But I wonder if they thought that each new day is a new day or as the same day restarting all over, same chores, (milk the cow, pitch the hay, plant, hoe...) with nothing new....time as the cycle/rhythm of life, and the monuments marking the return of something already started rather than the forward progression of time? Maybe it became progressive once trading with others became normalized.

NIce work Punshhh!

I like this better than my 1st Pabst.

Dylan talks about first meeting Suze Rotolo:

"She was the most erotic thing I'd ever seen. She was fair skinned and golden haired, full-blooded Italian. The air was suddenly filled with banana leaves. We started talking and my head started to spin. Cupid's arrow had whistled by my ears before, but this time it hit me in the heart and the weight of it dragged me overboard. Suze was seventeen years old, from the East Coast. Had grown up in Queens, raised in a left-wing family. Her father worked in a factory and had recently died. She was involved in the New York art scene, painted and made drawings for various publications, worked in graphic design and in Off Broadway theatrical productions, also worked on civil rights committees--she could do a lot of things. Meeting her was like stepping in the tales of 1,001 Arabian nights. She had a smile that could light up a street full of people and was extremely lively, had a particular type of voluptuousness--a Rodin sculpture come to life. She reminded me of a libertine heroine. She was just my type."

Is her book good?

Have you ever read Dylan's Memoir Chronicles?


"We recorded "Man in the Long Black Coat" and a peculiar change crept over the appearance of things. I had a feeling about it and so did he. The chord progression, the dominant chords and key changes give it the hypnotic effect right away--signal what the lyrics are about to do. The dread intro give you the impression of a chronic rush. The production sounds deserted, like the intervals of the city have disappeared. It is cut out from the abyss of blackness--visions of a maddened brain, a feeling of unreality--the heavy price of gold upon someone's head. Nothing standing, even corruption is corrupt. Something menacing and terrible. The some came nearer and nearer--crowding itself into the smallest possible place...the lyrics try to tell you about someone whose body doesn't belong to him. Someone who loved his life but cannot live...In some weird way, I thought of it as my "I Walk the Line".

Actually it's Dylan's response to an old Scottish Ballad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daemon_Lover . In the old ballad the wife takes off with the devil and leave her husband dangling.

I like this cover by Steve Hackett, it seems to follow Dylan's description, with a great, hypnotic guitar lead.

https://youtu.be/6aCXgFdUhbk

Anger is an affect, it arises between the body and thought. Affects are manifestations of drives, basic instinctual physical responses to certain stimuli. Affects are not emotions, emotions are in the words, the gestures we learn. What we instinctively want things such as food, sex, safety get transformed into the words we use. (a recent study suggests that hunger is the strongest instinct, probably our first) Speech is a mode of conveyance of expression, either verbal or gestural. We learn to associate our current state from others through use of language. We learn what it means to sad, glad, mad, and bad. We learn that others react to us depending on the words we use. The young child denied of TV tries to hurt the parent..."I hate you", they learn that words hurt. They come to understand that the way they feel can be communicated to others by words, phrases, & discourse and words.

Freud thought that anxiety is the key, the master mode that connects the physical stimulus with the felt emotion. Our instinctual drives are dynamic, qualitative and quantitative intensities where anxiety represents an unbalanced state that seeks balance. What we desire is balance, if our demand is not met then we respond in frustration, sadness, or anger depending on the intensities of our feeling.

Anger is a secondary emotion. It is a defensive reaction to emotional pain.

I don't know if anger is a secondary emotion (but there may be something like hard and soft emotions, some more intensive some less intensive), it may be a reaction to emotional pain, but the source of that pain is not always entirely clearly evident. People get in a mood, they become angry for no apparent reason. Anger is an affect, and I think it is associated with anxiety, and sadness as sort of a combined affects feeding off each other.

It is interesting that there are no unexpressed emotions, no unconscious emotions, the idea does not seem to make sense. There are however experiences that we do repress, traumas that we have experienced but that we have blocked out of psyche, yet these blocked experiences still effect our lives.

Freud suggested that affects such as anger are (in part) the result of what we have repressed. Repressed traumas do not directly reemerge, rather my current anger is based on my current situation and consciousness. He thought that current affects such as anger arise because there is a miss match between what we are aware of and our biological, psychological response to what is being experienced. Anger in this sense is due to the miss match or disconnection between repressed experiences and their current evocation in experience.

