2010/09/11 Amsterdam
Pleasure
Speech
This evening I attended a book party in honor of the philosopher Marc de Kesel in Amsterdam. His book “Breaking the Gods” was published today.
De Kesel had asked me to give a short speech at his book party, which I did with great pleasure.
In De Kesel’s Lacanian interpretation of religion, we need an unfulfilled desire and therefore we need religion.
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The older I get , the more I find religion repulsive. I was fanatic as a religious child, I fear I will grow into a fanatic , grumpy old atheïst.
No wonder I always had a sense of religiosity.
[I felt the need to say something and then decided that need came from an unfulfilled desire. That desire never leads to anything good.]
‘Zeg jongens, hoewel ik natuurlijk niet zo belezen ben moet ik wel ineens denken aan iets wat ik ben tegengekomen in een boek, mogelijk was het in een esoterische roman van Coetzee, misschien in ‘de alchemist’ of zoiets....of was het van Paulo Coelho?
Aliefka
Are you growing up? ;-)Would you like to share your desires with us? Perhaps someone here will be able to fulfill some of them.
@Sander, I suppose my main desire would be to not have any. Apart from that, I have various lesser desires. I have not grown up, I have simply shed the need (or desire) to be myself. Nobody cares who a person really is. Probably the opposite,
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