tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26717801.post4997769766181792366..comments2023-12-15T01:18:40.855+11:00Comments on Expat@Large: The Dialectical Present Under the Essential Christmas Treeexpat@largehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01250623536121293636noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26717801.post-7422078356982427602009-12-21T11:19:39.760+11:002009-12-21T11:19:39.760+11:00Thinking more about that than I ought, I think Gui...Thinking more about that than I ought, I think Guinness beat the perfesser to it since Guinness is a meal in a glass.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02550089403967201201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26717801.post-69118090054742250062009-12-21T11:18:33.952+11:002009-12-21T11:18:33.952+11:00"Fear and Trembling" was bloody painful...."Fear and Trembling" was bloody painful. I had to read it as an undergrad for philosophy 101. Our professor was cool, went to college and was friends with David Byrne (yes, THAT one) and said the he (the professor) was going to patent "Beerios". Beerios are Cheerios and beer...get all of your grains in one meal.<br /><br />He and I had a wonderfully great disagreement about Descartes famous "I stink therefore I am French" (or whatever). I said "how does he know he can think and therefore exist? What if the idea of free thought is an illusion either formed from some chemical process or placed in our 'minds' by some greater being? What if it's just a dream?" Of course if it were a dream I'd be shagging a dusky beautiful young nubile maiden every night. I'm not so I guess it isn't a dream. Descartes should have written "I'm not getting any, therefore I am."Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02550089403967201201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26717801.post-1210696735945765472009-12-12T17:22:42.736+11:002009-12-12T17:22:42.736+11:00Skip: LOL - the space between thought and speech i...Skip: LOL - the space between thought and speech is sometimes insurmountable... I mean uncrossable (what DO you do with a space?).<br /><br />MM: You are here. Kierkegaard is there. I am going for a swim.expat@largehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01250623536121293636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26717801.post-13062271232953565132009-12-12T05:45:28.492+11:002009-12-12T05:45:28.492+11:00I just called to say ...... I'll come back aft...I just called to say ...... I'll come back after I get a map and sharpen my concentration.<br />When I read Søren Claus I lost all sense of time and place.Momentary Madnesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05314884356743431845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26717801.post-72475621617853628782009-12-11T02:21:51.129+11:002009-12-11T02:21:51.129+11:00The quote is a great explanation for Sarah Palin. ...The quote is a great explanation for Sarah Palin. Thanks for the seeds of an upcoming blog post.Skippy-sanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05115988855323925228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26717801.post-39885724354010087052009-12-10T20:51:00.314+11:002009-12-10T20:51:00.314+11:00Jay: I have a buddy in Sydney (ex-HK) who ONLY eat...Jay: I have a buddy in Sydney (ex-HK) who ONLY eats meat. He doesn't touch vegetables or fruit, as matter of principle. He is as trim as a sportsman. He'll probably drop any day now, but he's having some great BBQs in the meantime.<br /><br />~~~~~~~~~~<br /><br />Kierkegaard suffers from poor thinking as well as poor translation - Abraham would have been right to kill Isaac? WTF?? - Not if there is a no God (and there isn't) he wouldn't. But K refuses to accept this, and circles back to say BECAUSE there is a God, Abraham would not have been a child murdering fundamentalist nutcase who should have been locked up and/or not allowed near primary schools. <br /><br />Take your leap of faith of a large cliff you silly Danish rationalizer... <br /><br />I've read Fear and Trembling, well, much/some of it. And then I read a book called How To Read Kierkegaard and decided I didn't need to read him after all. I'm sticking to Schopenhauer, at least he's funny. Occasionally.expat@largehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01250623536121293636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26717801.post-57413950861194507432009-12-10T10:40:31.550+11:002009-12-10T10:40:31.550+11:00Good luck Phil on your diet. Hope you succeed thi...Good luck Phil on your diet. Hope you succeed this time. If it's any comfort those who succeed at weight loss generally have at least 5 failures before they hit success.<br /><br />That said, I've stopped counting. I'd go wonky without bread and meat since I can't have any pudding unless I eat my meat.<br /><br />Told the boss over dinner last week that I was vegetarian. Cows are vegetarian and I eat cows.<br /><br />Maybe Kirkegaard suffers from poor translation. I always felt like my head was in a vice when I read him.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02550089403967201201noreply@blogger.com