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not the terrorist attack im reading 101 Zen Stories, and i find interesting that other people in the past tried to look at common traits in religions, im talking about the story where the man quotes the christian bible i have recovered other books i bought in the past lately, including one about islamic exoterism and taoism and one by herman hesse |
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in other news my balls came during a nap this afternoon.. only the balls |
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good call getting the herman hesse btw, which is it? siddhartha is one of my faves and i bought demian recently but haven't started it yet. |
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'journey to the east' and 'Kurgast, Aufzeichnungen von einer Badener Kur', just 'La Cura' in italian language |
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as for seeing a connection it was exactly the opposite for me, as my journey to the east was the cause of my sickness |
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maybe i'll find some answer in the books, i bought them years prior to the trip |
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properly impressed by both your commitment for self knowledge and intellectual curiosity. Im not being patronising i really wish to get back to this state of mind |
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I read Siddharta around the same period in my life when I was reading ok things like Aldous Huxley and cack like (ugh) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I can't say that I received any deep wisdom in life from any of it. Siddharta was well written and I enjoyed it. On my plate now: A Left That Dares to Speak Its Name: 34 Untimely Interventions - Slavoj Žižek The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All - Laird Barron Capital - Karl Marx The Nature of Code - Daniel Shiffman Belb that Nietzsche book is awful, it's like a Buzzfeed listicle. Read Kaufmann's book on him, or just jump straight into Genealogy of Morals, probably his most readably straightforward work. |
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basically a few jobs left i could do, and sometimes next year i'll be 10 years without a fuck |
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yeah it's made me wince a few times but i was trying to get an overview before i started beyond good and evil. will stick kaufman on the list |
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I hope this changes for you in the near future and you get what you want, you're a one of the good ones! |
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Now that I think of it though, there are no really good beginner's guides to Nietzsche because everyone disagrees vehemently about him so maybe that schematic dictionary guide is the best approach. Also have a skim through the , always a good source |
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out of all the philosophers you have studied who do you reckon would be the most fun down the pub |
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David Hume of course. Good sense of humour, good natured, good tempered, he even died happy. |
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Nietzsche would get absolutely wrecked, follow some girl around bellowing that he was devoting his life to her, then need to be kept from jumping in the river, then the next day you wouldn't hear from him for 6 months, while he was inventing and Nazism. |
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Nietzsche sounds like my mate Gareth, he would always throw his PlayStation controller if he lost in a two game |
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We've all known a Gareth or two. |
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"The universality to be asserted today is not a form of humanism, but the universality of the (class) struggle: more than ever, global capital has to be countered by global resistance. One should therefore insist on the difference between class struggle and other struggles (anti-racist, feminist, etc.) which aim at a peaceful coexistence of different groups and whose ultimate expression is identity politics. With class struggle, there is no identity politics: the opposing class has to be destroyed, and we ourselves should, in this same move, disappear as a class. The best concise definition of fascism is: the extension of identity politics onto the domain of class struggle. The basic fascist idea is that of the class piece: each class should be recognized in its specific identity and, in this way, its dignity will be safeguarded and antagonism between classes avoided. Class antagonism is here treated in the same way as the tension between different races: classes are accepted as a quasi-natural fact of life, not as something to be left behind." Slavoj Zizek - A Left that Dares to Speak Its Name |
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This week I shall be mostly reading Shane Carruth's A Topiary script. |
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But what is really at stake in today’s mess is not primarily the destiny of the social democratic parties as political agents, but the destiny of what Peter Sloterdijk called "objective" social democracy: the true triumph of social democracy occurred when its basic demands (free education and healthcare, etc.) became part of the program accepted by all main parties and inscribed into the functioning of the state institutions themselves. Today’s trend goes rather in the opposite direction: when Margaret Thatcher was asked what she considered to be her greatest success, she snapped back "New Labour," hinting at the fact that even her Labour Party opponents had adopted her economic politics. Slavoj Zizek - A Left that Dares to Speak Its Name. |
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just as tuition fees are designed to be clawed back once students are employable, hospital fees will one day be clawed back in perpetuity from those lives they've saved. so sez my crystal ball anyway. we had a good run |
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i finished 101 zen stories, i didn't read a whole book in years |
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nice one, did you enjoy it? i really feel like having a browse in a bookstore when this is all over, I truly believe books are one of the best things to relax and feel good in life |
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i found it funny sometimes like i didn't before, and found different things in common rather than when i bought it in my mid 20s |
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at times |
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yeah your brain/perception changes as you age, stuff i wouldnt have liked when I was young i pay attention to now |
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i read a few lines of journey to the east and felt disgusted |
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im re-reading Jacob Abbot's Alexander the Great - I have mentioned it here im sure. I read it regularly. Don't know what it is about this book - it's not particularly in depth, has very broad strokes about Alexander's life, it's just so simple and easy to digest. IT's old so it's absolutely free. There's a cute audio version by Lizzie Driver on librivox. have that Why Nations Fail lined up which keeps getting recommended, but just don't have the willpower it |
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