John McLintock i think it is quite fair to call Nietzsche a nihilist; and he was driven mad by syphillis, not his genius wink emoticon
Wednesday 30 December 2009
how loving the creation is loving the creator
by Antony Sammeroff on Wednesday, 30 December 2009 at 20:28 ·
Most religions speak of serving God, but what God is there to speak of serving?
God should he exist is Omnipotent, naturally, and he being Omnipotent what service could a mortal then render unto the divine?
The natural conclusion of both the moral theist and the moral atheist alike then, is that any service worth being rendered is to be rendered unto ones fellow, for no one can do everything for themselves.
If God exists in everything then serving others is serving God,
as to be of service to the Creation is to be of service to the Creator.
And why else should each of us take such joy in our own work being appreciated?
Or should we ever have one, when a kindness is done unto our own child?
Because naturally it follows, that Loving the Creation is Loving the Creator
Loving the Creation is Loving the Creator
Friday 4 December 2009
An Awesome Game conceived of in a most Interesting Dream
I had a dream last night that I was participating in a game. I guess you could say it was a role playing game. The game can take place in any area big enough, in my case it was a few buildings based on some of those of at my old high school and others created entirely by my unconscious like a castle tower. At a stretch you could maybe run it in a flat or house with several rooms, or you could expand it to a whole university campus or something like that if you were brave enough, didn't mind the walking, and wanted to make it a really big game. Naturally in these cases there will be all sorts of people who are "not playing" scattered through the game world, going about their business and most probably absolutely oblivious to what is going on with those participating. That helps add to the atmosphere. The game had a made up name which sounded Spanish, which I guess means the playing area represented the whole of Spain.
The premise of the game is that you and one other player are long lost brothers and need to search the game world for clues as to how to find the other, each of you follows the "treasure hunt" in the reverse order from one another and it's actually sort of a race or competition to see who gets most fastest and figures it out first, at which the time you both succeed when you meet. The clues are generally dispensed by other characters in the game in various locations, although the actions of characters and choices they make throughout the game may affect things such as where these characters will be found, whether they move to other locations or not, and their willingness to help one or each of these two players.
The default location, order and nature of the clues, as well as the dispositions of those who deliver them, are randomised from game to game by means which were not explained by the dream. N.B. Only one game took place throughout the entire dream and it took hours to play!
The two "main characters" may bump into one another throughout the course of play - but the rub is it if their characters aren't aware that the other is their macguffin "in game" - it doesn't count at all! They may even interact with one another obliviously! (Although in my case we only passed in corridors.) This is supposed to add to the humour an quirkiness of the concept as well as the challenge.
Towards the end of the dream when it was reaching a climax I remember getting very angry at the other player for watching which direction I went off in after we passed, which I claimed to be "cheating."
When I was explaining what happened in the dream to Suzy I suddenly went "fuck... I know what the dream was about..." ... "It's actually about finding myself, isn't it?"
Stuart Wilde speaks of a mirror world in which the inner you, associated with your feelings, resides. He claims that this in not a figure of speach or a metaphor as he and thousands of others have looked through into this mirror world and seen their authentic selves. This is the imprint of you which supposedly allows you to survive your death and transcend into whatever it is that comes next.
If my interpretation is right and that's what the "long lost brother" in the game represents then the people milling around who "weren't playing" represent those who have no interest in, or don't believe in spirituality. Those who dispensed clues? I don't know, guides or something?... And perhaps at the end, where the other player (whom I recognised as we both set off from one another at the beginning of the game but didn't really seem to know well in person) was watching where I went, it was perhaps because he already knew "in game" that I was who he was looking for, he'd beat me to the punch, but didn't say. In fact I don't remember him saying much if anything...
The premise of the game is that you and one other player are long lost brothers and need to search the game world for clues as to how to find the other, each of you follows the "treasure hunt" in the reverse order from one another and it's actually sort of a race or competition to see who gets most fastest and figures it out first, at which the time you both succeed when you meet. The clues are generally dispensed by other characters in the game in various locations, although the actions of characters and choices they make throughout the game may affect things such as where these characters will be found, whether they move to other locations or not, and their willingness to help one or each of these two players.
The default location, order and nature of the clues, as well as the dispositions of those who deliver them, are randomised from game to game by means which were not explained by the dream. N.B. Only one game took place throughout the entire dream and it took hours to play!
