The EADD I'm Fucked Megathread - Only 6 posts overdue

[ColtDan]

Glad your feeling good pagey lovely mix, peace n love

 

[Pagey]

Yup yup

 

[Marmalade]

If you're going to try out Albert Camus knock, I'd recommend you start with Caligula...wonderful and powerful book.

Oooooh, disagree. Sisyphus first, then the Outsider/stranger (Outsider), then Caligula imho etc

 

[knock]

kinda like a founder of existentialism, but differed to satre and kierkegard. keeps it to the basics, and deals with the absurdities of human existence and discusses the three fundamentals, and your basic choices/quandaries within those paramaters, and logics' to the only viable solutions, suicide being one of them

I'd send you my last book of his I had hanging around but I only just sent it off to someone else

[edit] both worth a punt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Sisyphus

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger_(novel)

If you're going to try out Albert Camus knock, I'd recommend you start with Caligula...wonderful and powerful book.

OK, recommendations from such luminaries as Marmz and Pagey makes it a no-brainer. I'm impatient so I've hunted down a video of Caligula, on it

Oooooh, disagree. Sisyphus first, then the Outsider/stranger (Outsider), then Caligula imho etc

but now

 

[Marmalade]

cough .....

Oooooh, disagree. Sisyphus first, then the Outsider/stranger (Outsider), then Caligula imho etc

i'll buy you the bloody books if i have to!

 

[Kronos]

I feele like this amt

 

[mydrugbuddy]

im no expert on camus, his stuff went over my heard, but the outsider is his most famous book so i read that, i dint enjoy it a bit. Maybe returning to it 20 years later with a bit more life experience under my belt i'll get more out of it. I suspect its worth trying again.

 

[Pagey]

Haha knock go for Marmz' advice, it's great as well! So long as you do read Caligula at some point

Also I think I'm going to send you The Great Gatsby because it really is a must

(PS. God 4-FA and xanax = )

Marmz do you like Sartre?

 

[Marmalade]

im no expert on camus, his stuff went over my heard, but the outsider is his most famous book so i read that, i dint enjoy it a bit. Maybe returning to it 20 years later with a bit more life experience under my belt i'll get more out of it. I suspect its worth trying again.

youre really best starting off with Sisyphus first bcos then everything else after is sort of put in context

Haha knock go for Marmz' advice, it's great as well! So long as you do read Caligula at some point

Also I think I'm going to send you The Great Gatsby because it really is a must

(PS. God 4-FA and xanax = )

Marmz do you like Sartre?

hrnm yes, no, maybe, not really. I like the fundamentals the most, sartre and kiekegard via off from them too much for me ... sartre towards 'the self', Kierkegaard towards religion and it's inclusion with existentialism

Learned a lot from reading about Sartre and Kierkegaard tho.

Knock, Camus was kinda anti commie due to its association with totalitarianism, but dont let that put you off. He was a humanitarian first and foremost.

 

[Marmalade]

but now

whut?

 

[Pagey]

hrnm yes, no, maybe, not really. I like the fundamentals the most, sartre and kiekegard via off from them too much for me ... sartre towards 'the self', Kierkegaard towards religion and it's inclusion with existentialism

Learned a lot from reading about Sartre and Kierkegaard tho.

Mmh okay, fair enough. Have you ever read some of Sartre's literary stuff, as opposed to the more philosophical essays? I absolutely love it.

Will never replace the metaphysicals & Kant for me though


(quite happy with myself for having this conversation on so many drugs!)

 

[knock]

cough .....


i'll buy you the bloody books if i have to!

No no I've acquired them already!

 

[mydrugbuddy]

are you all philosophy graduates, making me feel like a fuckin neaderthal ? My Dad is of the mind that he thinks he should know everything about everything. Im afraid im far too lazy for that. I tend to have a select few special interests, which i look into in great detail, rather than a smattering of basic facts about all sorts of things.

 

[mydrugbuddy]

No no I've acquired them already!

Jesus you are keen and quickly back together after your session today. I was all set for obtaining some pink floys autobiography audiobooks a few hours ago, i got easily diverted from that though.

 

[Pagey]

No no I've acquired them already!

Ah good :D still buying you and sending Gatsby over as soon as I'm back in London, non negotiable

are you all philosophy graduates, making me feel like a fuckin neaderthal ? My Dad is of the mind that he thinks he should know everything about everything. Im afraid im far too lazy for that. I tend to have a select few special interests, which i look into in great detail, rather than a smattering of basic facts about all sorts of things.

Yeah, I personally tend to think your approach is much better, I do that as well. As for what I know about philosophy, I have the french high school system and its weird obsession with having 10 hours of philosophy classes a week to thank for that :D

 

[mydrugbuddy]

Ah that explains something i noticed about some of the Parisian people i met when i visited a few times. They all seemed to be walking around as if they were philosophers. You cannot imagine a more stark contrast between that and Manchester, they would not survive a day here, you have to adopt an experssionless mask just to avoid verbals.

BL goes from one extreme to another dead during the day, and so busy at night the server is too busy to post. Its too frusrtarting.

 

[Marmalade]

urgh, too many of these

The server is too busy at the moment. Please try again later.

pagey, mdb, knock ... marmz needs zzZZzs ,, back tomorra

 

[mydrugbuddy]

night, waiting for the benzos to kick in, its not really happening.

 

[Pagey]

Ah that explains something i noticed about some of the Parisian people i met when i visited a few times. They all seemed to be walking around as if they were philosophers. You cannot imagine a more stark contrast between that and Manchester, they would not survive a day here, you have to adopt an experssionless mask just to avoid verbals.

BL goes from one extreme to another dead during the day, and so busy at night the server is too busy to post. Its too frusrtarting.

Haha really?
Yeah philosophy is massive in France. Bit annoying at the time but I'm glad I got to learn all that stuff in the end.
I hope you guys are still staying up for a bit more, I don't want to be left alone on here just yet!

urgh, too many of these




pagey, mdb, knock ... marmz needs zzZZzs ,, back tomorra

Haha okay, good night!

night, waiting for the benzos to kick in, its not really happening.

Aw, hope it will soon

 

[mydrugbuddy]

Haha really?
Yeah philosophy is massive in France. Bit annoying at the time but I'm glad I got to learn all that stuff in the end.
I hope you guys are still staying up for a bit more, I don't want to be left alone on here just yet!

the error message is too annoying, and the bnzos are noe kicking in, plus ive spent a ridiculous 12 hours or so on here today. It really is time to go. Good night Pagey et al.