Comments for Resistentialists

Comment on Report on Resistentialism by Mister Bark

Mister Bark — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:34:36 +0000

Hello ! Billety très pertinent cependant j’ai xu mal à comprendr : “a good example of choses co-relatives in the resistentialist sense” … bonne continaution !

Comment on 25 years later… by SIGN WITH AN E » Imaginary Friends

SIGN WITH AN E » Imaginary Friends — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:53:48 +0000

[...] about it, the imaginary friend business is quite a lot more insidious than the big obvious ones: God (et al.) and Santa. As both of the linked pieces suggest, what is really troubling about these two [...]

Comment on Teaching students about god by JP Rossouw

JP Rossouw — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:54:11 +0000

Great post!

Comment on Sophistry by For the believers

For the believers — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:56:38 +0000

You’ll regret being so flipant about this one day!

Comment on Human happiness by S/E

S/E — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:31:47 +0000

My apologies for perpetuating a pessimism you seemed eager to shake with the first bourbon…but on a note to complicate things further, regarding choice and threats, is Ulrich Beck’s quite compelling theory of a “risk society”, where the traditional hazards of life (earthquakes, droughts, and so on) are replaced by all the risks manufactured to keep us in a state of anxiety about the choices we do make: eat butter today, don’t eat it tomorrow; obesity is genetic, now its contagious (watch out for those fat friends!!); red wine will keep your heart fit one day, turn you alcoholic the next. No bloody wonder people are confused, and more than likely go for the simplest option, which is to find distractions - any will do - from real thinking.

And about happy indexes, the most worrying thing of all must be that for those who manage to distract themselves, they might really be “happy”. What if Rachael Ray’s smile is genuine, and she manages to keep it? If there is any injustice here, it must be that we are the ones who get to be depressed about other people’s brainlessness while they sail on their merry way (to the bank).

Comment on His people are strange by 6000

6000 — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:33:53 +0000

Wow. And that’s just my problem with them. (Aside from their actual existence, obviously) How patronising do you want to be? And would you like a side order of condescending?
And he says that you’re not going to be bible bashed because he is a christian?!? Well, sorry love, those christian people are the principle perpetrators of that particular crime.

The last line makes me quite ill. And can surely never be safely used in South Africa - one day someone’s gonna take advantage of an offer like that.

Comment on Quinn thinks about destiny by DB

DB — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 08:39:11 +0000

Clearly an angry sort of Quinn…but disillusion does make its own sense.

Comment on For those who still want a soul by DB

DB — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:10:11 +0000

Thanks for lessons from Larkin… I thought he was only good for how fucked up parents are. But, as you show, a wordsmith.

Comment on Memory by Slack2Slack

Slack2Slack — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:56:49 +0000

Thank you for the warm and touching note, and for being there when all went wobbly. I am sleeping a lot, smoking much less; memories are coming back to me, the ones closer to the ‘event’ slowly so. I am surprised to realise how something like reading - which we take for granted - is so clearly a complex function: I read a few pages from P.G. Wodehouse (light reading?) and get exhausted, then fall asleep. Soon, though, I will be back… I promise.

Comment on Student elections by SlackCollective

SlackCollective — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 06:22:47 +0000

Mr Msomi failed to make it, and rather spectacularly at that - he finished 23rd out of 28 candidates, if my memory serves. A grappa for you, then, H.M.