Zizek said something somewhere about being able to talk without fear of chronic power relations. I think the dismal existential position is a combination of this fear and a kind of mock bravery in its face. We need some fellowship before we can speak thus.
On 5 Feb, 10:42, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote: > If you believe someone is hiding something from you and/or oneself and > you don't ask that person about it, you have to wait for a revelation. > Same applies to flowers in a four season area. > > On 5 Feb., 03:36, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote: > > > gabbers, is that what is meant by revelation? (along with faith of > > course.) > > > On Feb 4, 1:52 pm, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Interesting perspective, very artsy indeed. The casual Christian bible > > > believer is taught that the beaten down Jesus on the cross is the > > > devine son, is me in another dimension, so to speak. > > > > On 4 Feb., 21:27, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > The 'beaten down' aspect comes from existentialism in general. This > > > > misaprehension denies us of the divine. > > > > > On Feb 4, 9:00 am, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I would add that one does not need to know what human emancipation is > > > > > before trying to create it, or perhaps better, "go for it". I suspect > > > > > most humans are actually so beaten down that they do not imagine a > > > > > future as part of their present. > > > > > > On 4 Feb, 16:55, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Yes Neil, when the focus is on words, true wisdom is missed. > > > > > > Some do lean toward being practical, including analysis. Others > > > > > > towards doing a comparison with the past. And, there exist the > > > > > > empaths. We know all three and seldom know why we lean toward one > > > > > > over > > > > > > the other. > > > > > > > On Feb 3, 10:15 pm, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > The answer is that Foucault couldn't reduce any anxiety and that > > > > > > > Derrida has really only shown we should be less sure of more or > > > > > > > less > > > > > > > everything, which I do find reassuring. The warning in both is > > > > > > > about > > > > > > > totalising forms of thinking. My preference is for good old > > > > > > > American > > > > > > > pragmatism and practical scientific methods where we can apply > > > > > > > them. > > > > > > > Derrida can be read as asserting poetics and humour. There is a > > > > > > > long > > > > > > > history of aporia, which we might take as revelling in roads to > > > > > > > nowhere, as in the song, or as despair in Wittgenstein that > > > > > > > language > > > > > > > bewitches us in making us ask the same old questions, rather than > > > > > > > devise new ones. > > > > > > > > On 1 Feb, 03:52, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Yeah, and when you get to where that road take you, > > > > > > > > be sure to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. > > > > > > > > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWyCCJ6B2WE > > > > > > > > > dj > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 11:09 AM, nominal9 <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hello Paul: > > > > > > > > > I am "diametrically opposed" epistemologically to the > > > > > > > > > Phenomenalist > > > > > > > > > position. Nice to meet you, however.... > > > > > > > > > "Does Merleau-Ponty 'fill in the gaps' that Heidegger > > > > > > > > > left?".... Blind > > > > > > > > > leading the Blind.... > > > > > > > > > " Do Foucault or Derrida give you a path out of modern > > > > > > > > > anxiety? > > > > > > > > > ".....Follow the Yellow Brick Road..... > > > > > > > > > > nominal9 > > > > > > > > > > On Jan 30, 6:36 am, Paul Grieg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > >> This is one of my favourite philosophy interviews: > > > > > > > > > >>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaGk6S1qhz0&feature=related > > > > > > > > > >> Can any of you answer these questions: > > > > > > > > > >> Does Merleau-Ponty 'fill in the gaps' that Heidegger left? > > > > > > > > > >> Do Foucault or Derrida give you a path out of modern > > > > > > > > >> anxiety?- Hide quoted text - > > > > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
