Slog - Comments on The Extraordinary Example http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_128 I finally got around to exploring the ideas and moves of the 19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, and in his most famous work, In The World as Will and Representation, discovered this passage, which is supposed to present the ultimate example of strife in the world, the utter cruelty of existence, the deadly force of the will to live: Many insects lay their eggs on the skin and even in the body of the larvae of other insects, whose slow destruction is the first work of the newly hatched brood. The young hydra, which grows like a bud out... Copyright 2008 Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:38:40 -0800 Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:10:59 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by down with ants That is what's going on now with all these liberal Democrats we elected.

Some want the tunnel, and some want surface/transit. It's a bulldog ant self-battle.

]]> down with ants http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_128#c653459 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_128#c653459 History Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:51:45 -0800 Comment by Laurence Ballard Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.

-- A.S.

Also, to paraphraze, A.S. - a useful concept discovered in researching the role of Vladimir in GODOT:

"Life is a tragedy; day-to-day existence is a comedy."

]]> Laurence Ballard http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_128#c653480 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_128#c653480 History Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:05:56 -0800 Comment by Fnarf I like closeups of bugs and crawlies when they've been smashed:

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,19742,00.html

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_128#c653514 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_128#c653514 History Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:41:12 -0800 Comment by Morgan We are all ants. Not even monkey's with swollen frontal lobes, just ants.

]]> Morgan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_128#c653565 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_128#c653565 History Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:27:55 -0800 Comment by Lloyd Clydesdale And there's still-alive versions, complete with desire-to-survive in effect.

http://waterstonewildlife.org/galleries/insects/gallery.php?size=full&image=0

]]> Lloyd Clydesdale http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_128#c653579 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_128#c653579 History Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:50:20 -0800 Comment by kinaidos Schopenhauer = kant + seneca.

and

Hume : Backgammon :: Schopenhauer : Budhism

]]> kinaidos http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_128#c653593 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_128#c653593 History Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:10:59 -0800