Sometimes, philosophy can be incredibly abstract and difficult to understand- for example, Derrida, Lacan and Foucault may not make much sense to someone who is new to them without feminism, but even then, they still require careful attention. Explaining things in too much concreteness can be misleading however and recent ‘feminists’ such as Camille Paglia, […]
Alfredo Bonanno puts forward a truth in regards to the crisis an anarchist faces when attempting to define anarchism: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-the-anarchist-tension
Some quotes: ” The vast majority of the information we have about the worship of Morgoth comes from the Silmarillion. When Sauron convinces Ar-Pharazon and the Numenoreans to start worshipping Morgoth, this is what he said: ‘Darkness alone is worshipful, and the Lord thereof may yet make other worlds to be gifts to those that serve him, so […]
There are various strategies to eliminate homosexuality or perceived abberations in human behavior which curiously exist even within the efforts of self-proclaimed homosexuals even as a majority with efforts such as “acceptance” being a similar elimination strategy to “changing”. I made this thread to discuss natural homophobic tendencies within all or most people including those […]
The following is based on the supposition that unity comprises multiplicity in order to realize itself. The interaction of unity and multiplicity is called ConsciousNess* and regarded as an inter-extrapolation that relates in a viewpoint which manifests ConsciousNess. In 2750, an Egyptian priest of Ptah paraphrased it like this: “The seeing of the […]
Judith Butlers’ reading of Luce Irigaray says that woman is ‘cancelled’, she is referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aufheben?wprov=sfsi1 Any thoughts?
From what I can gather, Lacan is saying the formation of the ego is a structuring of images, an illusion of completeness after feeling fragmented, until eventually, during the mirror stage (not a literal mirror) we form our ego and subjectivity (which are two different things for Lacan) in relation to the other. Anyone else […]
Feel free to discuss any ideas connected to or appearing to you in or as: Animals, Numbers ,Symbols, Objects, Stars, Constellations, Elements, Gods, Peoples/Nations/Ethnic Groups, Characters, Fiction, Stones, Gems, Metals, Plants, Tools, Clothing, Names or whatever at all. For Example, the Elephant as a symbol sometimes seeming to imply certain themes of Divine Kingship or Kingship in […]
@”Whisper” brought up a decent point that I have wanted to bring up for a while. I always find political and sociological discussions to have annoying limits intrinsic to them, for example, when discussing rape culture or patriarchy in general, I know of women who have been raped and shamed, I have experienced oppression, but I […]
Life can be viewed as one big joke made up of a series of jokes. The material of the Universe being Joke or Joca. Nothing or what is like Nothing is excluded from this. It is not made of Joca or anything, but makes Joca. Joca has many dimensions but it means both trick and […]
