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Re: Stabs in the Dark: Attempted Aphorisms
« Reply #75 on: February 14, 2019, 12:22:16 pm »
Senor Raul,

Why crucify publicly when they  can bury the  likes of me in an  avalanche  of official files?The fat  ass colleagues(literally  fat asses)  have   a new policy  to make  use of (not  kidding)-if they cannot have kids the natural    way,the company will fund "test  tube babies".

So while they are making test tube babies and making their asses even fatter,I'd be  getting a quiet burial in  the files.


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Re: Stabs in the Dark: Attempted Aphorisms
« Reply #76 on: February 14, 2019, 02:49:05 pm »
Holden,

Thank you for your response. As you well know today is Día de los Enamorados or Valentine´s Day as it is called in many parts of this Earth of the Damned. I saw street vendors yesterday preparing lots of flowers to sell. I hope they sold them so they could get some money.

While reading your words, I heard on the radio that an important Paraguayan businessman here paid US$ 22,000 to bed a top model. Supposedly this known top model first accepted an offer by another man who was willing to pay US$ 9,000 but the businessman offered a better price, US$ 22,000 and she accepted. The reporter asked where this man got the money to pay and if he made his money legally or not. Powerful and rich men like to waste their money. Maybe I would have done the same thing just to show off. Who knows? In these strange times love is not free.

Food and sex, religion and money are the tools to keep us slaves in this human farm. Of course there are other chains, as you know, called school, work,marriage,etc,etc. But those three are the most important.

The sex issue reminds me of Jesus who said in Matthew 19:12: “For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to receive this, let him receive it.”

I think you, Hentrich, Silenus and other readers of this blog are philosophers, in the true sense of the word, because you dare write about disturbing truths. Not many are willing to do that. It is not politically correct.

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Test tube babies and Top Model
« Reply #77 on: February 14, 2019, 03:21:06 pm »
Holden,

Certainly you were born in a mad country. Test tube babies in one of the most populated countries on this Earth. These colleagues of yours must be an exception to the rule there. I read, not sure if the information is accurate that in India 20 children are born every 1 minute.

I am sure, from what you have written so far, that those avalanche of files will be nothing for you. You will finish the work professionally. That is something this people do not expect from you.

Below is the link, I forgot, about the top model who rented her attributes for Valentine´s Day. If you see her picture, well, she knows how to market her body.

https://www.hoy.com.py/farandula/alquilo-su-cuerpo-por-una-noche-us-22.000-y-tributacion-le-exige-informacion-quien-le-dio

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Re: Stabs in the Dark: Attempted Aphorisms
« Reply #78 on: February 15, 2019, 11:14:46 am »
Senor Raul

how many have this world driven to suicide?
we'll never know: not even a ballpark figure
(By Animal Liberation and Anti-national)
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Re: Stabs in the Dark: Attempted Aphorisms
« Reply #79 on: February 15, 2019, 11:20:05 am »
you can acknowledge the anniversaries of bloody school-shooting massacres, but ppl will bring more targets (babies) into the world anyway
(Animal Liberation and Anti-national)
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Re: Stabs in the Dark: Attempted Aphorisms
« Reply #80 on: February 15, 2019, 11:28:58 am »
At that pond
the frog is growing old now—
among fallen leaves.
      — Buson
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Re: Stabs in the Dark: Attempted Aphorisms
« Reply #81 on: February 15, 2019, 11:34:58 am »
animal liberation & antinatalism

work:
break yr mind, body, soul so you can prolong yr miserable existence & help others make the REAL $ while they sit on their prodigious asses
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Re: Stabs in the Dark: Attempted Aphorisms
« Reply #82 on: February 15, 2019, 11:36:56 am »
LonePandaRoams
If the world became more open to exploring Antinatalism and accepting Pessimistic Philosophy as an irrefutable reality, then less people would procreate, many people would simple walk away from the system + do their own thing and that would threaten govt + the ruling elite.
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Re: Stabs in the Dark: Attempted Aphorisms
« Reply #83 on: February 15, 2019, 06:47:17 pm »
Holden,

Thank you for sharing these important words. I have little to add to what you wrote.
Your question: “how many have this world driven to suicide? we'll never know: not even a ballpark figure.” As you wrote before, this world is a slaughterhouse. The tragedy is that we know that this Earth is a slaughterhouse.