I disagree about how CBT is administered. Here is a summary:

1)pragmatic – it helps identify specific problems and tries to solve them
2)highly structured – rather than talking freely about your life, you and your therapist discuss specific problems and set goals for you to achieve
3)focused on current problems – it's mainly concerned with how you think and act now rather than attempting to resolve past issues
4)collaborative – your therapist won't tell you what to do; they'll work with you to find solutions to your current difficulties

And, as I said it works.

My problem with this approach are not the results, its the longevity of these results. The therapist that helps the patient form his goals sits in the position of power with the patient. He does what he thinks the patient needs, but it's the therapist's conception of how you ought to be behaving, feeling etc. are constituted in the goals the patient forms. I think it is a form of brain washing. The symptoms are treated but not their causes.

In regards to you on Freud, more ad hominems. His work is still being studied, with plenty of professional work being generated based on his theories.

What are you saying. That CBT is different from Positive Psychology, or different as I have described it, unsure from what you said. They sound the same to me. Martin Seligman's is a big in both areas.

Freud was a neurologist and psychologist and he is still being studied by neurologists and psychologists. He didn't romanticize psychology, that's your spin.

I think Apo uses the "romantic notion" argument whenever he doesn't have a notion, a la LGU. :D

So the backers of this view would say that this has empirical evidence on its side and being that we use empirical evidence for improving aspects of technology and science, wouldn't a normative ethics that claims to base itself on empirical studies be the one that we should embrace rather than ones expounded about in armchair fashion?

Doesn't it tend to homogenize the essence of individuality? I am not saying it cannot be effective, but doesn't reliance the goals that are "normatively" given leave us with just 'normal' individuals.

Cognitive Behavior Therapy works, the military use it to treat PTSD because it works quickly. The problem (I think) is that in it you accept the goals set by the therapist (at least as I understand it), they become the way you behave, which is not to say that such therapy does not provide symptom relief.

If Freud's fluid dynamic theory of the self holds any water (ha) then by creating premises for living, accepting 'normative' values may lead to a 'normal' life but, since it does not treat the cause of the disturbances, those disturbances becomes sublimated and they may reappear as something else, which could be just as bad if not worse for the person. It treats the symptoms not the causes.

The argument is a reductio ad absurdum, no?

Socrates
Secondly, it involves this, which is a very pretty result; he concedes about his own opinion the truth of the opinion of those who disagree with him and think that his opinion is false, since he grants that the opinions of all men are true.

Plato, Theaetetus 171a

Protagoras: "Man is the measure of all things."

POMO is subject to same performative critique.

You may want to look at:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/jul/16/blog-posting/did-vermont-pastor-get-sentenced-prison-refusing-m/

Because ultimately it is about mechanical systems and software, and how technology and the rest is affecting our life style, and how this can be interpreted. It seemed to fit. The Blockchain is dubbed as the next great technology.

I am not sure about the Philosophical implications, however anything with the potential to affect as many people as this new technology may effect ought to be reviewed. It may be worth your while to understand it.

The structure of the networks is interesting in itself. It reminds me of neural networks with nodes, & some of those nodes actually do the verification process.

Also the Marxian interpretation of productions, alienation, value exchange and the rest...mathematics replacement of trust in value exchange.

Trick question?

Perhaps, but what Zizek suggests appears much closer to what the OP is talking about. What happened in Germany was overtly against the law. Not being PC is not against the law (at least in the US), yet it can also have severe societal consequences.

the avoidance, often considered as taken to extremes, of forms of expression or action that are perceived to exclude, marginalize, or insult groups of people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against.

Wikipedia definition of political correctness

The perpetrators in Germany are the "marginalized group" who went beyond insult or any sense of the term politically correct from what I read. It became a question of the strong assaulting the weak overtly, physically, sexually with no thought to any kind of political correctness. The police information suggested that the majority of the men committing these crimes were new immigrants, also the Wikipedia article suggests that these attacks were were the responsibility of newly arrived immigrants.

