The thread about literally nothing OO

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*closes eyes*

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Very sobering dream. Probably partly influenced by something read in other place yesterday.

A man was standing on a window ledge a few floors up on a main Street. Crowds gathering on the ground and roofs across the way and above. Drinking partying urging him to jump. Music playing. He was giddy. A woman behind him in the window looking like she was going to push him. Another woman was off to his side just above him on a fire escape. The woman in the window kept saying "do it, jump!" The woman on the fire escape kept pointing out they were sacrificing him for their own greed. "Look at them, how they're laughing and pointing. They want to see you burst into pieces." He kept laughing, waving at them like a fool. The woman behind him pushing with her words. He took a step off and the woman on the fire escape reached down and grabbed his hand and pulled him up.

They went to talk away from the crowds. He had in his pockets bags of little beads or crystals. He was still giddy and out of it. All the little beads represented all the others he would've taken with him. All the pieces of himself. She kept saying it's not time yet. Everything would just end up the same if he jumped now. We'd never be free if he jumped now.

I hear you..

I see you see now

Decided to forage in the kitchen for lunch. Found some cherry tomatoes, small onions, porcini mushrooms, rice. Sauteed the julienne onions, added crushed basil, added the cherry tomatos, after I cut them into small rings, and the mushrooms. Sauteed in olive oil, added the rice, sauteed to absorb the liquid, added 2 cups water. Ready to eat now... Oh, I found some wild cilantro so that will be minced to cover and serve.

Sounds delicious, Crash

Yummy :D

That sounds amazing, Crash. The wild cilantro (YUM) really put it over the top for me. Maybe snap and post a pic next time :) I'd love to see your food art (food porn might be the more popular term). Mmmmm. Food. Me gusta. Been called a foodie once or twice. Can't say it's untrue.

Speaking of porn. My son made an amusing comparison between porn and philosophy this morning. I'm writing this paper on Nietzsche which is driving me nuts. My son was like "I don't get why you let this stuff get to you. Who even cares about philosophy anymore?" I went on to explain why I think it's still important. "Sure," he said. "But, look. Philosophy is like porn. There's already too much out there. There doesn't need to be any more." Made me laugh. I couldn't help but wonder if he's right. He was only teasing, though. I'm used to it. The state of academic philosophy is a joke. Alas.

I have chores and a paper to finish. Big fun. I'll leave you guys with this cool Liam Lynch (of Sifyl and Olly fame) song I just rediscovered.



Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their Sunday

omg, we're like the same person. I still crack the joke that Aristotle raised me, since at 14 On Man in the Universe was my first book, I had to pay for it, outside the "good book" realm. My son thinks Korean Advanced Calculus teachers are the best substitute for Philosophy.

Nice to meet you!

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Just watched this today, very informative and telling, great delivery

Thank you for sharing that

I feel like I just looked at a competitors notes in chopped =]

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Thanks to @Huginn , I made that cornbread that sounded good

I have a sweet tooth for some lemon bars tho.. too late to make any but damn that sounds like completion

Thank you for the compliment. I prepare vegan and dietary-strict cuisine as a hobby for friends. I'm spoiled in my desires to taste the difference in salts, oils, peppers, rices and herbs in my foods. So, I grow most and pick the cheap managers' specials so that things are over ripe and flavor-full to cook.

Ugh... Made me hungry. The way you described why you do it. Good tip about the specials, makes sense

Pleasure to meet you

What kind of philosophy are you into? I mostly study moral, legal, and political philosophy. Normative shit. Which is probably my least favorite kind of philosophy. But it's a labor of love. I enjoy reading and writing philosophy of mind and aesthetics the most. At this point, mind and aesthetics are better handled by religious studies departments. Wish I would have known this sooner. Philosophy departments are in an abysmal state. So are the universities they're in. Analytical philosophy turned the academy into shit. Not that analytical philosophy isn't important. It is. But, still, it turned the academy into shit. Turned my writing into shit, too. Sucked the poetic verse right out of me. Cursed academic overlords.



Sorry. I'll quit ranting now. Writing academic papers makes me batty. If you have any favorite philosophers or texts you like recommending to people, I'd love to hear about them sometime :)

I'm working on Nietzsche's Daybreak. I've been studying philosophy since I was a teenager, but somehow, and quite shamefully, I hadn't read a Nietzsche text in its entirety until a few months ago. He really is incredible. The hype is legit. But his reputation doesn't do him justice. His ideas are so much more complex than what I was led to believe in school and in popular culture. Most of my preconceived notions about him turned out to be false. Anyway, the paper I'm working on doesn't read anything like Nietzsche. He was creative and deviated from convention. I'm not allowed to do that if I want to be taken seriously. I have to be hyper-analytical and boring.


My opening paragraph (still in rough draft form):

Nietzsche is a denier of morality. But he is no relativist or nihilist. In Daybreak 103, he clarifies this position revealing insights into the plausibility of a Nietzschean moral theory. Nietzsche does not deny there are motives for action, nor does he deny there ought to be prescriptions for action. What he denies is the correctness of motives and premises, specifically affect and custom, featured in popular morality. As Nietzsche details the errors of morality throughout various sections of Daybreak, he consistently contrasts them with intellectual virtues. Though his discussion amounts to a critique rather than an ethical theory, fragments of a theory begin to emerge. This potential theory could not be characterized as an ethical one, however. Ethics concerns itself with goodness and right action. Nietzsche dismisses ‘the good’ as delusional hereditary pleasure in DB 30 and declares the moral content of action as unknowable in DB 116. Instead, he evaluates his questions of right and wrong in terms of knowledge and standard of belief and focuses his moral prescriptions on practicing virtuous standards of correctness in learning and reasoning which then goes on to inform behavior. The Nietzschean conception of morality, then, cannot be reasonably abstracted from its epistemological basis. This suggests contemporary ethics may be a defunct discipline and that moral questions ought to be answered within the context of a virtue-based epistemology.


The reading and research is fun, even if the writing drives me nuts. Here's a PDF of the text. It's a different translation than mine but still good.

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Not a light read. Provocative and insanely brilliant, though.

Funny how that works...

reading someone's words, especially over time, can reveal so much of their thought process..like a kind of telepathy, well at least to this dreamer..

Do you ever write anything else besides papers, Bee? (Can I call you Bee?)