@matthewlewis
Active 4 years, 7 months ago-
ML light posted a new activity comment 5 years ago
I get the sentiment but this isn’t a good argument as it can easily be turned against those who supported the “big bad orange man”. This is both Cartesian and Eristic. Back to the drawing board…-
Hmmmmmmm.
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Ah, that pesky path to truth is so littered with garbage and detours, sometimes only an illusion suffices, and we cling and cling and cling, til we let go and fall to the bottom screaming, and then “Damn that hurts.”
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ML light posted a new activity comment 5 years ago
Great book! Though, a really tough read, emotionally.-
It is kind of tough emotionally. Yet I think he may have actually understated things a bit
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ML light posted a new activity comment 5 years ago
Are you drawing your information from Caesar’s “Commentarii” or simply from Armstrong? -
ML light posted a new activity comment 5 years ago
Nothing solves a debt crisis like slaughtering a few hundred thousand Gauls and the like.-
Julius Caesar fought the Gallic Wars to pay off his massive debts with vast amounts of loot. He also boosted his political career. The hecatombs of Gaul men, women, children Gaul enabled Rome to secure the natural border of the Rhine river.
Gaul had breached Rome’s Italian borders a few times in previous years. Severing the right hand of…-
Are you drawing your information from Caesar’s “Commentarii” or simply from Armstrong?
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ML light posted a new activity comment 5 years ago
How imprecatory of you. I’m sure Yahweh will oblige.-
verb (used with object), im·pre·cat·ed, im·pre·cat·ing. to invoke or call down (evil or curses), as upon a person.
Awesome! -
I’m sure ol’ Innocent III would have just loved these tactics as well …he and Yahweh would get along juuuust GREAT!…oh wait…he did use these tactics…
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ML light posted a new activity comment 5 years ago
Cicero as “Fake News”, well, I think I’ve heard it all. Caesar as the “Saviour” of the debt crisis? He would know, considering he was a part of those who generated that national debt, but more importantly, he had large amounts of personal debt that he was never going to be able to pay back barring some newfound migrant pillaging opportuni…[Read more]-
I believe all political systems are merely a curtained stage.
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ML light posted a new activity comment 5 years ago
Essence, Energies, and Will, my God!-
Thank you frank
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ML light posted a new activity comment 5 years ago
Alkaline Water, you are my best friend! -
ML light posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
The sense of the loss of hope someone can feel is real, surely. Though, I’m not sure I can correlate a Man “losing his hope” to then becoming a “realist”. (Realist and Illusion seem all too intertwined in this abstract context.) Someone can certainly be realistic with himself during a tough predicament but even that which looks hopeless…[Read more] -
ML light posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
I’d say pessimist Pati has it backwards. It’s the loss of hope that turns men into beasts.-
… the key word is “illusions”. On occasion the “loss of hope” turns men into realists.
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The sense of the loss of hope someone can feel is real, surely. Though, I’m not sure I can correlate a Man “losing his hope” to then becoming a “realist”. (Realist and Illusion seem all too intertwined in this abstract context.) Someone can certainly be realistic with himself during a tough predicament but even that which looks hopeless…
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ML light posted an update 5 years, 1 month ago
Jean Calvin, Geneva, Rousseau, Revolution and France results in a mind bending rabbit hole…
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ML light posted an update 5 years, 1 month ago
Who would’ve ever thought that that Dr. Seuss collection would now be worth a small fortune…
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…and for the wrong reason.
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ML light posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
“Freedom”… “Supreme”… “Fighting”… “Nightmare”… funny little abstractions within all our minds. All I’m reminded of these days is cycles, cycles, cycles… this is nothing new… cycles… cycles… cycles… here we are again… -
ML light posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
As terrifying as Bacon’s painting is, I think he captures quite well the essence of what fills that seat. -
ML light posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
Dali was certainly a master of his craft, Picasso, too. Both may have slipped into a state of creative psychosis but at least both could actually paint. I think a better analogy takes it even further… https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/duchamp-fountain-t07573 -
ML light posted an update 5 years, 1 month ago
Two of the Greats: Professors Loury and McWhorter
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CbJWi6KkcHs-
It is racism of the most blatant kind to say that black students should not be expected to arrive at the correct answer when presented with a math problem. The surrealism demonstrated in education grows by leaps and bounds…
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ML light posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
Bjorn Lomborg, is another good climate scientist to follow. -
ML light posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
If you spend a significant amount of time trying to decipher his vocabulary it is intelligible enough. I get his main points, though, I’m no fan. Good philosophers bring concrete clarity to profound abstraction. For myself, Heidegger lacks in this department. Buddism, in general, I find much more stimulating than either Heidegger or Husserl… -
ML light posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
I’m aware of his past affiliation. Talk about a dark spot on the resume. -
ML light posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
Whenever I read Heidegger I think, “How can one make a difficult subject more difficult to comprehend?” Well done, Heidegger.-
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I’m aware of his past affiliation. Talk about a dark spot on the resume.
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… also ML … Husserl = Buddism in German … Heidegger was a student of Husserl … a possible explanation of the difficulty with understanding Heidegger?
… just one possible argument.-
If you spend a significant amount of time trying to decipher his vocabulary it is intelligible enough. I get his main points, though, I’m no fan. Good philosophers bring concrete clarity to profound abstraction. For myself, Heidegger lacks in this department. Buddism, in general, I find much more stimulating than either Heidegger or Husserl…
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