the questions of Kropotkin

[Peter Kropotkin]

Having spent 40 plus years reading, thinking, writing, I have
questions that I call my Kropotkin questions.. (mostly stolen from Kant)

"What am I to do?" and note that every single individual question can
be expanded to the communal.. so, the question "What am I to do?"
is expanded into "What are we to do?" Every single personal question
"What am I... " can be turned into a communal question, "What can we...."

and it is important to consider human beings, both individual and collectively.
we tend to think of human beings as a single being... but the fact is we are social,
collective creatures...and we cannot think about ourselves individually,
for we are collective creatures, social creatures that must, MUST engage with
other human beings.. the social aspect of human existence is not engaged with
as often as it should be... or to put it another way, we exist collectively, as
part of one group or another.. and human existence must be accounted for
collectively, as well as individually.. so the question, "What am I to do?" is
really an engagement with the collective... or said another way, "What am
I to do'' in regard to a collective understanding.. how do I fit into society/ the state
as an individual? The question "What am I to do?" is a question about what my place is
in the society/state?

The next Kantian question is "What am I to believe in?" or said another way,
what values should I be holding and why those values and not other values?
Again, this is not just an individual question but a collective question,
"What are we to believe in?" What values should we collectively hold,
as a society, state, civilization? And why those values and not another set
of values? I have worked for over 40 years and one of the collective values
I was supposed to hold is the capitalistic value of profits... as a worker,
I am supposed to put that value first before all other values, profits before
human lives.. is the capitalistic motto... to put profits before people,
as capitalists do, is nihilism, pure and simple... and what is nihilism?
(I must admit I have modified the term nihilism from its original definition)

Nihilism: is the negation and dehumanization of human beings by holding
onto values such as profits and money over human beings....read the mission
statements of most companies, and they state the search for profits
is their priority, not the people who work for them or the customers, but
profits, and this is pure nihilism...the search for profits/money before human
values like love, hope, peace, charity, and human lives...and that is nihilism....

but other values also engage with nihilism... putting country before human beings is
also nihilism... putting god before people is nihilism... the act of putting something
before human beings and their values is an act of nihilism...

one of my goals is to return human beings and their values as a priority,
as a purpose for human existence... another example is the conservative/GOP
motto of "god, country, guns" I reject as putting other values before human
existence, before human values... just like putting money/profits before
human beings and before human values.. they are no different in my mind...

put the human beings before other values and then ask, How do I fit into
the society/state? or to put in other words, to go from inside out, not
from outside in...from the individual to the society/state, not from
the society/state to the individual...

and the last Kropotkin/Kantian question is "What can I/we know?"
and that is a straight forward epistemological question... how can
we know in regards to the methods, validity and scope of our "knowledge"..
about human existence.. I might hold that "god exists" by what methods,
and how do we decide if our answer is valid and the scope of our answers...

so let us take a "common" problem, that the last election was stolen?
and the answer for some, might be yes, and the answer for most,
was no... and so we engage in epistemology to understand the answer...
the method, scope and validity of finding out if the last election was stolen...
(spoiler alert, it wasn't) we can take a "common" problem or question
and we can use epistemology to answer that question..
so, what can we know? That answer has an individual and collective
aspect to it... that there are other so called, Kropotkin questions,
should be noted, but we can start small and work our way into them...

"What am I/we to do?" seeking that answer has taken me a lifetime to
understand and now I seek to answer that question....what question/questions have
you engaged with?

Kropotkin

[Phil8659]

Kropotkin

LMAO,

Is we piss on thee the method used to prove an answer? Really.
Damn, the Bible, Plato, Science, even common sense got it wrong. You need a Pope, not a pop.

Maybe you should name your method, Kropotkin Affliction. Good way to get sympathy.

Which is which. A article is proofed by the very standards of grammar it is written in, and I don't mean spelling and punctuation, but the intelligible the grammar is based on, or is any claim made in grammar proofed in accordance with some doctrine of the same grammar? Which does the complete fool and idiot defer to? And you wonder, after 40 years why you do not know why your mind is in an infinite loop of nonsense? Really?

[Phil8659]

So, you think you are special, naming the human condition of illiteracy by your own name. Now ain't that special!

