P  A D  E  M  O  N  I  U  M
                                   CORRESPONDENCE:
                                                      FRANZ  &  KHALID
                                                            (1998 - 1999)


INTRODUCTION

In this section, we will publish about FORTY discussions and
lectures, dedicated to our Crew-Friend, Khalid Ali, written
between 1998 and 1999, concerning the topic:

                      The "Human Being".

Certainly, what is exposed here is extremely controversial,
but that is exactly what the "Human Being" is all about.
We really do not expect anyone to agree with us, from the
point go. We know the main arguments against our exposition.
We affirm and respect these views, in fact, we are acquainted
with them all along our lives on a global scale. The only
intellectual virtue which we expect is rational patience, is
the preparedness to listen to other views too; and then, to do
and think and excel the "human being" all of, by and for
yourselves, here and now!

The contents of this correspondence will surely be a great help to
introduce our Guests into the strange serpentine roads of our
Science  a n d  Philosophy.

The manuscripts are revised and slightly edited. We also
include the comments  a posteriori  of our friend and Crew
member, Carl Zimmerman. Below, we publish the Index, and
the first letters.

To read any other Topic, please just click on the respective TOPIC.
Enjoy the discussions. Your Hosts,

Franz & Jutta.



I  N  D  E  X

 1.  Human Thinking
 2.  Light My Fire!
 3.  Divine Being, Human Essence
 4.  Carl: Human Being & Jambo
 5.  Human Being & Human Becoming
 6.  Uncle Sam: Quo Vadis?
 7.  Language & Thinking
 8.  Venezuelan "Human Being"
 9.  Giddy Up! and  Ride On Cowboy!
10. What's On My Mind?
11. Mental "Jailhouse Rock": the Bezug
12. Priority, Tenacity and Continuity
13. Carl: Paul Robeson  &  "Old Man River"
14. To Love Not Wisely, But Too Well
15. Carl: Intellectual Labour  &  The Oracle of Delphi
16. Ekstasis  and  Unio Mistica
17. Carl: Greater Unity, Responsible Behavior and Objectivity
18. Athens: The "eCircle" of Socrates
19. Be Calm, Don't Protest!
20. MY 59TH BIRTHDAY LECTURE
21. The Concept "Property" in Royal English
22. The Symphony of Nightingales
23. Big Brother: "The proles are not human beings."
24. From the Lens of the Grassroots Observer
25. Between Pluto and Venus, High-Tech
26. The Patria, Das Vaterland, The Fatherland
27. To Learn To Ask Questions; To Question To Learn
28. Newsweek: "We Are All A Bit Crazy!"
29. Vulture Melodies Mixed With The 5th Symphony Of Beethoven
30. How Deep Is Your Thought?
31. To Regurgitate per vatim   and   "Sommy, the Cyberghost."
32. Marx & Engels: Playing Black & White On My Piano!
33. Fed up with the "Historic Role" of the "Working Class"...
34. Idee Fixe: Hammers and Anvils!
35. Playing With Pigs, Wolves and Werewolves
36. Knowledge: "I Know ... "; Belief: "I believe ..."
37. Final Letter: dubito, cogito, ergo sum; gnothi seautón!

NEW  SERIES

38. ACTUAL TENDENCIES IN THE LABOUR PROCESS
39. JASMIN  TEA, CHIQUARA  COFFEE,  NUT-CRACKER,
      IGUANAS, "CASREEP"  SPICE,  MOUNTAIN  PEACOCKS  &
      MAMBA SNAKE  POISON
 
 



HUMAN BEING  I

Human Being and Human Thinking

My dearest Khalid,

Sometime ago we had a chat concerning "nice people",
"nice guys" , about "nice human beings" in general. Today I just thought that I could let my thinking run wild, and very relaxed talk with you about "being",  "human being", "thinking" and "human thinking" for a while.

I can imagine us sitting at an open fireside, enjoying the exciting heat of inspiring flames; listening to the symphony of nice birds, animals and insects; and enjoying a savoury steak with roasted potatoes, sipping now and then a cold Maltin Polar with Pilsener flavour. This is the right atmosphere for
profound thinking about thinking itself, which reflects being and which reproduces being and thinking themselves.

Let us embark on the daring venture and adventure to visit already known mine-fields, to collect and to recollect what we have been taught about the "human being"  all along
the tender years of youth, during the socialization process,  which began in the cradle, that is, if we had  not been saved from the vices of such a luxury at all, and which accompanies us, here and now,  as our very special guardian angel, not to say as our "Big Brother", throughout our "prime age",  and which will lead us later, in the "evening of our life" , to the "Promised Land" of radio-active Global Happiness and Universal Eternity in the Hereafter, to the gaping Void of Nothingness.  Sad to say, there will be no "come-back"; not even a faintest chance to think what a fool the so-called "human being" was; perhaps it is better that way; meanwhile "ignorance is bliss", for the "human beings", and "it is folly to be wise!", for Us.

