March 05, 2013

A Quick One While He's Away
— Ace

Quick update: I half-recommended Voegelin's book before actually reading it. Now halfway through this particular (long) essay, I think his quest to link gnosticism to Naziism and Communism is a bit of a failure. Kind of interesting, though.

In reading this I've discovered what anyone who's studied philosophy already knew: These guys spend an awful lot of time on "Being." Plato was talking about Being 3000 years ago. Maybe time to move on? Maybe move on to the next step after Being?

No?

We're just going to stay on that, huh?

For how long?

Well, admittedly, occasionally they will shake things up and talk about Knowing.

I've decided to publish my own book on my own philosophical excursions. A tentative table of contents follows; don't hold me to this.

Introduction .......................................... p. ix

Part 1: Being ........................................... p. 1

Part 2: Knowing ...................................... p. 335

Part 3: The Knowingness of Being .......... p. 412

Part 4: The Beingness of Knowing .......... p. 525

Part 5: Real World Applications ............. p. 633

Index ........................................................ p. 636

Posted by: Ace at 12:07 PM | Comments (175)
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1 Gosh, that is so deep.  The unbearable lightness of being an auteur.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Wily Wrepublican Wench at March 05, 2013 12:09 PM (kXoT0)

2 My cat's breath smells like cat food.

Posted by: dogfish at March 05, 2013 12:09 PM (N2yhW)

3 You be.  You know.  Then you die.

That's where it gets tricky.

Posted by: mama winger at March 05, 2013 12:10 PM (P6QsQ)

4

 

Here's some philosophy for you:

 

Happiness is a warm puppy drone strike on U.S. soil against U.S. citizens.

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at March 05, 2013 12:10 PM (ggRof)

5 I like how there's only 3 pages of real world applications.

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 05, 2013 12:11 PM (4cRnj)

6
Amish Dude will enjoy this.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 05, 2013 12:11 PM (9Q7Nu)

7

Way too short.

 

So, the last 3 pages is on waiting tables and being a smug asshole?

Posted by: Jollyroger at March 05, 2013 12:11 PM (t06LC)

8 Why 334 pages of metaphysics but less than 100 on epistemology?  Where's the chapters on Ethics, the Ethics of Being, the Ethics of Knowing, the Knowing of Being Ethicalist?

Posted by: brenttemp at March 05, 2013 12:11 PM (0AX8H)

9 It's okay if the TOC changes, Ace. You are forgiven. You are forgiven. Forgiven, forgiven, forgiven.

Posted by: Chris at March 05, 2013 12:11 PM (xMfYJ)

10 hahahahahahaha

Posted by: Ben at March 05, 2013 12:12 PM (C2Y4l)

11 Being? Is this planting season?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 05, 2013 12:12 PM (9Bj8R)

12 Ah, the age old philosophical question......"How can you be in 2 places at once when you're not anywhere at all?"

Posted by: Judge_Roy_Bean at March 05, 2013 12:12 PM (cCxiu)

13 I'm almost      certain these chapter headings have actually been used in some philosophical   mega-tome somewhere, ace.   It SOUNDS so very philosophical.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at March 05, 2013 12:12 PM (4df7R)

14 Hyoomahn Being.

Posted by: I think, therefore I Am at March 05, 2013 12:12 PM (cg2Hw)

15 No Glossary of Terms? How will the hipsters living int he village be able to fake their way through their pretentiousness?

And I know you said "don't hold you to this" in terms of the table of contents but aren't we being a tad optimistic with the massive length of the 'applications' chapter?

Posted by: Sgt. York at March 05, 2013 12:12 PM (FL9pc)

16 You should do a TED talk. Something on "The Multiplicity of Knowing through Being and the Existential Ramifications."

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at March 05, 2013 12:12 PM (fMgJk)

17 I have always said that this kind of navel gazing is retarded.

Posted by: Vic at March 05, 2013 12:13 PM (53z96)

18 I'll wait for the movie.

Posted by: RadishDemento at March 05, 2013 12:13 PM (/kI1Q)

19 plato.stanford.edu (It's better to get there via search engine directed to the topic of your interest.)

Being .....Zen

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at March 05, 2013 12:13 PM (QzKtb)

20 Didn't Erg already write this book?

Posted by: Sgt. York at March 05, 2013 12:13 PM (FL9pc)

21 Plato's Republic sucked. I had to read this trash in freshman philosophy. An absolute and utter waste of time and effort. I hate this idiocy with the heat of a thousand SCOD teleprompters. Circular logic b.s. Sorry, so what were you saying?

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at March 05, 2013 12:14 PM (X+nFp)

22 "To be is to do" - Socrates



"To do is to be" - Sartre



"Do be do be do" - Sinatra

Posted by: eleven at March 05, 2013 12:14 PM (KXm42)

23 To be, or not to be. It's better in the original Klingon.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at March 05, 2013 12:14 PM (evdj2)

24 Oh.  Does this mean I can't punch Commies in the face like I did with Arius?

Posted by: St. Nicholas at March 05, 2013 12:14 PM (MDr17)

25 Nice! Where can I buy the Cliff's Notes?

Posted by: Pops at March 05, 2013 12:14 PM (QjFDb)

26 I did not see a Chapter heading for tattoos, piercings, ear plug gauges, or ritual scarring.  Does that mean my barista is really just a barista and not a Philosophy Post-Doc?

