Ah oui, ma cherie, but the real art is in uttering a properly drawn out, long, sexy "whooooze zeeeere?"
On 24 Aug., 13:17, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> wrote: > Did you know that knock, knock in French is knock, knock! > > On Aug 24, 7:08 am, frantheman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Pourquoi? > > > On 24 Aug., 13:04, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > More to the point why was such a question asked in a French lesson? > > > > On 24 Aug, 02:48, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > The Gabby enigma, how consistent. > > > > > You "can't remember" how you answered your french teacher but you > > > > "remember" the question? > > > > So you can't remember and remember at the same time. Is that like > > > > selective memory? > > > > > It was punishment? Why is that? Maybe you felt inadequate, > > > > incomplete, unprepared? > > > > > Ah, busy ignoring the subject matter while discussing sweaty armpits > > > > with your friend. > > > > > So what does this have to do with Sartre? > > > > > On Aug 23, 5:23 pm, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I honestly cannot remember how I answered my French teacher when he > > > > > asked me to compare the philosophy of Sartre to the one of Camus. But > > > > > I do remember the question, because it was his sort of punishment, > > > > > because my friend and seat neighbour and I were quietly discussing how > > > > > it was possible that the teacher's shirt always showed his sweaty > > > > > armpits, no matter what time of the year it was. ;-) > > > > > > On 23 Aug., 21:00, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > would you rather Sartre said it? > > > > > > >http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/AU67.html > > > > > > > On Aug 23, 1:57 pm, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > "understanding the meaninglessness" - puh, Molly, I know I've been > > > > > > > down to saying very stupid things, but at least I always knew they > > > > > > > were, I didn't label them dot dot dot for the other to come up > > > > > > > with > > > > > > > something I can't think of and use it for my own benefit. > > > > > > > > On 23 Aug., 16:16, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > there are times when, only by understanding the > > > > > > > > meaninglessness, new > > > > > > > > meaning can emerge... > > > > > > > > > On Aug 22, 7:23 pm, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I guess the thing I wish we could get 'timely' about would be > > > > > > > > > truth > > > > > > > > > and reconciliation. I begin to believe the 'conspiracy' is > > > > > > > > > to make > > > > > > > > > life meaningless. > > > > > > > > > > On 22 Aug, 17:49, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > How synchronistic...I know that Pat recently had a bout of > > > > > > > > > > the flu > > > > > > > > > > also... > > > > > > > > > > > On Aug 22, 12:33 pm, frantheman > > > > > > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > The microbes and the antibiotics - I sympathise with you, > > > > > > > > > > > Neil. I > > > > > > > > > > > recently spent three weeks daily swallowing a not > > > > > > > > > > > insignificant dose > > > > > > > > > > > of doxycycline to deal with an incipient borelliosis > > > > > > > > > > > (Lyme disease) - > > > > > > > > > > damned ticks! There's something quite stressful about > > > > > > > feeling out > > > > > > > of > > > > > > > > > > > > sorts and not even being sure if its the illness itself > > > > > > > > > > > or the > > > > > > > > > > > antibiotic treatment for it that's causing the > > > > > > > > > > > discomfort. I wish you > > > > > > > > > > > a speedy recovery ... > > > > > > > > > > > > Francis > > > > > > > > > > > > On 22 Aug., 17:11, archytas <nwte...@googlemailcom> > > > > > > > > > > > wroote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > The concept of self, or more specifically the sense of > > > > > > > > > > > > unity of self, > > > > > > > > > > > > has both synchronic ('I seem to be a uniied self aat > > > > > > > > > > > > any given > > > > > > > > > > > moment' and ddiachrnicc ('I seem to be the same self as I > > > > > > > > > > was a few > > > > > > > > > > > > minutes/hours/months/years ago') aspects. Currently, I > > > > > > > > > > > > am feeling > > > > > > > > > > > > rather broken - like my watch with the dud battery, but > > > > > > > > > > > > with the added > > > > > > > > > > > > knowledge (Slip was right) that my kinetic watch was > > > > > > > > > > > > stolen. I'd be > > > > > > > > > > > > intuiting Orn but am otherwise engaged in a wa aggainst > > > > > > > > > > > > a micrbe > > > > > > > > > > > > horde in need ofevvction frrom my glandular system and, > > > > > > > > > > > > unlike my > > > > > > > > > > > > watch, am on tickover until the antibiotics triumph > > > > > > > > > > > > Beforee Slip > > > > > >> > > > > > points out electronic watchs don'tt tick, let me say > > > > > >> > > > that this watch > > > > > > > > > > > > has a very annoying, non-syncopating tick option, and > > > > > > > > > > > > my other > > > > > > > > > > > > (stolen) watch may well be ticking to someone else's > > > > > > > > > > > > tune. I am so > > > > > > > > > > > > ill I hav develloped n inteerest in Willard Quine again > > > > > > > > > > > > and have > > > > > > >> > > > > > somewhat naturalised my philosophy so as not to be too > > > > > > >> > > > > > exposed to the > > > > > > > > > > > > risk of theoretical truth. All this at a time I > > > > > > > > > > > > haven't had a drink > > > > > > > > > > > > for two weeks Francis! - no doubt causing my current > > > > > > > > > > > > delusive state in > > > > > > > > > > > > which England are regaining the Ashes. Test Match > > > > > > > > > > > > Special will set > > > > > > > > > > > > you free ... > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 22 Aug, 15:24, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I am not expert of Jung, but have enjoyed his writing > > > > > > > > > > > > > and work now and > > > > > > > > > > > > > then. I think what this means is that there is > > > > > > > > > > > > > something more than > > > > > > > > > > > > > what we think of as cause and effect at play here. > > > > > > > > > > > > > That while, as > > > > > > > > > > > > > Slip suggests, sychronistic events for us are > > > > > > > > > > > > > responsive to our > > > > > > > > > >> > > indivdual thoughthts and feelings, we do not cause > > > > > > > > > >> > > them to come about > > > > > > > > > > > > > like we cause a stone to roll by kicking it. