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tim you've stumbled unawares onto a subject that interests me allow me to quote at length from one of my all-time fav pieces of cultural criticism in short, i don't think that the truth of cigarettes is to be found in the experience of those kids excluded from making the wager on smoking

not sure that i'd advocate drunken blokiness but certainly i'm no advocate of sobriety at night spots indeed what always puts me off at rock shows (or indeed most dj bars) is how nobody dances or moves if it requires several drinks to make people lose their inhibitions, then so be it in fact...

rather amusing incident -- wonder if related to the elections in the uk? supposedly some dutch guy did it here's the ny times link note the reference in the article to how many cameras there are in the area -- cameras that look like lightposts under surveillance -- oh yeah

that which is is the ground of all meaning it is the god principle however, the ground of all meaning need not be a transcendent ground i.e., heidegger locates the ground of all meaing in the *relationship* of human beings to that which is -- for without human being, that which is would not...

by "interrogating and unfolding" the reasons for a person's having gone to church, i don't mean to suggest that we sit that person down in a room and ask him for an explanation i mean, rather, that a person goes to church for his own sake or for the sake of his children i.e., he expects some...

isn't this conversation supposed to be about what an immanent earth religion would look like if we take for granted: (A) that there is but one substance and (B) per badiou, that substance is not one i.e., this one substance is the void = inconsistent multiplicity out of which consistent...

that is, even in the case of an immanent religion, relgion will still be about that which is un-worldly in man in the earth religion = we are born of the earth, we return to the earth, but we are not of this world and why do men need religion? b/c their very nature involves thinking about and...

that's b/c most existing religions have far too much content in the future religion there will be little to no content = celebration of the void which is not to say "content free" as in soft and easy but rather, "content free" as in we're all gonna die and that'll be the end of each of us --...

i don't see why this distinction should be so important for you i.e., intentionality works on many levels so even if this churchgoer is bored out of his wits while in church -- he's still there for reasons that could ultimately be interrogated and unfolded and even if the priest has to take a...

yeah -- i think it's supposed to be the "scientific" aspect of Lucretius/Spinoza that leads to eudaimonia by dispelling fear of death and divine punishment

actually i think what confused me is that you and autophoron appear to be using the term ritual in two different ways (1) formal ritual -- e.g., roman catholic sacrament = this is always a relatively conscious process, i.e., if you're kneeling in church you know damn well that it has something...

let me clarify: spinoza is most famous for criticizing "final cause" -- i.e., that God creates each thing for a higher purpose -- such that the earth was made to benefit man, and man made to contemplate and serve God but b/c substance (the entire universe) in spinoza is ONE -- then nothing has...

errrr, this depends on whether you have a totalistic or pluralistic conception of existence in a totalistic account, dental hygiene is simply one moment or concern in a larger sequence of reference and meaning and purpose -- i.e., we desire dental hygiene b/c we desire bodily health, and we...

With so much discussion in this parts about RIU&SA, what about other books available on amazon.co.uk that are NOT available in the good ole usa in particular, these books -- (1) dave halsam's "manchester, england" and "not abba: real story of the 1970s" and "rise of superstar djs" (2) tony...

i think that non-theism means breaking away, in the first instance, from the notion of efficient causation -- i.e., that some entity "made" the universe or set into motion the principles & processes that animate/govern the universe why must the universe have a beginning? -- this is the question...

doesn't there have to be some kind of encounter with the "numinous" for the act or ritual to be sacral -- either originally or down the road as redemption/renewal that is, the discussion b/w borderpolice and autopheron of ritual as repetition that serves to spatialize time and orient the...

errr, no, i don't actually know that much except that i have read several books by strauss, rosen, cropsey and my background and qualifications are none too impressive, i.e., never got a master's or a phd i pretty much said my piece over on the "power of nightmares" thread and i got the...

this is a ridiculous myth that is repeated over and over throughout the media -- mainstream and left media, but also the right media b/c the likes of kristol require the pedigree and revel in the glamour first, people like cheney and rumsfeld are in no way connected to leo strauss second, the...

ummmmm, not sure i think the piano line was more pronounced in what i heard last night -- and i'm pretty sure it was a woman's voice -- but again, perhaps that's why i thought the vocal was slowed down last night, i.e., b/c a man's voice and i simply did not cotton on to that fact problem w/...

tim sweeney played this last night -- definitely one of my all-time favs does anyone else here rate this record as highly as i do? tim also played what sounded like a much slower version of fpi project's "going back to my roots," with a small segment of the piano line looped -- wondering...