tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31125887.post115871784068911750..comments2023-11-05T12:39:29.721+00:00Comments on De Viris Pulchris et Aliis...: Who am I? Someone asked.RIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13504864950306777236noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31125887.post-1159114050321275412006-09-24T17:07:00.000+01:002006-09-24T17:07:00.000+01:00Indeed, Gray, that's the whole issue of existence,...Indeed, Gray, that's the whole issue of existence, I guess. Around here we say: «I wish I were x years a lot younger and knew what I know today»... But would that improve our quest for happiness?... So many questions, so little time...<BR/>Thanks, Gray! :-)RIChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13504864950306777236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31125887.post-1159108585006179762006-09-24T15:36:00.000+01:002006-09-24T15:36:00.000+01:00"In spite of what many people say, I don't believe..."In spite of what many people say, I don't believe we can shape our destiny."<BR/><BR/>We can in *some* ways change our destinies! When we take "The Road Less Travelled" I believe that we find out *where* we could have changed our destinies; but: *not before*!!<BR/><BR/>I wish we knew how to do so before we made/make our decisions in life.Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08428046291631841793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31125887.post-1158854471212106082006-09-21T17:01:00.000+01:002006-09-21T17:01:00.000+01:00Now everything is quite clear, no doubt about it. ...Now everything is quite clear, no doubt about it. You never insulyed me in any way whatsoever. I was only confused by your reaction, that's all.<BR/>Next time I'll be so much more careful about this kind of posts... Maybe this is why I was never that good at systematic philosophy... (lol)<BR/>All's well that ends well!<BR/>Thank you very much for your concern, Kb! I do appreciate that! :-)RIChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13504864950306777236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31125887.post-1158850666569214572006-09-21T15:57:00.000+01:002006-09-21T15:57:00.000+01:00I felt that you were giving up in your writing. NO...I felt that you were giving up in your writing. NO I did not mean for you to stop living. You seemed defeated with how fate seems cruel with "counting time" and "won't ever be able" to get "know ourselves".<BR/>I then said that I didn't believe you were going to give up. That no matter what happens; the trials, the b.s., the heartache...we all still hope for something better. <BR/>I never meant to insult you or confuse you with my words. I do appologise for any misunderstanding. Creative minds don't always think clearly. Sometimes I forget that people can't see the way I have thing pictured in my head.<BR/>Once again...I am sorry for sounding harsh and unsympathetic.<BR/>Ashes on my head,<BR/>knottyboyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31125887.post-1158849732854294252006-09-21T15:42:00.000+01:002006-09-21T15:42:00.000+01:00Have a wonderful afternoon, and some tea, by the w...Have a wonderful afternoon, and some tea, by the way...<BR/>Sabe sempre bem, agora que o Outono está aí. Deuses, que temporal!...<BR/>Até logo!RIChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13504864950306777236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31125887.post-1158848731209442412006-09-21T15:25:00.000+01:002006-09-21T15:25:00.000+01:00Aprecio demasiado esta citação de Teixeira de Pasc...Aprecio demasiado esta citação de Teixeira de Pascoaes. Daí, atrevi-me em partilhá-la. Sim, por vezes ajuda-me a caminhar, embora hoje...<BR/>Enfim! Estou «off»!<BR/>Espero que te sintas melhor hoje. Sempre melhor que ontem e pior que amanhã, ok? :-) <BR/>Quanto ao veneno... nada de preocupações. Luto pelos antídotos...<BR/><BR/>Até logo :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31125887.post-1158843980502012972006-09-21T14:06:00.000+01:002006-09-21T14:06:00.000+01:00Your divine humour, Minge! I miss it so much!Okay,...Your divine humour, Minge! I miss it so much!<BR/>Okay, I'm the one who's on his knees in the presence of the blessed one with magic glow of the Golden Temple...<BR/>As to bending over, I've got no problems in doing it... My back is quite fine these days... :-)RIChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13504864950306777236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31125887.post-1158843399110029172006-09-21T13:56:00.000+01:002006-09-21T13:56:00.000+01:00I'm on my knees in your presence - but not saying ...I'm on my knees in your presence - but not saying if I'm bowing or not!<BR/><BR/>;)Mingehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16690119444596624935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31125887.post-1158801005576846902006-09-21T02:10:00.000+01:002006-09-21T02:10:00.000+01:00Hello Jacky! Thank you very much!I did email you t...Hello Jacky! Thank you very much!<BR/>I did email you twice at that address, but there was always an error message. Maybe it was my mistake. I believe I must have typed something wrong!<BR/>Greetings!RIChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13504864950306777236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31125887.post-1158800751071832122006-09-21T02:05:00.000+01:002006-09-21T02:05:00.000+01:00Hello Joel! Very nice to have you back again indee...Hello Joel! Very nice to have you back again indeed!