[Becker] Wittgenstein

April 25, 2010

Quote from Wittgenstein I just received:
"Death is not an event in life: we don’t live to experience death.
If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Our life has no end in [...]

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Fallen world

March 23, 2010

I also like the metaphor of the "fallen world". Think of it in terms of a Nash equilibrium – a state of affairs resulting from invidual decisions that make sense by themselves but add up to a far less than optimal outcome. Every participant can imagine a better outcome, but none can reach it because [...]

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Re: "PTSD Nation"

March 20, 2010

I read your article with interest and apprecation, and the attitude I try to take at 66 years of age, but still in good health and hiding in the woods and growing some of my own food, which I call "cheerful despair."   My initial reaction was that the entire world is a PTSD [...]

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"PTSD Nation"

March 19, 2010

Dear Becker List, My article, "PTSD Nation," was published today by Truthout.org. The URL for the article is [link] Beckerians may be interested, because denial is one of the symptoms of avoidance that characterizes PTSD. John Omaha, Ph.D. P.O. Box 1531
Taken from the Ernest Becker Listserv Discussion Archives

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My Personal Homesite: PeterXPark.com

March 17, 2010

As an challenge at life accountability and just to become an internet sensation until I can’t take it anymore and end up in a cabin in the woods, I’ve started my permanent online home site at Peter X Park (PeterXPark.com). Just in case you want to know the man behind the curtain.

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Ambrosio now at 3.4 rating!

March 9, 2010

Thanks for weighing in on Ambrosio. Some of the reviews are really worthwhile reading in themselves. —– Original Message —– From: Henry Richards To: GENERATIVE-DEATH-ANXIET…@LIS TSERV.ilstu.edu Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 12:02 PM Subject: Call to Arms re: Ambrosio’s Philosophy and Religion and the Meaning of Life
Taken from the Ernest [...]

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Call to Arms re: Ambrosio’s Philosophy and Religion and the Meaning of Life

March 8, 2010

Many listserv members have praised Ambrosio’s inclusion of Becker as not only a pivotal intellectual figure in Western thought, but perhaps the culmination of our understanding of the saintly and heroic paths. If you go to The Teaching Company (TTC) web site, you will find only 6 ratings of his course with comments, some of [...]

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Making MEANING is how to make money

March 5, 2010

Here’s an I.T. entrepeneur whose message that the only way to financial success is to focus on making meaning and to focus on making meaning, rather than focusing on making money in relation to any and all kinds of projects. I think Becker would have liked this message. [link]
Taken from the [...]

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Discovery of oldest symbolic action: 60,000 BCE

March 3, 2010

This news relates well to Ernest Becker’s ideas: [link] ~~~~~~~ H. TALAT HALMAN, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Religion Central Michigan University 301 Anspach Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 [link] [link] [link] [link]
Taken from the Ernest Becker Listserv Discussion Archives

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Intelligence, Atheism, and Liberalism

March 2, 2010

I picked this reference up from another list and thought I’d pass on to the Beckerites. Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent SATOSHI KANAZAWA London School of Economics and Political Science The origin of values and preferences is an unresolved theoretical question in behavioral and social sciences. [...]

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