Interestingly, the German government was not proactive in these situations. The government apparently does not want to exacerbate racial tensions beyond where they stand, which might be some kind of a reverse political correctness, but it is an untenable position, which could lead to very violent backlashs against all migrants,

Initially I thought the term social conservative an oxymoron. It is hard to see how a conservative can be progressive socially, they seem to involve two separate ideals. Thinking more about it perhaps it is a reasonable, but challenging position where the Conservative individual accounts for societal change based on traditional concepts. Somewhat along the line where you state

The individual is sacred. The community is sacred. The environment is sacred. Life has become cheap and meaningless. Basically what I've intuited in my brand of 'conservatism' is a fusion between the 'spiritual' and the material.

The deduction of Conservative positions toward societal issues based on traditional laws, customs and fundamental concepts that all ready exist.

“In a progressive country, change is constant; and the great question is not whether you should resist change, which is inevitable, but whether that change should be carried out in deference to the manners, the customs, the laws and traditions of a people, or whether it should be carried out in deference to abstract principles, and arbitrary and general doctrines.” – Benjamin Disraeli

I think that the distinction between Conservative and Liberal, as it is spatially described, "Left & Right" falls short of encapsulating either position, especially when we are talking about an individual who can have several separate positions that might be categorized as belonging to either side. I like Disraeli's distinction.

;)

There is a difference between phenomenological discourse and scientific discourse, which is not to say that they are not related but rather that what is true in one discourse may not hold in the other.

I like what Zizek has to say about PC



Perhaps an unconscious cause of PC lies in the difference between public and private conversations and how each of these discourses subvert each other, without our noticing it.

When you think about yourself....what do "you" and "yourself" refer to? Is this a act of thought or? a linguistic manipulation. Do you make yourself the object of your attention.

Hillary hasn't been accused of raping anyone in the non-metaphorical sense of the word. She's running, not Bill.

Beyond that, it is her word against his.

In 1997, Broaddrick filed an affadavit with Paula Jones' lawyers saying Clinton did not assault her. In 1998, Broaddrick told Kenneth Starr's FBI investigators that she was raped.

Trump seems to go against Political Correctness every chance he gets.

Political Correctness's targets are segments of the population, The prevailing powers dictate and provide cogent reason for what is 'correct' or 'not-correct' to say or do. Correct here means according to them. The Establishment, is in a meaning full way (what is the cost of a gallon of milk?) unconscious of the common man, the very persons with whom Trump has tried to identify. The incestuousness of the Establishment's thought may be its ultimate downfall, my guess.

It seems as though Trump's locker room banter might stick him. Here is Nigel Farage's take:

“Look, this is alpha male boasting. It’s the kind of thing, if we are being honest, that men do. They sit around and have a drink and they talk like this.

“By the way, quite a lot of women say things amongst themselves that they would not want to see on Fox News, or the front page of a newspaper. I’m not pretending it’s good – it’s ugly, it is ugly.”

Objective and Subjective appear to be the result of judgement, no judgement no division. Holderlin suggested being simpliciter is the ground of judgement, simple and un-analyzable being.

You appear to be saying that society is valuing nomos/custom over nature. Much of what is natural in us is forced to sublimate itself in society to customary forces. The naturally stronger gangster is powerless against the weak lady, because violence is against the law.

Men are violent, it is part of our nature as men (self-preservation). The expression of that violence is anger, which cannot be expressed physically in most societies without repercussions that may be equally as physical. The sublimation of violence is found in language used by both strong and weak.

When someone calls you a no-hoper, dope, space-cadet, weirdo, douchebag... They are conveying an emotional state through a single word. It is the emotion that is transferred which makes the person feel inferior. Yet, people who are developing these politically correct restrictions over words are putting the cart before the horse. The root is in peoples emotional state. The problem is the ego, not the words.

In so far as the ego is constituted by language, it cannot escape it. The feelings the custom/nomos gives words adhere in words, and our reactions to words are normatively anticipated. When you call someone a "no-hoper, dope, space-cadet, weirdo, douchebag", or 'filthy immoral rich, fat cat bastard" these words have commonly understood meanings (which seem to be more spacially then temporally located). They are meant to convey an adverse attitude toward another. While the way you convey your thoughts are particular, the words you use go beyond you and convey what is commonly understood.