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Wily Wrepublican Wench at March 05, 2013 12:15 PM (kXoT0)

27 "Man is a Being such that his Being is in question, insofar as this Being is a Being other than himself" -- Sartre

Posted by: LexisTexas at March 05, 2013 12:15 PM (kPFAg)

28
Volume II

Self-Discovery

Chapter 1: Did You Know That We Have Pee-Pee's?

Chapter 2: How To Use Your Pee-Pee

Chapter 3: Why Pee-Pee's Are Important


Posted by: soothsayer at March 05, 2013 12:15 PM (9Q7Nu)

29 What is the sound of one hand fapping.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at March 05, 2013 12:16 PM (evdj2)

30 What, no chapter on cobras?

Posted by: Sterling Archer at March 05, 2013 12:16 PM (jf2XR)

31

@17

 

It makes a lot more sense to me when I'm stinking drunk. You know, where you're sweaty and your sweat reeks of alcohol, and for some reason I have the urge to smoke even though I hate smoking. Yeah, there. Then it makes sense.

 

I've never done drugs, but I'm sure its a similar experience. Everything is deeper when you're out of your fucking gord.

Posted by: Jollyroger at March 05, 2013 12:16 PM (t06LC)

32

Vagina gazing is much more productive.

Posted by: Have a Vagina Cupcake at March 05, 2013 12:16 PM (cg2Hw)

33
Foreword by Lena Dunham

Posted by: soothsayer at March 05, 2013 12:16 PM (9Q7Nu)

34  A just man? A just man would have invented the .44 magnum and blown your brains out Plato! Sorry, so what were you saying?

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at March 05, 2013 12:16 PM (X+nFp)

35 Possible Twitter fight brewing between Michelle Malkin and Donald Trump

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 05, 2013 12:17 PM (8sCoq)

36

One of the best naps I ever had was listening to Deprak Chopra ramble on about "being" at a conference I attended several years ago.

 

OT:  Just read where the Visitor's Office at the White House has announced that they are cancelling tours of the WH starting March 9th due to the sequester.  These lying prigs are really deep into it now.

And Jan the Man Napolitano said that waiting times at LAX are up 150-200% due to the sequester.  The head honcho at LAX replied that this was not true and ops were normal.

Posted by: Cheri at March 05, 2013 12:17 PM (G+Wff)

37 Screw this, let's partay!

Posted by: dionysus at March 05, 2013 12:17 PM (evdj2)

38 The sight of First Daughter Malia Obama at a dinner this weekend with her friends prompted one spy to describe the meal as a “young girl’s social power club gathering.” On Saturday night, President Obama’s elder daughter, 14, was spotted at giant Chelsea restaurant Buddakan with eight of her friends, including a daughter of New York Giants chairman Steve Tisch. According to witnesses, the girls were chaperoned by four parents and five security guards who dined at the table directly next to them. “She was in the middle of a gaggle of young girls,” one source told us, while Secret Service remained a comfortable distance behind them — and deterred other customers from bothering them. The presidential teenager was dressed “very casual, jeans and ponytail.” Malia and her friends were overheard saying, “This place is so hip” while they dined on rock shrimp, edamame dumplings, short ribs, lobster fried rice and noodles. An Obama rep didn’t get back to us ??? I guess sequester BE not so serious?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 05, 2013 12:18 PM (9Bj8R)

39 Afterword: The Omnibeingness of Weasels....... p. 680

Posted by: ace at March 05, 2013 12:18 PM (LCRYB)

40 "Dirty, Sexy Philosophy" - By Meghan McCain

Chapter 1 - Thinking is Hard.

Posted by: Sgt. York at March 05, 2013 12:18 PM (FL9pc)

41 Gnostics ≥ The Big Bang Theory

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 05, 2013 12:18 PM (4cRnj)

42 Retreat into the self.

Posted by: beach at March 05, 2013 12:18 PM (XYSwB)

43

 I prefer Knowingness...to Nothingness.

 

Posted by: wheatie at March 05, 2013 12:18 PM (QPnFm)

44 Word.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 05, 2013 12:18 PM (hEr50)

45 Boeing is the next step from being.  Can we interest your in a Dreamliner?

Posted by: Boeing at March 05, 2013 12:18 PM (71LDo)

46 I had an existencial breakthrough once in Wyoming. Why? There was nothing else to do (see Wyoming) and masturbation in public is frowned on. Then I left Wyoming and forgot all about it.

Posted by: Jollyroger at March 05, 2013 12:19 PM (t06LC)

47 'nother good one is the newadvent.org site from a Catholic point of view.

gnosticism -> http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06592a.htm


Posted by: Skandia Recluse at March 05, 2013 12:19 PM (QzKtb)

48 26I did not see a Chapter heading for tattoos, piercings, ear plug gauges, or ritual scarring. Does that mean my barista is really just a barista and not a Philosophy Post-Doc?

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Wily Wrepublican Wench at March 05, 2013 04:15 PM (kXoT0)

What.the.hell. is wrong with me.  I read "anal scarring" in there and had to go back and check it again.  *rubs temples*  Must still be thinking about that post about Krugman.

Posted by: Heralder at March 05, 2013 12:19 PM (+xmn4)

49

United Nations:  States that have legalized marijuana are violating INTERNATIONAL TREATIES!!eleven!!!1

http://tinyurl.com/aqtgezm

How long until the left argues that we don't have to listen to the UN?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at March 05, 2013 12:19 PM (fwARV)

50 I should have known...  I ordered the damn essay last night, and now I know it turns to drivel.  Thanks though, I like debunking gnosticism because years ago I thought it was worth reading... until I did start reading the quickly discovered what it was all about. 