The two "main characters" may bump into one another throughout the course of play - but the rub is it if their characters aren't aware that the other is their macguffin "in game" - it doesn't count at all! They may even interact with one another obliviously! (Although in my case we only passed in corridors.) This is supposed to add to the humour an quirkiness of the concept as well as the challenge.
Towards the end of the dream when it was reaching a climax I remember getting very angry at the other player for watching which direction I went off in after we passed, which I claimed to be "cheating."
When I was explaining what happened in the dream to Suzy I suddenly went "fuck... I know what the dream was about..." ... "It's actually about finding myself, isn't it?"
Stuart Wilde speaks of a mirror world in which the inner you, associated with your feelings, resides. He claims that this in not a figure of speach or a metaphor as he and thousands of others have looked through into this mirror world and seen their authentic selves. This is the imprint of you which supposedly allows you to survive your death and transcend into whatever it is that comes next.
If my interpretation is right and that's what the "long lost brother" in the game represents then the people milling around who "weren't playing" represent those who have no interest in, or don't believe in spirituality. Those who dispensed clues? I don't know, guides or something?... And perhaps at the end, where the other player (whom I recognised as we both set off from one another at the beginning of the game but didn't really seem to know well in person) was watching where I went, it was perhaps because he already knew "in game" that I was who he was looking for, he'd beat me to the punch, but didn't say. In fact I don't remember him saying much if anything...
An Awesome Game conceived of in a most Interesting Dream
I had a dream last night that I was participating in a game. I guess you could say it was a role playing game. The game can take place in any area big enough, in my case it was a few buildings based on some of those of at my old high school and others created entirely by my unconscious like a castle tower. At a stretch you could maybe run it in a flat or house with several rooms, or you could expand it to a whole university campus or something like that if you were brave enough, didn't mind the walking, and wanted to make it a really big game. Natuarally in these cases there will be all sorts of people who are "not playing" scattered through the game world, going about their business and most probably absolutely oblivious to what is going on with those participating. That helps add to the atmosphere. The game had a made up name which sounded spanish, which I guess means the playing area reprisented the whole of Spain.
The premise of the game is that you and one other player are long lost brothers and need to search the game world for clues as to how to find the other, each of you follows the "treasure hunt" in the reverse order from one another and it's actually sort of a race or competition to see who gets most fastest and figures it out first, at which the time you both succeed when you meet. The clues are generally dispensed by other characters in the game in various locations, although the actions of characters and choices they make throughout the game may affect things such as where these characters will be found, whether they move to other locations or not, and their willingness to help one or each of these two players.
The default location, order and nature of the clues, as well as the dispositions of those who deliver them, are randomised from game to game by means which were not explained by the dream. N.B. Only one game took place throughout the entire dream and it took hours to play!
The two "main characters" may bump into one another throughout the course of play - but the rub is it if their characters aren't aware that the other is their macguffin "in game" - it doesn't count at all! They may even interact with one another obliviously! (Although in my case we only passed in corridors.) This is supposed to add to the humour an quirkiness of the concept as well as the challenge.
Towards the end of the dream when it was reaching a climax I remember getting very angry at the other player for watching which direction I went off in after we passed, which I claimed to be "cheating."
When I was explaining what happened in the dream to Suzy I suddenly went "fuck... I know what the dream was about..." ... "It's actually about finding myself, isn't it?"
The premise of the game is that you and one other player are long lost brothers and need to search the game world for clues as to how to find the other, each of you follows the "treasure hunt" in the reverse order from one another and it's actually sort of a race or competition to see who gets most fastest and figures it out first, at which the time you both succeed when you meet. The clues are generally dispensed by other characters in the game in various locations, although the actions of characters and choices they make throughout the game may affect things such as where these characters will be found, whether they move to other locations or not, and their willingness to help one or each of these two players.
The default location, order and nature of the clues, as well as the dispositions of those who deliver them, are randomised from game to game by means which were not explained by the dream. N.B. Only one game took place throughout the entire dream and it took hours to play!
The two "main characters" may bump into one another throughout the course of play - but the rub is it if their characters aren't aware that the other is their macguffin "in game" - it doesn't count at all! They may even interact with one another obliviously! (Although in my case we only passed in corridors.) This is supposed to add to the humour an quirkiness of the concept as well as the challenge.
