tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15005476.post114649984759692729..comments2023-10-10T08:02:18.073-04:00Comments on Rationally Speaking: Breuer vs Nietzsche and the meaning of what we doUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15005476.post-1147235021007398272006-05-10T00:23:00.000-04:002006-05-10T00:23:00.000-04:00Seems to be a meditation on the old half joke defi...Seems to be a meditation on the old half joke defintion: Love is the delusion that one person differs from another.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15005476.post-1146982304061438732006-05-07T02:11:00.000-04:002006-05-07T02:11:00.000-04:00It's an interesting proposition that the range of ...It's an interesting proposition that the range of human emotion can be considered "limited". As far as we know, the entire range of possible emotions is available to us. Even if it is bounded, that does not preclude infinite variation within those bounds.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15005476.post-1146758240034685062006-05-04T11:57:00.000-04:002006-05-04T11:57:00.000-04:00It would be interesting to bring up the matter of ...It would be interesting to bring up the matter of where the actions which Nietzsche & Breuer contemplated and commentated on have brought us to today. <BR/><BR/>Excerpts from: <BR/>The price of 'disrespecting' women<BR/>By SHMULEY BOTEACH <BR/><BR/>..."Tom Wolfe's newest novel, I Am Charlotte Simmons, chronicles the unbelievable scorn for women that permeates the American campus, and how women have lost all dignity, becoming complicit in their own degradation, as they stop at nothing to become the male plaything. <BR/><BR/>The greatest cultural story since the 1960s is the decline and fall of the Western male, and how women have accommodated that fall by allowing themselves to be treated like garbage by men. It's now 60 years after feminism, and there has never been a better time to be a man. <BR/><BR/>To be a guy today is to have your pick of hundreds of women who will sleep with you and expect not only no commitment, but not even courteous treatment. You can burp in their presence, break wind, and they will still go to bed with you. To be a guy is to have women move into your apartment and cook and clean for you, even as you endlessly push off the question of marriage, which you have no intention of addressing anyway. And to be a man today is to have women take off their clothes on TV to sell you everything from beer to cars to hamburgers. <BR/><BR/>ONCE, WHEN I lectured at Yale, a female student perfectly identified for me how it is a man's world and how it all begins at university: "When it comes to love and relationships the men here sit and pick us out, like a man sifting through a jar of jellybeans for the colors and tastes that he likes, leaving behind all the ones that don't appeal to his taste buds at the moment." <BR/><BR/>But in becoming boastful beasts of female prey and losing their sense of awe for women, men have guaranteed their own boredom. If you're a man, and a woman can no longer excite you, what will? A bunch of guys hitting a ball with a bat? Watching race cars go in a circle for 500 miles? Do men realize just how pathetic they have become as they endlessly pursue cheap substitutes for a lost sense of erotic excitement?"<BR/><BR/>http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1145961276224&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFullAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15005476.post-1146587950062909702006-05-02T12:39:00.000-04:002006-05-02T12:39:00.000-04:00MP wrote:"For all our pride, we as human beings po...MP wrote:<BR/>"For all our pride, we as human beings possess a limited range of emotions, and a limited way to express them."<BR/><BR/>Yes, but which part of the range we express toward different individuals is in part dependent on what they trigger in us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15005476.post-1146540065918708102006-05-01T23:21:00.000-04:002006-05-01T23:21:00.000-04:00Yikes! Just realized there's another paul. Sorry. ...Yikes! Just realized there's another paul. Sorry. I'll find another name.<BR/><BR/>Paul --?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15005476.post-1146537990214045042006-05-01T22:46:00.000-04:002006-05-01T22:46:00.000-04:00"and wows never again ..":)some men are like that...."and wows never again .."<BR/><BR/>:)<BR/><BR/>some men are like that.<BR/><BR/><BR/>"For all our pride, we as human beings possess a limited range of emotions, and a limited way to express them."<BR/><BR/>Not necessarily. Deep and intentional fidelity isn't so common. If one really doesn't mind being common, just follow feelings (obsessions) and instincts. If you want to be "un-common", flat-out keep your promises, even when it's not comfortable. <BR/><BR/>calAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15005476.post-1146523277289955362006-05-01T18:41:00.000-04:002006-05-01T18:41:00.000-04:00Hey! I am unique, just like everybody else! ;O)Wel...Hey! I am unique, just like everybody else! ;O)<BR/><BR/>Well, at least I know with near absolute certainty (any lost identical twin?) that my genomic combination is unique...<BR/><BR/>JAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15005476.post-1146502425603454422006-05-01T12:53:00.000-04:002006-05-01T12:53:00.000-04:00There is another side to this, I believe. It is no...There is another side to this, I believe. It is not just the limited repertoire of expression, but also the limited repertoire of perception, or memory. Most of our significant memories are snapshots, which we go over, sometimes too much, again and again. Also, our memories of individuals are often memories of certain expressive gestures. If you woke up next to Angelina Jolie every day, you would see her differently, without the characteristic expressions. Of course the real Angelina would still be there, and ready to relate to. I am not sure how fair the characters in the novel were in becopming disillusioned with the <I>other person</I> over this.<BR/><BR/>The subject of obsession is interesting. I have always felt strangely moved by Nietzsche's solitariness, his relations with Lou salome, etc.<BR/><BR/>Nerdy stuff brings the nerds out of the woodwork.<BR/><BR/>PaulAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com