I'm R.T. Stillwell, a rookie DIY gonzo journalist working the news beat.
I hope you've been enjoying my olympiad updates,
and I would like to apologize for any headlines or statements that were not as well thought out or as politically correct as I might have hoped.
My dictates for anyone reading are as such:
1) see something say something
2) be careful when driving, always check your blind spots
3) Christendom is the guiding ethic of America
4) Self reformation and betterment are something to strive for
5) Do your part for Liberty, Justice, Democracy and Freedom
6) check my productions by simply googling "EMO HEADACHE" - I have forthcoming material on an Italian label called Viral Conspiracy Records Music | Viral Conspiracy Records (bandcamp.com) which features a visionary designer Mattia Travagini.
8) My journey through Sport has been tremendously enjoyable of recent. Having the olympiad available nearly round the clock is like having College Football season ALL THE TIME! I'm thoroughly ecstatic about the future of Sport, and you should be too. To all of my American readers, remember that the middle of the night EST in USA is about when the Sport really gets going LIVE in Tokyo. I highly recommend setting your alarm for 3:00 am or earlier to catch some of the most exciting events LIVE... It's worth it!
9) Please let's all pray for what counts in times like these... Don't miss a prayer, either! 1nce a day prayer can work wonders. Prayer is often the last thing we do when it should be the first!
10) keep the innocent women, children and domesticated animals on the forefront of all Democracy United action... they are often the one's who suffer the brunt of this vicious plague, the CHINA VIRUS.
11) As I said, "Mask up"... at least when you can. Stock up on sterilized face coverings if you haven't yet. Masks, even clothe masks, are only 20 % effective after three uses. Remember that!
12) Protest from your living room if you can... It does work. Try turning on James Earl Jones reading The Bible, or youtube Jonathan Edwards' "Sinners...", or look up sermons that could track hunt kill and poke those damned wretched charmin bears!
13) watch this video and repent at the end (beats all the other crap out there with conspiracy theory videos etc.):
So with all of this in mind, I would like to thank all of my regular readers. Back in 2012 it wouldn't be uncommon for this site to get 400-700 hits a day. as the internet has become more streamlined, it has - for a time - slowed to a relative trickle (or 'drip'). But thanks to ya'll looking in and spreading the Gospel of Christ around the world, I've been getting hundreds of hits a day again~!
So if you are reading this right now, just know that you have the tremendous respect of myself, my SUPERpac Domestic Democracy United, and the backing of %100 of the punk rawk cred that I don't embody while my critics drain their mom and daddy's data plan...
"Assholes with I Phones..."
Thank you so much for your interest...
I hope you find the existentialist Philosophy bulling decent. I'm not very well versed in philosophy 'academically', but having read a few classics of continental philosophy I think that the existentialist ethic that I stand for is "Put your money where your mouth is!" We are meant to "do philosophy". Think of socrates. Or augustine. Or even zarathustra.
They all 'practiced' philosophy!
So it's up to us to read the classics, and I'll tell you why...
Fiction, historical or otherwise, is entertainment. Transcription, in whatever form, is beyond entertainment - it is a kind of quasi-ecstatic truth. The Bible, as the the WORD of Gott, is - in fact - a transcription!
The same goes for Historian Studs Terkel. He doesn't write ABOUT history... He DOES history. so DO philosophy...
Have an existential ethic of pure action.
Think of Kierkegaard !!!
He used transcription, often times, to bring people to the WORD of Gott.
Or even PLATO!!!
He - in some sense - was writing TRANSCRIPTIONS.
Here's a brief transcription:
"THE MOVEMENT HAD STILL SO FEW MEMBERS THAT IT Was hard to find a person among them suitable for the job, who would be content with very little for himself and would at the same time BE READY TO MEET THE MANIFOLD DEMANDS WHICH THE MOVEMENT WOULD MAKE OF HIS TIME AND ENERGY.
after a long search we discovered a soldier who consented to become our first business manager. His name was -------- an old wartime comrade of mine."