Towards the end of the dream when it was reaching a climax I remember getting very angry at the other player for watching which direction I went off in after we passed, which I claimed to be "cheating."
When I was explaining what happened in the dream to Suzy I suddenly went "fuck... I know what the dream was about..." ... "It's actually about finding myself, isn't it?"
Wednesday 28 October 2009
I wanted to possesses you
but no one should belong to anyone else
it's not right
to own a person
true love says to another
feel free to follow your inclinations
feel free to be as you are
for I love you
but not "don't do this or that for it will hurt my tender heart"
that is only love of self, not of another
or rather lack of love for self it should be said
because if one one truly loves oneself they would feel no need to possess another
Evidence
It has been said, and I thank Gillian for originally bringing this quote to my attention although it is no longer her profile, that "for those who believe no proof is necessary, for those who do not believe no proof is possible,"
I have found this to be rather a genius quote up until this moment when I realised it is a contortion of the truth, rather it would be more accurate to say, "for those who believe proof is in everything, for those who do not believe proof is in nothing."
Clearly, I find myself in the former category.
I have found this to be rather a genius quote up until this moment when I realised it is a contortion of the truth, rather it would be more accurate to say, "for those who believe proof is in everything, for those who do not believe proof is in nothing."
Clearly, I find myself in the former category.
Wednesday 30 September 2009
Don't Give Up on the Dream until the Dream Comes True
We’re
far apart, but in our hearts
We
draw each other near (draw each other near)
And
in our dreams, this distance seems
To
fade and disappear (fade and disappear)
We
kiss in sleepy fantasies,
Embrace
in silent reveries,
And
maybe we will never live to see the day when I’m with you...
...but if you believe in fairy tale
endings,
Sad ones just won’t do
...So don’t give up on the dream, until
the dream comes true
Don’t give up on the dream until the
dream comes true
We’re
miles away,
But
every day,
We’re
stronger in our will, (stronger in our will)
And
late at night,
Our
eyes shut tight,
It
seems we’re closer still, (even closer still)
We
pray that we may reunite,
Here
within our waking life,
And
maybe we will never live to see the day when I’m with you,
...but if you believe in fairy tale
endings,
Sad ones just won’t do
...So don’t give up on the dream, until
the dream comes true
Don’t give up on the dream until the
dream comes true
Saturday 5 September 2009
being good
Antony Sammeroff · 5 September 2009 ·
so i don't know what being good is but i'm trying to learn how to be and i feel very scared confused and hurt a lot of the time and by the looks of it most of you feel the same so maybe we can try and help each other and teach each other what we've learned about it but I think the most important thing is to have these kind of thoughts, be honest with ourselves and try and fix ourselves first then we will share
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Antony Sammeroff I should have said by the looks of it all of you feel the same, and I also love the fact that to post that I would press the share button smile emoticon happy coincidence
5 September 2009 at 03:05 · Like
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes was a man who was very afraid of himself and what he feared he would become without his conscience, I think he saw the state (or monarch) as ones conscience, thats why he supported monarchy, but also because he was so traumatised by the civil war in Britain during his life time that he thought that monarchy was the only way to prevent such catastophes, but actually forcing order at the point of a gun (or blade in those days) is setting up those catastrophes to happen, people need to learn how to order themselves by mutual experience!
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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes was a man who was very afraid of himself and what he feared he would become without his conscience, I think he saw the state (or monarch) as ones conscience, thats why he supported monarchy, but also because he was so traumatised by the civil war in Britain during his life time that he thought that monarchy was the only way to prevent such catastrophes, but actually forcing order at the point of a gun (or blade in those days) is setting up those catastrophes to happen, people need to learn how to order themselves by mutual experience!
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My feelings on a couple of German Philosophers, liked it so wanted to share it
the only German Philosopher I know well is Kant I think he's very beautiful but a little too cerebral I think he had some kind of OCD because he took his philosophy very seriously, it is rumoured that his servants could time his morning walks by their watches
like many philosophers we are all too cerebral
Neitsche I know a little, he is very misunderstood people said he was a Nihilist but I'm not sure that he is one even though he is associated with that philosophy, in the end his genius drove him crazy because it prevented him from manifesting the message clearly which I think (with my limited understanding) was that each person should strive to be the best version of themselves that they can. I will have to ask other people who know Neitsche better than I if they agree with that!
See Also: http://reasonspiritandesthetics.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/thomas-hobbes_5.html
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