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In case you didn't get that ^, perhaps this will clear things up:
"The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation; the self is not the relation but is the relation's relating itself to itself. A human being is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short, a synthesis. A synthesis is a relation between two. Considered in this way, a human being is still not a self."
Soren Kierkegaard
There. All better?"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain0 -
Uh, sure. I think. Or maybe.... nah.Amos_Umwhat said:In case you didn't get that ^, perhaps this will clear things up:
"The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation; the self is not the relation but is the relation's relating itself to itself. A human being is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short, a synthesis. A synthesis is a relation between two. Considered in this way, a human being is still not a self."
Soren Kierkegaard
There. All better?
Gee, I’m sure glad we had this talk... 😜2 -
Way back in the dark ages when I was in college, we were assigned Kierkegaard. What a joke.Amos_Umwhat said:In case you didn't get that ^, perhaps this will clear things up:
"The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation; the self is not the relation but is the relation's relating itself to itself. A human being is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short, a synthesis. A synthesis is a relation between two. Considered in this way, a human being is still not a self."
Soren Kierkegaard
There. All better?
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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I think they must’ve smoked that wacky-terbacky way back in Kierkegaard’s day, too. How else could someone make things so clear.....?? 😎webmost said:
Way back in the dark ages when I was in college, we were assigned Kierkegaard. What a joke.Amos_Umwhat said:In case you didn't get that ^, perhaps this will clear things up:
"The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation; the self is not the relation but is the relation's relating itself to itself. A human being is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short, a synthesis. A synthesis is a relation between two. Considered in this way, a human being is still not a self."
Soren Kierkegaard
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"Those grapes were probably sour anyway..."
Aesop's fox"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain1 -
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
~Will Rogers
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis2 -
“Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny” Frank Zappa
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“He is much nicer in person, than he is on the forum.” Jiunn LiuFriends don't let good friends smoke cheap cigars.2
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“I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
Vincent Van Gogh
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"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces." ~Will Rogers
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“ The most used 7 syllable word in a poker room....unfrikinbelievable!”
Jimmy RosenbergFriends don't let good friends smoke cheap cigars.1 -
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allen Poe
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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.Friedrich Nietzsche2
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I'd like to buy him for what he's worth and sell him for what he thinks he'd bring."I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis2
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The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe0
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"I never lose. Either I win or I learn." ~Unknown
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I've always won, and I'm going to continue to win. And that's the way it is.Donald Trump3
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"Every leaf that grows will tell you: what you sow will bear fruit, so if you have any sense, my friend, don't plant anything but Love."
~ Rumi ~
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‘Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes in the middle of nowhere you find yourself’ - unknown
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You can't get something clean without getting something else dirty.
I'm still troubled by what I did for that Klondike bar...3 -
"Oh! What A Tangled Web We Weave When First We Practice To Deceive"
from the long poem, Marmion, by Sir Walter Scott (and not from Shakespeare)A sudden light on Marmion broke:–"Ah! dastard fool, to reason lost!"He muttered; "'T was nor fay nor ghostI met upon the moonlight wold,But living man of earthly mould.O dotage blind and gross!Had I but fought as wont, one thrustHad laid De Wilton in the dust,My path no more to cross.–How stand we now?–he told his taleTo Douglas, and with some avail;'T was therefore gloomed his rugged brow.–Will Surrey dare to entertain'Gainst Marmion, charge disproved and vain?Small risk of that, I trow.Yet Clare's sharp questions must I shun,Must separate Constance from the nun–Oh! what a tangled web we weaveWhen first we practise to deceive!A Palmer too!–no wonder whyI felt rebuked beneath his eye;I might have known there was but oneWhose look could quell Lord Marmion."1 -
“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.”
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"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Time is a created thing. To say “I don’t have time”, is like saying, “I don’t want to”. Lao Tzu
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"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest."
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