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by duszek
Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:59 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Germinie Lacerteux
Replies: 6
Views: 2233

Re: Germinie Lacerteux

School teachers are sometimes bossy and this can be annoying, but many are really nice. I should not have generalized. I am sorry. I also remember that long ago some MPs accused Mrs Thatcher of talking like a school teacher, they felt talked to by her as if they were a bunch of naughty boys, and not...
by duszek
Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:52 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Virginia Woolf and other honest writers
Replies: 5
Views: 463

Re: Virginia Woolf and other honest writers

Thank you Alexiev. What you say about Mrs Ramsay reminds me of Ortega y Gasset´s explanations about the essence of love, in his "Estudios sobre el amor". If we love someone we wish this person to thrive and so we eminate positive energy towards them. We wish this person to live and to be h...
by duszek
Tue Feb 06, 2024 5:30 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Virginia Woolf and other honest writers
Replies: 5
Views: 463

Re: Virginia Woolf and other honest writers

I can't comment on the writers, but your observation about honesty sounds like what’s behind the movie, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. It's about a couple that plays games to just get along with one another, and in the process uncover raw, unfiltered honesty. Emotional intelligence enables us to u...
by duszek
Thu Jan 25, 2024 6:02 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Virginia Woolf and other honest writers
Replies: 5
Views: 463

Virginia Woolf and other honest writers

"To the Lighthouse" is full of impressions and insights that V. Woolf shares with the reader. She sounds very honest to me which I respect and appreciate a lot. It is poetic philosophy of life. Another honest writer (not afraid to speak his mind) could be André Gide, I just started to list...
by duszek
Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:37 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: I feel like a piece of shit
Replies: 38
Views: 2999

Re: I feel like a piece of shit

If you happen to live in Manhattan, Gary, (Upper East Side ? Eightyfourth street ?), you could try to smoke a joint with one or two incredible friends, very much unlike yourself. It seems to work in a novel, I cannot confirm it from my personal experience. But it sounded so convincing in the novel, ...
by duszek
Wed Jan 24, 2024 7:09 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Good vibrations in Manhattan
Replies: 0
Views: 497

Good vibrations in Manhattan

I recently treated myself to a novel about friendship between incredible people living in Manhattan, Upper East Side. Not everything was lovely, there was pot-smoking and loneliness, frustration, failure, homelessness, law enforecement and rich and poor. Nobody was buried alive, like Alvina in Woodh...
by duszek
Wed Jan 24, 2024 6:51 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: What am I doing?
Replies: 26
Views: 1803

Re: What am I doing?

One more point: You cannot be in all of your entirely body consciously. If you focus on how your toe feels like at a given moment you neglect the beating of your heart or your facial expression. So even one´s own body is not oneself in this sense. You cannot focus on all of your body on just one mom...
by duszek
Wed Jan 24, 2024 6:22 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Germinie Lacerteux
Replies: 6
Views: 2233

Re: Germinie Lacerteux

Thanks for your input, Age. I have discovered it just now. Lots to think about. Let me answer just one of your objections: everyone needs love, yes, but if the loved one starts to treat you disrespectfully and to manipulate you it is time to leave. Oscar Wilde should have left Alfred Douglas in due ...
by duszek
Wed Jan 24, 2024 6:10 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: What am I doing?
Replies: 26
Views: 1803

Re: What am I doing?

It is not natural for a human being to just be or to reflect about what one is doing. It is more natural to be inter-ested in something (inter - esse = between be), to be somewhere beyond oneself, trying to understand something or someone beyond oneself. In novels which narrate using the stream of c...
by duszek
Thu Apr 20, 2023 2:40 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Germinie Lacerteux
Replies: 6
Views: 2233

Germinie Lacerteux

Brothers Goncourt wrote this novel in the 19 century, it is a study of hysteria in women. Hysteria is not a concept of today´s psychology, women with such similar symptoms are classified in a different way today. Sigmund Freud still used this concept and tried to treat hysterical women. I listen to ...
by duszek
Wed Apr 19, 2023 4:30 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: The Tragedy of Life
Replies: 117
Views: 6100

Re: The Tragedy of Life

You probably have not read Houellebecq´s novel "L´extension du champ de la lutte" in which a man makes enormous efforts to find a girlfriends and fails miserably. I was sorry for this guy in the novel. But there are so many women who look for a guy and never get one, does anyone feel sorry...
by duszek
Wed Apr 19, 2023 4:27 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Be A Loner
Replies: 30
Views: 1734

Re: Be A Loner

Yes, but if you have a chum who understands you then you feel as part of something larger than yourself.
by duszek
Thu Apr 06, 2023 6:21 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: The Tragedy of Life
Replies: 117
Views: 6100

Re: The Tragedy of Life

How would an incel train himself ? Dale Carnegie wrote a book about how to win friends and influence people. Someone like him could write a book about how to find out what is the gap in a woman´s life and how to fill it. If an honest pimp can figure out how to humour and win a lady´s favour why sho...
by duszek
Thu Apr 06, 2023 6:18 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: The Tragedy of Life
Replies: 117
Views: 6100

Re: The Tragedy of Life

Even chimps trade if not high enough in the hierarchy. Long ago I saw a film in which a minor chimp approached a trio of chimp ladies. He offered a pine-apple for sexual intercourse and got it. One female gave him what he wanted while the other two ate the fruit. If you are a silver back chimp you g...
by duszek
Tue Apr 04, 2023 5:12 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Be A Loner
Replies: 30
Views: 1734

Re: Be A Loner

On the one hand our relationships with other people can better, yes, but also maybe worse too, because we lack experience and cannot as easily see through manipulative people. I see a couple of ways to deal with this issue - a couple of ways at a high level of abstraction, that is. Avoid people. Le...