Posted by: Yip at March 05, 2013 12:19 PM (/jHWN)

51
Modern Philosophy
by Lena Dunham

Chapter 1: OMG, I have boobs!
Chapter 2: OMG, what is this thing between my legs?
Chapter 3: Let me show you something you have never seen in the last two minutes
Chapter 4: Isn't what I discovered so interesting!?!

Posted by: soothsayer at March 05, 2013 12:19 PM (9Q7Nu)

52 "Dirty, Sexy Philosophy" - By Meghan McCain

Chapter 2 - Poles are cold.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Wily Wrepublican Wench at March 05, 2013 12:19 PM (kXoT0)

53 Three pages on practical applications? Three? Look who's being Mr. Smartypants. Look, I've lovingly and gently nudged you to possibly maybe consider the philosophical underpinning of various belief systems in the past. Yes, it's very important to do so. But. But I'll be one of the first to admit that gorgeous and stunning philosophical systems do not survive the first brush with the Real World. The Real World is messy and complicated and people do things that do not comport with the theory. The problem is not with people when that happens, it's with the theory. Theory really isn't the only thing. Dammit.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Knows it's going to kill us all. at March 05, 2013 12:20 PM (VtjlW)

54 Chapter 3: Why are they always gone in the morning?

Posted by: Meghan McCain at March 05, 2013 12:20 PM (evdj2)

55 What, no section on hermeneutics? How do you expect to connect Parts 3 and 4 together?

Posted by: Penfold at March 05, 2013 12:20 PM (Fbt5B)

56 What.the.hell. is wrong with me. I read "anal scarring" in there and had to go back and check it again. *rubs temples* Must still be thinking about that post about Krugman.  Posted by: Heralder at March 05, 2013 04:19 PM (+xmn4)

Wow, just, wow!

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Wily Wrepublican Wench at March 05, 2013 12:20 PM (kXoT0)

57

What I learned about Stoicism I learned from Eastwood and Wayne. That's all I need.

Posted by: Jollyroger at March 05, 2013 12:21 PM (t06LC)

58

If a tree falls in the woods it is therefore I am. -

 

Nieceez 

Posted by: Barack Obama student of philosophy at March 05, 2013 12:21 PM (m2CN7)

59 Aaaackk! Don't focus so much on the real-world applications! Don't let that overshadow the first several chapters...I KNOW!

Posted by: philosoph0123 at March 05, 2013 12:21 PM (XiQ0n)

60 "Dirty, Sexy Philosophy" - By Meghan McCain

Chapter 3 - Strictly Dickly or Whiney Vaginy?

Posted by: Sgt. York at March 05, 2013 12:21 PM (FL9pc)

61 Well Ace, it wasn't as long as your reviews, but a good start.

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at March 05, 2013 12:21 PM (R8hU8)

62 Real World Applications
a: To Fap or not to Fap

Posted by: DaveA at March 05, 2013 12:21 PM (DL2i+)

63

 Which chapter covers...The Beingness of Flying Squid Weasels?

 

Posted by: wheatie at March 05, 2013 12:21 PM (QPnFm)

64

Immanuel Kant was a real piss-ant who was very rarely stable. Heideggar, Heideggar was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table.

David Hume could out-consume Schoppenhauer and Hegel. And Whittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.

There's nothing Nieizsche couldn't teach 'ya 'bout the raising of the wrist. Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.

John Stewart Mill, of his own free will On half a pint of shanty was particularly ill. Plato they say could stick it away, Half a crate of whiskey every day.

Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle, And Hobbes was fond of his dram. And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart. 'I drink, therefore I am.'

Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed; A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed.

 

Posted by: Mr. Dave in SPI at March 05, 2013 12:22 PM (xiaOm)

65 Crunching figs is Being.

Posted by: angler at March 05, 2013 12:22 PM (SwjAj)

66 Has ergie weighed in on this?

I just have a hunch that ace is trying to bait him with this

Posted by: kbdabear at March 05, 2013 12:22 PM (mCvL4)

67 If Pixy  is  not  a  real  person,  then  why  do  I  want  to   kill  him?

Posted by: Barack Obama student of philosophy at March 05, 2013 12:22 PM (m2CN7)

68 ACE flaming skull

Finally found this written somewhere.  Via Weasel Zippers\ quoting Mother Jones
\

http://is.gd/lg8pGX


Yes, the president does have the authority to use military force against American citizens on US soil—but only in “an extraordinary circumstance,” Attorney General Eric Holder said in a letter to Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) Tuesday.


And yes, he is talking about doing it without a trial.


He quote 911 and Pear Harbor but for drone strikes that is immaterial.


Posted by: Vic at March 05, 2013 12:22 PM (53z96)

69 Maybe time to move on?
Maybe move on to the next step after Being?
No?
We're just going to stay on that, huh?
For how long?


When we can with certainty, to the extent that no contemplative philosopher can disagree, whether or not a supreme being in the form of ultimate moral authority exists. Then we can move on to knowing. Until then the most fundamental question about our very existence remains unanswered.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose DOOMCASTER! at March 05, 2013 12:22 PM (0q2P7)

70 DOW 14,253 

Put on the funny hats, break out the cheap champagne, and party like it's 1999.  If we can attract a fresh batch of rubes their money can push this old nag up another 2-3%

Hell it might go up another 5%  I sure don't have a crystal ball.

