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The modes of being as written about here are, as Kierkegaard thought, Stages on Life’s Way. The primitive man, the primitive mind, tends toward artistic expression and develops into religious, scientific, historical, and finally philosophical modes. I find it interesting to contrast this with the concurrent emergence of what I call the concomitants of consciousness … Continue reading “Categories or Modes of Being versus Concomitants of Consciousness”

What exists does so in space and time. ‘Things’ exist. God does not. He’s not a thing, though most conceive him as such. They are ‘things.’ God must be too. Anthropomorphism. God does not exist, he creates.* His Reality is only available through faith. No faith. No God. For the denier of faith only the … Continue reading “Unkempt Musing”

Notes from September, 2009 Soren Kierkegaard. Reading of Gretall’s Anthology, Pg. 231 (postscript) “God does not think, he creates. God does not exist. He is eternal.” Existence and eternality are polar opposites. Creation can only occur from the eternal perspective. Potentiality, then, is integral to eternality itself. Also, eternality is that by which we can … Continue reading “Existential Angst – Continued”

Prof. Poteat passed in 2000 so this is more than a little late I suppose. I knew him briefly at the University of Texas, Austin philosophy department in 1970/71 where he was guest lecturer from Duke University. Another of my benefactors instructed that if you bring something to mind again and again that it tends … Continue reading “Eroticism, Music and Madness – annotated”

I am like Descartes when he asked “What am I?” except instead of using doubt to arrive at my core I use a process of discarding the constructs or determinate-man made, if you will-parts of my mind/body consciousness complex. Not surprisingly the point of arrival, after the method has been exhausted, is the same as … Continue reading “Does a waterfall ever change?”

Yesterday I read Aristides post Sociobiology and made a comment to which he made a reply: John P. said… ….. Wilson’s thought is rigorous to a degree that most of us never achieve and I am humbled by the reach of his intellect. My personal reaction is that one needs to appreciate the limitations of … Continue reading “Brief Exchange”

I wrote this post in response to Vanderleun’s essay at American Digest titled Clear History . “So to be sick unto death is, not to be able to die–yet not as though there were hope of life; no, the hopelessness in this case is that even the last hope, death, is not available. When death … Continue reading ““Sickness unto Death””