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Uncle Emanuel Watkins
06-26-2010, 02:31 PM
The People’s Civil Purpose;
In the Defense of Our Founding Fathers


The Truth Is We Are Existential Beings

While mirrors deceive providing tyranny with a false image of itself, animals and plants are the true intimate reflection of mankind. Take them away and mankind would become blind to who he or she is. Not only do we need animals and plants as fuel to eat, but we also utilize them mentally by personifying them. For example, the method of personifying animals is used in fables to teach children.
Simply put, anything less than a complete human being troubles something within us: the glimpse of a body part sickens us; the sight of a handicapped person saddens us; the thought of a coward angers us; and, learning someone has died devestates us.
Even more central than existentialism, the very least living amongst us knows what is the most important quality in human beings. Ask any child to draw a person and they will not only draw a stick figure of him or her, but they will know the picture of them is incomplete without including an upward curve of a smile on their faces. Because people with all of their might will never behave responsibly, the political movement away from the people's happiness is irresponsible.
This is a subtle point. A mother will never rush her child to a doctor because she senses he looks unhealthy. No, she is not an expert in symptoms. She will always rush her child to a doctor because he doesn’t look whole to her, as in happy. “Normal” does not cut it if you are a true American.
Just think how absurd the idea is that a mature human being will care any more or less about matters concerning them. Granted, some people are going to be born with the innate administrative functions to care about certain things more than others. In other words, I do believe some people are born with a real, sincere love for trees, for the stars, or for birds. But we should all hold our administrative gifts as secondary in importance to our Civil Purpose, that Truth which is self evident and unalienable within every human conscience.
The evil movement back towards tyranny and away from the Truth is a bipartisan affair. In other words, in regards to our problems, we have no one to blame but ourselves. The idea that we should clean up “our” environment will only work from the point of view of our happiness. Indeed, we will all want to do this if it pleases us to do it. However, if most of us are being made to do this for responsible sake, then the earth will surely wind up becoming even more filthy than it is right now. Besides, the worst pollution persecuting mankind is and always will be tyranny. As the environmental movement has become perverted in how it is leading our nation away from existential idea of human happiness, the Civil Rights have corrupted the people's movement. As the Civil Rights movement did at one time address the unhappiness of the people, it now has a selfish agenda centering around just people of color. To claim that African Americans somehow represent the eternal plight of the people is like cutting the heart out of a person to claim that it represents a whole human being.
Once again, this leads us back to the ideal marriage between the lowly prostitute trespassing on the street and the high king sitting upon his throne. As the prostitute has a lot of work to do dealing with the existential burden she was born with, the king should work twice as hard getting out of her way by legislating, administering, and judging as little as possible at the national dinner table.
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Uncle Emanuel Watkins
06-26-2010, 06:16 PM
The People’s Civil Purpose;
In the Defense of Our Founding Fathers


The Truth Is We Are Existential Beings

While mirrors deceive providing tyranny with a false image of itself, animals and plants are the true intimate reflection of mankind. Take them away and mankind would become blind to who he or she is. Not only do we need animals and plants as fuel to eat, but we also utilize them mentally by personifying them. For example, the method of personifying animals is used in fables to teach children.
Simply put, anything less than a complete human being troubles something within us: the glimpse of a body part sickens us; the sight of a handicapped person saddens us; the thought of a coward angers us; and, learning someone has died devestates us.
Even more central than existentialism, the very least living amongst us knows what is the most important quality in human beings. Ask any child to draw a person and they will not only draw a stick figure of him or her, but they will know the picture of them is incomplete without including an upward curve of a smile on their faces. Because people with all of their might will never behave responsibly, the political movement away from the people's happiness is irresponsible.
This is a subtle point. A mother will never rush her child to a doctor because she senses he looks unhealthy. No, she is not an expert in symptoms. She will always rush her child to a doctor because he doesn’t look whole to her, as in happy. “Normal” does not cut it if you are a true American.
Just think how absurd the idea is that a mature human being will care any more or less about matters concerning them. Granted, some people are going to be born with the innate administrative functions to care about certain things more than others. In other words, I do believe some people are born with a real, sincere love for trees, for the stars, or for birds. But we should all hold our administrative gifts as secondary in importance to our Civil Purpose, that Truth which is self evident and unalienable within every human conscience.
The evil movement back towards tyranny and away from the Truth is a bipartisan affair. In other words, in regards to our problems, we have no one to blame but ourselves. The idea that we should clean up “our” environment will only work from the point of view of our happiness. Indeed, we will all want to do this if it pleases us to do it. However, if most of us are being made to do this for responsible sake, then the earth will surely wind up becoming even more filthy than it is right now. Besides, the worst pollution persecuting mankind is and always will be tyranny. As the environmental movement has become perverted in how it is leading our nation away from existential idea of human happiness, the Civil Rights have corrupted the people's movement. As the Civil Rights movement did at one time address the unhappiness of the people, it now has a selfish agenda centering around just people of color. To claim that African Americans somehow represent the eternal plight of the people is like cutting the heart out of a person to claim that it represents a whole human being.
Once again, this leads us back to the ideal marriage between the lowly prostitute trespassing on the street and the high king sitting upon his throne. As the prostitute has a lot of work to do dealing with the existential burden she was born with, the king should work twice as hard getting out of her way by legislating, administering, and judging as little as possible at the national dinner table.
This is copyrighted material. Any forum or political organization representing Ron Paul has the permission of Uncle Emanuel Watkins to reprint it. Because of the Freedom of the Press, individuals also have the right to reprint it. However, any corporate media or any individual working for such organizations, because they no longer represent the people, do not have that permission.

