I’m still interested in philosophy.
It’s been years.
At first it was like new beginnings, new ideas.
Later it was a lot of things repeating in relatively similar fashion.
One thing I’m trying to do is live consciously.
I try to consider everything I do, and why i do it.
It’s as simple as openning a door. But if you focus, you have less accidents.
Next, I try to not be spoiled.
So many people have less than me. I try hard to appreciate things a lot.
Every little thing is magical and wonderful in most cases.
Those seem to be the two main applications I’m on.
What I am trying to work on, is applying through communicating philosophy with practicality, by getting feedback through those with whom I am sharing thoughts. If this process progresses the way as it I would like to, I will be able to enhance my ability to unify philosophy and the way of understanding. After understanding, application of it may follow.
Do you exclusively mean one’s own daily practices that are in line with one’s philosophy?
Would it be correct, if I said: “What you are ‘trying to work on’, thus your ‘applying through communicating philosophy with practicality’, is similar to a religious practice or a spiritual excercise”?
Dance and philosophical exertion is my priority in terms of ethics. It is the only constant I can discern in a world in which I have not yet discerned to which part of it I can address my gifts most wisely. As for philosophical values, I think that the cultivation of the Idea of love must certainly be result of the hindered expression of love. This is why I favor the Idea of war; it is a better thing to sublimate, a thing of which the expression ends up contradicting half of the drives that engaged it; I favor the cultivation of the Idea of war, which is an expression of hate (and thus also of love) but not an ideation of it - it is better to sublimate that which neutralizes than that which fertilizes; and the instinct to neutralization of instinct, which is what war is, an expression of an ‘unbearable love’ - by sublimating love we get religion, by sublimating war we get science. The presupposed universal gain of religion is contradicted by the a presupposed zero-sum outcome of science. The first describes the ideal, the second the real. But the ideal is part of reality; so every ideal must produce its counter-ideal. All idealism is bound to end up with a hell to manage, but all sublimated warfare is bound to end exactly where it started – which is why war is a recourse only available to the happy!
Here we see why, in direst of need, nature calls forth a man as thirsty for fate as Churchill, who truly reclaimed civilization from the gates of Hades (for half a century at least). This maniac, this idiot savant spearheaded for glory raised the morals of his people to a principled fight rather than a bloodthirsty one; this is why Hitler was vanquished, his bloodlust was easier to satisfy than the English desire for reason and order. It takes courage to reason, and much laughter to attain courage when a barbarian is at the gate. He who laughs best laughs last. That is the order of magic!
