merry giftmas.
Personally, I don't much like this holiday; in particular, I don't much like the practice of gifts - the decorations, weather, and so on are tolerable and sometimes I like those. But I've never liked recieving gifts, as I've always felt that my reactions to them are never what the gift giver expects, and they can tell I'm usually feigning excitement or interest. Yep, I don't get excited that easily and when I do, it's hard for me to display if I display it at all-- I think the shrinks call it "having a poor affect".
Aside from not enjoying the recieving and opening of presents, I usually don't even know what sort of things I want (not big on the aquisition of items)... so when people ask what I want I tell them that I have no idea, to just get me whatever or nothing. For the past few years, I've requested that my parents not to buy me any gifts, but they always do.
Anyhow, I hope you will all enjoy your holidays.
Personally, I don't much like this holiday; in particular, I don't much like the practice of gifts - the decorations, weather, and so on are tolerable and sometimes I like those. But I've never liked recieving gifts, as I've always felt that my reactions to them are never what the gift giver expects, and they can tell I'm usually feigning excitement or interest. Yep, I don't get excited that easily and when I do, it's hard for me to display if I display it at all-- I think the shrinks call it "having a poor affect".
Aside from not enjoying the recieving and opening of presents, I usually don't even know what sort of things I want (not big on the aquisition of items)... so when people ask what I want I tell them that I have no idea, to just get me whatever or nothing. For the past few years, I've requested that my parents not to buy me any gifts, but they always do.
Anyhow, I hope you will all enjoy your holidays.
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You have given me nothing other then your brief description of Zerzan as an introduction to yourself. And yet, you come and ask, despite my claims of not wanting to talk about it, what exactly it is that I know about Zerzan as an individual and a "leader" of the anarchist movement.
You did both of these things in the same month as the ACLU released it's report of the FBI's campaign of documentation of domestic activist groups. Days in fact after the report suggested that the primary reasoning for these illegal observations was a desire by the FBI to obtain information on any group that may provide "financial or logistical" support to the Earth Liberation Front.
And then you ask me what I know about John???
Cute.
Be aware that right now there are individuals all over the nation that are getting extrodited to former states of residency in order to appear in Grand Jury hearings in which they are being questioned about their involvement and knowledge of the radical environmental movement. These hearings are being held at the Federal Courthouse in Eugene Oregon, and involve people from AR, NY, Canada, and even Florida.
Why would I want to tell you anything without some sort of reasoning behind your interest, some sort of connection to the movement beyond some abstract oppinion you placed in the "anarchy" forum on a soft core porn site?
I'm not trying to be rude to you, I'm just saying be aware of the current climate that the environmental and anarchist movements are engulfed in prior to asking a stranger to go into detail about their relationship with a "person of interrest".
I have no love for Zerzan, and that is why I wrote you and told you I agree with what you said. That should be enough. I refuse however to tell the details of peoples lives that have been ruined enough already by this mans inflated ego. He manipulates, he uses, he is nothing more then the same vultures we are dealing with in the white house. Wishing to keep his hands clean while innocent idealist youth go out and join his self righteous crusade. You will however, get no details out of me beyond that.
seeing your life as a film implies something about the overall character of life as we normally see it-- that it could be in some sense illusory... not illusory or unreal in the sceptical sense of doubting the entirety of "existence itself" (whatever that could mean)
ummm... err... yep?
there are many religio-philosophic and mythical ways of dealing with this aspect which everyone will experience (well, some will attempt to cover the feeling up and deny it outright) at some point-- for instance, take Brahma which interacts with itself in a grand and perpetual cosmic drama, as it it plays the role of every human being throughout all time (hence the claims of godhood by ordinary people in Hinduism).
ok, yes, i think i've got that. and i like it! one Being playing out all of humanity is lovely, reinforces the Love Above All rule, as well as the All Stories Are One rule. (i say "rule", but you know, meant to be broken and all that.)
also there is research in cognitive science which make the feelings of life as film seem altogether more bizarre-- e.g. the conscious thought which one takes to direct the action or response under question often follows in time after the action or response itself.
oooh, but this makes sense too! the way i see it, self-determination is not so much about deciding your own fate, but deciding how you will react to your own fate, which then again means deciding your fate, and etc.
so, not real is not "not real" in the sense of "nothing" or "lacking of reality", rather that phrase is a pointing to a clever and pervasive illusion-like veil which is itself generated naturally in the minds of human beings... so how then is it even illusion if it naturally arises? It thinks it is generating itself.
*wanders off and mumbles something about self-deception*
ok, well, i got disconnected half way through that last paragraph, but it sounds nice anyway.
EDIT: i had to make corrections, and then i realised that the corrections were mucking with the whole existentialist mandate, but it was too late, so i thought i'd add this note.
[Edited on Jan 05, 2006 8:05PM]