It seems there's some interesting people on this cuckoo's nest.
Non parlare italiano, is the limit of my Italian. But not unfamilar with it. It
had quite an
influence on English lit. I got an honours degree in. Then ten years to digest
and eliminate
the brainwashng of Lit as excellence and more into its archetypal
perspective.There actually
has not been a new story form since antiquity, just more variations. Like
Procrustus' inn I
wondered past most of the isms you mention and another few as well. Discovered
I liked the
theory of science more after which I got lost in epistemology and all that. I
never fitted into
any of it. If you're a hyper-able turkey nothing holds one's interest for long,
I like learning
and don't greatly care to stay stuck in any of the 'answers' to the riddle of
ambiguity. I
retired early and got intrigued by the new age, new paradigm stuff, even got an
ebook out on
it. Got stucjk a while in an alternative science e0-mail group which went dead
recently. SO I
got bored all over again. I like Quantum theory, man's first approach beyond
the Hansel and
Gretel cage of social reality, so very parochial. Epistemology is about a
communal worldview
and about as unrealistic as it can get. Got our psychology, ontology and
cosmology all screwed up.
I like Alchemy's analysis and synthesis and am mostly a collector of
archetypes, protocols,
methods and theories, which are two a penny in the market place. Never could
stand Ockham,
typical Bishop into politics and control neurosis. Did not know why at the time
but do now.
Spent some time in Karl Jaspers Forum to find out I was eating professors for
breakfast. Got
between tosed out and walked out, it was getting boring too. Was told once that
I resembled
Heidegger, oH well. I'd rather resemble myself. Just got done that by
cosmology.math and
philosophy. WAs informed I was now moderated for my ungrounded opinions, haha,
so I
unsubscribed from that Church and wrote the owner a letter on stilts. I doubt
I'll get a reply.
I'll post it out next. They all insist on one quoting one's 'authority' but
they don't
recognise one when they meet one, funny that. I'm sure Jesus would fail in
theology today. Like
at Varsity, Took Anthropology, wrote an essay on burials, which are done for
the survivors, not
the dead. The Prof questioned me, got convinced I thought it up myself, gave me
40/50 for it
but no better than a C+ in the exams, slam bang, thank you mam. Anyhow Maria
Gimbutas fixed
their prejudices. Universities are parrot factories, although that's insulting
parrots. Like
your Dante English has Shakespeare, the man from Oxford, not stratford.
Shakey's nickname for
himself was Shakespear and he did not mean a steel one, a jousting one or a
halberd. knight of
the burning pestle more likely or something. Hamlet is biographical. And then I
got bored again
and as was noted done over by the village idiot. I don't care how genuine he
is, just cannot
stand idiots.
In the process I sort of re-shaped my psyche to get to the bottom line
I cannot change, which
would have to be one's character instead of one's brainwashed in social facade.
My family name
is spread all over the world, which must have taken a few centuries. It goes
back to about 700
AD. Discovered I'm fey, not psychic which implies a repeat skill. Fey is
unpredictable and
unrepeatable, just sniffs out what's wrong and intuits a remedy. Had a mystical
experience for
a mid life crisis, haha, a few rather. Born conscious, and an avid people
manipulator little
tyke until I found out I don't like manipulating people much. Rather boring
actuallly, most are
like a monopoly game, revert to square one when they leave. That's how
politicians have a never
ending job. Finally I'm an untrained master of the quick quip to freeze brain
bureaucrats.
There's a few other bits but that's the highlights. I'm sure you can sass out
the similarities
and differences, I just wonder how there can be 1500+ members and most all of
them Lurkers? Are
they looking for the one and only answer? If so I have sad news, there ain't
one, not any
longer. Zen has a nice image for it, climbing the mountain. One spirals up dark
side light side
in turn and coming to the top getting an all round view which you could
already have
constituted from memory. Bit of a bummer, no party, no congratulations, no
fireworks, no
diploma and all that hooplah. Oh well, what's next for breakfast? Cereals
again, I bet. But
don't let me turn you off, we all learn something one the way or another except
the ones with
frozen minds. They're like a mouse in a treadmill.
