Comments on: The Verifiably Impossible http://activephilosophy.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/the-verifiably-impossible/ Using Everyone's Ideas to Make Life Better for Everyone Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:17:20 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: deadondres http://activephilosophy.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/the-verifiably-impossible/#comment-303 deadondres Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:05:13 +0000 http://activephilosophy.wordpress.com/?p=1390#comment-303 Good to see ya Cheryl! Stood out like a sore thumb! Good to see ya Cheryl!

Stood out like a sore thumb!

]]> By: Cheryl http://activephilosophy.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/the-verifiably-impossible/#comment-301 Cheryl Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:00:39 +0000 http://activephilosophy.wordpress.com/?p=1390#comment-301 "It’s funny that the biggest problem in creating a so-called better world – that people don’t believe it is possible – is (according to my scale) in essence infinitely more real than the verifiably impossible noumena that we create constantly (these concepts are not generated and then left alone, but maintained perpetually) – money, nations, institutions." Yeah, funny. And frustrating as hell!!!!!!!!!! :) Reading this review of the book _Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History_ just reminded me of this post: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/books/review/Kennedy-t.html?8bu&emc=bua2 "She denounces identity studies of all sorts, particularly when they descend into what she calls the “unseemly competition for victimhood.” (She singles out certain Afrocentric histories for special scorn, as having “the same relationship to the past as “The Da Vinci Code” does to Christian theology.”) But she directs her most cogent criticism at the particular kind of historically constructed identity that is nationalism." Today I've been incredulous, and yet not, at some comments posted to an article about an ordinary traffic accident causing the collapse of a bridge, just because the person who caused the accident happens to have been born in Iran rather than the US. Three guesses, and the first two don't count, which comments are mine! http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/20087637/detail.html “It’s funny that the biggest problem in creating a so-called better world – that people don’t believe it is possible – is (according to my scale) in essence infinitely more real than the verifiably impossible noumena that we create constantly (these concepts are not generated and then left alone, but maintained perpetually) – money, nations, institutions.”

Yeah, funny. And frustrating as hell!!!!!!!!!! :)

Reading this review of the book _Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History_ just reminded me of this post:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/books/review/Kennedy-t.html?8bu&emc=bua2

“She denounces identity studies of all sorts, particularly when they descend into what she calls the “unseemly competition for victimhood.” (She singles out certain Afrocentric histories for special scorn, as having “the same relationship to the past as “The Da Vinci Code” does to Christian theology.”) But she directs her most cogent criticism at the particular kind of historically constructed identity that is nationalism.”

Today I’ve been incredulous, and yet not, at some comments posted to an article about an ordinary traffic accident causing the collapse of a bridge, just because the person who caused the accident happens to have been born in Iran rather than the US. Three guesses, and the first two don’t count, which comments are mine!
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/20087637/detail.html

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