Post something just for the heck of it

[belamyi]

I never knew that zolt and pat made such a fine couple

I am so glad pat has so much life outside all those silly posts about me

 

[pat grimshaw]

^ methinks you doth protest too much.

BTW #929 is supposed to show a physiognomical resemblance between the dead and the living.

 

[pat grimshaw]

'Nothing Lasts Forever'. Note the serration on the neck of the person on the right who suicided after copyrighting the image.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-just-days-turning-husbands-life-support.html

 

[zoltanspawn]

I never knew that zolt and pat made such a fine couple

I am so glad pat has so much life outside all those silly posts about me

If you sawed open Pat's beating heart with a hunting knife, there you would be inside. Bloody, turtlenecked and adored, as Hanuman adores Ram and Sita:



Pat and I just chat.

 

[pat grimshaw]

.. Pat's beating heart ...there you would be...

But what about YOUR beating heart, Zoltan? You can't carry mountains and trees inside you, can you?

 

[zoltanspawn]

But what about YOUR beating heart, Zoltan? You can't carry mountains and trees inside you, can you?

Of course you can, and more, and harder things too.

 

[pat grimshaw]

Your use of the word hard sounds a little ominous.

 

[zoltanspawn]

Your use of the word hard sounds a little ominous.

Who keeps trite things in their heart? Juveniles?

 

[pat grimshaw]

^ Of course. I was thinking you might say you have a heart of stone. Or that you had the broken blade of a hunting knife there— Cf post # 942.

 

[zoltanspawn]

No, I just think this isn't a picnic...

Unless suffering is the direct and immediate object of life, our existence must entirely fail of its aim.
It is absurd to look upon the enormous amount of pain that abounds everywhere in the world, and
originates in needs and necessities inseparable from life itself, as serving no purpose at all and the
result of mere chance. Each separate misfortune, as it comes, seems, no doubt, to be something exceptional;
but misfortune in general is the rule.
I know of no greater absurdity than that propounded by most systems of philosophy in declaring evil to
be negative in its character. Evil is just what is positive; it makes its own existence felt.

 

[pat grimshaw]

( ^ I am sending a PM)

 

[spooky]

 

[belamyi]

^ methinks you doth protest too much.

BTW #929 is supposed to show a physiognomical resemblance between the dead and the living.

"Protest"? about what?

They resemble like a potato resembles a tulip.-

 

[belamyi]

Unless suffering is the direct and immediate object of life, our existence must entirely fail of its aim.
It is absurd to look upon the enormous amount of pain that abounds everywhere in the world, and
originates in needs and necessities inseparable from life itself, as serving no purpose at all and the
result of mere chance. Each separate misfortune, as it comes, seems, no doubt, to be something exceptional;
but misfortune in general is the rule.
I know of no greater absurdity than that propounded by most systems of philosophy in declaring evil to
be negative in its character. Evil is just what is positive; it makes its own existence felt.

It's not negativity itself what is "positive" or makes "its own existence felt": it's the connection you establish with it, like others do the same with "good". It's your own choice in focusing in one or the other, nor either of them in themselves what "force" their own presence in the world, and in you.

That leaving aside the silly question of considering anything "objectively" evil or good.

 

[pat grimshaw]

^ Schopenhauer says Evil is positive rather than negativity being positive.

 

[belamyi]

^ Schopenhauer says Evil is positive rather than negativity being positive.

Whatever he calls it, he just made the simply simpleton mistake of the Platonist Western world about Good... again, that compounded with the fact that he ultimately agrees with the Goodie view, even if he just calls it "positive"ness... he is in the same trap of valoration (which is not exactly the same as "values", but that's a different matter), in which definite values are set as natural in themselves, as forcing themselves upon minds, ignoring what makes them have sense or nonsense, that is, what is important is what you choose, be it pain, mortification, pleasure (although those, which are examples taken from old philosophies, are ultimately very much the same as "good" or "evil"), and the less important, the senseless in itself, in fact, is that you CALL what you have chosen as "Evil", "Good", "positive", whatever...

 

[cgymike]

A pencil is worth more than Shoppen Hausen

 

[pat grimshaw]

Some hilarious picture palaces—
http://www.theguardian.com/artandde...dias-technicolour-picture-palaces-in-pictures

 

[belamyi]

http://www.theguardian.com/artandde...ghtmares-the-photography-of-william-mortensen

 

[rareboy]

Some hilarious picture palaces—
http://www.theguardian.com/artandde...dias-technicolour-picture-palaces-in-pictures

Why hilarious? Some of these are amazing......particulalry the ones that subvert that tight assed Swiss existential emptiness of Corbusier's vision...