Friday 27 February 2015

Thought 44: Thinking the Eternal Recurrence


That power is met
with power means
that it must pass
through a quantifiable
amount of combinations
which forever determine
the sequence to infinity
and infinite amount
of times, including 
this statement
and your reading
it : the eternal
recurrence of 
the same.

Addendum:
Predestination

If eternal recurrence is the case, 
predestination is in effect.

Thursday 26 February 2015

Thought 43: A Note on the Oscars




Three oscar winners for best picture in the last four years that are films to do with film:
  • Argo: a made-up movie project devised to save US hostages in Iran.
  • The Artist: the world of silent movies taken over by talkies and an actor who struggles with the transition.
  • Birdman: an ex-actor in the Hollywood comic book superhero genre tries to make good a career in theatre production.
This is hardly surprising when one considers that members of the Academy have had careers in the film industry and their viewpoint is determined by that world.

These motion pictures must have spoken to them as a result. 

Tuesday 24 February 2015

Thought 42: Life Mission


To be a fool.

Monday 23 February 2015

Thought 41: Notes on The Odyssey

  • Homecoming: νόστος
  • Guest-friendship: ξενια
  • Odysseus kills the suitors but also hangs the maids of his who consorted with the suitors.
  • ἀναγκη, necessity, and μοῖρα, fate, seem to be the result of negotiations and agreements among the gods as to what should happen to whom, bearing in mind that 'As the highest of the gods, Zeus is cosmic destiny.' (—Martin Heidegger, Early Greek Thinking—The Dawn of Western Philosophy, Logos (Heraclitus, Fragment B 50).
  • brutality in evidence in the epic: mutilation of genitals, noses, and ears; cut and thrust of stabbing objects such as bows and arrows, knives, swords, spears.
  • role of direct divine intervention as Pallas Athena dons mortal appearance to guide father (Odysseus) and son (Telemachus).
  • political correctness v patriarchal savagery
  • recognition scenes, e.g. between Odysseus and his blind father.