In het engels geschreven op een andere site (highiqsociety.org)
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And indeed, I'm a guy who likes to mystify himself, the name "J****" has different connotations in the information flow from where I come from. I was an adventurous type once (sexually, guts, different kind of party's, drugs, etc), I'm really a men of the world. Now I'm more of an intellectual adventurer, thats the only thing I haven't done in my eyes, and of course there are things still open todo, but becasue of of my strong emphasis on philosophical harvesting I come to conclude that philosophy is a way of seeing the world in different perspectives and by doing so you need to reflect sometimes to accept those new perspectives and others you take for granted or welcome as a gift.
I see it.
I like to quote the following (You don't have to read it by the way, its more for the ones interested):
"The world is a good judge of things, for it is in natural ignorance, which is man’s true state. The sciences have two extremes which meet. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by great intellects, who, having run through all that men can know, find they know nothing, and come back again to that same ignorance from which they set out; but this is a learned ignorance which is conscious of itself. Those between the two, who have departed from natural ignorance and not been able to reach the other, have some smattering of this vain knowledge, and pretend to be wise. These trouble the world, and are bad judges of everything. The people and the wise constitute the world; these despise it, and are despised. They judge badly of everything, and the world judges rightly of them." --B. Pascal
I distill from this the following
Simple and understandable-->not understandable-->understandable again
What this implicates is that if your "totally screwed up" as I call it. You're dissociated from society that is, then you need to relearn all those values again because "they hang in the air" and are not values you get from studying the properties of nature.
I have such moments right now that I instinctively act totally different from others. Some now even say "grow up!", at such moments I feel a little emotion that disorients me for a moment and then I intuit that I'm on my way of developing my own identity.
I'm going to study the later Wittgenstein and I'm reading "pragmatics" from Willam James right now which helps me orient to find my way back to others without losing my abstract thoughts. Even beter, with Wittgenstein I learn to reformulate problems in another way, although both are not the temperaments I am and so I suppose my philosophy will have other ways of attacking the things at hand.
But ok, sexuality, as you've probably noticed. I'm really (always) looking for adventure and I've planned my way into an intellectual adventure. I really don't feel for most sexual jokes and other "flat" jokes because I have relativized them or the context where I come from is different. One form of joke comes down to this: "Oh, I know most don't dare to talk about there Maestro from below. Lets put this in an sarcastic/ironic/nostalgic/cynical/etc picture, and most will get a laugh from it because they recognize something in it from their puberty for example". This is a structure you can apply for finding jokes but I like it when it feels naturally. So why isn't it natural for me? Well, I laugh at jokes that fit my personal-world and my world says at this particular joke: "I am sublimating things in such a fashion that I like to find things out, or is it my libidinal structure? If it is to easy to grasp I have a hard time accepting that I did a great job finding it" "so again I'm in somewhat other heights and don't give myself space to the emotions that backfire from a joke, I suppose this is merely a phaze of my life, and naturally I can't expect all cabaratiers studying philosophy as I do!". A joke for me has to do something with "climbing the ladder and falling from it" (where the height is the measurement of the laugh you get from it). So there are contextual put flat jokes I like. Its like the invention in abstract art like that of Mondriaan, these are "cloudcastles", made from mere concepts and not tested to reality (is my undeveloped view on it btw), I suppose I like impressionism becaause it tries to grasp "one" impression of consciousness and the classic italians because they unite different moments of conscious impressions into one, though my feeling of impressionism is ambiguous because I don't like the development of "conart" afterwards, perhaps I'll wait for Kitsch to rise up and then I'll appreciate impressionism at its fullest.
So, I want to be productive and I don't want to lose myself in cultural abberations (unnecessary loops, paradoxes etc), I want to develop my instinct and intuition for what is constructive and apply my limited human mind to it.