http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/ philosophical creativity Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:50:28 GMT Jennifer Armstrong http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/message/2095 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/message/2095 How do we get coerced into accepting a role within the status quos of power systems without our knowledge? The answer is long and quite complex. We all have Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:48:21 GMT Mike Ballard http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/message/2094 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/message/2094 "to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain." *********************************************************************** The proletarian Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:55:28 GMT Mike Ballard http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/message/2093 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/message/2093 Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:36:23 GMT Mike Ballard http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/message/2092 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/message/2092 Here's an online source for book produced in the USSR: http://leninist.biz/ Mike B) *********************************************************************** If Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:32:51 GMT Mike Ballard http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/message/2091 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/message/2091 Oh, I should have mentioned: Don't see this film if you're a philistine who's way smarter than anyone else. Mike B) Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:13:47 GMT Ralph Dumain http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/message/2090 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/message/2090 I saw Mandingo in the theater when it came out. What a tawdry campy piece of shit it was. There was political commentary of course, but the film was what the Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:31:53 GMT Mike B) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/message/2089 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/message/2089 In this film, the masterful James Mason plays the plantation patriarch, a Big Daddy you wouldn't want to be owned by. This is undoubtedly THE BEST Film made Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:07:39 GMT Mike Ballard http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/message/2088 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/message/2088 'You had to have your little suitcase, toothpaste, toilet paper, two razor blades, one for shaving, one to kill yourself if the torture is too bad. This is the Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:09:29 GMT Mike Ballard http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/message/2087 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/message/2087 Derrida is talked about endlessly. Here he is in his own words: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s8SSilNSXw&NR=1 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:52:08 GMT Mike B) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/message/2086 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/message/2086 For those wishing to get a grip on Heidegger: It's about an hour long and cut into pieces 5-6 min pieces. This is NOT a hit piece. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:43:04 GMT Mike B) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/message/2085 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/message/2085 Hi Char, I don't think there are any socialist economies nor do I think that capitalism is always out of historical synch with the level of morality which can Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:48:03 GMT Mike & Charlotte Reed http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/message/2084 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/message/2084 You can not say that every market that buys/sells is morally wrong.  There are wrong ways to go about it.  It would be like me saying every socialist economy Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:14:50 GMT Mike Ballard http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/message/2083 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/message/2083 Okay...try looking forward, Char. "False Prophets" A Trek 'Voyager' story comes to mind, speaking of commodity fetishism. Seems the crew detected Replicator Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:49:50 GMT Mike & Charlotte Reed http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/message/2082 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/message/2082 Now you are just being silly.  Buying and selling is about as anti social as a football game.  Yeah the point is to knock the crap out of your opponent, but Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:55:54 GMT Mike Ballard http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/message/2081 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophicalcreativity/message/2081 . . buying and selling is essentially antisocial in all its tendencies. It is an education in self-seeking at the expense of others, and no society whose