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Synchronicity is, I > > > > > > > > > > > > > think, always at play in our lives, but our awareness > > > > > > > > > > > > > of it increases > > > > > > > > > > > > > as our perception of the more subtle levels of being > > > > > > > > > > > > > changes. We > > > > > > > > > > > > > don't cause it, we become aware of it by tuning into > > > > > > > > > > > > > it. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Aug 22, 7:37 am, Slip Disc <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I would wonder the same thing about it all being > > > > > > > > > > > > > > acausal. I remember > > > > > > > > > > > > > > when my mother in law died m wife, a le long g > > > > > > > > > > > > > > devout catholic, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > mentioned something about a sign, a butterfly that > > > > > > > > > > > > > > would appear. I > > > > > > > > > > > > > > always thought that to be coincidence but at the > > > > > > > > > > > > > > cemetery, there it > > > > > > > > > > > > > > was, a large white butterfly that landed and stay > > > > > > > > > > > > > > for several minutes > > > > > > > > > > > > > > then casually flew off. I guess there is some > > > > > > > > > > > > > > synchronicity there, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > in the death, the mention of and appearance of the > > > > > > > > > > > > > > butterfly. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Aug 22, 12:33 am, Alan Wostenberg > > > > > > > > > > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Great question.As a belieer I wonderer why Jung > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > calls synchronicity > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 'acausal' in that esy "Synchrhronicity, An > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Acausal Connecting > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> Princcipl. Does s he embrace a Humean noion of > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> caulity asas constant > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > njunction n in whichcausess prede efffcts t > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > temporally? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yet I do find myself reluctt to jump inin with > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > both feet and call > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > something a meaningful coincidence. This is no > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > doubt my inner atheist > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > whispering. As a believer I know synchronicity > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > under a different name: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > providence. God always meets our real needs. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sometimes I see the > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > pattern and call it providence. Usually I do > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > not, perhaps because it > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > is to bright for my minds eye. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Aug 21, 5:08 am, Molly Brogan > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Synchronicity is a word that has come up now > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > and then in these > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > discussions and is, I think, becoming more a > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > part of our scientific > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > and philosophic paradigms. Webster defines it > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > as: the quality or > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > state of being synchronous or simultaneous : > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > concurrence of acts, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > events, or developments in time : coincident > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > movement or existence; > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > chronological arrangement of historical events > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > and personages so as to > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > indicate coincidence or coexistence; a > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > representation in the same > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > picture of two or more events which occurred at > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > different times. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Jung required a larger framework for his idea > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > of synchronicity, a > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > framework that reveals an underlying pattern > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > for what he called > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "temporally coincident occurrences of acausal > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > events." > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > What does synchronicity mean to you? 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