Do You Write or Think? Mr Nietzsche's Assessment of Your Dilemma.

[onebatmotherofgoditschilly]

I had forgotten this:

"The literary woman, unsatisfied, agitated, desolate in heart and entrails, listening every minute with painful curiosity to the imperative which whispers from the depths of her organism "aut liberi aut libri [either children or books]."
?Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

Ten years ago I would have turned the page with a sigh and a sneer.

Today...?

I thought this was a parenting site, not a philosphy forum, but this thread has proved me wrong - it's Nietzsche not nurture....

lololo
oh yes, oh yes.

And John Lennon said: 'Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewellery.' And Friedrich, Immanuel (silly Kant), Sigmund, Georg, Karl and Pierre-Joseph rattled the diamonds that decorated their nipple-piercings.

Rustybear wins this year's Aristotelian Memorial Award (commonly known as the Tabula Rasa).

First prize: a week all expenses paid at the Spa Angst under the personal care of the rather handsome Dr Carl.

Jung man!

Swedes is advised to go for a brisk Apollonian walk as her Dionysian aspect is perceived to be very much to the fore today.

There are so many people I'd like to thank tonight....

...and illiterate..

*unintelligible

... the 'How to keep Threadworm Waiting' award?

lol threadie!

have you perfected your 'It's not the winning, it's the taking part, and Dame Helen, I am soo glad for you" face?

lol. No. But I'm working on my drunkenly-seizing-the-microphone-and-abusing-the-judges routine.

By the way, Thomas Nagel (no moustache) has a question for you.

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It's usually very nice thank you.

He's rather attractive though, I think? In an older man kind of way. Certainly the best so far, no?

This raises an important question. Who is the sexiest philosopher, living or dead?

I believe the competition is over before it has even begun.

Wittgenstein bears an uncanny likeness to my brother in law. Brother in law talks more than any man I have ever met - he jumps seamlessly from topic to topic expecting everyone to keep up. It's totally gorgeous. However, for me Wittgenstein's look is an unsexy version of Ted Hughes sort of Td Hughes lite. Do poets count as philospophers?

Also Wittgenstein's face in that picture says one word to me - agriculture.

Wouldn't throw Albert Camus out of bed.

Good lord to both of you

Swedes: of course poets don't count as philosophers, though I cede your point re TH Lite. Nothing wrong with agriculture though, shurely? Lawrentian wrestling etc etc.

Threadworm. Hmm. Not bad, not bad at all. Not quite prepared to surrender yet. Remove the fag and you remove much of the sex appeal I think

Whereas Lacan, here, has the advantage of youth and, I believe, some form of loincloth.

OBM So TH is not a philosopher but John Lennon is.

Hairdresser for me.

Oh My God, Swedes! Did you think I though JL a philosopher?! Did you consider cutting me next time we meet?

No no, I thought I'd just about managed to shoehorn him in because of his nietzsche flirtation and threadie's der-eadful puns.

And because DP in manner of fathers everywhere recommends that batlets 'give peas a chance' whenever we have them.

My own father used to make dad-jokes about pea-ing on the table.

But where were we? Any more contenders in the sexy philosophers challenge?

Lacan no good. Too Joe Orton. Too Morocco.

lol Orton/Morocco!

Threadworm, where would we be if there were no rules? Chaos! Anarchy!

OK I offer a concession for your consideration - though I wish it to be minuted that I do NOT approve of this dilution, on principle.

Very VERY literary novelists. Must be very difficult.

I tjhink we are seriously going to have to give up the quest for a sexy philosopher. This is the best I've found (Jeremy Bentham)

ok. think you're right

I had entertained very high hopes for Foucault, but he was piggin'. And gay. Likewise Baudrillard, not sure about orientation.

Swedes, is your brother in law at a loose end?

Re Bat's dad's joke, did you here the one about the two philosophers waiting to use an oversubscribed toilet at a conference?

One says wearily to the other 'P entails Q.'

Is Swedes' BIL a sexy philosopher then?