"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams
He had a few amusing music hall bits as did those overrated zanies, Monty Python, but British, all too British...
And let's not vorget official romanish doctrine: Merry Old Engeland, that sceptr'ed zionist isle = The ENEMY. One reason I still respect a few cats.
Traditional irishmen would rather hang with europeans than with the blimey British (even professors) or their scottish goons, wouldn't they? Or that's how it used to be.
Ezra Pound had mo' love for Il Duce than for that fat Tory atheist Winnie Churchill....(and I suspect that was the case for the elderly, post-madness EP...). And also recall Joyce's mockery of all things British (including Cromwell and whigs...). The last decent Brits were like around Edward I's time...and they were frenchy-normans, anyway
That might make thangs worse, jh-ster--unless like he sat in with Steely Dan or Zappa or Ella Fitzgerald or somethin' (Ella had some great bands...).
Did Dougie A play a gtar? Didn't know that. His death was sort of weird--not that old, fairly good health, and then like driving down 101 near St.Babs, kicks it.
I have slowly realized that I don't care for atheists, especially of the British sort--they are the sons of Russell (a glib arrogant little man, but at least knew what he was yakking about). A Nietzsche's a slightly different matter, tho'. FN understood tragedy for one.
adams sat in with pink floyd he knew david gilmore they were pals he hung out with sir paul as well
i thought for tv fare a hitchhikers guide to the universe was pretty cool
FN understood the greek incorporation of tragedy i think he did much to ignore the sense of tragedy in christianity and why christians literally transcended the angst of tragedy even while giving themselves over to martyrdom in the first 3 centuries every catholic martyr lived with a more profound sense of tragedy than FN ever knew
he somehow never understood the tragic sense of hubris that plagued his own life he did not know what dostoevsky knew about tragedy
Jammin' with the Floyd?? Kewl. Adams may have been a witty chap, but that's the old dispensation, as they say, Paddy, iddn'tit: atheism, rock, the Brit-wit's fine when you're a tory millionaire or Oxbridge dandy living in a chateau out in the Anglo cuntryside. Some of us aren't so fortunate.
Nietzsche's a slightly different matter (and not a lover of the English). While FN did make the famous declaration "Gott ist Tot", he didn't mean it like some brit-wag or Humean did, as in all religion is rubbish; more like, how horrible, and absurd that judeo-christianity has failed us, has turned out to be empty or corrupt or weak, in brief. FN's got a poet's soul....At least the dicussion's a bit different than the mere empiricism of most brits. But maybe he was wrong. Nietzsche assumed naturalism as dogma (like some Humeans): he can't even conceive of the Kantian mind, or of Reason (as say VOltaire does, while questioning religious dogma). So he's an anti-rationalist, perhaps as perilous as ...anglo hyper-rationalism....
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Douglas Adams??
Das ist nickht GUT, Vater!!!
He had a few amusing music hall bits as did those overrated zanies, Monty Python, but British, all too British...
And let's not vorget official romanish doctrine: Merry Old Engeland, that sceptr'ed zionist isle = The ENEMY. One reason I still respect a few cats.
Traditional irishmen would rather hang with europeans than with the blimey British (even professors) or their scottish goons, wouldn't they? Or that's how it used to be.
Ezra Pound had mo' love for Il Duce than for that fat Tory atheist Winnie Churchill....(and I suspect that was the case for the elderly, post-madness EP...). And also recall Joyce's mockery of all things British (including Cromwell and whigs...). The last decent Brits were like around Edward I's time...and they were frenchy-normans, anyway
i don't mind an atheist as long as he plays guitar
That might make thangs worse, jh-ster--unless like he sat in with Steely Dan or Zappa or Ella Fitzgerald or somethin' (Ella had some great bands...).
Did Dougie A play a gtar? Didn't know that. His death was sort of weird--not that old, fairly good health, and then like driving down 101 near St.Babs, kicks it.
I have slowly realized that I don't care for atheists, especially of the British sort--they are the sons of Russell (a glib arrogant little man, but at least knew what he was yakking about). A Nietzsche's a slightly different matter, tho'. FN understood tragedy for one.
adams sat in with pink floyd
he knew david gilmore
they were pals
he hung out with sir paul as well
i thought for tv fare
a hitchhikers guide to the universe
was pretty cool
FN understood the greek incorporation of tragedy
i think he did much to ignore
the sense of tragedy in christianity
and why christians literally
transcended the angst of tragedy
even while giving themselves over to
martyrdom in the first 3 centuries
every catholic martyr lived with a more profound sense of tragedy than FN ever knew
he somehow never understood the tragic sense of hubris that plagued his own life
he did not know what dostoevsky knew about tragedy
Jammin' with the Floyd?? Kewl. Adams may have been a witty chap, but that's the old dispensation, as they say, Paddy, iddn'tit: atheism, rock, the Brit-wit's fine when you're a tory millionaire or Oxbridge dandy living in a chateau out in the Anglo cuntryside. Some of us aren't so fortunate.
Nietzsche's a slightly different matter (and not a lover of the English). While FN did make the famous declaration "Gott ist Tot", he didn't mean it like some brit-wag or Humean did, as in all religion is rubbish; more like, how horrible, and absurd that judeo-christianity has failed us, has turned out to be empty or corrupt or weak, in brief. FN's got a poet's soul....At least the dicussion's a bit different than the mere empiricism of most brits. But maybe he was wrong. Nietzsche assumed naturalism as dogma (like some Humeans): he can't even conceive of the Kantian mind, or of Reason (as say VOltaire does, while questioning religious dogma). So he's an anti-rationalist, perhaps as perilous as ...anglo hyper-rationalism....
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