Or think
"...At first he came to my office every day between 6 and 8 o'clock in the evening, later he came from five to eight and subsequently for the whole afternoon; finally, it became a full time job and he worked from home from morning till night. He was industrious, upright and a thoroughly honest man, WHO WAS EXCEEDINGLY PAINSTAKING AND A LOYAL SUPPORTER OF THE MOVEMENT. He brought with him an Adler typewriter of his own. It was the first typewriter to be used in the service of The Party. Subsequently, The Party bought it, paying for it in installments. We needed a small safe in order to keep our papers and register members out of harm's way, not to hold our funds, which were non existent. On the contrary, our financial position was so hopeless that I often had to dip into my own personal savings."
Or think
"...In DECEMBER 2020, we acquired the völkischer beobachter.."
- excerpt from --------- authored by -----------------
so transcription can have a kind of Truthiness that merely manufacturing fiction is incapable of.
...and look at the page you would the above binary pattern.
Solomon once put it very well in his teaching company lecture: "Let your eyes scan and examine the various contours of the words the way you would view a painting!"
SO with that,
I'd like to make a brief end statement:
"I've gotten some amount of reaction to my existentialist phenomenology philosophy, and many who read it have responded 'There's nooooo way you wrote that!' Well I did. Thank you!"
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We can easily infer the World through some kind of a priori synthesis of correspondence with phenomenology. When we do phenomenology, there are as many ways to infer the existence of the world-in-itself (Absolute Spirit) as there are different perspectives of the world ontically.
You could take the sense perception of an insect, say a spider, and examine it through empathy and compassion. We can say with some certainty that if we squash a spider it's sense perception ends, perhaps with physical sensations in the insect of pain and suffering. Further, we can say when we see a spider in our living room that this being is an entity of sorts, and it's own sensory perception - far different from ours - has perception of the perceiver (the "I"). So by the eidetic reduction of the conscious, unconscious and even preconscious perception between two entities in the proximity of each other we may surmise quite succinctly that, while the world-in-itself may be difficult to prove the existence of, we may understand - through thoughtful comportment - that the ontico-ontological being of sense perception (Dasein) is such that we can apprehend a being's sentience.
So let's examine our own sentience,
through the totality of our own sense perceptions...
How can we be certain that what we see, hear, smell, touch or taste correspond with the world and ontical beings (entities) in-the-world?
Through the ontology of phenomenal reduction of specific qualia of what constitutes experience or sense perception or conscious awareness of our senses within ourselves, perhaps?
Maybe it has to do with examining logically the physical nature of how sense perception occurs within our-own-selves in-the-world, eh?
With a brute layman's understanding of how the brain works and using common sense logic, we can ascertain that the phenomenon of sense perception is a priori preceded by the mechanisms of our neurology... How does this work?
Well I'm not very learned,
but it seems that if we have, say a sense perception of immediacy where our body acts without conscious thought, that a priori electro-chemical stimuli and neural networks that carry these impulses are preconscious, so to speak, and somehow hardwired...
Bob Solomon, who if he had lived to see the recent advances in the study of the brain would no doubt be thrilled about the event horizon of the new philosophers, said that when it comes to science (he had a degree in biology before philosophy) the easiest sense perception to analyze in a laboratory setting is - in fact - "fear" by virtue of the application of an electro-shock (i.e. pain).
The fear reaction in, say, rats is easily reproducible in scientific analysis using the Scientific Method and seems to be consistent with what we know about neural networks. The pain stimulus through the administering of an electrical shock in the rat induces fear, every single time.
I'm thinking, outside of science, of what we know about fear-as-such...
Let's look at the word of the Bible!
Fear, in scripture, is seen as a necessary sense activity in knowledge.
FEAR GOD~
They say...
Fearing god, again, is seen in the New Testament as the first step to knowledge and wisdom, and further the first step to truly knowing God. We can know God through some kind of sense perception, in this case fear (not leaving out love etc.), and come to conclusions about ourselves, the universe and the Spirit of the Times- How can we do this with certainty?
