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21835 jason31270 Send Email Nov 1, 2008
9:31 am
Thanks Erika for the welcome. The diversity here is already obvious and it's very welcome from my point of view. I love fact that Stoicism is so diverse. On...
21836 jason31270 Send Email Nov 1, 2008
9:59 am
Hey Steve, ... what exactly do you mean by 'enlightened&#39;?<< The second one is very big, maybe too big for my second day here! But I mean, in Western terms,...
21837 Malcolm Schosha
malcolmschosha Send Email
Nov 1, 2008
11:52 am
Mark wrote: "Working class" is no more an intrinsic part of you than is American-ness, male-ness, etc.  Why trip on it? .................................... ...
21838 brunians@...
joshuageller Send Email
Nov 1, 2008
12:28 pm
Pardon me, Mr Inferiority Complex, but I stopped attending school when I was fourteen. I've been a soldier, a businessman, a psychiatric nurse, a taxi driver...
21839 Malcolm Schosha
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Nov 1, 2008
1:09 pm
I said "this group", I did not say every member in this group. I thought that would be obvious enough, without making a short message long by discussing all...
21840 brunians@...
joshuageller Send Email
Nov 1, 2008
1:33 pm
Certainly not bothersome, Malcolm. Bathetic, maybe, but never bothersome. ....
21841 Malcolm Schosha
malcolmschosha Send Email
Nov 1, 2008
1:38 pm
... Certainly not bothersome, Malcolm. Bathetic, maybe, but never bothersome. ............................ Bathetic? Well, if that's the way you see it....
21842 Malcolm Schosha
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Nov 1, 2008
1:54 pm
(resending of message because the first time seemed to fail.) Bathetic? Well, if that's the way you see it. Personally I think its funny. Malcolm ... From:...
21843 Amos
vivepablo Send Email
Nov 1, 2008
2:14 pm
Actually, what strikes me about this list, which includes only four professional philosophers (rough count) is the amount of learning and reflection about...
21844 jason31270 Send Email Nov 1, 2008
3:20 pm
Amos: <<Almost of us are self-taught.>> Me too. Josh has me by 3 years, I left school at 17. j...
21845 Curt Steinmetz
enkiduq Send Email
Nov 1, 2008
4:38 pm
... To paraphrase a recent addition to modern English street slang: "Every body knows it ain't trippin' if you got it." ...
21846 Curt Steinmetz
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Nov 1, 2008
4:43 pm
... It is widely believed that what is taught in classrooms as "philosophy&quot; today bears little resemblance to the genuine article. No offense to the pros on...
21847 jan.garrett
chrys1943 Send Email
Nov 1, 2008
8:03 pm
The best study I've read lately on the real nature of modern "democracy&quot; as distinguished from the fictions we like to tell ourselves about it is Edmund S....
21848 Steve Gluck
sequitorian Send Email
Nov 1, 2008
8:05 pm
In the thirty years I lived in California I must have met thousands of people who were studying under some `enlightened teacher' – many who considered...
21849 jan.garrett
chrys1943 Send Email
Nov 1, 2008
8:21 pm
Plato and Zeno (reading between the lines) were at least approximately right in suggesting that learning philosophy requires a "person enamored of the good."...
21850 jason31270 Send Email Nov 1, 2008
8:34 pm
Well Steve I can only tell you that Glenn would have agreed with you wholeheartedly on many points, as do I. 98% bull is the rule on such question, in fact the...
21851 Amos
vivepablo Send Email
Nov 1, 2008
11:09 pm
I have no doubt that many persons experience what is commonly called enlightenment. I wonder why that experience is considered to be higher than our normal...
21852 jason31270 Send Email Nov 1, 2008
11:42 pm
Hey Amos, We're threatening to go off the topic of this thread and of the entire board... ... I think only very few. ... The enlightenment I'm talking about...
21853 cherokee_purple Send Email Nov 2, 2008
12:37 am
Thanks, Jan, for continuing this in a seperate thread. I was thinking about chiming in, but I was concerned that the old thread was getting too off topic. ...
21854 jan.garrett
chrys1943 Send Email
Nov 2, 2008
12:48 am
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Over-Soul." http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/index.html Click on Complete Works, then on Browse, then on...
21855 Steve Gluck
sequitorian Send Email
Nov 2, 2008
12:57 am
I assume that your response to Amos included the real definition of enlightenment from the enlightened one himself (or maybe it was from the other enlightened...
21856 Amos
vivepablo Send Email
Nov 2, 2008
1:23 am
Look, I've been to Buddhist meditation sessions and after an hour of meditating in silence, your mind gets calmer, your blood pressure goes down, you...
21857 jan.garrett
chrys1943 Send Email
Nov 2, 2008
1:55 am
Note all the conceptual metaphors here. Higher. Awakening. Perhaps all we know about higher things when somebody is describing them as such is that the...
21858 Mark Travis
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Nov 2, 2008
2:03 am
Malcolm, I think it is silly to bring one's relationship to the means of production into the conversation as if it had any relevance.  It is also ironic that...
21859 jason31270 Send Email Nov 2, 2008
8:31 am
Steve, It's obviously fine with me if you don't want to pursue enlightenment, or know you are better off without it! I don't suggest otherwise, I was simply...
21860 jason31270 Send Email Nov 2, 2008
8:41 am
Jan Garrett: <<Is "higher" what some people call an incomplete predicate? That is, to make sense of what is being said, one must answer "higher (more valuable)...
21861 Malcolm Schosha
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Nov 2, 2008
12:16 pm
Jason, Probably this sort of thing comes under the category of what Abraham Maslow called "peak experiences", and which we have previously discussed on the...
21862 jason31270 Send Email Nov 2, 2008
12:35 pm
Malcolm: << Probably this sort of thing comes under the category of what Abraham Maslow called "peak experiences", and which we have previously discussed on...
21863 Malcolm Schosha
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Nov 2, 2008
12:39 pm
Mark, I feel so devastated that you disagree with me about class issues. NB: I did not say social stratification has anything to with Stoic philosophy. I did...
21864 Amos
vivepablo Send Email
Nov 2, 2008
1:11 pm
What Malcolm says about peak experiences is true, as is what Jan says about metaphors, that is, we call something "higher" when it has more value for us....
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