ahhh I see ...I need to move ur actually I am moving next month yey for moving not really ...ha how about yey to new places I'm in Clairemont right now
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So you read De Sade and Eastern philosophy. This makes me think you read Legalism rather then the typical daoist or confucian stuff. I say this because I read De Sade and have never like the humanism of daoism or confucianism. I was wondering if you felt the same because the profile suggests this may not be true.
i dunno man. it is just bad. they could have gone a much cooler way w/ the second. they could have made "reality" just another shell of the matrix. and the whole zion thing just a ruse to lull the ppl into staying in their electricity shit. but instead they gave neo some fucking superpower shit. and they made the machines just plain DUMB when attacking. a fucking two year old could have come up w/ a better strat for taking out the docks. i mean really. it was like centapede in 3d. basically the whole movie looked like they were setting up a video game. there was a lot of dumb talking that shouldent have been... the fight scenes were not as cool as they should have been, and i got the feeling like i was watching a bunch of cutscenes before you took over the game. anyway. enough of my rant. see it or not. it is all choices. i'd wait for it to come out to video tho... cheaper that way. it is seriously not THAT good.
I think you and I couldn't disagree more. However, I do fully agree with you that finding intellectual stimualtion on this site is great.
I think you have an inherent controdiction to your philosophy. Daoism would encourage you to find balance. However, it would also encourage you to find inner peace. Balance does not mean denial of your emotions. If your instinct is for finding pain in pleasure, then you should balance this with humanistic life outside of the bedroom. However, by suppressing your urges for sadomasocism you are inherently denying your instinct and thus preventing you from ever finding true harmony.
One of the key teachings of Laozi is a disapproval of the unnatural and artificial. This suggests your artificial denial of your emotions prevents you from finding harmony with your nature. However, this understanding must also be balanced with Laozi's emphasis on finding the Way through plotting, planning, analyzing and organizing.
I would argue that a complete view of the Maquis works provides a solution for this conflict. De Sade was a rigid planner with a methodical and mechanical view of sex. Sex in his works has a arithmetical emphasis on planning and structure. However, this belies the deeper instinctual and beastial nature of his work. This animal in him relies on its emotions for guidence and its only moral compass it a lust for agony. Thus he finds a strange balance. A harmony of structure and instinct.
My personal disagreement is two fold. One, metaphysics don't do it for me. Two, while you can find many ways to rationalize these two positions (I have others points of argeement in mind), Daoism inherently values people and protecting each person's life; De Sade does not. Thus I study the Legalist teachings of Lord Shang when I look to Chinese philosophy. To be honest I stick mostly to nihilist existentialism but I will soon have a B.A. in Chinese literature so I like to talk with people who know what I am talking about.
FINALLY!! I give De Sade more credit. I don't trust character studies done on the dead. I think he was far to methodical to simply be insane. Madness denies rationality. De Sade was clearly rational. But, he was totally amoral.
Fuck this, I am adding you as a friend. I wrote to much to not think I will write you again.
