tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037385.post3503022726703695253..comments2024-03-04T22:54:13.447+05:30Comments on Remains of the Day: On VengeanceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037385.post-81769153470518737282010-01-17T08:18:22.810+05:302010-01-17T08:18:22.810+05:30An interesting, and referenced, article on Revenge...An interesting, and referenced, article on Revenge:<br /><br />http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-get-revenge<br /><br />One of the references in this article is this essay:<br /><br />http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/14/1094927518356.html<br /><br />An excerpt:<br /><br />"When someone hurts you, you experience maximum suffering. But the offender often doesn't know this and underestimates the impact of their actions in their own mind. So when you plan an act of revenge, you pay back harder than the person who hurt you believes they deserve and that's how vendettas begin and escalate."Harmanjit Singhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14714797381673153973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037385.post-40909524271475142122009-06-29T06:47:42.404+05:302009-06-29T06:47:42.404+05:30Another recent article about this:
http://www.new...Another recent article about this:<br /><br />http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227081.400-are-humans-cruel-to-be-kind.html?full=trueHarmanjit Singhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14714797381673153973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037385.post-14688213335987408232009-06-22T12:25:26.641+05:302009-06-22T12:25:26.641+05:30Acceptance means to accept injustice (eg murder, r...Acceptance means to accept injustice (eg murder, rape, war etc} as injustice....not whether it is an imperfection or perfection but as a reality which it is our role to change....a human being is an agent of change...as regards blissful felicity, life is more palatable as a battle ,as a series of challenges to be surmounted, than a bubolic pasture or a rose-bed...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037385.post-66812052646947677902009-06-22T12:01:48.576+05:302009-06-22T12:01:48.576+05:30(...) Pleasure and pain are the salt of life, whic...<em>(...) Pleasure and pain are the salt of life, which we should accept, rather than try to escape. </em><br /><br />What if one does not adhere to this Spiritual belief of acceptance? Welcome to the third alternative!<br /><br />RESPONDENT: But, for some time I’ve simply accepted the occasional appearance of suffering as a part of being alive.<br /><br />RICHARD: Ahh ... ‘accepted’, eh? Thereby hangs a tale: the word ‘acceptance’ has a lot of currency these days and popular usage has given it somewhat the same meaning as ‘allow’ or ‘permit’ or ‘tolerate’ ... as I have remarked in an earlier E-Mail, nineteen years ago ‘I’, the persona that I was, looked at the physical world and just knew that this enormous construct called the universe was not ‘set up’ for us humans to be forever forlorn in with only scant moments of reprieve. ‘I’ the persona realised there and then that it was not and could not ever be some ‘sick cosmic joke’ that humans all had to endure and ‘make the best of’. ‘I’ the persona felt foolish that ‘I’ had believed for thirty two years that the wisdom of the ‘real-world’ that ‘I’ had inherited – the world that ‘I’ was born into – was set in stone. I ceased accepting, allowing, permitting or tolerating suffering there and then. Which is why I say to people to ‘embrace death’ (as in unreservedly saying !YES! to being alive as this flesh and blood body) as a full-blooded approval and endorsement. Those peoples who say that they ‘accept’ ... um ... a rapist, for just one example, never for one moment are approving and endorsing ... let alone unreservedly saying !YES! to the rapist.<br /><br />So much for ‘acceptance’ as a viable modus operandi.<br /><br />http://actualfreedom.com.au/richard/selectedcorrespondence/sc-thirdalternative.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037385.post-50337985203094180272009-06-22T11:10:41.136+05:302009-06-22T11:10:41.136+05:30Human beings are tool making animals, reality is t...Human beings are tool making animals, reality is the raw material on which humans work just as an artist works on his canvas. Human beings are not passive agents, spectators. Emotions, of which anger is one , is the fuel which drives us. Perfect or imperfect, the universe is the canvas on which our lives paint pictures. Pleasure and pain are the salt of life, which we should accept, rather than try to escape. The universe is neither perfect or imperfect----it just is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037385.post-3327718273431743532009-06-22T10:28:47.343+05:302009-06-22T10:28:47.343+05:30There is nothing wrong with something being a huma...There is nothing wrong with something being a human invention, but indignation/righteous-anger considers injustice as a flaw in the fabric of the universe itself.Harmanjit Singhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14714797381673153973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037385.post-68662955300053050732009-06-22T10:24:05.972+05:302009-06-22T10:24:05.972+05:30What is wrong with human inventions?What is wrong with human inventions?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037385.post-8124975818604830562009-06-22T10:11:02.337+05:302009-06-22T10:11:02.337+05:30A relevant excerpt:
http://actualfreedom.com.au/s...A relevant excerpt:<br /><br />http://actualfreedom.com.au/sundry/frequentquestions/FAQ59a.htm#1<br /><br />"As a matter of related interest ... one of the most persistent forms of anger is indignation (or righteous anger/justifiable anger): it can be eradicated rather simply by the realisation that its raison d’être – a guardian against injustice, unjustness, unfairness, inequality (partiality, discrimination, and so on) – is as much a human invention as those concepts it defends ... justice, justness, fairness, equality (impartiality, indiscrimination, and so on)."Harmanjit Singhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14714797381673153973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037385.post-55666045254049088912009-06-18T10:46:04.678+05:302009-06-18T10:46:04.678+05:30Hi Anonymous, my usage of "intentionality&quo...Hi Anonymous, my usage of "intentionality" is simply the conscious or unconscious /motivations/ of a human being's acts.<br /><br />E.g. when we ask: "what did he intend by saying hello" or "what is the intention behind this offering a drink"<br /><br />In essence, motivation.<br /><br />In hurting others for their mistakes (e.g. in corporal punishment, a simple example of justice in the human condition), we strive to program others' motivations through punishment.Harmanjit Singhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14714797381673153973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037385.post-48199316991628288682009-06-18T09:44:54.603+05:302009-06-18T09:44:54.603+05:30The term intentionality is often simplistically su...<i>The term intentionality is often simplistically summarized as "aboutness". According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it is "the distinguishing property of mental phenomena of being necessarily directed upon an object, whether real or imaginary".[1] Originally intentionality was a concept from scholastic philosophy. The concept of intentionality was reintroduced in 19th-century contemporary philosophy by the philosopher and psychologist Franz Brentano in his work Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint (1874). Brentano defined intentionality as one characteristic of "mental phenomena", by which they could be distinguished from "physical phenomena" (physische Phänomene), using such phrases as "reference to a content", the "direction towards an object" and "the immanent objectivity".</i><br /><br />From a phenomenonological or philological perspective, is this what you mean by intentionality? And is anger not a kind of unintended overflow rather than calculated?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com