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A Premeditation of Friendship

Pain is so uncommon, we have to look to art so as not to lack it.

About Me

"I can no longer go from "I think" to "I am" because the content of my reality (what I am) is always more than the content of any merely thinking self."

My Interests

"Every time you propose to violate the free speech of someone else, you potentially distribute the right for others to violate yours."

I'd like to meet:

"If we treat man as a product, we find ourselves reducing his reality to something non-human."

Music:

Limbonic Art, Abigor, Behemoth, Nile, Neuraxis, Cephalic Carnage, Coprofago, Beneath the Massacre, Deathspell Omega, Marduk, East West Blast Test, Sadus, Voivod, Atheist, Monstrosity, Cephalic Carnage, Angel Corpse, Fear Factory, Enslaved, Watain, Pig Destroyer,...

Movies:

Castle of owls, Song for a Raggy Boy, The Prestige, ...

Television:

The Century of the Self, Power of Nightmares, Twin Peaks, Carl Sagan's Cosmos...

Books:

Quine, Bernard Stiegler, Richard Rorty, Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, John Searle, Deleuze, Bertrand Russell, Dawkins,...

Heroes:

"When it comes to language, pragmatists see the later Wittgenstein, Quine and Davidson as having got rid of the dualistic, Fregean ways of thinking which dominated the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and early analytic philosophy. They read Derrida on language as making pretty much the same criticisms of the Cartesian/Lockean/Husserlian view of 'language as the expression of thought' which Wittgenstein made in his Philosophical Investigations. They read both Derrida and Wittgenstein not as having discovered the essential nature of language, or of anything else, but simply as having helped get rid of a misleading, and useless, picture-the one which Quine called the myth of the museum: the image of there being an object, the meaning, and next to it its label, the word."

My Blog

Platonic concepts and theology

I've been doing a lot of reading lately, and also a lot of rereading, And I have been entertaining notions and analysis based on the data available in Comparative religion and Semiotics, as, especia...
Posted by A Premeditation of Friendship on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:05:00 PST

On the Foucault/Chomsky debate

In the debate, Chomsky rests his analysis that human nature has fundamental qualities, yet cannot answer Foucault's assertion that exibited traits are indicitive of the a class in power. While it ca...
Posted by A Premeditation of Friendship on Mon, 21 May 2007 01:30:00 PST

The Epic of Gilgamesh, Sumerian version Tablet X verse 297-319. circa 2100- 2500 BCE

...You toiled away, and what did you achieve? You exhaust yourself with ceaseless toil, you fill your sinews with sorrow, bringing forward the end of your days. Man is snapped off like reeds to the s...
Posted by A Premeditation of Friendship on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:10:00 PST

Derrida on Deconstruction

Deconstruction is intrinsic to whatever is being deconstructed, it has no synonymous relation with other paradigms. A deconstruction of Christianity would be unlike a deconstruction of Capitalism. I...
Posted by A Premeditation of Friendship on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:53:00 PST

Notes on Knowlege, dreams and process

It has been said that life is worth living in accordance to the scope of one's dreams, and I will not be one to refute this. Instead I will try to offer an analysis, and hopefully an inspiration in ...
Posted by A Premeditation of Friendship on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 01:24:00 PST

Nietzsche & Deleuze: Active and Reactive

Nihilism is a cultural libel, and is useless without its explicit definition on what it sees as its antithesis. The problem, I think, is understanding nihilism as something with qualities. A literal...
Posted by A Premeditation of Friendship on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 04:35:00 PST

Desire, evaluation, happiness and the difference

Put simply, 'happiness' is a qualitative state that is meaningless without the context, and therefor the means, by which it attained. It states relation between subject and object: I  (subject)...
Posted by A Premeditation of Friendship on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:31:00 PST

On the meaninglessness of the term God

If you are going to propose something exists, you must also propose the means by which it is intelligible. If you cannot define what it is you are proposing, then the validity of what is denoted becom...
Posted by A Premeditation of Friendship on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:47:00 PST

Primordiality and the Philosophers

The Dionysian principle in Nietzsche underwent some changes to be sure from its original Dionysian/Apollonian dualism in The Birth of Tragedy. Here the Dionysian was primordial being, and he Apollonia...
Posted by A Premeditation of Friendship on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:22:00 PST

On the Cruelty of Christianity (Ludwig Feuerbach)

The contradiction between faith and love (excerpt form Ludwig Feuerbachs book 'The Essense of Christianity' in the chapter of the same name) "...Faith condemns, anathematizes; all the actions, all th...
Posted by A Premeditation of Friendship on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 05:47:00 PST