I read that in 1974, a young news anchor,Christine Chubbuck announced to her Sarasota, Florida, viewership that “in keeping with Channel 40’s policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts, and in living color, you are going to see another first—attempted suicide” before lifting a revolver from beneath her desk and fatally shooting herself behind her right ear. I wonder if the channel allowed the viewers to see her suicide.

I also read that if a person dies by suicide in Ghana the body is removed through a window or a special hole cut into the wall so that the doorway isn’t desecrated permanently. If one hangs oneself, the tree is felled and burned.
That thing called love goes with procreation. It is part of our programming. That is the way human beings were made.

As one example three days ago a German girl, 31,years old came here to meet her future Paraguayan husband. She contacted this guy through Facebook. For many months she has been giving money to this guy, more or less, not sure, 5,000 euros. It turned out that the man has been in prison for homicide. Blas Antonio Bogado supposedly was a military officer and promised to marry her and live with her in Paraguay. The newspaper showed her picture on FB to this guy wearing a wedding dress. Heide Mareke Rachidi Zeigner drifted in the national airport with no money and now she will return to Germany with the aid of the embassy. This lady, not beautiful, risked everything for a wedding and a bright future with children probably. Now she goes empty-handed and back to her life.   

Life is ssShit and ridiculous. We may be smart, educated, good, honest and kind. But all these qualities do not save us from feeling that life is a punishment. Life is a fateful present and we are just playthings for the gods.

Stay safe.

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Re: Stabs in the Dark: Attempted Aphorisms
« Reply #84 on: February 15, 2019, 11:06:10 pm »
"It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits:  freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either one."   ~ Mark Twain
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Re: Stabs in the Dark: Attempted Aphorisms
« Reply #85 on: September 07, 2019, 11:49:49 pm »
I am a stomach, and therefore I am another disgustingly shameless appetite.  This thing we are in is a merciless machine eating away at itself at all times.  Resistance is futile.
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Re: Stabs in the Dark: Attempted Aphorisms
« Reply #86 on: November 06, 2019, 04:43:10 pm »
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Another reason why someone would like math notation could be this:its not so much about the notations themselves-but the twisted fabric of reality which they represent.I think its not just mathematics which enables one to look at this twisted reality,so can science and literature.

But I think with mathematics its easier to look at the "Thing in Itself".

One must read between the lines,one must look beneath the surface.

or - in the case of programming, hiding more and more (of what is beneath the surface [sequences of bits]) under layers of abstraction, so that "the idea" can be represented in a meaningful way, understandable to "the understanding" ... The strings of bits get manipulated in different ways according to the defined "types" ... This may be the similarity for me, of programming to mathematics, where mathematics has the field axioms, Integers, Rational numbers, Real numbers, Complex numbers; and, in strongly typed programming languages like C and C++, any kind of "structure" you wish to define.

The weird thing about aphorisms is that maybe our own utterances have special meaning only to us, only to the one making the observation, whereas with mathematics and programming, we can usually look things up to see if we are grasping things.   With literature, there doesn't seem to be a "correct answer" or even any requirement to solve any problems.

Isn't an aphorism simply a literary observation?   Is it simply a matter of style, a realm in between poetry and prose, between essay and graffiti?
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Re: Stabs in the Dark: Attempted Aphorisms
« Reply #87 on: November 07, 2019, 04:02:49 am »
I fear I may not be able to afford the illusions necessary to sustain my identity as a "cognizant sentient organism made of meat."