Posted by: SpongeBob Saget at March 05, 2013 12:22 PM (epxV4)

71 I get all the philosophy I need right here in the comments.

It's not really coherent or anything, but it's philosophy.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 05, 2013 12:22 PM (xKC/c)

72 What if C-A-T really spelled dog?

Posted by: Ogre at March 05, 2013 12:22 PM (YtnAZ)

73 Which chapter covers...The Beingness of Flying Squid Weasels?   Posted by: wheatie at March 05, 2013 04:21 PM (QPnFm)

The one that describes the deep and abiding love that Mooch and Barky have for each other.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Wily Wrepublican Wench at March 05, 2013 12:22 PM (kXoT0)

74 "Dirty, Sexy Philosophy" - By Meghan McCain

Chapter 4 - Dad Threatens the Editor...Again.

Posted by: Sgt. York at March 05, 2013 12:22 PM (FL9pc)

75 Bill Clinton on Being: "It depends on what the meaning of is is."

Posted by: MaxMBJ at March 05, 2013 12:23 PM (deaac)

76 Wow, just, wow!

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Wily Wrepublican Wench at March 05, 2013 04:20 PM (kXoT0)

Yeah, I was all: Anal Scarring You Guys!  Then I was confused and troubled.

Posted by: Heralder at March 05, 2013 12:23 PM (+xmn4)

77 >>>If Pixy is not a real person, then why do I want to kill him?

Pixy is a real person. However, you are likely upset at robo-pixy. Whom Pixy lets eat our ampersands.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose DOOMCASTER! at March 05, 2013 12:24 PM (0q2P7)

78 70 DOW 14,253

Put on the funny hats, break out the cheap
champagne, and party like it's 1999. If we can attract a fresh batch of rubes their money can push this old nag up another 2-3%

Hell it might go up another 5% I sure don't have a crystal ball.
Posted by: SpongeBob Saget at March 05, 2013 04:22 PM

That sequester really slammed the Dow, didn't it

Posted by: kbdabear at March 05, 2013 12:24 PM (mCvL4)

79 Nothing on Operations and Maintenance??  Pffffft.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 05, 2013 12:24 PM (wtvvX)

80 My name is Cthulhu and i'll be your barista.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 05, 2013 12:25 PM (hEr50)

81
While who is away?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 05, 2013 12:25 PM (p/cQy)

82

I like those "Philosophy and (insert pop culture refrence here)" books. It helps make this crap interesting and relatable. I think I have Philosophy and the Simpsons, Terminator, Batman, Zelda, and Inception.

A little more fun. Still a waste of time.

Posted by: Jollyroger at March 05, 2013 12:25 PM (t06LC)

83 OT: Just read where the Visitor's Office at the White House has announced that they are cancelling tours of the WH starting March 9th due to the sequester. These lying prigs are really deep into it now.

Damn.  There goes my plan to load up on hard boiled eggs, baked beans and cheap beer before going on a tour of the White House.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at March 05, 2013 12:25 PM (SY2Kh)

84 70 DOW 14,253

Put on the funny hats, break out the cheap
champagne, and party like it's 1999. If we can attract a fresh batch of rubes their money can push this old nag up another 2-3%

Hell it might go up another 5% I sure don't have a crystal ball.
Posted by: SpongeBob Saget at March 05, 2013 04:22 PM

With the Fed's money injections, the Dow's surge is happening for the same reason that Barry Bonds started hitting tons of home runs in the late 90s

Posted by: kbdabear at March 05, 2013 12:26 PM (mCvL4)

85 Now if six turns out to be nine, I don't mind.  I don't mind.

Posted by: James Marshall Hendrix at March 05, 2013 12:26 PM (xiaOm)

86 No way I'd buy that crappy boo-ook.

Posted by: Bigby's Interposing Thumb-in-the-Eye at March 05, 2013 12:26 PM (3ZtZW)

87 >>While who is away?

Him.

Posted by: angler at March 05, 2013 12:26 PM (SwjAj)

88
there's more philosophy offered in Hotel California than the shit these people are pushing

for instance: "We are all prisoners of our own device."

So true, so true.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 05, 2013 12:26 PM (9Q7Nu)

89 Yeah, I was all: Anal Scarring You Guys! Then I was confused and troubled.

Posted by: Heralder at March 05, 2013 04:23 PM (+xmn4)


Nah, I was really referring the skinny girls with the with the Kool-Aid dyed hair who cut themselves in order to "feel" something.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Wily Wrepublican Wench at March 05, 2013 12:27 PM (kXoT0)

90 "Part 5: Real World Applications ............. p. 633 Index ........................................................ p. 636 Posted by: Ace at 04:07 PM" Can I assume pages 633 to 635 are mostly pics?

Posted by: Icedog at March 05, 2013 12:27 PM (9ScGj)

91 &

Posted by: RWC at March 05, 2013 12:27 PM (fWAjv)

92 While who is away? Ssh.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at March 05, 2013 12:27 PM (evdj2)

93

To be or not to be, plan carefully. -

 

Can't

 

 

Posted by: Barack Obama student of philosophy at March 05, 2013 12:27 PM (m2CN7)

94 Actually, the Dow is reacting to the sequester. Repubs better move quickly to claim victory.

Posted by: MaxMBJ at March 05, 2013 12:27 PM (deaac)

95 Hell it might go up another 5% I sure don't have a crystal ball.
Posted by: SpongeBob Saget

That sequester really slammed the Dow, didn't it
Posted by: kbdabear


Barky and Co forgot to tell Helicopter Ben to turn of the POMO for March.

Only one trading day in March that won't have $0.75 billion to $5.75 billion in repo's.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at March 05, 2013 12:27 PM (fMgJk)

96 Never sit in the bus station in East St. Louis in July next to a man who weighs 254 pounds.



It's in the footnotes.

