Comments by The Dybbuk
- "heh, there's a lil 'reply' button under the comment that will stagger replies and also, potentially, notify the commentator that the comment was replied to, just and fyi. Skimmed over the interview, interesting, Washington Post writer, huh. I think technology is our mode of evolution... and science is guided by profit... look out future, here we come haha, should be one hell of a ride :) I'm fairly unplugged except for keeping in touch with those who, unfortunately, I cannot. The furry year that hops with floppy ears. :)~"
Posted by The Dybbuk on "The Year of the Rabbit" by ruthless48
- ""to effect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour" (Walden 117-18). There was a time when one who knew not Plato, knew not literacy, maybe? Much enjoyed, made me pull out an old friend and finger some pages. thank you."
Posted by The Dybbuk on "Thoreau & I had coffee" by ruthless48
- ""with capped teeth and pursed lips" I liked that line... maybe Bruno Latour... We Have Never Been Modern... would celebrate this year; a rebirth of that hunger, that thriving succor for life, that leanness that drives one ... as Plato once wrote, necessity is the mother of invention; perhaps we will begin creating with the earth again (rather than despite it) when all our conveniences finally come to cage us. thanks for the read. "
Posted by The Dybbuk on "The Year of the Rabbit" by ruthless48
- "how much alcohol must one ingest... how much smoke must be blown... how many years does it take to escape... and why does life.. sometimes live too long? I really enjoyed the progression here... from folding clothes to star trek... and we are all strangers watching our lives pass by like black and white silent film... *bows* very well composed journey... thank you muchly... as the sainted may say."
Posted by The Dybbuk on "main feature" by ruthless48
- "see, maybe I'm way off here, but I was reading this as Alcatraz being more than the literal place... as if we're all imprisoned by some doctrine based on faith, of sorts... as if purgatory or something... yet I still found a line of realism beyond the symbolism... something of the details of her, your bond ... the parallelism between AA and the Sioux, between the 'founding slaughter' and the penal code, maybe.... any way, I really enjoyed this, there was depth here and the rhyme was not overpowering though inescapable. Thanks."
Posted by The Dybbuk on "Tangerine Dream" by ruthless48
- "isn't every equation based upon some assumption of sameness... of equality, or identity? This was the question raised by the Meno, I think, the notion that we have concepts that result from an action of mind, necessarily abstract, and the question was, from where do they come? the logic of Leibniz, maybe, the monadology... the Id, the itself, the ego (I was wondering why the Id~ego part, I mean, could the ego be separated from the Id even if we have reason to believe they are not identical?) the 'I'... so many symbols for what it is that we consider self, depending on theoretical framework (cf my post on self) yet, some people see algebra as some corruption of math because it uses letters, hehe... as if one symbol is better than another and we could have not variables... I think it was Willard Van Orman Quine (I really like his name hehe) who said that 'to be was to be the value of a bound variable' in Ontological Relativity..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Van_Orman_Quine#Confirmation_holism_and_ontological_relativity any way, I digress, thanks for the interesting post and commentary."
Posted by The Dybbuk on "solving for a variable" by ruthless48
