[lit-ideas] * * * Intensive 4-Week Seminar at the Memphis Metaphysical Ministry * * *

"Summer sucks. Let's spend it  together"
                       Geary
 
                     SUMMER SCHOOL AT GEARY'S
 
In the Issue #4 of "The Feral Cat", 
In a message dated 6/28/2009 1:12:06 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

SCHEDULE
 
First Week:
 
>(1)
>why is there anything rather than nothing?  (2) What does "is"  mean? That 
>is, is it possible to define existence?  I'm thinking  no.  
 
Second Week:
 
>(3) Does anything 
>have meaning in and of itself, that is,  outside the meaning we ascribe to 
>it?  How could we know  that?  (4)  Doth God exact day labor, light 
denied? 
>That is to  say, is there any moral concept that is not culturally 
>contingent?   How can we know that?  
 
Third Week
 
>(5)  Is a thought a thing?  Does it have  
>existence?  That is to say, is intentionality just another form of  
>masturbation?  (6) Where do new ideas come from?  Heidegger  seems (it 
seems 
>to me) to suggest they develop out of a misunderstanding  of words / 
>concepts -- is creativity then a child of ignorance?  
 
Fourth Week
 
>(7)  Belief in a god 
>is shared by something like 90% of  the human race.  Why?  And why is it 
that 
>the extremist  religious fanatics are almost always men?  (I say it's fear 
of  
>women -- is religion then but a male bulwark against their own cupidity?  
>Surely it is.)  
>(8)  Was Michael Jackson a real human being or a product of  
>Pixar?  I can't decide --  his life was so screwed-up that it  had to be 
>fiction, either that or it had to be true.  I'm glad I  wasn't Michael 
>Jackson.  He must have gone thru hell many, many  times in his life.  But 
>watching him perform was equivalent to what  philosophy means to me.  See 
if 
>you can decipher what that  means.  Let me know.  I need to know.
 
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