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Name:Julian Winn
Date: Monday, June 23, 2003
Comments:

Had a great time going through the site. I particularly liked the easy to read on-line journal. And philosophical merchandise - is all property theft?? I shall return to the site often and hope to join some of the emerging discussion groups and popping into to the live lecture hall.

Name:ViFeR
Date: Monday, June 23, 2003
Comments:

"Inference 3 - The universe was caused"
It's not even rational to assume the universe was caused.
"Inference 5 - The cause of the universe existed beyond it
Inference 6 - The cause of the universe was/is supernatural in origin"
Not to sure how you made the leap between these two but ok.
Still not sure why people think there is right and wrong...guess it's in our nature. If I see a rock falling down a hill I don't classify it as right or wrong, but rather just what is. We, like everything else includeing the rock, are just matter.

Name:Dunes M. Taghoy
Date: Tuesday, June 17 2003
Comments:

i have great time reading... keep it

Name:Lata Jagtiani
Date: Friday, June 13 2003
Comments:

I was impressed with the level of debate and exploration this journal maintains. My very best to the editorial team.
I wanted to comment on Brian Lightbodys piece but found it rather maze-like to find the right place to say my bit. So although it might not be the "proper" thing to do, it will do for the time being, I guess!
Here goes:
Brian Lightbodys piece, "To thine own Self Lie" was so well argued that I was ready to drop my spiritual quest and pick up my paint-brush. But since I wasnt asleep and really quite alert I found that he made a good argument which slackened towards the end. He said, towards the end, I quote:

"It is for this reason, I believe, that Nietzsche in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, associates truth with the spirit of gravity. Contrary to the old saying that the truth will set you free, the truth actually acts as an anchor of sorts. Believing in the 'truth' forces you to identify yourself, with your 'true' self. Whether one is a criminal, pervert, a student or a worker, one must hold this above all: To thine own self be true. One must be true to thyself, and for us moderns this means true to the discourses of psychology, sociology, criminology, and anthropology. In short, true to all of the sciences of man. Of Heidegger's Das Man, administered by Nietzsche's last men--the bureaucrats, politicians, and managers of our modern society. All of those, who would seek to define us, quantify us, analyze us, and in the end discipline us, into accepting that which we supposedly already are, and that which we supposedly were meant to be. It is for this reason that we should embrace Nietzsche's bird like wisdom that allows us to fly above this spirit of gravity; that allows us to create, explore, and most importantly to experiment--to experiment with ourselves. To think of our selves not as an excavation site--something that needs to be uncovered but rather as a blast site, an explosion, in the end a flash of lightning. To realize that the self is not fixed but rather is more akin to a ladder with one hundred rungsâ€”a movement in self- overcoming. "

Heres the trouble:
the sentence is "to thine OWN SELF be true". However B.Lightbody seems to feel that the quest for ones own self stops at what one does, not what one is; so one is "criminal, pervert, a student" in his own words. These may be certain activities that one DOES (to have) but they are not what one is(to be). Being and having are two different things very often unless ones doing is in line with ones being. We are more than what our visiting-card might say about us. Those aspects of our lives are our work, not our selves.
To arrive at who one is, in essence, deep deep down, the probing goes beyond work and approaches silent introspection. Work should be an expression of what one concludes one is, it is not ones essence. More like our speech should express what we really are but often it doesnt. To my mind B.Lightbody makes another quick leap to arrive at the desired conclusion jumping many steps in between.
How can we say that if we examine our own lives come to a certain conclusion we will accept somebody elses verdict on who we are? Either we have arrived at our own conclusions or not. The question, then of accepting labels from professionals doesnt arise. Having totalled my 4 plus 2 and found it to be a valid tried and tested six, I will readily accept a professional telling me that my conclusions are right, however I will then not be in a position to accept seven as the answer because six has already been verified by me as the right answer and absolutely valid.
Mr Lightbody might consider sharing with us the steps he has jumped in this argument. "Who am I?" is often answered by us as if we are talking to the printer who is going to do our visiting-cards. Thankfully we are much more than our work-label reveals about us.

