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08-12-2008, 05:29 AM | #1 |
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I have no idea ...
I have no idea what I'm doing here. I didn't plan this. But this drunkenness has to stop. Maybe it was at the Dancing Pony. Whatever. My soul lies somewhere else and I intend to end up there. If I break out of this prison of drunks I'm sure, with some help, I can find my way home. I know there will be storms on the horizon, avalanches in the abyss, and Night Riders. But I have nothing to lose now. I just want to go home.
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08-12-2008, 06:48 AM | #2 | |
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I have no idea either. What the...?
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08-12-2008, 07:15 AM | #3 |
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Um...WOW!
The poster tried relating his post to LotR, sadly he failed as it's The Prancing Pony, not Dancing!
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08-12-2008, 08:01 AM | #4 |
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No, the Dancing Pony is a rival establishment across the street.
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In any case, welcome to The Barrow Downs, where drunkeness is a token of liberation and preservation (as in Tolkien's Elvish cordial Miruvor), and not the Nihilistic libation of desperation.*** ***Disclaimer: No Existentialists were harmed in the making of this post.
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08-12-2008, 11:11 AM | #6 |
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ok... i didn't know BD has suddenly transformed into an existentialist philosophy forum.
seriously now, what the hell--
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08-12-2008, 03:11 PM | #7 |
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Well then, given Tolkien's ardent Catholicism, would you prefer the post to be analyzed from the point of view of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy or Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica? Given his philosophical bent, I think Tolkien would have preferred Boethius (more Platonic than Aristotlean).
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08-12-2008, 03:27 PM | #8 |
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Umm... I'm confused now. But that isn't uncommon.
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08-12-2008, 04:51 PM | #9 |
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Wow! I had no idea that I was so exposed. I think I'll retreat to Grimwood. It's the Light you see - kinda dazzles me. Not use to it. Oh, don't think I'm some Bog from Scritzenwold. I'm really quite friendly - when you get to know me.
But I think I better have 'one for the road'.
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08-14-2008, 05:09 AM | #10 | |
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my, i never thought...
*digs up old CL 121 notes*
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But I think it's to old Augustine he may be most drawn. Augustine's Christian Neo-Platonism (or was it Plotinus'? Help!) said that the universe is hierarchical, 1. Bodies, which are least unified, many, can always be fragmented into parts, can always perish 2. Souls, also fragmented, but not as badly as bodies. Souls are absorbed into bodies; without it they are weak. Unified they are powerful as they turn to contemplate forms in the intellect above 3. Intellect. Eternally and uninterruptedly contemplates the intelligible forms within it and is thus identical with them (intellect=intelligible world) 4. The One. So unified it cannot be articulated. -- Now doesn't it sound a bit like Tolkien? -- My point, which you lot may have missed--and I don't blame you!--the first post is kinda like... a joke.
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08-14-2008, 05:18 AM | #11 |
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As a matter of fact, Lindale, I suspect that possibility has occurred to other posters.
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