<BR/>I think I've never been able to look into the future. And I believe I know why: the few times I did it, the world just fell down on me. However, I can't help thinking about it, and I admit it does scare me. For many reasons...<BR/>You're a good friend! :-)RIChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13504864950306777236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31125887.post-1158800225500694482006-09-21T01:57:00.000+01:002006-09-21T01:57:00.000+01:00Olá Carla! Excelente citação de T.P.! Muito obriga...Olá Carla! Excelente citação de T.P.! Muito obrigado! Vou lê-la depois com muita atenção. Parece-me que me pode ajudar a esclarecer-me a mim próprio.<BR/>Hoje estou mais ou menos... Algum sonho idiota de que não me lembro deve ter-me ensombrado o dia... Mas já estou mais ou menos habituado...<BR/>Cuidado com o próprio veneno...<BR/>Um abraço!RIChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13504864950306777236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31125887.post-1158799909409227522006-09-21T01:51:00.000+01:002006-09-21T01:51:00.000+01:00Hallo Hans! I do agree with you, no doubt about it...Hallo Hans! I do agree with you, no doubt about it. What is at stake here is the various ways people find to link past, present and future, and how they relate - differently as well - to those three dimensions of life.<BR/>I feel more oe less okay about my past, I make the best I can of the present, but I have reasons to fear the future, I mean, my future.<BR/>And I'm not used at all to observe my life through «metaphorical glasses»... I'm far too rationalist to be able of doing it... Pech...RIChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13504864950306777236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31125887.post-1158796399732894462006-09-21T00:53:00.000+01:002006-09-21T00:53:00.000+01:00Well you're welcome!?lolI think you ar right on so...Well you're welcome!?<BR/><BR/>lol<BR/><BR/>I think you ar right on some points, but kapitano and KB are also right.<BR/><BR/>What I was refering too on my post, was, what would life have been if I had been more in "control" of my self back then.<BR/><BR/>But it's useless to think about now. What I will do is try my best to live here and now.<BR/><BR/>I'll take it day by day and to hell with looking to far into the futur!?<BR/><BR/>Today, I live for me!?Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11849862214265777969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31125887.post-1158783619529267982006-09-20T21:20:00.000+01:002006-09-20T21:20:00.000+01:00"Somos um sonho divino que não se condensou, por c..."Somos um sonho divino que não se condensou, por completo, dentro dos nossos limites materiais. Existe, em nós, um limbo interior; um vago sentimental e original que nos dá a faculdade mitológica de idealizar todas as coisas. <BR/>(...) Se fôssemos um ser definido, seríamos então um ser perfeito, mas<BR/>limitado, materializado como as pedras. Seríamos uma estátua divina, mas não poderíamos atingir a Divindade. Seríamos uma obra de arte e não vivente criatura, pois a vida é um excesso, um ímpeto para além, uma força imaterial, indefinida, a alma, a imperfeição".<BR/> Teixeira de Pascoaes.<BR/><BR/>[Vês?...Também provei do próprio 'veneno'. Claro que queria dizer as melhores melhoras e não, as melhores das melhoras. «Bem fêta!». <BR/>Aguardo (ansiosamente) a tradução de «The Merry Fool»]<BR/><BR/>Abraço!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31125887.post-1158765901837236382006-09-20T16:25:00.000+01:002006-09-20T16:25:00.000+01:00Sorry, Knottyboy, but I don't think I understood y...Sorry, Knottyboy, but I don't think I understood you correctly. Why do you say I should stop living now if I believe what I've written?<BR/>I posted this text as a kind of personal meditation I had started on Sunday and of which I thought I could share with other blogger friends. Nothing much, I'd say, with no high intellectual pretentions (hence the spontaneous philosophy).<BR/>Allow me the question, Kb: should I somehow commit suicide (= stop living?) because I don't believe we can shape our destinies?! Am I a pessimist for that reason? Do we really shape our destinies? How?<BR/>Then, «power» and «empowering»: I don't know how to use these words in the context of my post. I believe I'd have to be reasoning in a political context to use them. And in this context I'd have to say each and every one of us has less power as each day goes by.<BR/>Challenges may make you feel empowered, but you don't actually have more power because of those challenges, I think. It's a feeling, not a fact.<BR/>I wish you would enlighten me. :-)RIChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13504864950306777236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31125887.post-1158763688175874532006-09-20T15:48:00.000+01:002006-09-20T15:48:00.000+01:00If you truly believe what you say, you should stop...If you truly believe what you say, you should stop living now. But I don't agree that you believe that, something has kicked you squarely in your chin and you're smarting from the pain and unsure of the next move. Don't wish do. I have to be a optimist, I see the other side of the equation and that just looks like hell on earth. Yes there is shit to contend with, always will. But when you see that you're holding the strings to your life, that's empowering. Scary [sometimes] but damn empowering.