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02/10/2017 11:14:16 PM · #1
at random times that make you stop and think...hey, it could be worse or perhaps they make you think it could be better. What if they just don't make you think at all no matter how 'tragic'?? Can you photograph a non response or a negative response without being intentionally staged? Does this 'expression' genuinely exist?

Does anyone understand what I am asking?

Message edited by author 2017-02-10 23:16:11.
02/10/2017 11:59:12 PM · #2
Martin Heidegger explained how to do this in "What Is Metaphysics?"
02/11/2017 12:04:05 AM · #3
Originally posted by posthumous:

"What Is Metaphysics?"

That is correct.

02/11/2017 12:25:40 AM · #4
and here is his dog
02/11/2017 11:10:54 AM · #5
Originally posted by CEJ:

Can you photograph a non response or a negative response without being intentionally staged? Does this 'expression' genuinely exist?

That's an interesting question: what affect describes the absence of affect, as it were?

Message edited by author 2017-02-11 11:11:11.
02/11/2017 11:30:20 AM · #6
Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Originally posted by CEJ:

Can you photograph a non response or a negative response without being intentionally staged? Does this 'expression' genuinely exist?

That's an interesting question: what affect describes the absence of affect, as it were?

There's a psychological term called "flattened affect" where people don't display the expected emotional response. I think this may also occur in people on the Autism spectrum or those with an inability to recognize and interpret expressions or faces ("face-blindness" -- c.f. Dr. Oliver Sacks).
02/11/2017 11:33:34 AM · #7
'Nobody is Anybody' by Thomas Ligotti

'Those of us who reside in the Unholy City,
who sprouted out of the blackness of an old root cellar,
or sprayed forth like dark ashes from an unclean chimney,
Those of us who are permanent citizens of the Unholy city,
are neither angels nor demons
Although we are sometimes called upon to play such parts,
for the purpose of some game that has been going on since the world began,
acting out our roles in a drawn out, intricate stage show that we will never understand,
or ever care to understand.

Nevertheless, we are really not so different from the tourists who sometimes visit our little town,
and sometimes stay with us forever.
Who are also born of the same blackness that we were, as everything was.

Still, there is one respect in which we, the inhabitants of the Unholy City,
diverge from all others in this world,
who are so caught up in the game that is going on,
who identify so completely with the parts they have been given to play in the stage-show universe,
that they actually believe themselves to be somebody or something.
We, on the other hand, suffer from no such delusion
We are nobodies.
We are nothings
And even to speak in such terms may be claiming too much for ourselves.
Which is to say that we are just like everyone else, or they, without ever knowing or suspecting the true facts
Are just like us…'
02/11/2017 12:31:36 PM · #8
wow...
02/13/2017 04:23:46 PM · #9


I wanna see Schroedinger's cat!

WANTED: Dead *and* Alive
09/13/2017 07:33:58 PM · #10
I had totally forgotten I asked this question. Thank you all for the responses. Now my brain is in overdrive.
09/13/2017 08:52:15 PM · #11
Are you peeps okay??

09/13/2017 09:38:58 PM · #12
Well one of us isn't.



Message edited by author 2017-09-13 21:40:01.
09/14/2017 03:05:00 PM · #13
Ha!
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