tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post420304147629971463..comments2023-09-29T02:49:02.989-07:00Comments on An Emphatic Umph: Knowledge Across the AgesDaniel Coffeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03912050391869734890noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-85674644005520439902012-04-26T04:33:28.209-07:002012-04-26T04:33:28.209-07:00I discover these ideas, I would hardly say anythin...I discover these ideas, I would hardly say anything about halley's comet.<br /><br />but about your quotation of Kirkegaard... Yes, the civilisation is not expecting to progress and progress again to an achievment point. Some generations lose the knowledge discovered by the previsous generations, see the fall of roman empire or of all the great civilizations.<br /><br />The exemples at the begining of the text are greatly mystic. And so are daily and usual knowledges, crafting (we forgot building knowledge at the fall of roman empire), and values knowledge (occident lost the tracks of Socrate and others until renaissance. This knowledge, forgotten, nevertheless the thing is.<br /><br />And that's mystical.<br /><br />There is something in France called "le tour de France". hey, Not the cycling competition. It is a community of craftmans, excessively needed by economy. Some people say it has a link with free masonnery, but there speculate too much, I think, and it's not the point.<br /><br />The point is that when you begin to work at 16 as a 'compagnon' (a young member of "le tour de france"), you will learn a work, not a temporary "job" as you silly americans say ( ;-) I am jocking...), but since your 16 a way of being as well as excellence in a economical activity. <br /><br />And they have secret rituals, that are landmarks in the life of the compagnon.<br /><br />The funny point is that even in daily activities, usual needs, there is a part of mystical..@PierreDDNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00485581322634051533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-1575959137611594182012-04-25T23:10:35.202-07:002012-04-25T23:10:35.202-07:00@ TV: It is strange — one day you're a cute ki...@ TV: It is strange — one day you're a cute kid, the next you're a middle aged, decaying man. Alarming might be another word. But I do feel it's partially because we have such a culture of youth — there is no place for the aged.<br /><br />@ Philip: Thanks so much for commenting. Age is slippery as we all age at different paces and in different ways. And yet, like your story tells us, there is still a matter of quantitative time and the accumulation of those experiences. I have to say: I'd take 3 years right about now.Daniel Coffeenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03912050391869734890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-52192214613247421502012-04-25T21:21:33.306-07:002012-04-25T21:21:33.306-07:00When I became 40, it was the first time in my life...When I became 40, it was the first time in my life I felt my mortality. Like my age felt finite. <br /><br />I had had an experience in my early thirties where I dated a woman three years older than me and - to my fault - I became her age. We broke up (gratefully) and I had the amazing experience a few months later of suddenly realizing I was three years less than I had thought I was - I had gotten three years back - in some way that I had lost but it was not the same feeling of feeling the roar of the engine finally bounce of the wall far ahead of me.<br /><br />Great article. I've internalized your point (and will be used on my own son) that while I know what's it like to be young, he does not know what it's like to be old. Very interesting. My son could only describe it on what he sees - I can recollect what I felt.Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12885650247778289407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-89135740459098783462012-04-22T19:46:59.596-07:002012-04-22T19:46:59.596-07:00Thinking of yourself as old — or at least old-ish ...Thinking of yourself as old — or at least old-ish — could be a trembling experience.what the Tee Vee taughthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18288852666676682547noreply@blogger.com