jean_paul_sartre jane sartre 040203 ... mon smoking in black and white talking about vietnam 040203 ... pipedream bad faith is such a valid concept. bravo for existentialism. 040204 ... oldephebe what unimaginable oblivion, palpable nails pounded into coffin oblivion it must be to awaken to a world that you believe god is dead in.. if i held that in the fatherhood of my shuddering soul i think i would inevitably evaportate..or become so dessicated that i would becom a pillar of ash... 040204 ... zeke i have not found a way to say that a thing does not exist without conjuring it and then denying it's existence. this may be a semantic issue, but it looms large in the semiotics of english. 040204 ... oE yeah the ol' inevitable crux and the critical.. 040204 ... pipedream the definition of everything is dependent on everything. hence there are no absolutes ever, and everything in the universe is inextricably intertwined forever. no such thing as a loner any more. 040204 ... u24 just bought "existentialism + humanism" 040205 ... ( by the above mentioned) 040205 ... piperds a philosophic victory, i am honoured. *bows* 040206 ... oE that was a rather tidy summation pd *applauds* 040310 ... pipers thankyew, wise scribe of the blurple. *smiles modestly before doing victory chicken dance behind nearest pillar* 040310 ... oE she said blurple *heh heh* 040315 ... pipers hehe...sounds like something a frog would say..a frog-burp. 040315 ... notbeingmean notbeingmean notbeingmean i'm sure this modern philosopher would be truly proud of the discussions his works have sparked. 040316 ... u24 lol, I thought the same 040316 ... stork daddy his greatest philisophical work was his relationship with Simone de Beauvoir 040317 ... critic if only you could spell it right 040318 ... oE break down the whole sim de beauv(god i'm not going to even try and spell it)connection for us S..I'm a little light on my Satre...seriously...i'd appreciate your thoughts/exposition 040318 ... jane ooh let me tell. oh wait i dont have time now. later i will 040319 ... oE cool 040319 ... pipedream actually storky spely beauvoir's name right. and day before i came across a fat book that was the sum of her letters to sartre, published by her adopted daughter...i flipped through it and it was like reading her diary. i think publishing anyone's letters- to ANYONE, not just a love/lover- is a horrible breach of privacy and trust. terrible, i felt MOST awful that such a book had to exist. its degrading to be have your emotions waved around on a flagpole like that, even if you WERE a person of repute. not good. 040319 ... jane although i'm sure you had a pleasure reading it. eh, i turn the job back to stork daddy. i've got a ten page paper to write 040323 ... pipers i didn't read it, that's the point :P 'a thousand kisses, my darling' leaped out as i was fast-flipping the pages (y'know, when you fan the pages with your thumb) and smacked me in the head. so i hid it on the shelf and went looking for the pomes section. 040324 ... ( good for you. ) 040623 ... jane reading nausea - glad it's not senseless philosophical dribble that i've previously had to endure - instead it's an intriguing narrative with the feeling of detachment in a city - something to which i can relate... 050628 ... jane i like that it didn't have an ending - it just sort of drifted out the way i feel lately - that existentialism is a disconcerting feeling, what sartre called the Nausea - i feel it every day now. every inhalation sucks in more anxiety, my stomach tightening with the sense of being lost. where am i now? when did i get here? & no one seems to know like me. 050929 ... margaux being_and_nothingness 050929 ... . 101012 what's it to you? who go blather from