Comments on: FABLED

By: g

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:11:39 +0000

like whales – elephants communicate using sub bass frequencies that travel miles.

By: urm

urm — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:57:43 +0000

Ok, but what about what Heidegger says about what the scorpion says about what Herclues says about three-ways, e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCo2uCLXvhk

By: Roo

Roo — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:35:42 +0000

Still kinda puts me in mind of that William Blatty film, ‘The Ninth Configuration’ in which a mental patient attempts to convince his psychiatrist that there is no such thing as altruism.

Its an odd fable in that if you buy into it, you can’t LEARN from it – one can’t make the conscious choice to not be a scorpion any more than the scorpion can choose not sink his ride.
We don’t swim against fate, we’re the water.

By: stoat

stoat — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:08:06 +0000

Interesting. I don’t think this is true though:

“It is possible to feel the absence of feeling (”the frog feels the onset of paralysis”)”

Surely paralysis is not the absence of feeling, but simply being unable to move (which one might be able to feel intensely).

Or am I too literal minded?

By: kent

kent — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:49:20 +0000

the fuck?

By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:40:24 +0000

great post! but dont forget — early Sufi scholarship saw in the scorpion’s declaration a proto-Islamic heterodoxy, gently skirting issues of divine fatedness (motivating the censorship via omission carried out in George/Leo’s automatic essays on the topic) by positing that individual souls must assume the onus of their own actions “as if isolated by man and God alike”, as a method of purification, views later reinforced by early 20th ct. Koranic exegesis on the nature and necessity of freedom in a Newtonian/Planckian world ostensibly ‘veiled’ (i.e. overdetermined) by the physical laws of nature, down to the quantum.