I used to get immediate returns of email, not recently, Any ideas?
adrian
nominal9 wrote:
> Okay ADRF:
> My own background is more in the "humanities" and "classical
> literature"... Italian Literature, mostly.... from pre-Dante up to...
> let's say...fifty years ago, or so.... But I haven't kept up with it
> for quite a while. Anyway, I have a fairly competent appreciation for
> actual philosophy, as well. I have developed a "preference" for the
> nominalists (especially William of Ockham)... it fits in with by
> "literary" leanings... as in pre-semiotics, and all. But I think (or
> like to believe) that I know a bit about many other philosophical
> directions... Idealism, Realism and Phenomenology (along with
> Nominalism) being my own broad overall epistemological categories.
> Here's a link to my own prior postings on these Message Boards... "I
> have never Met a Circle" here in Epistemology and "Nominal9"s Method
> needs home" in Humanities. Just if you care to look .... anything of
> interest to you I will gladly discuss.... I just don't want to
> "impose" my views on you if you have no interest.
> http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology/browse_thread/thread/e716760b69f3405/5b308c34428acc13?lnk=gst&q=I+have+never+met+a+circle#5b308c34428acc13
> http://groups.google.com/group/humanities/browse_thread/thread/d9861d3dcc39fd71/5709d689e7ad2bc7?lnk=gst&q=Nominal9%27s+Method+needs+home#5709d689e7ad2bc7
> Anyway.... you say that you have been.... shooed away from another
> philosophy group for "unorthodoxy" in refusing to bow down to the
> Deity of Platonic Idealism????? If you read my "circle" thread a bit
> you will see that my suggestion as a retort to any Idealist is to tell
> him or her..... "Like it or not, your ass stinks"....
> But, if you are not an Idealist.... what would you say that you
> are.... Realist, Phenomenologist,Nominalist.....something else?
> As to your views on evolution (in an Un-Darwinian way).... that would
> require some more explanation from you in order for me to get a notion
> of what you are talking about..... sounds "rebellious"....
> nominal9
>
> On Sep 1, 9:49 am, adrf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Thank you, I most cases I've already read what he parrots. and I don't find
>> or feel I have to
>> put up with his Kafka-esque puerilities, much as I agree about free speech.
>> It's just like
>> rats. They have a right to exist, but not necessarily in my parlour. That
>> sort of exists from
>> the pro- and eukaryotes upwards to defend out the unwanted so one can exist
>> in one's own right.
>> It's what Crick and Watson found as Anti-biotics which now ruins our
>> lives. I already have
>> enough putting up with martinet bureaucrats. Harmless looking frogs have
>> poisonous skins which
>> then birds who eat them have to adjust their metabolism. I've spent most of
>> my life
>> metaphysically retreating into isolation because I most agree they have a
>> right to exist but
>> not in my parlour. That's how an ecology works. I have or had a USA friend
>> living in a forest.
>> It has a brown bear who stays off his verandah but is quite fierce that when
>> friend enter HIS
>> forest bear too is left to be himself.
>>
>> Many people feel we have to share, etc blahh, and be homogenised romantics,
>> that too I don't
>> have to put up with. Perhaps it is, and perhaps it is my past lives, but I
>> am into evolution in
>> a way Darwin got altogether wrong. So it is not in some future but right now
>> I would be happy
>> to compare notes about you and me. It's like going to a pub filled up with
>> all sorts but also
>> into small groups of like mind. I've just unsubscribed from another google
>> philosophy group
>> where because I don't believe, haha, in Plato's ideal ideas I am now being
>> moderated. It is
>> not quantum theory that's weird, Its people. And If I find people don't want
>> to discuss me and
>> my ideas, Ok, I'll retreat into solitude.
>>
>> There's a big problem going on right now I am interested in. In words of one
>> sentence what?
>>
>> adrian
>>
>>
>>
>> nominal9 wrote:
>>> Hello ADRF....
>>> I was a newcomer on this group myself, six months ago or so, and I got
>>> much worse treatment from Georges than you have , as yet.- Hide quoted text
>>> -
>> - Show quoted text -
> >
>
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