Posted by: mama winger at March 05, 2013 12:28 PM (P6QsQ)

97

>>While who is away?

Him.

=================

 

That Fucker.

Posted by: Bigby's Interposing Thumb-in-the-Eye at March 05, 2013 12:28 PM (3ZtZW)

98 Top US commander: Iran sanctions not working Head of Army's central command says though sanctions not working Top US commander in the Middle East, General James Mattis, said the current sanctions and diplomatic efforts to stop Iran from gaining nuclear capabilities are not working. He said Tehran has a history of denial and deceit and is enriching uranium beyond any plausible peaceful purpose. This is really a BIG story and should be played up.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 05, 2013 12:28 PM (9Bj8R)

99 That Fucker. Dudes, he'll hear you.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at March 05, 2013 12:28 PM (evdj2)

100 The DOW hasn't had anything to do with reality for the last 20 years.  And it has never had anything to do with the actual economy.


It is nothing more than a device the MFM uses to to make up shit about the economy.

Posted by: Vic at March 05, 2013 12:28 PM (53z96)

101 Nah, I was really referring the skinny girls with the with the Kool-Aid dyed hair who cut themselves in order to "feel" something.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Wily Wrepublican Wench at March 05, 2013 04:27 PM (kXoT0)

Oh, that would explain why I was thinking about Krugman. Thanks!

Posted by: Heralder at March 05, 2013 12:29 PM (+xmn4)

102 Never sit in the bus station in East St. Louis  Posted by: mama winger at March 05, 2013 04:28 PM (P6QsQ)

Never sit anywhere in East St. Louis, drive through it quickly and carefully.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Wily Wrepublican Wench at March 05, 2013 12:29 PM (kXoT0)

103

Southern fried philosophy:

 

I be, therefore,   I is.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at March 05, 2013 12:29 PM (+z4pE)

104 I be, I know, I apply myself in the real world. Do I get a cookie?

Posted by: joncelli, dodging the Zombies of Sequester at March 05, 2013 12:30 PM (RD7QR)

105 Pass the biscuits.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at March 05, 2013 12:30 PM (evdj2)

106 I be, therefore, I is.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at March 05, 2013 04:29 PM (+z4pE)



I learned all that from Brother Dave Gardner in the late 50s.

Posted by: Vic at March 05, 2013 12:30 PM (53z96)

107 "Plato was talking about Being 3000 years ago. Maybe time to move on? Maybe move on to the next step after Being?"

Yeah, because the NYT's bestseller list is a major cultural improvement.

Posted by: Jason at March 05, 2013 12:30 PM (6VB4r)

108
Ohhhhh......Him.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 05, 2013 12:30 PM (p/cQy)

109 >>there's more philosophy offered in Hotel California than the shit these people are pushing

So often times it happens, that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the key.

Posted by: angler at March 05, 2013 12:31 PM (SwjAj)

110

John Stuart Mill does have the best quote about war even if he did like to knock back a few.

Posted by: polynikes at March 05, 2013 12:31 PM (m2CN7)

111 My group at work is being rewarded with a pizza lunch. Apparently for not breaking anything lately. A good gig if you can get it.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at March 05, 2013 12:31 PM (evdj2)

112 100 The DOW hasn't had anything to do with reality for the last 20 years. And it has never had anything to do with the actual economy.

It is nothing more than a device the MFM uses to to make up shit about the economy.
Posted by: Vic at March 05, 2013 04:28 PM

Since we were supposed to collapse under the sequester, I don't think they'll be running the "prosperity montage" tonight

Posted by: kbdabear at March 05, 2013 12:31 PM (mCvL4)

113

Ace's new book

A quick one while he's away: The true story of one cuckhold's life in the shadows.

Posted by: Jollyroger at March 05, 2013 12:31 PM (t06LC)

114 >>there's more philosophy offered in Hotel California than the shit these people are pushing

I always liked the line, "You can check out anytime you like, but, you can never leave."

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Wily Wrepublican Wench at March 05, 2013 12:31 PM (kXoT0)

115 I moved on from being to being there.

Posted by: Chauncey Gardner at March 05, 2013 12:32 PM (+kvQd)

116 The head honcho at LAX replied that this was not true and ops were normal.

Head Honcho at LAX now looking for a job.  Bob Menendez looking for his number..."Oh...you mean the guy in charge...nevermind.

Posted by: Paladin at March 05, 2013 12:32 PM (WujO7)

117 104 I be, I know, I apply myself in the real world. Do I get a cookie?
Posted by: joncelli, dodging the Zombies of Sequester at March 05, 2013 04:30 PM

Let me check my purse

Posted by: Ashley Judd at March 05, 2013 12:32 PM (mCvL4)

118 When questioned about Obama Administration Spending $400,000 on oil paintings, Agricultural Secretary Tom Vilsack refused to answer the ABC news correspondent and calling it “small-ball.” small balls add up you dumb prick

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 05, 2013 12:32 PM (9Bj8R)

119 Third Reich from the Sun

Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 05, 2013 12:32 PM (hEr50)

120
yes, and we stab it with our steely knives but..

we

just

cannot

kill

the

beast


Posted by: soothsayer at March 05, 2013 12:32 PM (9Q7Nu)

121 636 pages? Pretty pithy for Ace.

