Old School in a New Age? [ Merlin, Thank you for the good wishes. Indeed we have taken different paths. It is a beautiful day here today. Sunny and in the...
58523
William
bhvwd
Nov 10, 2012 9:37 pm
I have never heard that one. I think of the heavy horse calvelry. The horses charging dead ahead and all else being driven before them. It becomes an attitude...
58524
William
bhvwd
Nov 10, 2012 9:39 pm
I have never heard that one. I think of the heavy horse calvelry. The horses charging dead ahead and all else being driven before them. It becomes an attitude...
58525
Dick.
somerset_2
Nov 11, 2012 10:24 am
Following the Masters? [ My leanings to existentialism remain and though I probably will not reread the masters I will continue to relate their precepts to the...
58526
Dick.
somerset_2
Nov 11, 2012 12:41 pm
When the student is ready? [ Dedem. What do you make of this famous statement, supposed to be occult, esoteric, arcane or mystical, which ever it is or all of...
58527
Mary
josephson45r
Nov 12, 2012 10:57 pm
Here's a book list for those of you who follow (are interested in) existential writers. http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1237.Best_Existential_Fiction Audio...
58528
Mary
josephson45r
Nov 13, 2012 5:54 pm
Bill mentioned how his hope has been restored for the younger generation, and I can't help feeling existentialism is tailor made for them. Many are already...
58529
William
bhvwd
Nov 13, 2012 11:02 pm
When Ike came home he had to decide what party he would join. I do not think Patreaus had any such trouble. He looked at CIA director as a smooth transition...
58530
Dick.
somerset_2
Nov 14, 2012 8:14 am
Why The Way We Are? [ Why are we made the way we are? Does mystical experience reveal why we are made the way we are? How much of what we become is down to us...
58531
Dick.
somerset_2
Nov 15, 2012 7:55 am
Prescriptions not Predictions? [ If you were to stick your mystics neck out then what from your understanding of life would you say will happen to me when my...
58532
Mary
josephson45r
Nov 15, 2012 7:07 pm
Jim, How goes your reading of Hegel?. Since the election rhetoric is over, I'm rereading the Phenomenology. However, this time I'm striving for a more 'naive'...
58533
Dick.
somerset_2
Nov 15, 2012 9:00 pm
Paper Spirituality to fill a Void? [.... and just like addiction to drink or drugs, religion, such as it is, is just a paper spirituality to fill a void of...
58534
Dick.
somerset_2
Nov 16, 2012 9:09 am
In the NOW of THEN? [ You mention grabbing the day, and grabbing the full essential quality of it at that moment, each moment as they pass. You also mention...
58535
Mary
josephson45r
Nov 16, 2012 9:09 pm
The following combines my impressions of the film Mar Adentro (The Sea Inside) with a biographical sketch written several years ago. Hopefully it demonstrates...
58536
William
bhvwd
Nov 16, 2012 10:30 pm
... Mary, I recently watched a program about assisted suicide. There are a good many more public stances than a few years ago. I see the situation as...
58537
Mary
josephson45r
Nov 17, 2012 12:45 am
Thanks, Bill, for your perspective. We have no control over when we come into the world and little more when it comes time to leave. I think the existential...
58538
Dick.
somerset_2
Nov 17, 2012 10:13 am
Which City? [ Just as a matter of interest Merlin, if money and time was no object then which of the worlds Cities would you have liked to have seen? ] ... ...
58539
Dick.
somerset_2
Nov 17, 2012 10:14 am
The Living in the NOW? [ This is true about "grabbing the day". That's why most people are not happy or at peace with themselves. They are always thinking of...
58540
Dick.
somerset_2
Nov 17, 2012 10:15 am
La Belle Helene [ You said that you were fascinated by Greek Mythology stories when you were young. Why do you think that was? Do you think that Homer really ...
58541
Dick.
somerset_2
Nov 17, 2012 10:18 am
How we live our lives? [ As I see it the most important question for all people, religionists or not, is how we live our lives; not what we are. In which case...
58542
Jim
jimstuart51
Nov 18, 2012 12:11 pm
Hello Mary, Thank you for enquiring how my Hegel reading is going. I have to admit it has taken a back seat in the last couple of months as I have been reading...
58543
Jim
jimstuart51
Nov 18, 2012 12:56 pm
Mary, Thank you for your beautiful and moving account of the life and death of Ramon Sampedro, intermingled with your own experience of spinal injury. It seems...
58544
Dick.
somerset_2
Nov 18, 2012 2:37 pm
Instigating your own death? [ My own view – currently I am 56 years old and feel I am gradually approaching old age – is, like yours, that I would like to...
58545
Dick.
somerset_2
Nov 18, 2012 2:40 pm
An Act of Kindness? [ You mentioned that you have hope for humanity based on their inner connection to the ground of their being, and the unfolding of this ...
58546
Dick.
somerset_2
Nov 18, 2012 2:42 pm
More than the Will to Succeed? [ Optimism is fine, but it takes far more than a dream and optimism to succeed. ] I know it does. It also requires the will to...
58547
Dick.
somerset_2
Nov 18, 2012 2:55 pm
Ref instigating your own death? [ Dick, This is indeed scary. You are sounding like a friendly, balanced, normal person. Any chance we could get together for...
58548
William
bhvwd
Nov 18, 2012 5:46 pm
... Jim, this conservation has centered on extreme cases. Mary has a moderately extreme situation and she is still with us. I have a tolerable situation and...
58549
Jim
jimstuart51
Nov 18, 2012 6:39 pm
Bill, Thanks for your reply. You make a good point. I don't want to do anything which makes it easier for the state to decide who lives or who dies. As you and...
58550
William
bhvwd
Nov 18, 2012 7:06 pm
... ....
58551
Mary
josephson45r
Nov 18, 2012 10:59 pm
I read Hegel early in the morning when my mind is rested but only for an hour, then return to any challenging sections the following morning. After reading...
