tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101561127376885132.post5525479598917683181..comments2022-06-18T01:47:44.615-05:00Comments on Filrabat's World of Thoughts: For Humans, Paradise Would Be Hell.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09630805408813112175noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101561127376885132.post-43096146005909692062011-06-29T20:18:38.485-05:002011-06-29T20:18:38.485-05:00I'm very sorry, Bill. That should be God. I ...I'm very sorry, Bill. That should be God. I obviously wasn't paying attention when I wrote that. My bad.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09630805408813112175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101561127376885132.post-44266217592279795742011-06-28T22:23:32.609-05:002011-06-28T22:23:32.609-05:00"goth?""goth?"Just call me Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12412692603929128787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101561127376885132.post-63171839411446591162011-06-28T21:25:29.303-05:002011-06-28T21:25:29.303-05:00Thanks for the compliments, Bill
I always believe...Thanks for the compliments, Bill<br /><br /><i>I always believed that is a reference to divine wrath, but what if it simply an astute observation on what humans would do to themselves in a perfect world?</i><br /><br />I see no reason why it couldn't be goth. Make your bed (your semi-perfect word that lays the base for the next cataclysm), then lay in it (God's judgment, whether active punishment or Him just saying "I'll give them enough rope with which to hang themselves").Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09630805408813112175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101561127376885132.post-79530634897466404532011-06-26T19:30:28.903-05:002011-06-26T19:30:28.903-05:00Frankly I thought you post was brilliant. Lately ...Frankly I thought you post was brilliant. Lately I've been pondering the same questions you deal with in this message. There is a verse in the Bible that says something to the effect of, "when humans at last have peace and safety, that is when sudden destruction will come upon them." I always believed that is a reference to divine wrath, but what if it simply an astute observation on what humans would do to themselves in a perfect world?billhttp://christandplato.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101561127376885132.post-91575485778534526942011-06-02T19:57:15.202-05:002011-06-02T19:57:15.202-05:00Thanks, Karl and Sister Y.
I'm not familiar w...Thanks, Karl and Sister Y.<br /><br />I'm not familiar with that Schoepenhauer quote, nor am I familiar with the Nussbaum one. Even so, if Schope anticipated me 150 years ago, then there must truly be nothing new under the sun. Hell, probably bright Stone Age thinker saw this a long time ago.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09630805408813112175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101561127376885132.post-61699758176585073072011-06-02T12:57:36.085-05:002011-06-02T12:57:36.085-05:00I like this.
This is what Martha Nussbaum is writ...I like this.<br /><br />This is what Martha Nussbaum is writing about in her essay "Transcending Humanity" and which I write about <a href="http://theviewfromhell.blogspot.com/2010/12/living-in-epilogue-social-policy-as.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> - Heaven is no fun.Sister Yhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01003897317594535536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101561127376885132.post-15126523763662944602011-06-02T09:32:43.183-05:002011-06-02T09:32:43.183-05:00Great post, filrabat.
"Work, worry, toil and...Great post, filrabat.<br /><br />"Work, worry, toil and trouble are indeed the lot of almost all men their whole life long. And yet if every desire were satisfied as soon as it arose how would men occupy their lives, how would they pass the time? Imagine this race transported to a Utopia where everything grows of its own accord and turkeys fly around ready-roasted, where lovers find one another without any delay and keep one another without any difficulty: in such a place some men would die of boredom or hang themselves, some would fight and kill one another, and thus they would create for themselves more suffering than nature inflicts on them as it is. Thus for a race such as this no stage, no form of existence is suitable other than the one it already possesses."<br /><br />- SchopenhauerKarlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101561127376885132.post-35690855898949425352011-06-01T15:12:21.454-05:002011-06-01T15:12:21.454-05:00Mercy me! Has he stumbled upon transhumanist techn...Mercy me! Has he stumbled upon transhumanist technology already? If so, the 2012 prophesies are true after all! <br /><br />We're Doooommmed!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09630805408813112175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101561127376885132.post-43589834150608773102011-06-01T01:38:16.403-05:002011-06-01T01:38:16.403-05:00From the onion.<a href="http://www.theonion.com/articles/john-edwards-vows-to-end-all-bad-things-by-2011,2235/" rel="nofollow">From the onion.</a>The Plague Doctornoreply@blogger.com