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heavenlyboy34
06-26-2010, 06:41 PM
Once in a while, you hit on truth. I agree with existentialism for the most part. This-"Besides, the worst pollution persecuting mankind is and always will be tyranny." is probably the most important part. Now, I just need to help you understand that the State is and will always be tyrannical (and thus an existential threat to humanity), and you'll be set. :cool:

Uncle Emanuel Watkins
06-27-2010, 11:54 AM
Once in a while, you hit on truth. I agree with existentialism for the most part. This-"Besides, the worst pollution persecuting mankind is and always will be tyranny." is probably the most important part. Now, I just need to help you understand that the State is and will always be tyrannical (and thus an existential threat to humanity), and you'll be set. :cool:

To kick the Federal counterfeit we are all addicted to, the states need to learn how to live in the shambles. This means living under the bridges and learning how to tolerate abuse. It might mean building streets and freeways out of dirt and driving four wheelers on them. Really, we need to convene as states to get ourselves out from under the "necessary tyranny" of the Federal government.
The American Patriot was the one who understood that revolutionary victory would leave our nation's economy a shambles because we would be cut off from Britain.
So, in regards as to what we can do as individuals to help? Well, don't bother people living under the bridges. We don't need to help them. Just don't bother them because, if the true purpose of a husband is to legislate, administrate, and to judge as little as possible at the dinner table, then there is little that needs to be done. That is the point. As the king once owned all property allowing him to sleep under a bridge if he so chose to do so, so, the people should likewise be left alone to sleep under the bridges if that is their desire.
I truly believe that every corporation could leave our nation and, because it is the only one founded on the Truth, we would bounce back to become the richest one on earth.

libertybrewcity
06-27-2010, 01:58 PM
good stuff. do you know of any good existential writers? and existential novelists?

Uncle Emanuel Watkins
06-28-2010, 12:29 PM
good stuff. do you know of any good existential writers? and existential novelists?

Hemmingway and a lot of American writers who were sickened by World War 1. It was Hemmingway who created the third character of the star player to place between the coach and the all-for-one-and-one-for-all team. Just consider the effect? In modern movies, the best star actor now will be the one playing a skilled secret agent serving under a president, while it will be a minor star who plays the president.
And, of course, the Almighty Himself was an existentialist when He, as the spontaneous Son of Man, chose to break His body as bread into pieces of man and to pour out His blood for forgiveness as wine for the redemption of their sins.

Slutter McGee
06-28-2010, 12:37 PM
Hemmingway and a lot of American writers who were sickened by World War 1. It was Hemmingway who created the third character of the star player to place between the coach and the all-for-one-and-one-for-all team. Just consider the effect? In modern movies, the best star actor now will be the one playing a skilled secret agent serving under a president, while it will be a minor star who plays the president.
And, of course, the Almighty Himself was an existentialist when He, as the spontaneous Son of Man, chose to break His body as bread into pieces of man and to pour out His blood for forgiveness as wine for the redemption of their sins.

mmm....Hemmingway was a romantic, not an existentialist. John Fowles, Jean Paul Sartre, and Albert Camus are much better examples. And then you have to include Dostoyevsky. And Existentialism became popular after WW2, not WW1.

Sincerely,

Slutter McGee

Uncle Emanuel Watkins
06-28-2010, 11:52 PM
mmm....Hemmingway was a romantic, not an existentialist. John Fowles, Jean Paul Sartre, and Albert Camus are much better examples. And then you have to include Dostoyevsky. And Existentialism became popular after WW2, not WW1.

Sincerely,

Slutter McGee

Hemmingway was a romantic? So, are you claiming he was just a two bit romance writer? You mean to tell me that Hemmingway, the best writer during his day, was just a romance writer? Wow. I would have mentioned some of the others you mentioned above, but Hemmingway was the central figure in American existentialism.
By the way, Hemmingway served as an ambulance driver during World War 1. All the great generals during WW2 came about as a result of Hemmingway's new writing genre. That's right. Hemmingway was not a two bit writer. Like all the other great writers in history, he advanced writing by creating new genres.

Xenophage
06-29-2010, 12:40 AM
Hemmingway was a romantic? So, are you claiming he was just a two bit romance writer? You mean to tell me that Hemmingway, the best writer during his day, was just a romance writer? Wow. I would have mentioned some of the others you mentioned above, but Hemmingway was the central figure in American existentialism.
By the way, Hemmingway served as an ambulance driver during World War 1. All the great generals during WW2 came about as a result of Hemmingway's new writing genre. That's right. Hemmingway was not a two bit writer. Like all the other great writers in history, he advanced writing by creating new genres.

Romanticism is an art form and a period in art history. It doesn't have anything to do with romance novels :P

Look it up. Typically it means, "Providing an image of the way things *ought* to be, not how they are."

A romanticist is an idealist. They create ideal heroes, and perfectly despicable villains. They "romanticize" humanity according to their own beliefs.

Slutter McGee
06-29-2010, 10:21 AM
Romanticism is an art form and a period in art history. It doesn't have anything to do with romance novels :P

Look it up. Typically it means, "Providing an image of the way things *ought* to be, not how they are."

A romanticist is an idealist. They create ideal heroes, and perfectly despicable villains. They "romanticize" humanity according to their own beliefs.

Thank you for saving me the trouble.

Sincerely,

Slutter McGee