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Freud and the tragic virtues.
Posted: August 8th, 2008, 1:03 pm
by diesel dyke
The Faith of A Heretic
page 131
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"Is greatness possible in our time?"
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"Freud, even more than Lincoln, might be called the Great Emancipator, like no man before him
Posted: August 8th, 2008, 1:07 pm
by diesel dyke
like no man before him he lent substance to the notion that all men are brothers. Criminals and madman are not devils in disguise but men and women who have problems of their own and there but for one experience or another, go you and I.
Posted: August 8th, 2008, 1:28 pm
by constantine
astute. that is the prime directive; isn't it? egality, fraternity, neuroses.
we have more in common than anyone realizes.
Posted: August 8th, 2008, 3:48 pm
by stilltrucking
By ROB GILLIES
Associated Press Writer
TORONTO (AP) - Greyhound has scrapped an ad campaign that extolled the relaxing upside of bus travel after one of its passengers was accused of beheading and cannibalizing another traveler.
The ad's tag line was ``There's a reason you've never heard of 'bus rage.'''
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7705632
Accused canibal bus slayer accused of beheading a man and eating his ears said to police
"I have to stay on the bus forever". "
What the hell do we need fredie kroeger for?
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Joseph Conrad
I have read too much Walter Kaufmann I think sometimes. Interesting guy.
The above is a quote about Freud is from a book which was an expanded version of this article
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THE FAITH OF A HERETIC
Walter Kaufmann</center>
When I was eleven, I asked my father: "What really is the Holy Ghost?" The articles of faith taught us in school in Berlin, Germany, affirmed belief in God, Christ, and the Holy Ghost, and I explained to my father: "I don't believe that Jesus was God, and if I can't believe in the Holy Ghost either, then I am really not a Christian."
At twelve, I formally left the Protestant church to become a Jew. Having never heard of Unitarianism, I assumed that the religion for people who believed in God, but not in Christ or the Holy Ghost, was Judaism.
A few months after my conversation with my father, but before I left the church, Hitler came to power, Warned of the persecution that my decision might entail, I replied that one certainly could not change one's mind for a reason like that. I did not realize until a little later that all four of my grandparents had been Jewish; and none of us knew that this, and not one's own religion, would be decisive from the Nazis' point of view. My decision had been made independently of my descent and of Nazism, on religious grounds.
You can read the rest of the article
HERE if you want to.
Posted: August 8th, 2008, 4:38 pm
by constantine
" ... and leave the cerebellum to us." sorry.
i'll get back to this. i have to do around 75 algegra problems. finishing up at sinclair community college; i'll be tranferring to the university of cincinnati after the fall quarter. anthropology and ancient studies - major/minor in some order. i'm very excited. killer ancient studies program - world class. they were the creators of archaeology as a science - stratigraphy, all that jazz.
Posted: August 8th, 2008, 7:56 pm
by the mingo
Stratigraphy, All That Jazz
I hear a native flute playing
where I begin
now a piano too
we are spontaneous invention
generated in ages past
traveling not for ourselves
but for the future
a guitar I hear now
joining in
and snow
Posted: August 9th, 2008, 1:40 pm
by MrGuilty
I see a phantom bus
well lighted but not clean
I hear hysterical laughter
and some one say
shove a screw driver in his white ass
and I sat there like norman bates
cause I would not hurt a fly
Killer says you must kill me now
famous last words
At the end of Zen and the art of
he tells of his son't murder
mumbled words nobody heard
all I can do to keep from laughing
it is a bummer
What good did freud do except to arm my enemies
expose my fears
to their manipulation
I am sucking on a doral
it feels so good
just like sucking on a nipple