Name:Craig R.
Date: Sunday, May 18 2003
Comments:

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Date: Tuesday, April 1, 19103 at 03:43:33
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Name:Elizabeth Mills
Email:emills@mail.smu.edu
Location: Dallas, TX USA
Date: Monday, February 17, 19103 at 11:48:39
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Email:mentifex@scn.org
Location: Seattle, WA USA
Date: Sunday, January 26, 19103 at 10:05:33
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Location: Nestor Falls, Canada
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Location: Bern, Swiss
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Comments:

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US
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Location: Bremen, Germany
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Location: Jmpur, Punjab Pakistan
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Email:ischrist@otenet.gr
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece
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Email:sweetsiraiki@yahoo.com
Location: jampur, punjab pakistan
Date: Tuesday, October 22, 19102 at 05:58:26
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Location: Mashhad, Iran
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Email:spetter@clara.net
Location: Bristol, UK
Date: Monday, October 7, 19102 at 14:31:08
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Email:pHoffmann@t-online.de
Germany
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Email:rivers2c@authorsden.com
Isle of Ireland
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Name:Rev. Cosmo McKinley, K.S.C.
Email:revcosmo@lsdrecords.net
Location: baltimore, md usa
Date: Saturday, August 10, 19102 at 10:00:50
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Email:rasoolpooree@hotmail.com
Location: jampur, punjab pakistan
Date: Friday, August 9, 19102 at 06:13:12
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Name: aslam rasoolpuri
Email:averroessecond@yahoo.co.in
Location: rasoolpur, punjab pakistan
Date: Thursday, August 8, 19102 at 05:44:16
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Name:Aaron
Email:aaron@atheistnetwork.com
Location: Detroit, mi USA
Date: Saturday, August 3, 19102 at 11:21:07
Comments:

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Name:J.C. Hutchinson
Location: Lester, UK
Date: Sunday, July 7, 19102 at 16:02:16
Comments:

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Name:S.R. Clarke
Date: Wednesday, July 3, 19102 at 12:22:06
Comments:

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Email:alexandrecl@hotmail.com
Location: Campinas, SP Brazil
Date: Thursday, June 20, 19102 at 16:43:53
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Name: Francesco Ambruoso
Email:fambruoso@hotmail.com
Location: Willimantic, CT USA
Date: Monday, December 3, 19101 at 12:59:08
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Name:B. Wallace/author/Labyrinth of Chaos
Email:labyrinthofchaos@hotmail.com
Location: Dallas, TX. U.S.
Date: Saturday, October 20, 19101 at 13:13:58
Comments:

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Name:Ivan Alexander
Email:ivan@humancafe.com
Location: Costa Mesa, CA USA
Date: Friday, August 24, 19101 at 14:24:36
Comments:

Dear Mitch, I finally got to read "When Tears are not Enough", and found it to be very powerful, and moving account of what it is to be truly human. Really fine. And I should also mention that I find your Forums excellent, drawing a very high caliber of writers. Well done, and thanks for all your hard work to keep it running. All the best, Ivan

Name: Mike Robitaille
Email:mike.robitaille@stanne-nackawic.com
Location: Nackawic, NB Canada
Date: Wednesday, May 9, 19101 at 19:05:17
Comments:

As a life long scientist and amateur philosopher I must congratulate you on developing a most informative and challenging site. I have gained a great deal from the contents and hope to contribute in the future.

Name:CK Penchant
Email:ckpenchant@hotmail.com
Location: Okland, CA USA
Date: Wednesday, April 18, 19101 at 08:28:34
Comments:

Excellent presentation, well-written, thought-provoking content. Im a cartoonist and therefore have little business making suggestions for a philosophical journal (this early in my interest in the subject, anyway), but I'll be following THE EXAMINED LIFE closely.

Name: Wally Waldau
Email:walter.waldau@vandenberg.af.mil
Location: Lompoc, CA USA
Date: Friday, April 6, 19101 at 17:29:50
Comments:

I just started a basic Philosophy course to fill a square for my bachelor's degree in Social Sciences. The textbook just happens to have the title "The Examined Life" so I decided to plug the phrase into my Google search engine. I am fascinated by all there is to Philosophy that somehow escaped my notice in all the other college courses I have taken over the past few years. Socrates was so right about the unexamined life being not worth living. Thanks for being here.

Name: Dave Tyrrell
Email:davet84@hotmail.com
Location: East Coast, NSW Australia
Date: Wednesday, April 4, 19101 at 17:47:06
Comments:

It's like coming home, I expect to open the door and find my old friend Arthur (Schopenhauer) grumbling about women all over again. Not that I agree with him, I think he was just jealous of the attention Hegel was getting! Best Wishes to 'The ExamIned Life' and all who sail in her!

Name: Tony Clarke
Email:tonyclarke@www.co,
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Date: Monday, March 19, 19101 at 15:50:26
Comments:

The new site seems much faster, best wishes for the future of the magazine and thanks for sticking with it.

Name:Mitch Hodge
Email:editor@theexaminedlife.every1.net
Location: Amarillo, TX USA
Date: Friday, March 16, 19101 at 13:27:34
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