People back from the oil wars say the enemy is small and badly wounded. The droids are winning. Big ,super accurate missles can reach even the most remote...
The norse killer says he listened to conservatives in america. What happens in a minority revolution. I fear that is what we are experiencing. Lone wolves,...
As you can see I'm new to this board. Perhaps I don't understand the dynamics of it exactly therefore would someone be so kind and explain them to me as I do...
Hi Herman, You write: "So, I differentiate between freedom and free will. I acknowledge freedom and I reject free will. As I said above, freedom alludes to the...
Hi Mary, ... Yes, that's right. The individual doesn't exist. The individual is an abstraction; an abstraction from everything that exists. No thing exists ...
Following the toppling of the President in Tunisia and the President in Egypt earlier this year, I am now pleased to report that the President of the United...
Bill, Although slightly offended that you suffer no softies here, I nonetheless find your assessment that an existentialist requires courage quite on the mark....
I agree that free will iS a metaphysical concept of little worth. Freedom is measured in the threats you recieve from others. Being a loner seems to accompany...
I have great respect for the French existentalists as they looked at a modern world of personal initive and risk. The German existentialists had the terrible...
That is what Obama says about republicans. That ideology comes from religion which is the enemy of existentialism. Yes, enemy, not contemporary view but...
Mary, You quote the following passage from Zizek: "Even in much of today's progressive politics, the danger is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to...
Two democratic senators say the republicans are trying to sabotage the US recovery in order to embarass and defeat Obama. I have suspected this for months and...
Hi all, Of course cruising the high seas on a ship is only possible for the likes of us because there are seas of wafer-thin Filipino, Thai and Indonesian...
I find pyrrhic victory unacceptable. Dropping out as a tactical retreat can be a very good method. Refusing to fill out your census form and getting a big...
Eric cantor walked out of the debt ceiling talks. He asserts there will be no tax hikes for the wealthy coming out of the republican house. There will also be...
Now let us speak of individual need. That is of Charles Dickens and other pragmatists. The supposidly reliable theories of economics are less than fifty per...
The Pentagon Papers are out, public and supposidly unredacted. They deal with the governments prosecution of the Viet Nam War. There are thousands of pages...
I am talking about the manipulation of terms. If you are a modernist I think you inherit a responsibility to language. Deconstruction ,at it`s base, is letter...
Hi Mary and all, ... I think it is a giant step in the denouement of the philosophese that passes as ethical discourse to see the role that aversion plays in...
Hi Jim, ... C'mon, Jim. We can do better than this. After all, we are philosophers, not? I am glad that you have ditched the notion of things-in-themselves,...
Jim and Herman, Since phenomenology and ethics are relevant to existentialism, I wouldn't mind continuing this thread. If I understand Zizek, his criticism of...
I watched a documentary about the garbage men of Cairo, it was revealing, shocking, punishing. This was a view from the lower class, from the untouchables and...
It is more easy to be static,conservative. You react little to the present, you have god on your side and he reacts at god speed. Now Eric Margolis estimates...
Hi Jim ... I'm sorry if you have taken offence to what I wrote. All I can do is assure you that I had no intention of insulting you, and that if I had wanted...
This is in line with my thoughts Think About This: Behold the "Possibilian" David Eagleman, a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine, is searching for a...
Sorry, but I had to share this from today's news: "He who warned, uh, the … the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms, uh, by ringin’...
If we can section the worm from two directions we might shorten the duration of our bondage to the hyper law we have been exposed to. Jerry Brown is under...
I spent the day talking to republicans, it was better than looking at Weiner`s brief`s. A John Bircher saws he is leaning toward Paul as the rest of the...
Bill, Since you are an avowed capitalist, I don't expect you'd appreciate Zizek's drawing attention to any disruptive `uncoupling' or `unplugging' from...
