Jim, I checked in on Existlist a few times only in the interum. It seemed to be just a monologue by Dick (is he still here?), and a few incoherent things by...
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Mary
josephson45r
Mar 17, 2013 8:28 pm
... The ratio of my input to engaged output. In order to keep this community going, Bill was the only other person who made the effort on a regular basis No...
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eupraxis
wsindarius
Mar 17, 2013 9:05 pm
Well then, where are we? And who are we? I mean this topically, as well as philosophically. Wil...
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Jim
jimstuart51
Mar 17, 2013 10:14 pm
Mary – That is fair comment what you have written. One theme in existentialism is commitment, and you and Bill have shown a level of commitment to existlist...
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wsindarius
Mar 17, 2013 10:50 pm
Thanks, Jim, for your usual measured tone. It is nice tohear again. Actually, and being a good Hegelian, maybe, I see things atad otherwise than you describe....
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eupraxis
wsindarius
Mar 17, 2013 10:52 pm
I am reposting this. Apparently, posting from my email messages runs words together. Thanks, Jim, for your usual measured tone. It is nice to hear again. ...
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Jim
jimstuart51
Mar 18, 2013 1:28 pm
Wil, Yes, I think your diagnosis of the current malaise is spot on. Many of those nominally on the side of progress and rationality are reacting against the...
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wsindarius
Mar 18, 2013 2:01 pm
Well, well, well. That really is something. I wish their families well. As to our current malaise, I have begun to articulate, in the secularist/atheist groups...
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Mary
josephson45r
Mar 18, 2013 7:20 pm
This is a good re-start. Science and literature are both important in shaping my philosophy and I agree that reductionism has become the new fundamentalism wed...
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wsindarius
Mar 18, 2013 7:42 pm
Yes, quite. I offer a basic proof that one is more than particulate determinism: the event of me saying so is itself the moment of its demonstration. It may be...
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Mary
josephson45r
Mar 18, 2013 8:09 pm
Yes, Jim, family is my first commitment. Staying open emotionally and listening to them remains my priority. Due to physical limitations, Existlist has been a...
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Jim
jimstuart51
Mar 18, 2013 8:38 pm
Wil, Mary, I very much agree with what each of you has written today. Science can probe the secrets of the natural world and help us build machines of...
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Jim
jimstuart51
Mar 18, 2013 9:08 pm
Mary, As you say, the great existentialist writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were writing when war was all around them, threatening their...
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existlist
Mar 18, 2013 9:54 pm
... === Oooo, oooo, let's talk about Nothing! Will you elaborate? I did watch a video of Krauss talking about Nothing on Youtube today to try and catch up. How...
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wsindarius
Mar 18, 2013 11:11 pm
H, Well, that question is the question of questions, and can never be fully addressed, as Heidegger correctly insists, but we can start with a few...
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existlist
Mar 19, 2013 12:15 am
... === Yeah, I read this twice, googled a few things, and feel I am following you. Thank you, please go on. I'm thinking that this is probably of interest...
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existlist
Mar 19, 2013 1:27 am
Wil, You inspired me to do a little reading. I ound a bit of what you're saying here: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nothingness/ A proud physicist is...
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existlist
Mar 19, 2013 1:51 am
If I quiet my mind, I get a taste of nothingness and I recognize that nothingness as being the backdrop of everything else. That's all I know of nothingness. ...
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Mary
josephson45r
Mar 19, 2013 2:07 am
I think the most understandable exposition of Nothing I've encountered to date is found in Hegel's Being and Nothing at the beginning of the Science of Logic....
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existlist
Mar 19, 2013 1:15 pm
... Science isn't the sole arbiter for determining and defining concepts; philosophy also challenges assumptions. === Mary, I find that I don't challenge...
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wsindarius
Mar 19, 2013 1:56 pm
H,

 Yes, Nothing is, at a certain point, indistinguishable from Being. The most basic concept is Being. But what does it mean? As itself and without any...
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Mary
josephson45r
Mar 19, 2013 5:42 pm
Wil, Would you explain the urgency of the philosophical question about Nothing? Is it related to a concern, not necessarily yours, that reductionist scientism...
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existlist
Mar 20, 2013 12:14 am
... === Hi Wil, I am not a moderator. When the moderator posted last, the ID was: Exist List Moderator PoetCSW I have read this list off and on for years. As...
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existlist
Mar 20, 2013 10:14 am
I ran across this video on Youtube called 'Explain Like I'm Five: Existentialism and Friederich Nietzsche. I thought it might be something clever and funny...
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Mary
josephson45r
Mar 20, 2013 2:44 pm
Hi h. It's not sad and wrong because it's simple but that it's a blatant misrepresentation. On the other hand, it's also funny and right, because it accurately...
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Mary
josephson45r
Mar 20, 2013 3:01 pm
Wil, Another way to answer my own question to you regards the environment. The reduction of people to 'blind' atomistic consumers threatens our ecosystem and...
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wsindarius
Mar 20, 2013 4:05 pm
Sorry, Mary, I fell asleep last night a bit early and I am working just now. Wil ... From: Mary <josephson45r@...> To: existlist...
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Mary
josephson45r
Mar 20, 2013 5:40 pm
No worry and no hurry, Wil. Mary...
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Mary
josephson45r
Mar 20, 2013 8:10 pm
Peter, I believe you're our only active resident 'practitioner' of the visual arts, so please continue to contribute periodically through and art and poetry. I...
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Jim
jimstuart51
Mar 20, 2013 10:11 pm
All, I have been very busy over the last couple of days, so I am still struggling to get up to speed on the recent three-way discussion between Wil, H and Mary...
