I just commented and made a typo and deleted it...
I think what I said was something like "True dat. I would add that animals have no written language, and therefore no word for "nothing." "Nothing" is a word, and a word is something. So, animals (might) have a better understanding of what we call nothing than we do...
Pulp Fiction is back on...edited for TV version...can't pause or rewind.
True dat. I would further postulate that the word "nothing" itself is a bit of a misnomer, because the word "nothing" is something (a word), and nothing is, for lack of a better way of expressing it, nothing.
Animals have no written language, and therefore no word for "nothing." Therefore, animals understand nothing much better than we do.
Nice video! I liked when it was talking about not eating meat as Penelope Cruz kissed Tom Cruise...nice timing, no vulgarities meant.
The video you posted on my facebook page a month or whenever ago, about how "other-ization" occurs when a person confronts his own mortality keeps coming to mind when I hear Anton (and the guy in the vid you posted) make distinctions between us humans and animals. In this installment, Anton says only beings who can conceive of nothingness can have a sense of
themselves as a part of history, or something to that effect. I would ask, simply because a dog cannot read Sartre or make a youtube video or teach a class, how does any human know that the dog cannot conceive nothingness? Is this assumption, that the dog cannot do this simply because it cannot communicate it to us, another form of "other-ization" or whatever the term is?
Sheldon Solomon: the Anatomy of Human Destructiveness. I had to look back to remember the name...Solomon didn't say much about animals, I think he said something like "I don't want to hear about how smart your dog is, let's just admit that there's a difference between people and animals." I admit there's a difference, of course, I just notice that in more than one of Prof. Anton's vid's, he often speaks about the difference between us and animals, and I wonder, maybe in trying to avoid other-
izing any group of people, if he still has to other-ize something. Contemplating "nothing" necessitates acknowledging one's own mortality, and Solomon said in the vid that when people face their own mortality, they "other-ize" (or some such term) other people, often angrily, such as I did when I dissed Lady Gaga.
Anton doesn't other-ize any person or group of people, but in a few of his vids he makes distinctions between us and animals. I commented on one video he made that I think the
difference between us and animals is not that we have language (his video said language was the difference, I don't remember the title), but that we have written language. He didn't reply to my comment, and I'm not sure if anyone else did, either.
Written language is what puts us in history, I think, not our awareness of nothing. Because, no matter how many books we read or whatever, we still have no real concept of nothing.
nihilistic garbage
FishcakeX 6 months ago
I just commented and made a typo and deleted it...
I think what I said was something like "True dat. I would add that animals have no written language, and therefore no word for "nothing." "Nothing" is a word, and a word is something. So, animals (might) have a better understanding of what we call nothing than we do...
Pulp Fiction is back on...edited for TV version...can't pause or rewind.
mnwalke 2 years ago
True dat. I would further postulate that the word "nothing" itself is a bit of a misnomer, because the word "nothing" is something (a word), and nothing is, for lack of a better way of expressing it, nothing.
Animals have no written language, and therefore no word for "nothing." Therefore, animals understand nothing much better than we do.
I gotta read me some Epictitus.
mnwalke 2 years ago
Nice video! I liked when it was talking about not eating meat as Penelope Cruz kissed Tom Cruise...nice timing, no vulgarities meant.
The video you posted on my facebook page a month or whenever ago, about how "other-ization" occurs when a person confronts his own mortality keeps coming to mind when I hear Anton (and the guy in the vid you posted) make distinctions between us humans and animals. In this installment, Anton says only beings who can conceive of nothingness can have a sense of
mnwalke 2 years ago
themselves as a part of history, or something to that effect. I would ask, simply because a dog cannot read Sartre or make a youtube video or teach a class, how does any human know that the dog cannot conceive nothingness? Is this assumption, that the dog cannot do this simply because it cannot communicate it to us, another form of "other-ization" or whatever the term is?
mnwalke 2 years ago
(insert "of" between "conceive" and "nothingness.")
mnwalke 2 years ago
what vid did i post?
egoistorms 2 years ago
Sheldon Solomon: the Anatomy of Human Destructiveness. I had to look back to remember the name...Solomon didn't say much about animals, I think he said something like "I don't want to hear about how smart your dog is, let's just admit that there's a difference between people and animals." I admit there's a difference, of course, I just notice that in more than one of Prof. Anton's vid's, he often speaks about the difference between us and animals, and I wonder, maybe in trying to avoid other-
mnwalke 2 years ago
izing any group of people, if he still has to other-ize something. Contemplating "nothing" necessitates acknowledging one's own mortality, and Solomon said in the vid that when people face their own mortality, they "other-ize" (or some such term) other people, often angrily, such as I did when I dissed Lady Gaga.
Anton doesn't other-ize any person or group of people, but in a few of his vids he makes distinctions between us and animals. I commented on one video he made that I think the
mnwalke 2 years ago
difference between us and animals is not that we have language (his video said language was the difference, I don't remember the title), but that we have written language. He didn't reply to my comment, and I'm not sure if anyone else did, either.
Written language is what puts us in history, I think, not our awareness of nothing. Because, no matter how many books we read or whatever, we still have no real concept of nothing.
I want to give Corey Anton a puppy.
mnwalke 2 years ago
oh man, killer song, killer video. Good one
rstormy 2 years ago
a spindlesong aside, nothing more is told until now, his
awebrume hour, her sere Sahara of sad oakleaves. And then. Be
old. The next thing is. We are once amore as babes awondering
in a wold made fresh where with the hen in the storyaboot we
start from scratch.
IllPropaganda 2 years ago