From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2025-02-24, Richmond  wrote:   
      
   >> The absence of a self/ego to sinusoid (as a verb) between   
   >> enjoying and suffering is said to be a bliss that the word   
   >> 'bliss' doesn't come close to doing justice to.   
   >   
   > Said to be, but is it? You don't know because your ego is   
   > not absent.   
      
   How would you know?   
      
   >> If that's literally what he said without elaboration, then   
   >> he was possibly a charlatan enamored of hearing/reading   
   >> himself speak/write, because an unqualified verdict of   
   >> "important" is useless.   
   >   
   > Big 'If'.   
      
   Not in the context in which I wrote that, which of   
   course you've no access to, or you'd have replied   
   differently.   
      
   > "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our   
   > intelligence by means of language." - Wittgenstein.   
      
   Vague. Can't tell if that's saying the battle is carried   
   out "by means of language", or saying our intelligence is   
   bewitched "by means of language".   
      
   So much for Wittgenstein being any good at language save   
   in the minds of those who idolizing him!   
      
   > Anyway, if I talk myself out of wanting or needing water   
   > I will last about three days.   
      
   Sounds like you believe the body is you.   
      
   --   
   Oh, for the love of signature silliness....   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)