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Started by mongers, September 12, 2012, 05:56:24 PM

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mongers

September 12, 2012, 05:56:24 PM
Discuss. 



I'm finding more merit in this saying, as time goes buy and especially recently.   :hmm:
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

MadImmortalMan

#1
September 12, 2012, 06:19:23 PM
Sartre knew what he was talking about.
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Ed Anger

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September 12, 2012, 06:31:24 PM
Yes. Especially if they are Americans.
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mongers

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September 12, 2012, 06:38:41 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 12, 2012, 06:31:24 PM
Yes. Especially if they are Americans.

No I'm going to have to disagree, on average Brits are slightly more annoying.

Canadians on the other hand are just a bit too polite and boring to get noticed, much.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Eddie Teach

#4
September 12, 2012, 06:45:29 PM
Hell is people.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Phillip V

#5
September 12, 2012, 06:48:16 PM
Heaven is other people. :)

Razgovory

#7
September 12, 2012, 08:53:11 PM
I never actually read the play, so I don't know what he's actually talking about.  I would think it unwise to take it out of context and ascribe meaning to it.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

dps

#8
September 12, 2012, 08:57:56 PM
Generally, I tend to discount things said by someone who invents a whole philosophy to obscure his colloboration with the Nazis, but this particular statement may have some merit.

Sheilbh

#9
September 12, 2012, 09:15:59 PM
Sartre wasn't a collaborator. Though like de Beauvoir (and unlike Camus) his resistance began roughly when the Paris police joined the Free French.

In terms of the play Raz it's three characters who know they're damned. The man's weak, the straight woman likes strong men and the lesbian's in love with her. They realise Hell isn't a Joycean vision but each other gnawing away for all eternity. Then they laugh. Personally I think you're better off with Beckett, who'd cut the play to about ten minutes.
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Habbaku

#10
September 12, 2012, 09:33:22 PM
Quote from: dps on September 12, 2012, 08:57:56 PM
Generally, I tend to discount things said by someone who invents a whole philosophy to obscure his colloboration with the Nazis

:huh:
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

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CountDeMoney

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September 12, 2012, 09:40:42 PM
Quote from: dps on September 12, 2012, 08:57:56 PM
Generally, I tend to discount things said by someone who invents a whole philosophy to obscure his colloboration with the Nazis, but this particular statement may have some merit.

Heidegger hater.

Capetan Mihali

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September 12, 2012, 09:59:31 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on September 12, 2012, 09:40:42 PM
Quote from: dps on September 12, 2012, 08:57:56 PM
Generally, I tend to discount things said by someone who invents a whole philosophy to obscure his colloboration with the Nazis, but this particular statement may have some merit.

Heidegger hater.

:lol:  ^_^ 
"The internet's completely over. [...] The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."
-- Prince, 2010. (R.I.P.)

Capetan Mihali

#13
September 12, 2012, 10:06:13 PM
A lot of my fave raves were Nazi collaborators, come to think of it...  :hmm:

Philosophy: Martin Heidegger; political theory: Carl Schmitt; literature: L-F Céline and Knut Hamsun...
"The internet's completely over. [...] The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."
-- Prince, 2010. (R.I.P.)

CountDeMoney

#14
September 12, 2012, 10:08:36 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on September 12, 2012, 09:59:31 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on September 12, 2012, 09:40:42 PM
Quote from: dps on September 12, 2012, 08:57:56 PM
Generally, I tend to discount things said by someone who invents a whole philosophy to obscure his colloboration with the Nazis, but this particular statement may have some merit.

Heidegger hater.

:lol:  ^_^

Yeah, bet you fuckers didn't expect me to drop that one, didya. 

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