A warm welcome to my blog, though my intent is more board than blog since my visitors’ thoughts ideally will form a major part. Sorry ‘bout the highfallutin title, maybe Collective Philosophy would be better but these things are done on the fly and that’s the phrase that came along. I used to use the phrase Mathematical Mysticism but my hair was longer in those days.
Principally, for now at least, this page is about lists. The best people, it seems, do lists – eightfold path; four noble truths, ten commandments. Usually such folk go off alone into some mountain or other in search of enlightenment for days, months, years. Imagine if this task could be shared! Rather than enduring the wilderness for forty days and nights, hey, 40 people could do the job in a day; a thousand well co-ordinated philosophers could cover the same ground in less than an hour.
My personal collection of lists will follow as I find time and space to introduce them. All of these must be considered as work-in-progress except perhaps the Seven Deadly Desires (of which I’m particularly proud) to which list any addition would spoil the symmetry. Your contributions and comments will, I hope, help to refine these into something we can all find useful and constructive. I hope the structure of the page will enable additions and comments to be added swiftly and anonymously though you are welcome to leave an ID which will, I promise, be respected and never spammed nor passed on.
From time to time I shall also host a Guest List which you are also encouraged to post. I’ll try to ask politely before borrowing or linking to the lists of others.
Here’s a list of my lists, in no particular order and sans comment, all of which, with your gracious assistance, ultimately will be polished here to a high lustre.
Seven Deadly Desires
Ten more commandments
Enemies of love
Things you wish your Parents hadn’t said
A taxonomy of Fear
Be Do Have
What women want
What to do with desire
Pleasures
Rob Valentine
23 January 2008
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