On Jul 19, 5:52 pm, Gary Childress
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>>> On Jul 19, 1:35 pm, Gary Childress
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>>> On Jul 19, 4:32 pm, "THE BORG"
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>>>> "Gary Childress"
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>>>> No. I neved read Hamlet. No. I think oblivion is very hard to think
>>>> about. Even existing in eternal damnation is more comfortable to we
>>>> humans than oblivion. More people seem to dream of eternal damnation
>>>> than of oblivion.
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>>>> You are obviously very trivial and very superficial and have never given any
>>>> thought to the nature of eternal damnation.
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>>> Oh dear. A cultural philistine I am. I better go read Hamlet real
>>> quick so I can be irrational.
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>> Nutshell: The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned
>> madness—from overwhelming grief to seething rage—and explores themes
>> of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption.
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>> Hamlet is one of the most quoted works in the English language, and is
>> often included on lists of the world's greatest literature; for
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> Immortalist. Hamlet was also written by a mere mortal like you and
> I. Shakespeare was not a god except in the minds of those who are too
> weak to form their own thoughts about the world. I judge Socrates
> intellectually superior to Shakespeare any day. In fact Plato
> disliked playwrights. He thought they appealed to the irrational side
> in men. I tend to agree in many cases.
Socrates was a mere mortal also, are you saying that there is some
point between Shakespeare and Socrates worthy of attention. I think
they are the greats because we might arrange much of life around any
one of them. There are not many like this. One could just read
Aristotle and have a response for about anything if one read deeply
enough. Shakespeare is like that, all one would need is the complete
works in one volume and would not need any other literature. When I
was young drifting from campus to campus I remember people who
responded with only Shakespeare quotes to everything, truely turned it
into a philosophy. Others say he invented the human character.
Romeo and Juliet Act 3 Scene 1 Part 1, Zefirelli for instance reminds
of life in the streets and is pure philosophy to me man;
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qQ0kOi6qqHY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare%%27s_influence