Ever asked what is wrong with what is called Grammar today?

What remains of what Plato was teaching about grammar, only nouns and verbs two names nobody even knows how to use. What happened to the rest of it, what happened? Where did it go? Was Plato illiterate, or just too many people, nipping and tucking, until the lady dies of anorexia. The intelligible anorexic, Plato even explained, those afraid of becoming too smart, seeing nothing wrong with being a dumb ass.

You know what Cannon Fodder is? It is not a critique of war, it is about the necessity of it. If you are too stupid to fight the real battle with the right tools, then, by the laws of survival of the most fit, at least you can fertilize the ground so plants can grow. At least they do their own work.

[Phil8659]

Kropotkin

Now here I am, showing the true principles of grammar, easily provable, easily proven, developing our Grammar Matrix, and I have met with is stupid whining and crying, like a bunch of dwarf monkeys. Your suffering? The goddamned world is suffering its own stupidity and claiming to be loving it. A world of perverts. That is the question, not your particular self-flattering dumb ass.

Now one, or rather no human, stands by me, you the whole world.

Maybe you want a temple, called The Tears of Kropotkin? Well, you got a whole world.

[Peter Kropotkin]

Well phil, I gotta say, you created three posts about something
I wrote and to save my life, I can't tell what you are going on about...
but hay, if it made you feel better, complaining about.. something,
I am glad to be of service.. and if it makes you to feel better to make
rambling, incoherent posts complaining,.... about whatever it is bothering you,
hay, I am here for you... whatever it takes to help settle you down a bit...
I'm all for it...

Kropotkin

[Phil8659]

Well phil, I gotta say, you created three posts about something
I wrote and to save my life, I can't tell what you are going on about...
but hay, if it made you feel better, complaining about.. something,
I am glad to be of service.. and if it makes you to feel better to make
rambling, incoherent posts complaining,.... about whatever it is bothering you,
hay, I am here for you... whatever it takes to help settle you down a bit...
I'm all for it...

Kropotkin

Thank you. Ever think about getting a job in Nevada? You know the place, Lost Vegans? I think, where are the herbivores go.

[Peter Kropotkin]

Well phil, I gotta say, you created three posts about something
I wrote and to save my life, I can't tell what you are going on about...
but hay, if it made you feel better, complaining about.. something,
I am glad to be of service.. and if it makes you to feel better to make
rambling, incoherent posts complaining,.... about whatever it is bothering you,
hay, I am here for you... whatever it takes to help settle you down a bit...
I'm all for it...

Kropotkin

Thank you. Ever think about getting a job in Nevada?

K: a couple of things, first, I am looking to retire in a few years, hopefully,
with any luck at all, 4 years? I am not looking to change jobs or move elsewhere,
I like California, where I live right now.. Having lived in CA for over 40 years,
I have been to Nev, enough times not to want to move there..

but that is a kind "offer"... I guess...

Kropotkin

[Phil8659]

Well phil, I gotta say, you created three posts about something
I wrote and to save my life, I can't tell what you are going on about...
but hay, if it made you feel better, complaining about.. something,
I am glad to be of service.. and if it makes you to feel better to make
rambling, incoherent posts complaining,.... about whatever it is bothering you,
hay, I am here for you... whatever it takes to help settle you down a bit...
I'm all for it...

Kropotkin

Thank you. Ever think about getting a job in Nevada?

K: a couple of things, first, I am looking to retire in a few years, hopefully,
with any luck at all, 4 years? I am not looking to change jobs or move elsewhere,
I like California, where I live right now.. Having lived in CA for over 40 years,
I have been to Nev, enough times not to want to move there..

but that is a kind "offer"... I guess...

Kropotkin

Well, with that answer, I hope you change your mind. I retired, back in 2014, but I had several jobs before settling down, selling papers, washing dishes, cutting wood, engine repair, Classified electronics for the Mil, skilled trades for Con Agra, electronics for National Panasonic, etc., all before I settled down to one job. Machining Specialist for G.M. I started working part time when I was 7.
I did not exactly retire, I spend all my time, or most of it, making free educational material for world wide download.
Right now, I am working on making a Digital Edition of the fourth edition of Sketches of Chinese History. All the scanned versions on the archive are rather bad.