My Choice For Newsmaker Of The Year 2009 Is Tiger Woods. Here's Why.
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paradigm of the absurdity of life. The philosophical definition of
absurd is "having no purpose". Most philosophers view the universe as
"absurd" in this sense.
"All the past is future, and all the future past". Mankind or Homo
Sapiens is also absurd and has no free will.
Secular liberal ideologues may call themselves "progressives" but
mankind is not progressing anywhere.
All our so-called progress is illusionary. And these "progressives"
should stop using the annoying, excessively overworked cliche, "moving
forward".
Although mankind will make more technological breakthroughs in the
future such as harnessing nuclear fusion, that will make no essential
difference. He is still doomed for extinction both on an individual
and collective or generic basis and life will always be "a losing
proposition". As Ernest Hemingway observed,
all life is tragic because it end in death.
With the mention Tiger Woods one thinks of golf. Could anything be a
better example of absurdity than
this silly game of hitting a ball with a club while attempting to play
a course, sinking a ball in cups with the least number of strokes. Of
course, all games and sports are equally silly and absurd, baseball,
football, hockey,
basketball etc. They are often called pastimes and are engaged in,
either actively or passively, to counteract
the boredom of the human condition. "La vie est l'ennui" wrote the
French author Guy de Maupassant, and
he was right. Although he could have added suffering, as Jean Paul
Sartre wrote, "Je souffre; donc je suis".
(I suffer; therefore I exist).
Tiger Woods, who has succeeded very well in his pursuit of "the
reputation bubble" (to quote Shakespeare) again has illustrated the
absurdity of human existence in his extra-curricular affairs. He is a
paradigm for
Albert Camus' aphorism, "Man is a pathetic upright-walking creature
spurting semen from the base of his
spinal column". Poor Tiger could have learned from Shakespeare's "king
Lear" that sexual lust is "a dark and
sulphurous pit". And now Tiger is suffering excruciatingly. But that's
life.
John Q Public
I agree he's a perfect example of hoisted by your own petard syndrome!
Chom Noamsky
> It is because Tiger has shown himself to be an outstanding exemplar or
> paradigm of the absurdity of life. The philosophical definition of
> absurd is "having no purpose". Most philosophers view the universe as
> "absurd" in this sense.
Sounds like you're getting ready to die.
David Johnston
wrote:
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>I agree he's a perfect example of hoisted by your own petard syndrome!
Someone who has been hoisted by his own petard, has been damaged by
the weapon or attack he was seeking to use against someone else. Who
was Woods attacking?
Crap Detector
No, still agree with the late psychiatrist Sigmund Freud who wrote:
"Life is not worth very much, but it's all we have".
Crap Detector
> On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:30:30 -0500, John Q Public <my2ce...@me.com>
> wrote:
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> >I agree he's a perfect example of hoisted by your own petard syndrome!
>
> Someone who has been hoisted by his own petard, has been damaged by
> the weapon or attack he was seeking to use against someone else. Who
> was Woods attacking?
Certainly not Rachel Uchitel, or whatever this dish's name is. Rumor
has it that they are still dating. Old Tiger must be fucking his
brains out.
But again as Camus pointed out sexual lust is always a problem in that
it is an insatiable appetite. Ask Bill Clinton, Eliot Spitzer or David
Letterman, or John Edwards.
Gandalf Grey
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Or Newt Gingrich, or Larry Craig, or Vitter, or Livingston, or Hyde, or all
the other republican adulterers who pretend to adhere to "a higher moral
standard"