As I see it, we would benefit more from being honest with ourselves and admit that there are those who have far more interesting and important things to say than we do. But perhaps I am wrong and there will be books and seminars and classes devoted to studying green flag. — Fooloso4
When they talk about the great green flag, they'll really being talking about themselves. — green flag
Gossip? Is this an example of frankly violent and shameless interpretation? — Fooloso4
Warning others away from the risk of creativity ? — green flag
But are you not just as concerned about such a role itself being boring ? — green flag
Could not a bot be assigned to this task ? — green flag
Here's Emerson's version of idle talk and its opposite. — green flag
This is one of those books that looks good on a shelf but is not to be believed and acted upon, for that would not be respectable, not nearly as respectable as the safely dead and famous name. — green flag
Do you equate interpretation with idle talk? — Fooloso4
As long as you get the money and the girls, what will it matter? :cool: — Tom Storm
I love how we can go from Heidegger's notions of chatter to putative supplies of bananas and peanutbutter in the same thread... — Tom Storm
Dickens also used to laugh as he wrote, and he even did all the voices of his characters out loud as he penned their dialogue. I would give anything to hear that... — Tom Storm
I imagine Shakespeare doing similarly - smart actors make great writers. — Tom Storm
... in essence what is Nietzsche hoping his readers will gain from ER? — Tom Storm
He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader.
...first nature was at one time or another once a second nature and that every victorious second nature becomes a first nature.
For only in the Dionysian mysteries, in the psychology of the Dionysian condition, does the fundamental fact of the Hellenic instinct express itself—its “will to life.” What did the Hellene procure in these mysteries? Eternal life, the eternal recurrence of life; the future promised and made sacred in the past; the triumphant yes to life beyond death and change; true life as collective survival through reproduction, through the mysteries of sexuality. (90)
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And thus I touch again upon the spot from which I first set out—The Birth of Tragedy was my first revaluation of all values: thus I take my stand again upon the ground from which grows my willing, my being able—I, the final follower of the philosopher Dionysus—I, the teacher of the eternal recurrence . . . (91)
15. Nietzsche in fact projected a major work to be called “The Eternal Return of the Same,” the divisions of which would be examinations of various aspects of embodiment (Einverleibung). WKG V2 p. 392.
Do you personally find the idea of eternal recurrence compelling? — Tom Storm
"easier to read but harder to understand than those of almost any other thinker.” — Tom Storm
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Need.- Need is considered the cause why something came to be; but in truth it is often merely an effect of what has come to be.
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Cause and effect.- Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does afterward. — ibid, The Gay Science.
I find the histrionic narcissism repellant. 'I... I... I... me... me... me... blood... courage... goblins... — Tom Storm
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