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Request for Books
    #7652770 - 11/18/07 09:34 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

hey guys (and gals),

I can't remember the title of this book, it's pretty popular on the shroomery, from what i've read, it's something about how we don't really have free-will... yeah, a little vague. Please throw out titles of books that are about this topic. Thanks.

Secondly, has anyone ever read any philosophical texts that write positively for cigarettes or alcohol? like, the ethics/morality of smoking or drinking being not necessarily bad (or even good!), (a popular theme for me, I know, so I feel like i need to read more up on it). I know, a little outlandish of a topic, but hopefully there's something out there.

thanks for the help,
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Re: Request for Books [Re: AnarchoTrip]
    #7652853 - 11/18/07 10:00 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Free Will vs. Determinism is one of the most written about topics of philosophy. We won't be able to narrow it down for you without more info.


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Re: Request for Books [Re: AnarchoTrip]
    #7653290 - 11/19/07 01:13 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

I don't know if this counts, but this little piece, called "Applied Hedonics" by Hakim Bey, is a fun little rant in favor of pleasure - food and drink and sex. It is also a rather pointed criticism of the leftist tendency towards ascetic self denial and puritanism 'for the cause.'


THE BONNOT GANG WERE vegetarians and drank only water. They came to a bad (tho' picturesque) end. Vegetables and water, in themselves excellent things--pure zen really--shouldn't be consumed as martyrdom but as an epiphany. Self-denial as radical praxis, the Leveller impulse, tastes of millenarian gloom--and this current on the Left shares an historical wellspring with the neo-puritan fundamentalism and moralic reaction of our decade. The New Ascesis, whether practiced by anorexic health-cranks, thin-lipped police sociologists, downtown straight-edge nihilists, cornpone fascist baptists, socialist torpedoes, drug-free Republicans...in every case the motive force is the same: resentment. resentment

In the face of contemporary pecksniffian anaesthesia we'll erect a whole gallery of forebears, heros who carried on the struggle against bad consciousness but still knew how to party, a genial gene pool, a rare and difficult category to define, great minds not just for Truth but for the truth of pleasure, serious but not sober, whose sunny disposition makes them not sluggish but sharp, brilliant but not tormented. Imagine a Nietzsche with good digestion. Not the tepid Epicureans nor the bloated Sybarites. Sort of a spiritual hedonism, an actual Path of Pleasure, vision of a good life which is both noble and possible, rooted in a sense of the magnificent over-abundance of reality.


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