Thread by @ThyConsigliori

19 July 2021 #MAGAanalysis

The Meaning Of Words

So there I was, yesterday, having a wonderful conversation with a brilliant soul. Our topic was grief and grieving, as a pet is aging and will soon pass away. My question was: do you feel you've ever experienced true grief?

2) I could NOT have been more shocked than to hear the response. It came it two parts.

1) I have philosophy, it helps. It gives me comfort.

2) There is no such thing as ownership. I never owned my pet, as one never actually owns anything.

3) I so profoundly wish I were a wiser man. The philosophical error here was, for my great friend, far less important than his emotional distress. A wiser man than me would have known that and left the philosophy behind. The heart rules. Not the brain or mind.

4) The philosophical error, though, overwhelmed me. I responded to it, as opposed to responding to my friend's heart's needs. What's worse, I don't know how to apologize. I know I was philosophically right in what I did. I was NOT, however, relationally right.

5) I have analyzed my failure, and have a lesson to share. Where there is love, NEVER speak to the mind, speak ONLY to the heart. Right thinking is no solace to the soul, unless it goes through the heart, first.

That is my analysis:

Heart First.

6) It's important to share failures, and to share the lessons we take from them. Alas, my analysis does not stop at my personal failure from yesterday. I ask, why did it happen at all? And for this, I need both my head and yours. Philosophy is intellectual.

7) The social, the philosophical fact that drove yesterday's encounter was the theft of words. It was, in fact, a political moment. The American Left has found its power over the past 50 years or so, with the destruction of words.

8) The philosophical point my friend was making comes from Existentialism. I am, by the way, in many, many senses an Existentialist, myself. Yet, Existentialism offers a great error of thinking here. It begins with the fact that we're all going to die.

9) Extending from certain death and considering that "you can't take it with you," Existentialism can be used to support the false statement: there is no such thing as ownership. That this statement can be made at all, in spite of its vast error, is the basis of...

10) Communism. I never realized it before yesterday, but the denial of ownership, on the basis of certain death, this is the true philosophical foundation of Communism. You actually own nothing. It redefines ownership as an impossible state. You'd have to live forever. Thus...

11) Real ownership would have to include your ability to own something forever, meaning you'd have to live eternally in the same legal context you live right now. Other than that, you own nothing. The term for this type of philosophy is sophistry. It is a clever lie.

12) Be clear. My friend is NOT a sophist and was NOT lying. Rather, he was the victim of sophistry. He believed the clever lie and far worse, took emotional comfort from it. You see, again, it is heart first. The mind so often believes what the heart desires.

13) The evil sophists who stole my friend's ability to think clearly knew exactly what they were doing. They are excellent philosophers, from a completely evil perspective. As the heart desires to reduce pain, denying ownership itself is a sure method of trickery.

14) The proper philosophical answer is the true definition of ownership, which has nothing to do whatsoever with life or death, although it easily addresses each condition. Ownership means THE RIGHT OF DISPOSITION. How will something be disposed of?

15) Don't think of disposition as mere disposal. To enjoy the right of disposition empowers you to dispose at will, which includes safeguarding forever as much as destroying something. Ownership means the right to destroy OR to protect...at will.

16) But what of death? The power of will, of a Will, is that you may determine the disposition of your possessions before you die. Then, after you die, your will, your Will, still holds legal force. The true basis of Communism is that no one, other than the State, disposes.

17) To own means one enjoys the right of disposition, not only while alive, but also upon one's death. The modern Left must DESTROY the meaning of this word: ownership. It tricks us to imagine that the reality of death breaks the reality of ownership.

18) At age 13, my friend's dog is well past its expected lifetime. It's still frisky and wonderful, but many problems are already showing up. The dog will die. Soon. So sadly, the use of philosophy to claim that the dog was never owned is false comfort.

19) No, I should NOT have attempted to correct this wrongful philosophy yesterday. I should have paid attention ONLY to my friend's broken heart. There is nothing actually wrong about false comfort. Especially when it's all you have.

20) It was not my job to save my friend from the philosophy of Communism, yesterday. The thing is, and I forgive myself therefore, it IS my job to save the world from Communism and its evil philosophy, it's evil sophistry.

Alas.

Thread ends at #20.

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