Being Alone

http://www.amazon.com/Sources-Significance-Rejuvenation-Philosophy-Communicat...
What is self-relation? What is otherness? How can that which isolates me also be the very condition by which being alone is rendered impossible?
http://www.amazon.com/Habitations-Word-Essays-Cornell-Paperbacks/dp/080148488...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHwE1qIjtv4

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Education

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• Professor Anton
• Professoranton
• Corey Anton
• otherness
• aloneness
• language
• temporality
• interiority

[scottym84]

Great video. Very interesting.

I was first introduced to this way of thinking by Terence McKenna. He famously stated "culture is your operating system."

His view points on language really opened my mind. Our language and way of speaking affects our views on everything and the way we react to anything. We are only as intelligent as we can express through our "installed" (given) language.

An example in American culture is drugs, the subject is taboo although we rely heavily on compounds.

[Professoranton]

Thanks.

[lifexisxaxstage]

I wonder if the voices that prevent us from being alone are at all connected to the idea of multiple personality disorder

[Professoranton]

Great stuff on that; See Mary Watkin's Invisible Guests.

[ncs901]

You rock lol..Very cool videos.

[Professoranton]

Thank you

[m0rtem]

beautiful stuff, man, I really enjoyed this. thanks for sharing.

[001001sith]

you are full of shit...seriously. you sound like a communist.

[TriviumCrusader17]

You got another sub..... In a world bursting at the seams with dummies who have a tv show, it is very refreshing to run into an intellectual who actually cares about sharing opinions and ideas. Great videos

[TheLordJesusChrist]

I like your man ponytail.

[tweekin001]

What does 'otherize' mean? 

[natedaug1]

@ncs901 Jesus, that is deep. Seriously, that is profound.

[Mezocosm]

Intelligence and understanding of what is happening doesn't require talk. Isn't it weird that you can have something happen between people... and you know everyone understands but somehow it is really important that it be put to words. Then describing the situation becomes prey to attitudes and how we wish to apply "meaning". Create a box for the phenomena and label it, then it can be understood against the grid. Talking about being as an object that can be boxed, as a symbol in a relative grid

[fhumayun]

My reaction mirrors Von Humboldt as he aptly states: Man lives with his objects chiefly — in fact, since his feeling and acting depends on his perceptions. . . as language presents them to him. By the same process whereby he spins language out of his own being, he ensnares himself in it; and each language draws a magic circle round the people to which it belongs, a circle from which there is no escape save by stepping out of it into another

[Viorela72]

is that what you mean, we are not alone just because we are self-reflecting and we can talk to ourselves? But we wouldn't never miss any language to say anything to others, too. Telepathy for instance. We could even may not need any language to express ourself to others, if we (speaker and listener...?) learned to feel our thoughts - as a image, sound or whatever.

But I don't think that's the point of feeling alone. We feel alone when we see no mirror of same nature around us...

[BearWindAppleyard]

I would like to try to think without it being language related, and without being aware of oneself, without having this inner monologue all the time. I guess that's more or less imposible ..