Well, it is all so-utterly-complicated and beyond my personal control, what, with the stench of the socks, one soon requires a washing machine, plumbing, you know, a sewage disposal system, electric wires, cables for Internet, refrigerator, oven, heating and air-conditioning.   Who can afford these requirements, and if so, for how long?

I wish to apply Husserl's phenomenological reduction, but I can't shake this continuous urgency my body has for consuming eggs, bread, potatoes, beans, peanut butter (yummilicious), bananas, not to mention coffee and tobacco; and then a just as urgent, if not even more urgent, demand to "poop" out the gargantuan log of dung.

Do I need the title "mathematics enthusiast" or "existential philosopher of doom" to mask [persona] the ugly details of this breathing hunk of flesh and bones?   Without the anthropomorphic "human" meaning, without the physical structure of the house and the food trucked into the stores and stocked on shelves, the Illusion comes to a halt and I, along with so many others, am left this desparate helpless animal, like exotic plants in need of a hothouse in the winter.

Too long for an aphorism?
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Re: Stabs in the Dark: Attempted Aphorisms
« Reply #88 on: November 19, 2019, 07:08:19 am »
Are we in the day or is the day in us?
Am I in this day?  Or, is this day a memory in "me" ?
Are others experiencing similar inner transformations?
Too much is beyond our control ...

To what lengths shall I go to keep the terror and dread at bay?
How to minimize discomfort anxiety and "manage" our "moods."  ?

And who is ultimately responsible for keeping THIS head together?
And what might it mean to "keep one's head together?"

The head was to search for food for the stomach, figure out ways to meet "primitive needs."
Being alive is like that analogy Schopenhauer used, where I am a small vessel on an unimaginably vast ocean with gigantic waves.  No wonder the people flock to their corporate and government masters and "man" or "woman" their positions.   The show must go on at all costs.

The schools will become psychiatric evaluation centers where children will receive, not grades based on academic performance, but psychiatric diagnoses and "reality management training."

I'm not saying I have any better ideas.   Who or what "subjective personality" could adapt itself as-sentience to another living creature, even be that other creature of the same species, of the same family?   

What kind of diagnoses await our non-human relatives?  Oh, they have already been served: utterly soulless, demonic brutes, puppies humping pillows and everything, male sharks eating their own baby sharks ... as far as males go, even with all the anti-male propaganda, male human animals are actually, on an individual basis, far more sensitive and caring creatures than most males of other mammal species, tender even.

Well, maybe each animal "specimen" has these tender subjective emotions, but they are reserved for the imaginations of the writing staff for Walt Disney Entertainment Studios.

Psychoanalysis has introduced the problem of "psychic trauma," : existence as inherently traumatizing.
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Re: Stabs in the Dark: Attempted Aphorisms
« Reply #89 on: November 19, 2019, 08:12:30 am »
Herr Kaspar
 Thank you for your reply.About 2 litres of fluid has been extracted out of my pleural space in lungs through a tube and a syringe.
Three nights back my temperature reached 106.5 F.I was shivering with three blankets and then the medical staff took off my blankets and clothes and covered my body with ice packs.
My mind was growing dark and I told the doctor I cannot concentrate.I thought I was dying.I said to nature that I have had enough.But I could barely form any thoughts.How can one be sure that one has enough conviction and coherence at such a moment.
There was no sense of peace.It was not like falling asleep.It was like my mind was being dragged through an agonising place.
After I recovered I asked the nurse,almost begged her,for a slip of water.She told be to wait as she said I might vomit it out again.I realised that in the slip of water I was begging for ,I was saying yes to life and yet there it was-it was painful and I was barely coherent.No peaceful unconscious was beckoning me ,the way my mind was losing coherence of thought was traumatic to behold.

Yes or no said to nature is how one’s whole life is lead and not one’s verbal expression at the moment of extreme weakness.
After the episode was over ,I was rather alright.But the episode itself was right out of a nightmare.

Will write to you again soon my dear friend Herr Kaspar.
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