Well,
as I said,
I'm no professor of philosophy and hardly scientific whatsoever in my politik (I agree with Hegel's anti-Physics bent), so I'll have to rely on merely sophomoric approaches to the problem~
The equation is thus:
Inferring Correspondence Through Sense Perception + Eidetic Phenomenological Reduction of Given Phenomena = An Adequate Everyday Understanding of Sense Certainty
Correspondence, as observed by many in academia in regards to the question of Sense Certainty, is seen as inadequate to determine the existence of objects of consciousness. Why?
I can't see it to be frank.
If my hand touching a table gives me this sensory input I can infer through both Faith-as-such and common sense that the nerves in my hand triggering out of touching the object perceived (i.e. the object of consciousness) correspond with the Absolute, Objective, Unequivocal and Universal "table-as-such" that I can touch and see by virtue of the electro-chemical interaction in the empty space behind my eyes - the brain (which by the way one cannot really 'feel' the same way as other parts of the body - excluding, say, a headache or what have you) - and may sensibly infer that this table is existent in the world and my world of sense perception.
But there's still a problem here...
It was put best by Fichte and expanded on ad infinitum in Hegel's Phenomenology...
"There is no consciousness of objects,
only consciousness of our consciousness of objects."
-Fichte
So it seems that my sophomoric 'correspondence theory' won't hold water...
...or will it?
How can an entity in the world determine correspondence?
I think the question here is the difference between consciousness-as-such and honest to goodness factical correspondence of the world to our sense perception. In fact, what is consciousness?
And can there be a kind of "Absolute Consciousness"?
I'm doubtful.
Consciousness in the present age and for some time since the cultural revolution in the 60's has really lost most of it's significance philosophically and is -at best- a buzz word for pop psych bulling...
I mean honestly,
What's that phrase again?
"Expand your consciousness"...
I'll let it go at that,
but let's -as an exercise in phenomenology- examine what Fichte and Hegel must have thought of as qualifying consciousness-as-such.
More than likely consciousness for them must have had something to do with thoughtful circumspection. So we could say, with certainty, that consciousness-as-such corresponds with consciousness-in-the-absolute. The reducible ego of the "I", with our minds eidetic reduction preceded by ontically existent functions of our Mind, Spirit or "Ghost".
I'm reminded here, again, of the Bible and our Creation Story-as-such.
We're told that, in the beginning, God created mankind in his image - meaning creation corresponds to individual consciousness of the World-as-Such, and even our own Being-In-The-World in terms of Spirit (Geist).
So does that mean, in some sense or another, that our consciousness of our own consciousness is a byproduct of Creation? Could it mean that our consciousness "Corresponds-in-Itself" with the World-as-Spirit?
Maybe I'll leave the tired Germanic phraseology here for arguments sake-
If we can only be conscious of our consciousness of the world and not the "World- In-Itself", ergo ipso we see an easy leap of judgement from our consciousness of consciousness to say that this type of conscious cognition - in all facticity and Universal Absolute truth-as-such - this type of cognition (consciousness-as-such conscious of its own consciousness of the world) corresponds with the Totality of the Universe, through a single qualia or quanta - if you will - of Geist (Spirit, Mind or Ghost).
So we can know that we don't know the Absolute world, and by virtue of this quasi-Socratic effort know via Faith that our sense perception refers to the creations of God-as-such, and Absolute Truth.
Apologies if this all seems a bit loopy...
But those are my basic tractates for today.
"We know ourselves as Spirit, when we become conscious of the world as the Absolute and the Universal Individual as ourselves, ontical beings suffering the experiences of God's Creation - I.E. Absolute Being-In-The-World as the "I". When we raise our own being to be likened to the form of Creation, then we can truly in an Hegelian sense of ourselves as the world and the world as ourselves understand the world as Absolute Spirit."
-RT Stillwell
So what does all this blather really amount to?
A Paleo-Hegelian apology for or justification of Evangelical Theology ,,,
proven through the phenomenological method and existential verstehen as the Will to Truth.