Posted by: maddogg at March 05, 2013 12:33 PM (OlN4e)

122 Some dance to remember, so dance.to.forget.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at March 05, 2013 12:33 PM (evdj2)

123 Um there's a good reason to focus on being. It is the only predicate common to everything we can talk about in one way or another. If you're really tired of being, Ace, go read something other than metaphysics. Try ethics? Or Philosophy of Nature or of Science?

Posted by: Darii at March 05, 2013 12:33 PM (mb/Rd)

124 dammit

Posted by: toby928© for TB at March 05, 2013 12:33 PM (evdj2)

125

What, no section on hermeneutics? How do you expect to connect Parts 3 and 4 together?

 

With  duct tape.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at March 05, 2013 12:33 PM (+z4pE)

126

@121

It was a short film.

Posted by: Jollyroger at March 05, 2013 12:33 PM (t06LC)

127
I called up to the captain...

Posted by: soothsayer at March 05, 2013 12:34 PM (9Q7Nu)

128 ABC asked a real question? They spent 42,000 on the portrait of the pig, job-stealing, children starving BEAST, Lisa Jackson.

Posted by: Chauncey Gardner at March 05, 2013 12:34 PM (+kvQd)

129 Germanic depression is touching my soul...

Posted by: Fake Nietzsche at March 05, 2013 12:34 PM (hEr50)

130
noood!

Posted by: soothsayer at March 05, 2013 12:34 PM (9Q7Nu)

131
Oh. Does this mean I can't punch Commies in the face like I did with Arius?

Obama said to make the sequester as painful as possible. I recommend the punch, and a good heavy kick to the cods for good measure. Then explain, "You're Welcome", and walk away.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at March 05, 2013 12:34 PM (eyJh9)

132 If we're going Eagles I'm going Life in the Fast Lane.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at March 05, 2013 12:34 PM (evdj2)

133

I like the Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Corgans line -

 

'Despite all our rage we're still just rats in a cage'

Posted by: polynikes at March 05, 2013 12:34 PM (m2CN7)

134 There's this asshole on youtubef, called pyrrho, who makes thousands of videos about "philosophy" and every other subject because he is a lefty know it all. He was always bragging about what a cool dad he was, raising his daughters alone. Then last summer his 14 y/o daughter OD'd on methadone which she got from her drug addicted 18 y/o sister and bf who were also living under his roof. Three kids addicted to methadone living with him and he never noticed.

Posted by: Waldo Truth at March 05, 2013 12:35 PM (5PMD3)

135
3 pages of real world applications.  that's probably all I would read.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 05, 2013 12:35 PM (p/cQy)

136 Anyone hear that?!!?  Oh, it's just a drone circling my hou.....

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 05, 2013 12:35 PM (UOM48)

137 The point of an analysis like Voegelin's isn't to be right or to prove anything, but to put a single rhetorically convincing and psychologically satisfying "gloss" on a bunch of disparate phenomena, so he and his readers can feel like they know everything--instead of a bunch of mere actual things.

It's like, we all know what a "slasher movie" is, and what the genre means and how it works, so we don't feel like we need to see many (if any) of them. We "get" them. The black guy dies first and the girl who survives is the virginal one. We know...so long as we don't check.

(Spoiler: The black guy dies second to last and the girl who survives is the one who has a plan.)

Posted by: oblig. an sich at March 05, 2013 12:35 PM (cePv8)

138 He was a hard-headed man, he was brutally handsome And she was terminally pretty She held him up and he held her for ransom In the heart of the cold, cold city

Posted by: toby928© for TB at March 05, 2013 12:35 PM (evdj2)

139

@129

 

Whenever I think of the german philosophers I think of Dieter from Saturday Night Live.

Posted by: Jollyroger at March 05, 2013 12:36 PM (t06LC)

140

Another drone ???

(CNN) -- An unmanned drone came within 200 feet of a commercial jet over New York, triggering an FBI appeal to the public for any information about the unusual and potentially dangerous incident.

The crew of Alitalia Flight 608 approaching John F. Kennedy airport on Monday reported the sighting.

"We saw a drone, a drone aircraft," the pilot can be heard telling air traffic controllers on radio calls captured by the website LiveATC.net.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at March 05, 2013 12:36 PM (7QZ6R)

141

 

Don't fuck with me. ...I have a Volcano.

 

Posted by: That Fucker at March 05, 2013 12:36 PM (QPnFm)

142

Part 5: Real World Applications ............. p. 633

 

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Real world applications? That doesn't sound very philosophical!

 

Posted by: Assault Citizen Anachronda who has an actual philosophy degree at March 05, 2013 12:36 PM (xGZ+b)

143 I like those "Philosophy and (insert pop culture refrence here)" books. It helps make this crap interesting and relatable. I think I have Philosophy and the Simpsons, Terminator, Batman, Zelda, and Inception. A little more fun. Still a waste of time. Posted by: Jollyroger at March 05, 2013 04:25 PM (t06LC) I did a paper in college demonstrating that Chuck Norris was the Platonic ideal of the Nietzschean ubermensch. I should note that this was pre-internet (get off my lawn!) and thus before the whole Chuck Norris thing. My professor gave me an A on the paper pretty much because I convinced him to let me do a paper on Chuck Norris. It was great fun sitting in the dorm lounge watching the Octagon and explaining it was research. Did you know that the whispering motif used in the Octagon both reflects and rejects the need to reach towards a higher power for assistance in times of need? The calls carry with them the characteristics of prayer, yet the Being who is being asked for assistance is Norris himself. This demonstrates that man is complete, in and of Himself, and there is no longer any need to maintain the facade of religion to mask Power.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Knows it's going to kill us all. at March 05, 2013 12:36 PM (VtjlW)

144 new one

Posted by: Vic at March 05, 2013 12:36 PM (53z96)

145 Wait a minute, they spent 42,000? Dollars? $42k on that biotch?

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at March 05, 2013 12:36 PM (X+nFp)

146

How is duct tape  akin to the Force?

