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So we obsess about the human world as though the rest of nature didn't exist or matter. What happens when we forget and ignore our roots because we are focused on human abstractions? Neuroses. Overreactions. Depression. Anxiety. Confusion. Instability. Of all the things to focus on in the spectrum ...

"Rotten Burden of Existential Darkness" would be a nice name for a punk-rock band. So would "Sticky Putrefaction" and "Walking Human Corpses." Maybe that's why I liked heavy meatal since adolescence. Punk rock? Only the girls all in dark. Milky white skins against dark...

Harbal wrote: ↑Sat Jul 22, 2017 4:51 pm I'm sure I've heard all this before somewhere.

Yea I wanted to take it from general philosophy to philosophy of religion because I think this is a more appropriate place...

Anyone else here has always felt the rotten burden of existential darkness which wraps around our walking human corpses like so much sticky putrefaction? My soul, if there is any such thing, winces and writhes in my shell of flesh, which breaks down in sickness and threatens my whole notion of exist...

Zarathustra said: "I am a railing alongside the torrent; whoever is able to grasp me may grasp me!" Yet Zarathustra was the endless, putrefying cycle of life and death INCARNATE, so that in grasping him one only finally embraces the torrent, and in that acceptance, decides to transcend bot...

My word, you are in a negative mood. Maybe my soul is just finally waking up to this eternal chain of reincarnation which is nevertheless a bottomless pit of death, inasmuch as, like Sisyphus who must roll the bolder up the mountain forever, we keep pursuing happiness and diversion, life after each...

Anyone else here has always felt the rotten burden of existential darkness which wraps around our walking human corpses like so much sticky putrefaction? My soul, if there is any such thing, winces and writhes in my shell of flesh, which breaks down in sickness and threatens my whole notion of exist...

In my opinion, you have revolutionary ideas that I support, but they are complex and maybe they need further maturation before publication to become widely cogent, a request for broad success. Discussing them in this forum is a great way to achieve that. I really need a suitable mass publication fo...

That's why the so called freedom of speech so much proclaimed in our society is so easily circumvented by intolerant people under support of their own rubbish argumentation in which they have the last word (and action). The problem with finally embracing this new and bold society is the residue of ...

I would like earnest and constructive feedback on my groundbreaking essay attempt to set forth a formula for the next stage of our human social evolution. I feel that history has been approaching this step over the course of Western social-philosophical development through the liberal movement, and ...

I hope to participate in many discussions and believe many of you will too in mine, everything in a very constructive way...I'm very open to critics, however acid they are, something I've trained for years, and very hard to attain, I think. But this is the core of freedom of speech...I don't like c...

As to the ultimate human motivation, after survival, being to exercise a 'god-complex' - I disagree. I tend to follow Maslow - and climb his pyramid. But I can't talk for mankind as a whole. I look forward to reading your article in the PN magazine. You are actually getting to the heart of my perso...

Why don't you carry on regardless and tell us more about the book... I'm all ears... Well in a few places in the book Chomsky speaks about the "Masters of Mankind." These are, in my ultimate simplification, the power-wielders in our new capitalistic world due to the replacement of the tra...

RIGHT BRAIN LEFT BRAIN: My right brain said, to my, left brain, "Why DO you overpower?" My left brain, said, to my, right brain, "Because this is MY hour." My heart then said, to both, "What is this FOOLISHNESS?' My brain, the whole, then said, "Our unity's YOUR wish!&q...

I submitted a yet unpublished article titled: "Populism and the 'Masters of Mankind'" to the Philosophy Now magazine. If they published it, I think it would make great fodder for discussion on such a program. This article is about how Chomsky's book "Who Rules the World?" informe...