Everybody, and for a long time, we ourselves, have been using concepts like "man", "woman", "human beings", "people", "the masses", etc., as if we were parrots, and even this is an insult to the poor birds, because at least they also have brains, and for their lives, they use them to the full. Only now and then, a "human being" pesters them, put them in a cage, and try to convert them into domesticated monkeys or clowns.

As we were saying, we use concepts, and we neither  reflect intellectually nor do we reproduce rationally what exactly we are babbling and rambling there. Of course, others have coined these concepts in the state ideological factory since ages, and they have entered the free market of "thought" , the freedom of expression, as exchange-values, as communication media, as language, and now they are engraved into our neurones, and they function as our own grave-diggers. But we,  the birds of youth, with an insatiable hunger for knowledge, for human thought, at school and at university, we search with zeal and zest, leaving no stone unturned, for these valuable treasures to fill our coin collector's album, to show the world what bright  "human beings" we are.

Of course, the argument that "human beings" think, and that they are social, and that they need a means of social communication, that is, language, at this level of our discussion, holds water, and there is no problem about this ideology. But when language and thinking are declared as part of the essence of "man", or as that what distinguishes him from anything else, then this ideologics become problematics.

As little as man knows about the so-called "Hereafter", so little he knows what happens in the "brains"  of a parrot, and a priori the "lord of the jungle" cannot just state that parrots have no level whatsoever of "thinking", and that they do not have  the foggiest notion of any degree or level of "social" or at least "natural" communication. Did not these brilliant minds once upon a time state that the world is flat, and that it (they meant themselves) forms the centre of the universe? We believed them. Now they say the opposite, and we still believe them.

Try these ideologics with a parrot or a monkey, and note the results, note who is "thinking". Tell a donkey to eat or collect gold leaves instead of  straw!
 

The language, its expressions, its contents, its time and space drill, its formal logics, did not remain for very long just a tool, a medium, it became the very soul of thinking, of the "human being" itself. Not the so-called "human being" was thinking, independent of language, official royal language was thinking for him; he just became a Pavlov-Dog receptor of language. He did not only believe in gods, he even believed that thinking is language, that he can only think in language, and that there is no other way of thinking at all, except by means of and through language.

To be the best thinker in the universe, he only needs a Doctorate in Language,  a  D. Litt. in German, to be able to read Hegel's Logics, to think it, and to understand everything written in this extremely complicated philosophic work. In the same way, he was taught that he sees only with his eyes; of course, he only sees that which was coined to see with his brains; instead of eyes, a pair of spectacles  or round mirrors could also have done the job, perhaps with much more precision.

Now, there we are, at the prime of our life, and what do we know about "being", "human being" and the "people"? Can we still think at all? What happened with our brains, can we still think with them? Did some parts rust away already, did brain parts vanish forever?

What happens with a brand new car, with all the luxurious gadgets which one could imagine, when we leave it somewhere standing for 30 or 40 years? Or when we have used it successively as a garbage bin, fowl pen or toilet room, will its motor, its "brains" still function? What happens to a cosmic-ontic being when he had experienced for decades the slow, sure grinding of the mills of dissocialization  and
denaturalization  in the Divine Patria?

The answer is very simple: The mass and mess of him that remain are being moulded into a beautiful "human being", and all "beings" then form the "human race", Man or Mankind. It is this "mess and mass", moulded in Holy Communion, and later in Private Commonwealth, which celebrates on a world scale, the Holy Mass of All Human Souls. Luckily an infinitesimal minority on this planet still has cognitive, emancipatory and historic abilities and capabilities.
But it is doomed to future global extinction, unless a cosmic
"miracle" occurs!

You know, the good old Shakespeare, looking at this mess, had an excellent "brain wave":

"Call a Rose by any other name,
  it will smell just as sweet!"

Call a cosmic-ontic being a "human being" or not a "human being", what is decisive about it, is its caustic flagrancy and its sweet fragrance.

Well, it suffices to say: use your neurones that are not yet stone-dead, use your sense-feeling which can still smell a rat, and can still differentiate a gray rat from a red rose, and intensely enjoy the sweet fragrance, the "oils of Arabia",  around you; in your own words, enjoy the authentic "nice people".

Well, my dear friend, did you enjoy our fireside chat?
Now, only the coals are still glowing; slowly they convert themselves into ashes.

Tomorrow, the "Phoenix of Thinking" will be reborn, will enjoy a Rebirth, a Renaissance, and like an Andean  condor, it will soar above new Horizons, heading towards other Verses, towards historic Cosmoi.

Good-Night,
Love,

FRANZ.

 (to be continued)

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