 

It has a light side, a dark side, and it binds the universe  together.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at March 05, 2013 12:36 PM (+z4pE)

147 At first I though,"How nice, Ace's movie reviews come with a table of contents.".
Then I realized it wasn't long enough for one of Ace's movie reviews.

*I'm going to hell for that, I know*

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2013 12:36 PM (Tgggp)

148 Agricultural Secretary Tom Vilsack refused to answer the ABC news correspondent and calling it “small-ball.”

small balls add up you dumb prick-March 05, 2013 04:32 PM (9Bj8R)

---

"Small ball" must be the term of the week. Mother Jones has an on-line headline today:  Small Ball Gun Legislation Nearing a Vote in the Senate.


Posted by: RioBravo at March 05, 2013 12:38 PM (eEfYn)

149 145 Wait a minute, they spent 42,000? Dollars? $42k on that biotch? On her f-ing portrait. She is as low as Obama.

Posted by: Chauncey Gardner at March 05, 2013 12:38 PM (+kvQd)

150 123 Um there's a good reason to focus on being. It is the only predicate common to everything we can talk about in one way or another. If you're really tired of being, Ace, go read something other than metaphysics. Try ethics? Or Philosophy of Nature or of Science? Posted by: Darii at March 05, 2013 04:33 PM

Dammit, now I WANT to see ergie!

Posted by: kbdabear at March 05, 2013 12:38 PM (mCvL4)

151 He had a nasty reputation as a cruel dude They said he was ruthless, said he was crude They had one thing in common they were good in bed She'd say, "Faster, faster, the lights are turnin' red" Life in the fast lane, surely make you lose your mind Life in the fast lane

Posted by: toby928© for TB at March 05, 2013 12:38 PM (evdj2)

152

@143

 

That is awesome.

 

I saw were Chuck Norris came out in support of the second amendment. Of course, to be fair, he did come out for boot control citing the utter lethality that is a roundhouse kick to the face.

Compared to those, guns are less than lethal devices.

Posted by: Jollyroger at March 05, 2013 12:39 PM (t06LC)

153 "We saw a drone, a drone aircraft," the pilot can be heard telling air traffic controllers on radio calls captured by the website LiveATC.net. Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at March 05, 2013 04:36 PM

We Saw Your Drones!

Posted by: Seth MacFarlane at March 05, 2013 12:40 PM (mCvL4)

154 How come no one ever pontificates about Meta-Evolution, or the Evolution of Evolutionary Arguments?

A quick outline:

Topic:
  - Life?

Topology:
  - evolution vs. creationism
  - atheism vs. theism
  - disbelief vs. belief
  - faith vs. faith
  - delusion vs illusion
  - dishonesty vs. sincerity
  - persecution vs. recrimination

Compromise:
  - Life?

Bwahahaha!

Meta-Corollary:
  -When you least expect it, consciousness will skull fuck you coming and going!

Posted by: Fritz at March 05, 2013 12:41 PM (WM+rJ)

155

@123

 

Aristotle wasn't just an asshole philosopher. His acedemy also began what we would now call the sciences such as physics. Pythagoras (famous for his theorem) was not only a mathmatician but leader of a philosopher cult.

 

Its the german philosophers who sucked balls and tried (maybe sucessfully) to bring down western civ.

Posted by: Jollyroger at March 05, 2013 12:42 PM (t06LC)

156

143 Did you know that the whispering motif used in the Octagon both reflects and rejects the need to reach towards a higher power for assistance in times of need? The calls carry with them the characteristics of prayer, yet the Being who is being asked for assistance is Norris himself. This demonstrates that man is complete, in and of Himself, and there is no longer any need to maintain the facade of religion to mask Power.

 

---------

 

I bet you're fun at cocktail parties.


 

Posted by: Assault Citizen Anachronda at March 05, 2013 12:42 PM (xGZ+b)

157 Are you with me so far? Eager for action, hot for the game The coming attraction, the drop of a name They knew all the right people, they took all the right pills They threw outrageous parties, they paid heavily bills

Posted by: toby928© for TB at March 05, 2013 12:42 PM (evdj2)

158 At one time, I thought that 80's stoner songs were just to deep for me to understand.
Songs like...
Horse with no name
Hotel California
And on and on....

Now I realize I was looking for depth and meaning that just wasn't there.

That's why Bon Jovie worked.
Big Hair, shallow thinking, and loose chicks.
What wasn't there to love?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2013 12:42 PM (Tgggp)

159 Like the joke about the farmer who was puttin' his son, the Philosophy major, through college.

Farmer tells his neighbor, "Junior got his BS.  You know what that means?"

Neighbor replies, "Sure do, Bull Squirt."

A couple of years later, farmer tells his neighbor, "Junior got his MS.  You know what that means?"

Neighbor replies, "Sure do, More Squirt."

A couple of years later, farmer tells his neighbor, "Junior got his PHD.  You know what that means? I got no idea myself."

Neighbor replies, "Sure do, Piled Higher and Deeper."

