2 ez does it definitions of materialism:
1. the vulgar, who goes on and on about superficial over consumption, avidity , vain dawg@gain, cokehead superficial consumerism etc
2. the philosophical,like who is the contrary of the first one:
just meaning there is only matter, there is no divine god(s), no transcendence, no absolute. There is only agencement of mater, which is composing everything there is out there: your hand, your mind etc.
Death and entropy is the decomposition of matter and after this, it's over. .
It's all about immanence, there is no transcendence.
Living your life as if the present moment is your last, right, death is waiting at the corner (surely vs maybe...) but don't be passive about your eventual demise: do your best to increace your life in it's lenght and it's quality.
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 26 September 2003 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)
"eventual demise" was slightly out of line ... it's not like I approve of those ads featuring comedians who are musing about their dream wake...
" oooh and when all the food will be eaten, they'll throw my ashes in the river" or something. immortality is a long stretch bet but the odds are better nowadays than they were yesterday.
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 26 September 2003 02:58 (twenty-two years ago)
I still don't like those odds. But I liked your website.
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 26 September 2003 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)
cinniblount stay tuned for my post on the cyrenaic school, you'll learn a thing or 2 wahaha.
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 26 September 2003 03:20 (twenty-two years ago)
Thank you colin s barrow.
It's the first time someone mentionned it to me,
I'll go for a walk for a celebration.
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 26 September 2003 05:25 (twenty-two years ago)
I thought 'materialist' had to do with an analysis of society based on its means/relations of production, eg the 'materialist conception of history'. Not existentialism as per yr pt. 2.
― Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 26 September 2003 07:25 (twenty-two years ago)