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Everything is Beautiful
'If we have been given the gift of the world, the very least we can do in return is to give it our attention.'
- Thomas A. Clark
'The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I feel it's not beautiful? And very shortly you discover there is no reason.'
- John Cage
'Who knows what one loving act can do? Who can trace the measure of a single peaceful word said from the heart?'
- Robert Lax
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the trees murmur, they tell us something
Octavio Paz, from “I Speak of the City,” trans. Eliot Weinberger
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Milky Way | image by Andrey Shumilin
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Hi Oedipalopus. I hope you get this message because for some reason my tiny monitor won't display your page right so I can't hit ask, and apparently I haven't followed you long enough to message you!
So, I'd be happy to take part in this. I'm not from the US though, and our timezones are far apart, so using the message function or email would work better for discussing things. I'm about to be on reduced internet access for the next three weeks due to the country I'll be in, but after that I'll have normal access again, so if you do get in touch with me please be patient and I will reply - whether I get a chance during the three weeks or only just after.
I am not an activist but identify myself as an ethical vegetarian (actually "flexibly" vegan) so I should fit into your research well. Hope to hear from you. I will try to check my messages here during the next 3 weeks if at all possible. Cheers!
I’m an anthropology student currently taking a course that requires the entire class to partake in ethnography (“writing about people”) that focuses particularly on current and contemporary issues.
My topic is animal rights activism. I have chosen this because I identify as a vegetarian, but my...
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Sorry, I never saw this... Errr, since June I think. But I've also looked back through a lot of the stuff you posted before I was following you. I think this is still my favourite, and in my opinion the best so far. You've written lots of other great stuff lately tho!
lovingacts replied to your post: the endless wonders of our cerulean planet, so oft misunderstood
your best yet i think
how long have you been following me?
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poems out the window, in the air, on branches. or this by larry eigner
from “Larry Eigner Selected Poems,” published by Oyez
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You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
Thich Nhat Hanh (via nminusone)
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Cheers for taking the time to reply. So I guess we respond to differently to the quote
“It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity, to hold a belief because you think it’s useful, and not because you think it’s true.”
— Bertrand Russell
because we interpret it differently. I don't take issue with believing in something that is true because it is. That's a good idea as far as I'm concerned too, I agree with you. But for me this quote also has the whiff of cold logic (that so often over-extends it reach) which is so popular in the new atheist crowd and doesn't do any service to human life in the subjective. It is intolerant of feeling and psychological need which to me seem fundamental to human existence.
On a slightly different tack for a second, it's interesting to consider what I think is the Deleuzian perspective on this kind of thing. For him, I gather, things are to be judged precisely for their usefulness. I'm not sure if it would trump "truth" for Deleuze, but then I'm not sure what Deleuze thought about "truth" anyway. I think he wasn't really up for it much though. That sounds kind of nihilistic, but it wasn't actually so nihilistic in the context of the rest of his thinking. He's really so affirming, you can feel buoyed by reading a lot of Deleuze - for me, especially by his ideas about the body (what can a body do?). Anyway, I'm saying this purely to offer the possibility of a different perspective on the quote - it's not a perspective I'm committed to because, as I said, I don't know how accurate what I said is!
Anyway, yes I think a lot of ancient Greek thought was tied up in mathematical perfection. They had lots of mystery schools that had maths at the heart, and Epicurus, as well as Pythagoras amongst others, both had belief systems / mystery schools structured around mathematics. However, I'm not certain about the relation between mathematical perfection and continental philosophy, could you say more about what you mean? Analytic philosophy seems to have a closer correlation with mathematic perfection (in the sense that it's logic-centred) from my current viewpoint. Continental philosophy for me has tended to be about phenomenology and existentialism, and then the post-structuralists / "post-modernists". I've never touched Hegel, nor Horkheimer, so I can't comment on that. But I think in some sense a lot of phenomenology in particular might correlate with nature being perfect in and for itself - insofar as it is seen as something primary. Much continental philosophy seems, to me, though, like re-imaginings of spiritual ideas - Deleuze and Derrida among others in the "post-" category (look up buddhism and either of their names for countless discussions just to get started), then also Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, and Husserl too. Plenty more should be added there too I'm sure (Nietzsche maybe and definitely Kierkegaard). Anyway, I'm kind of rambling off on a tangent here, I'm just getting carried away talking about what continental philosophy represents to me - that is apart from contemporary social critique and theory. Erm, right, back on track...
Yes, a turtle definitely doesn't need that knowledge! That's just an explanation for people in the frame of evolutionary thought. I quite like having explanations of things like that, but I can see why it might irk you if you're not into the analytic approach to things. Still, I'm not actually sure if I grasped your point there properly so, again, if you'd like to add to it at all I'd be grateful :)
I feel like I'm rambling now and this discussion has got several tangential threads so, I dunno, guess I'll just stop. I don't know if I'm disagreeing with you on anything or what. I guess I just have the two questions about what exactly you mean, and have given my feeling about the quote which inspired my original comment. I could get more into the ins and outs of what I meant with that comment, but dunno if I need to. Let me know!
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I’m not really into analytic philosophy in general. I think it’s relentless, & there’s probably more wrong with it than good. However, Bertrand’s quote made a lot of sense to me, in that I can appreciate the usefulness in believing something that is true because it is. & I do agree...
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Octavio Paz
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We —mankind— are a conversation.
Martin Heidegger (via dustyshelf)
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now and then dragonflies tempt me into the sun
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