Comments on: Monday Aphorism: Why Character Disappeared http://harveysarles.com/2008/12/29/monday-aphorism-why-character-disappeared/ Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Harvey Sarles http://harveysarles.com/2008/12/29/monday-aphorism-why-character-disappeared/comment-page-1/#comment-18486 Harvey Sarles Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:51:14 +0000 http://harveysarles.com/?p=259#comment-18486 How to grow - pursue and develop one's "character?" - life-issues which can become particularly fragmenting whenever one is working toward becoming: famous, who one is - I am. Questions of truth and integrity can often seem at-war in the apparent competitions between who i (think I) am, and think I might or would be. It''s so tempting to hop on Nietzsche's-Zarathustra's mountain, where the sage might expand for...ever; so much easier/harder to become, as Nietzsche said and was a "posthumous author." How to grow – pursue and develop one’s “character?” – life-issues which can become particularly fragmenting whenever one is working toward becoming: famous, who one is – I am. Questions of truth and integrity can often seem at-war in the apparent competitions between who i (think I) am, and think I might or would be. It”s so tempting to hop on Nietzsche’s-Zarathustra’s mountain, where the sage might expand for…ever; so much easier/harder to become, as Nietzsche said and was a “posthumous author.”

]]> By: Harvey Sarles http://harveysarles.com/2008/12/29/monday-aphorism-why-character-disappeared/comment-page-1/#comment-34914 Harvey Sarles Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:51:00 +0000 http://harveysarles.com/?p=259#comment-34914 How to grow - pursue and develop one's "character?" - life-issues which can become particularly fragmenting whenever one is working toward becoming: famous, who one is - I am. Questions of truth and integrity can often seem at-war in the apparent competitions between who i (think I) am, and think I might or would be. It''s so tempting to hop on Nietzsche's-Zarathustra's mountain, where the sage might expand for...ever; so much easier/harder to become, as Nietzsche said and was a "posthumous author." How to grow – pursue and develop one’s “character?” – life-issues which can become particularly fragmenting whenever one is working toward becoming: famous, who one is – I am. Questions of truth and integrity can often seem at-war in the apparent competitions between who i (think I) am, and think I might or would be. It”s so tempting to hop on Nietzsche’s-Zarathustra’s mountain, where the sage might expand for…ever; so much easier/harder to become, as Nietzsche said and was a “posthumous author.”

]]> By: Harvey http://harveysarles.com/2008/12/29/monday-aphorism-why-character-disappeared/comment-page-1/#comment-17137 Harvey Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:13:10 +0000 http://harveysarles.com/?p=259#comment-17137 Scott, In my (awfully long) experience, recovery is "around" fairly often, if not constantly. Questions arise: did I, was I, why not, why wasn't I, didn't I? How to deal with them, "put them away" for a bit or to banish them from thoughts? How they become intertwined: recovery, but from different contexts, or with various persons - some very present, some like the memory of my father who never really recovered from the market crash in 1929, and was often "angry" that he was not as he thought and hoped he would be - and i got "caught" in his lashings out more than a few times. Recovery: important, poignant... Scott,
In my (awfully long) experience, recovery is “around” fairly often, if not constantly. Questions arise: did I, was I, why not, why wasn’t I, didn’t I? How to deal with them, “put them away” for a bit or to banish them from thoughts?

How they become intertwined: recovery, but from different contexts, or with various persons – some very present, some like the memory of my father who never really recovered from the market crash in 1929, and was often “angry” that he was not as he thought and hoped he would be – and i got “caught” in his lashings out more than a few times.

Recovery: important, poignant…

]]> By: Scott http://harveysarles.com/2008/12/29/monday-aphorism-why-character-disappeared/comment-page-1/#comment-16356 Scott Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:39:15 +0000 http://harveysarles.com/?p=259#comment-16356 Is the act of recovery a constant one? Is the concept of victory nothing more than a figure of speech that is used as a carrot-and-stick, or can it be ascertained? I do wonder to what extent physical pain and intangible pain--emotional, psychical, spiritual--become intertwined, reflexive, metonymic. Is the act of recovery a constant one? Is the concept of victory nothing more than a figure of speech that is used as a carrot-and-stick, or can it be ascertained? I do wonder to what extent physical pain and intangible pain–emotional, psychical, spiritual–become intertwined, reflexive, metonymic.

]]> By: Scott http://harveysarles.com/2008/12/29/monday-aphorism-why-character-disappeared/comment-page-1/#comment-34913 Scott Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:39:00 +0000 http://harveysarles.com/?p=259#comment-34913 Is the act of recovery a constant one? Is the concept of victory nothing more than a figure of speech that is used as a carrot-and-stick, or can it be ascertained? I do wonder to what extent physical pain and intangible pain--emotional, psychical, spiritual--become intertwined, reflexive, metonymic. Is the act of recovery a constant one? Is the concept of victory nothing more than a figure of speech that is used as a carrot-and-stick, or can it be ascertained? I do wonder to what extent physical pain and intangible pain–emotional, psychical, spiritual–become intertwined, reflexive, metonymic.

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