You're right. Bad arguments start with bad assumptions.
You are, now I realize, a cross-dressing, lesbian, post-op transvestite space alien necrophiliac hunchback robot.(*_*)
I know I erred. But please believe me, for me this is not the first, and not the worst of instances of wrongly recognizing gender identitty.
Furthermore, (*_*) it takes one to know one. — god must be atheist
Existentialism evolved - at least in the mind of one man: Colin Wilson (made famous and fashionable by his first book, The Outsider, in the 1950s, when he was 25 years old) - into The New Existentialism; a philosophy rooted in, and foil to, the Sartrean Nausea: centered on the notion of peak and plateau experiences as documented (later in the century) by Abraham Maslow.
This is one path out of existential darkness and still an existentialism. — ZzzoneiroCosm
The second thing - being looked at by someone who truly knows your flaws, but still cares for you, but is prepared to withstand your bullshit - would be the ideal glance meeting me. — csalisbury
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." — csalisbury
Colin Wilson (made famous and fashionable by his first book, The Outsider, in the 1950s, when he was 25 years old) — ZzzoneiroCosm
would have sworn that The Outsider had been written by Albert Camus, in French, with the original title "L'estranger". He was about 25 years old, too, in the 1950s. It was made into a really good film, too, starring that french guy, forgot his name, with the wide-set eyes and big head. — god must be atheist
Do you use humility, or a correlate of humility, at all? — Punshhh
I've never read Colin Wilson... — csalisbury
Interesting you seem to be saying that humility is an affliction, an unfortunate feeling, like sadness, or grief. You are the first person I have come across in a thread like this who sees it this way. Perhaps in the passage above if you substitute the word engenders, or something like that for "it calls for" it would be more appropriate.In increasing awareness, an experience of humility calls for patience; in increasing connection it calls for gentleness; in increasing collaboration it calls for peace; and in relating awareness to connection, connection to collaboration and collaboration to awareness, it calls for compassion - a recognition that humility is a familiar experience for
"How to live" in what way? to what end?What I really want is techniques for how to live, and techniques for how to approach life as it is. — csalisbury
When all else fails ... question your questions?That's hard - some inner instinct bucks and shies from that - but what else to do?
Oh boy, you really are Charlton Heston. — Punshhh
"How to live" in what way? to what end? -- Well, death, obviously.
"Approach life" from within or without? (i.e. immanently or transcendently) You can't approach life without life. Unless you are a train or a meteorite.
"Life as it is" what? You know, shining shoes, doing math homework, getting the older child back from the police station, paying mortgage, and washing the shit off of your 86-year-old mother-in-law's inner thighs.
question your questions? And the question shalt answer. — 180 Proof
Interesting you seem to be saying that humility is an affliction, an unfortunate feeling, like sadness, or grief. You are the first person I have come across in a thread like this who sees it this way. Perhaps in the passage above if you substitute the word engenders, or something like that for "it calls for" it would be more appropriate.
For me humility is the most powerful means of affecting change in oneself. In spiritual development personal humility is the cornerstone of the spiritual life. In most forms of self help, or personal development processes personal humility is the first lesson, the first step. — Punshhh
"Approach life" from within or without? (i.e. immanently or transcendently) — 180 Proof
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