What do these two terms mean to you? What is preferable and why? People often mix complexity with confusion and simplicity with ease. Sometimes complexity is taken as a reference to or indication of sophistication and advanced intelligence, in other cases with madness. As for simplicity, some conflate it with stupidity or naivety. I don’t […]
Written by kFoyauextlH
Human history does not begin before a human being wakes up and sees and seems to remember what they see. Humans are not born into history, as far as one can tell, but rather seem to be born into the human condition, which is composed of haste and glued together by conjecture. The human condition […]
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I will edit this post later to include a number of links which elude to the themeatic influence or reference to Islam in regard to a number of influential figures. This thread was inspired somewhat by Kenneth Grant’s comment that Aleister Crowley seemed to be influenced by similar themes, but may have missed mentioning or […]
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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, […]
Written by atreestump
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
Written by kFoyauextlH
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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?
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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 […]