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ATARAXIA Felis Catus blinks "The Tories think ( I didn't know they could do that) we are not sentient beings or that we do not feel pain? Only shows they have no brains! 'Unheimleich' as Heidegger would have observed!" she purrs...delicately...cleans herself. "Your philosophy is your  fail-osophy... you simply think too much. Think instead of do and you can't do without thinking. Poor poor you! Be like me. Just be. Be. Only when you play with me do you escape being human. I am your distraction from the prison of your self just stop your self thinking live in this instant no before or after. Ah 'the great chain of being' placing your self at the top oh so smugly superior. Our feline-osophy would be if at all not to have a philosophy. As Montaigne  put it so succinctly  you 'needed a mind departing distraction" to deal with your consciousness and awareness of death. And I my friend - am it! Now if you can be a good chap and feed me that can be my fee for talking you through your all too human dilemmas and you may yet achieve (perhaps)ataraxia but until then or when we cats learn to peel the foil from Kitty Kat Salmon and so leap to the top of the 'great chain of being." Felis Catus will rule over all. *** ATARAXIA....a state of freedom from emotional disturbance and anxiety; tranquility.
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Nov 24, 2020
Nov 24, 2020 at 3:30 PM UTC
ATARAXIA
ATARAXIA Felis Catus blinks "The Tories think ( I didn't know they could do that) we are not sentient beings or that we do not feel pain? Only shows they have no brains! 'Unheimleich' as Heidegger would have observed!" she purrs...delicately...cleans herself. "Your philosophy is your  fail-osophy... you simply think too much. Think instead of do and you can't do without thinking. Poor poor you! Be like me. Just be. Be. Only when you play with me do you escape being human. I am your distraction from the prison of your self just stop your self thinking live in this instant no before or after. Ah 'the great chain of being' placing your self at the top oh so smugly superior. Our feline-osophy would be if at all not to have a philosophy. As Montaigne  put it so succinctly  you 'needed a mind departing distraction" to deal with your consciousness and awareness of death. And I my friend - am it! Now if you can be a good chap and feed me that can be my fee for talking you through your all too human dilemmas and you may yet achieve (perhaps)ataraxia but until then or when we cats learn to peel the foil from Kitty Kat Salmon and so leap to the top of the 'great chain of being." Felis Catus will rule over all. *** ATARAXIA....a state of freedom from emotional disturbance and anxiety; tranquility.
ATARAXIA....a state of freedom from emotional disturbance and anxiety; tranquility.
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Nov 24, 2020
Nov 24, 2020 at 3:30 PM UTC
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