[lit-ideas] The Moon Walk

In a message dated 6/28/2009 1:12:06 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
 
>Answer the following questions in comprehensible prose.
 
(1) why is there anything rather than nothing?  
 
Is there? Your question is loaded.
 
>(2) What does "is" mean?  
 
Again. See Answer to (1) 
 
>(3) Does anything have meaning in and of itself, that is, outside the  
meaning we ascribe to 
it?  How could we know that?  
 
I have to go to the bathroom. May I?
 
>(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?  
 
Freud said incest is taboo in Native America.
 
>(5)  Is a thought a thing?  Does it have 
existence?   That is to say, is intentionality just another form of 
masturbation?  
 
De dicto. 
 
 
>(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?  
 
New ideas? Like 'centaur': combination of man and horse?
 
>(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.)  
 
 
In Sicily, it's mainly women who are catholic.
 
 
>(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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Yes, he _was_ a good performer. And he did go to hell many times.
 
I'm saddened LaToya Jackson ran so fast to his mansion to get all the  
jewels.

Must rush.
 
JLS
 
 
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