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Wily Wrepublican Wench at March 05, 2013 12:42 PM (kXoT0)

160 There were lines on the mirror, lines on her face She pretended not to notice, she was caught up in the race Out every evening until it was light He was too tired to make it, she was too tired to fight about it Life in the fast lane, surely make you lose your mind Life in the fast lane Life in the fast lane, everything all the time Life in the fast lane

Posted by: toby928© for TB at March 05, 2013 12:45 PM (evdj2)

161 Aristotle said "Philosophy begins in wonder".

I would add that it's a special kind of wonder, not one everyone feels or feels the need to pursue if they feel it.

Parmenides said of his poem about Being, "I tell you this truth as it revealed itself, so that no man's opinion may ever get the better of you". I've always liked that idea that even if some asshole seems to have the upper hand in an argument, you can always say "Yeah, well what about Being, asshole? Where's your proof that your argument takes Being into account?". They usually just back away slowly and I can go back to drinking my beer.

Posted by: BS Inc. at March 05, 2013 12:49 PM (dzgSq)

162 I promise you that those of us who study philosophy (that is, the philosophy that is taught in Anglophone departments in the year 2013) spend very little time talking about capital-B Being.  Such a concern is more likely to be taken for a pompous affectation by most Anglophone philosophers. 

Such talk is more a preoccupation of Continental thinkers, e.g. Heidegger, and French "public intellectual" blowhards.  A fair summation of the Anglophone view might be Quine's "to be...is to be the value of a variable."

Posted by: Doug at March 05, 2013 12:50 PM (7/2hB)

163 @156 Agreed. Aristotle is my main man. Him and Aquinas. Fuck the continental philosophers beginning with Descartes.

Posted by: Darii at March 05, 2013 12:51 PM (mb/Rd)

164 143 Alex

I think the proper Zen response is to laugh, not at, but in appreciation of a moment of being that both reflects and rejects. . . .yin/yang dualism of need. . .

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at March 05, 2013 12:53 PM (QzKtb)

165 >>>instead of a bunch of mere actual things. you speak of mere ontics?* * Oh I've got a bunch of new words now, Son.

Posted by: ace at March 05, 2013 12:54 PM (LCRYB)

166 Being is a great topic but not when you're talking about it like Heidegger does. Or Sartre. As a Thomist, i don't think it's pompous per se. Just per accidens.

Posted by: Darii at March 05, 2013 12:54 PM (mb/Rd)

167 163

Yes, that is very true. It's not as if there is only one view of what philosophy is.

Posted by: BS Inc. at March 05, 2013 12:57 PM (dzgSq)

168 well I suppose the whole game is "Being," but it's just odd, as an outsider, coming in and seeing "Being-as-Knowing" and "Being-in-Nature" and "Being-in-Self" and a whole bunch of Greek and German synonyms for microscopic distinctions on the idea of Beingness. I'm a practical minded guy so this isn't my bag.

Posted by: ace at March 05, 2013 12:58 PM (LCRYB)

169 Glowin' and burnin', blinded by thirst They didn't see the stop sign, took a turn for the worst She said, "Listen baby, you can hear the engine ring We've been up and down this highway, haven't seen a goddamn thing"

Posted by: toby928© for TB at March 05, 2013 12:58 PM (evdj2)

170 This demonstrates that man is complete, in and of Himself, and there is no longer any need to maintain the facade of religion to mask Power.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Knows it's going to kill us all. at March 05, 2013 04:36 PM (VtjlW)

 

I was liberal arts, a Literature major, and learned proper academic duckspeak (and can still hum the rhythms of it when I want to bullshit someone). I hated it. I hated that I had to use it to get a decent grade.

 

I loved symbolic logic, though. Found I had a knack for it. One of the few things I learned in college that I kept close as an adult.

Posted by: troyriser at March 05, 2013 01:00 PM (vtiE6)

171 If Plato's Republic makes your head whirl, first, get a better translation. It was rendered, literally, into English by the same generation that invented Anthropology.

Then, find the passage labeled "The City of Pigs." That is the key passage to the whole folderol. All the later classism and definitions of the good life are made necessary by the discussion group's refusal to live as simple farmers. And Plato, being a playwright, knew this as he laid it out. In Attic, the jokes are pretty clear.

Go ahead, look it up. Its in Book 2. It's a killer.

Posted by: comatus at March 05, 2013 01:01 PM (qaVK+)

172 He said, "Call the doctor, I think I'm gonna crash" "The doctor say he's comin' but you gotta pay in cash" They were rushin' down that freeway, messed around and got lost They didn't care, they were just dyin' to get off and it was Life in the fast lane, surely make you lose your mind Life in the fast lane Life in the fast lane, everything all the time Life in the fast lane Life in the fast lane Life in the fast lane

Posted by: toby928© for TB at March 05, 2013 01:16 PM (evdj2)

173 Ace, there's no way you can fill up 3 pages with real world applications.  Maybe you can use 2 & 1/2 pages with photos of cute dogs?

Posted by: theCork at March 05, 2013 01:30 PM (hbAdE)

174

I did not comment on yesterday's thread but have to say that Voegelin's concept of gnosticism is way off.  Simply a rival form of Christianity (of which there were many at the time) and rather harmless in the main.  I fear Voegelin did not study that aspect of early Christianity but rather came to his conclusions by forcing the issue and claiming for Gnosticism a sort of Platonism which doesn't quite fit, particularly in Plato's theory of forms.

 

If none of this makes any sense read Bart Ehrman or Elaine Pagels both of whom are a lot better at explaining this stuff than I am.

Posted by: Libra at March 05, 2013 01:48 PM (q5QAW)

175

Too much of everything is just enough. -- The Grateful Dead

 

Posted by: Tom who lurks here at March 05, 2013 02:52 PM (gyNYk)

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