Language enables civilized violence. The repression of such expression, I think will lead to further sublimation, at least for the foreseeable future, or until such time as new norms become foundational (if). Perhaps one issue with this...if that subordination of violence to custom means the lack of public expression then it will surface in private conversations, out of the sight of the public...disguising itself, taking on more acceptable public faces. Perhaps it becomes more dangerous when it must grow out of sight.

I don't think of limbic system when I think of the spleen. Shakespeare's Brutus comes to mind

You shall digest the venom of your spleen,
Though it do split you.

or Baudelaire 's flower 'Spleen the Ideal'.

We are full of contradictions, body & soul, the deeper the ugliness of humanity the greater the heights of beauty it can ascend. There are no saints, no devils, just men searching for their mothers.

Thinking about hurricane Matthew this am.

Cognitive behavior therapy works (CBT) it is (I think) a temporary but quick fix. In it you'll accept the premises offered by the therapist and the therapist will work with you, helping you to accept them. It comes in a lot of different forms and these forms can be combined. it can be done in person, by phone and over the internet,

The long term idea is not to try to understand your predicament, it is to change what you demand and what you desire, which will take a lot more time and effort, and the right psychiatric help, help that meshes well with your personality. You need to find some one that will work with you on your own terms and not their terms. It will help you find the source of your issues, but it is not about understanding these sources, it is about accepting them, it is about change.

A to light up on either board, no other LEDs can be lit up.

This rule, excludes the possibility that two or more bulbs can be simultaneously lit at any point in time.
We don't establish the initial conditions either there are lights on or not.
If there are other lights on then per by rule there is nothing we can do.
The example that the OP posted leaves no opportunity to do anything. At least, as I read it, it is all hard wired, and lights are either on or off.

If a person decides to purchase a fleet of jets, she helps countless families that work for the company that builds jets. Asking the question is it better not to give to charity...assumes some sort of universal know it all position typical of utilitarianism. How do you weight the good?

Should you intervene when you see something bad happening. It may be that you don't understand what is happening. Perhaps a 911 call would be appropriate, unless of course the people involved are black.

I like PBRs and I am always trying to think about something else to paint. So when I saw the Pabst contest, I thought sure, it might be fun to do something a little different. Some really creative ideas posted on their web site. I might try to do this again prior to entry, try to give it a little more finished look.

http://pabstblueribbon.com/art/

You might want to consider dialectical monism.

Dialectical monism is an ontological position that holds that reality is ultimately a unified whole, and asserts that this whole necessarily expresses itself in dualistic terms. For the dialectical monist, the essential unity is that of complementary polarities, which, while opposed in the realm of experience and perception, are co-substantial in a transcendent sense.

The concepts of the Tao may be compatible with this viewpoint.

Plato dialogues are dialectical but he has been described as a priority monist.

Priority monism also targets concrete objects but counts by basic tokens. This is the doctrine that exactly one concrete object token is basic, and equivalent to the classical doctrine that the whole is prior to its (proper) parts.

I remember reading a piece by Jacob Klein that suggests otherwise, based on the early part of the Phelibus. There he divides up reality into three parts: 1) chaos and the limited, 2) the result of the mixing of these and 3) the cause of their mixing. The intellect forms the limited, which I think is basically the movement of the dialectic (where negativity shapes reality). For Plato the movement here is a becoming a generation.

He also has a bit of math in the dialogues, mostly seem to be Pythagorean not sure if they can be tied in to the Tao. I understand that Jacob Klein also has an excellently reviewed book on ancient math, I have not read it yet, more than I care to spend, and it may be too obtuse for me.

Hi Jimi and welcome.

It sounds more like neurosis than psychosis. Neurotics can get comfortable with their tendencies, compulsions, etc. They tend to fall into patterns.

aspects that were created before I was conceived

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You may find it profitable to think about events you experienced during your upbringing.

I like your Mycellium, but mycellium are static and your work seems to me more fluid, dynamic. Like a river flowing over rocks, white waters splashing and turning into calmer blues. Joyful, looks like it could have been fun to paint.

Cool! Very militant, or perhaps defiant...the truth slayer.

Did this in pencil a couple of weeks ago, into color over last weekend.

Not another Watts :-O