<BR/>Sincerely,<BR/>kbAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31125887.post-1158760825564392682006-09-20T15:00:00.000+01:002006-09-20T15:00:00.000+01:00Minge-san!!!Konitchiwa!I hardly believe you manage...Minge-san!!!<BR/>Konitchiwa!<BR/>I hardly believe you managed to come to Lisbon just by means of all those katakana and hiragana...<BR/>Man, you're really fantabulous!<BR/>Yeah, yeah, I wish I could read those exquisite characters you've drawn so beautifully! But I do thank you for it anyway: my blog is now more babylonic than ever!<BR/>Live it up, Minge-san! Enjoy it all lavishly!<BR/>Harigato for remembering my humble person.<BR/>Sayonara, Minge-san! (And here I bow low, of course!)RIChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13504864950306777236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31125887.post-1158760137026688452006-09-20T14:48:00.000+01:002006-09-20T14:48:00.000+01:00Hello Kapitano! Great piece of reading you offered...Hello Kapitano! Great piece of reading you offered me. Thank you!<BR/>As far as the problems you've pointed out are concerned, the more I think about these questions, the easier I get to convince myself that the «inner world», or receptacle, depends on the «outer world» to develop itself. This is to admit we're shaped by the environment where we develop ourselves.<BR/>If we're affected by the circumstances and therefore changed, in our interaction with those circumstances we're not the same as we'd be if that interaction didn't took place at all. I see them more as erratic facts than as mysterious forces (a phrase much too close to religion and theology; I prefer not to use it).<BR/>As I say in my post, it's not my intention to get into systematic philosophy, even if it (at least some of my readings) underlies what I call spontaneous philosophy. If we accept the receptacle as a non necessity, we «escape» all problems and difficulties that the soul, for instance, brings about. Much better the path Hume shows us than the one Berkeley (a sombre character) has presented us…<BR/>Greetings!RIChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13504864950306777236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31125887.post-1158756908540885882006-09-20T13:55:00.000+01:002006-09-20T13:55:00.000+01:00Just wanted と差yひ!Just wanted と差yひ!Mingehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16690119444596624935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31125887.post-1158731066662307672006-09-20T06:44:00.000+01:002006-09-20T06:44:00.000+01:00If I read the Ortega y Gasset aphorism correctly, ...If I read the Ortega y Gasset aphorism correctly, it unpacks to something like:<BR/><BR/><I>"At every moment, those parts of the world which affect a person's senses or constrain his choices, change that person.<BR/><BR/>There are the sensations of my own body (tierdness, indegestion, warmth), the sensations of the room I'm in (damp air, bright lightbulb, computer hum).<BR/><BR/>Also, the whole economic and ideological structure that forms and contains my consciousness as a person living in relation to other humans, and to such social forces as religion, peer pressure, and conventions about family and love.<BR/><BR/>All these things - immidiate and distant - are constantly changing, sometimes rapidly, sometimes with imperceptible slowness.<BR/><BR/>And at each moment, the mysterious thing that is "me" is changed ("updated") by this outside world, which constitutes my "circumstances". When the circumstances change, I change."</I><BR/><BR/>However, there's two problems with this analysis.<BR/><BR/>First, it views the person as the passive reciever of their circumstances, which are concieved of, not as the product of the interactions of semi-independant people, but as a mysterious collection of forces which act <I>upon</I> the person, but which the person is powerless to affect.<BR/><BR/>Second, if a person is viewed as a recepticle of their experiences, we might ask "what is the recepticle itself made of?" It seems to contain all the experiences that make a person what they are, but there is no description of the thing that does the containing.<BR/><BR/>The scottish philosopher David Hume concluded that each person is the sum of their past and present circumstances, and that there is <I>no need</I> for the container. The container is the same thing as the things contained.Kapitanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14647896216499813443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31125887.post-1158727762790232702006-09-20T05:49:00.000+01:002006-09-20T05:49:00.000+01:00Indeed it does! Its origin is a comment of mine on...Indeed it does! Its origin is a comment of mine on Joel's blog you may have read a few days ago.RIChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13504864950306777236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31125887.post-1158726703897143052006-09-20T05:31:00.000+01:002006-09-20T05:31:00.000+01:00sounds familiarsounds familiarT-Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14921295474454883903noreply@blogger.com