being_and_nothingness jane we were talking in class about jean-paul sartre. an amazing incredible man. there aren't words to describe such a man. but anyway, mr. norman brought out being and nothingness and he was saying that it was utterly incomprehensible, even to theologians and scholars. sartre said that man could do anything he set his mind to. look at him: he said that he would become the smartest man in france, and he took a year off and did it. he became the smartest man in france. so anyway, i've decided to do it. sartre himself has inspired me to read being and nothingness. even if i only get through a chapter a year and i have to read hundreds of other books to understand it. i will read this book. and i will comprehend it. 030306 ... yeoldaxle i got sartre'd myself once 030307 ... jane how sartre'd? and what did you do about it 030307 ... jane oh yeah i told mr. norman and he laughed at me...way to be a mentor, norman 030307 ... phil laughter is the forst page in the book of genious. 030307 ... jane have you "read" it, phil? 030308 ... xle i cried, i wandered, i tried to escape, i understood and then several years later i finally developed a satisfactory view on life 030308 ... jane awesome i'm proud like i said, my teacher laughed in my face when i told him i wanted to read it 030311 ... phil Might be a fool to read it. 030311 ... jane a fool never knows until he tries 030311 ... phil I saw someone who had. 030418 ... jane what happened, phil? 030523 ... oldephebe man satre even at the remedial level is some heavy, heavy stuff - even if you prep yourself with heidegger and wittgenstien and the other two guys ah satre's mentor and ah contemporary - both he encountered at the french institute of philosophy in germany or something in 1933? and then what about Camus? and all the others, ah much props to you jane if you ever got through it - i can go for the gestalt of existentialism, but all the turgid, impenetrable tech speak whew! ah I prefer reading novelists and playrights exploration and application (quite serendipitous mind you, and i mean after all isn't there a little existentialism in all our endeavors, or at least our internal dialogues?) - yeah so i prefer grazing upon the gestalt of existentialism as it becomes the progeny, the ah natural brick and mortar for a construct - ah out of the playrights or novelists pen - still though very impressive if you managed to get through it - Huzzah! erp! ... 030904 ... oldephebe oh and that goes for phil as well erp! too! ... 030904 ... gad sartre is based on nietzsche refraction 031109 ... Perspective_of_Soul Well somebody is in my Philosophy class. I just handed that essay in. 031110 ... Perspective_of_Soul I found Sartre rather easy, i did that essay yesterday (being and nothingness) Anyway, maybe i got it wrong and that's why it wasn't too bad, lol. 031110 ... krazy "nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" Hamlet 2,2,255 031111 ... krazykat Zen, to me, is so much better then all that over-wordy European crap. So many words and books and ideas, and for what? Quite literally, Nothing. Zen is poetic and easier(?) to understand. But if that's where you're drawn, then go for it, just don't hesitate. 031111 ... ferret it's all the same to me when you get down to a semi-molecular level. nonlight and antimatter are my drugs, hairdoo, thank you! 031111 ... krazykat Removing all abstraction is the easy way out, just like over-abstraction. i.e. Is Blather "collection of binary code stored on the worldwide virtual database" or is it "entertainment" ? Either one is just as true, neither are helping us understand anything any better. 031111 ... krazykat a few beautiful words about nothing substantial can be more useful and wise than entire volumes of heady philosophy. 031111 ... phil he went crazy 031111 ... oldephebe "as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he" ah J to the Christ..i forget the spriptual referance..or what it Jesus paraphrasing his progenitor King David of the psalms? *skips off strumming his consecrated lyre" 031118 ... jane nausea 050730 ... REAListic optimIST any luck, jane? 050730 ... jane hah. promises, like new years resolutions, are often lost in the sea of realism. 050730 ... r r ! 080814 ... u24 never studied sartre. 080815 ... sigma and also the second_sex 111030 ... unhinged emptiness 111030 what's it to you? who go blather from