mind. Let me just rattle the cage a bit... Hb3g: This is what is...
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louise
circean_delay
Oct 3, 2008 8:32 am
Now that makes sense, said the interested citizen. You know, I find life easier these days. When the change came, it was quite sudden. I found if I stopped...
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wsindarius
Oct 3, 2008 12:16 pm
Hb3g "Which part of us really is the mortal part? The soul? Or the body?" Response: What in the world are you getting yourself into now?. ... "The Phaedo isn't...
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Rose Lieberman
roselieberman
Oct 3, 2008 3:21 pm
Hello. My name is Rose, I'm 60, I live in rural upstate New York. I have no background in philosophy. My first exposure to existentialism was in catholic...
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wsindarius
Oct 3, 2008 3:56 pm
Rose, Hello. Another recovering Catholic. That's always good to see. Solipsism is sometimes a hot issue here. We have a prodigal member by the name of Knott...
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Rose Lieberman
roselieberman
Oct 3, 2008 6:03 pm
Wil, thanks for all that. I actually almost understood it all. (Almost because I'm still not sure about solipsistic. Are you saying that the individual...
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wsindarius
Oct 3, 2008 6:07 pm
"Are you saying that the individual believes self is real and everything and everyone an illusion? Or, self is the only vehicle for experience and outside of...
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bhvwd
Oct 3, 2008 6:59 pm
We often feed the lions on Friday, just to be sure we eat meat on the sacred day. Also joining at such a time makes it likely you will receive the weight of a...
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Rose Lieberman
roselieberman
Oct 3, 2008 7:44 pm
Hi, Bill. As far as fooling around with metaphysics, I've actually gone that route. In fact, I was a member of the Rosicrucian Order for about a dozen years...
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Rose Lieberman
roselieberman
Oct 3, 2008 9:51 pm
I'm interested in the literary end of existentialism and nihilism. Other than the defining works by those who have either defined or expanded these literary...
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bhvwd
Oct 3, 2008 9:58 pm
... gone that route. In fact, I was a member of the Rosicrucian Order for about a dozen years - some 20 years ago. Had I known then that it was all...
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louise
circean_delay
Oct 3, 2008 10:16 pm
Off into the night, another of those missions. Walking feet take me through quiet streets, across roads noisy with traffic, to pedestrianised highways, an...
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Rose Lieberman
roselieberman
Oct 4, 2008 11:48 am
Could the philosophy of existentialism have been created before it was? Say, the 17th or 15th century? Or could it only be a product of its time? And if so,...
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wsindarius
Oct 4, 2008 12:50 pm
Rose, This is also a question that has been in some dispute here over the years. I, personally, would understand the matter this way: what we normally identify...
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bhvwd
Oct 4, 2008 10:45 pm
In the pre modern world war was a working option of statecraft. During the evolution of existentialism there was a concomitant advancement of weapons and...
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Exist List Moderator
PoetCSW
Oct 4, 2008 11:44 pm
... I happen to think Atonement is an interesting read, asking "what if" and "how" questions. Stories of personal choice and personal definition struggle...
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devogney
Oct 5, 2008 1:12 am
... During ... of ... into ... aircraft. ... peace ... lessons ... Limited ... was ... necessary ... ourselves ... I agree very much; and have often reflected...
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bhvwd
Oct 5, 2008 3:11 am
Ah, decovney, you must converse with Hb32O. See if you can find a way to legetimise fairy tails. Herman knows the ancient tails of Thor and perhaps Odin. I...
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louise
circean_delay
Oct 5, 2008 8:36 pm
Rose, These are fruitful questions. What is called by the name of existentialism constitutes a subject for academic study, yet also represents a body of texts...
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tom
devogney
Oct 5, 2008 8:59 pm
Maybe the term "existensialism" like the term "God", the term "subconcious" etc is a word that can never be fully defined. And any value a person might obtain...
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devogney
Oct 5, 2008 9:48 pm
... term "subconcious" etc is a word that can never be fully defined. And any value a person might obtain from it would be reflected in the integration of head...
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Herman B. Triplegood
hermanbtripl...
Oct 5, 2008 10:23 pm
Well, I have given a lot of my time to the study of mythology, symbols, religions of the world, and a bunch of other things along those lines too. How about...
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Herman B. Triplegood
hermanbtripl...
Oct 5, 2008 10:25 pm
It started with Kant. The first philosopher, ever, to seriously take on the conundrum of human freedom plus human finitude. I have said it before, and I will...
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wsindarius
Oct 5, 2008 10:39 pm
Hb3g, Heretical? You? Your as heretical as Nascar and Savonarola. Wil ************** New MapQuest Local shows what's happening at your destination. Dining,...
