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First forum Ive ever introduced myself on.

Live in England, work as electrician 51 years old.

Probably too open minded about philosophers to form an opinion of my own.

Read Sartre a little when I was younger but feel I am missing a huge premise.

Absurdism has my interest at present, again at a basic level.

Montaigne would pique my interest too.

Really just here to be stimulated, I was going to say learn but I am not sure that is possible.
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Welcome, Andy!

Heads up! Missing a huge premise is not so bad as missing a huge promise. Sartre's huge premise was his French nationality. As a subject of the British monarch, it is your privilege and duty to miss that premise. Think of missing that premise as an act of defending your queen and your country. Like being the lucky many in "Lucky Man" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

Absurdism. My best friend ever was an absurdist. One day we talked about job interviews, and he asked me what questions they nomally would ask. I said, one was, "what has been the highlight of your career, of which you are especially proud?" My friend, Paul Sp., stood up, started to pace nervously up and down, and said, "the highlight of my life was when one morning I got up, from bed, and thought I was someone else."

Montaigne and piquing... Mongolia and Peking... mountains and peaks... Lord Mountbatten and picking of royal behinds.
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Thanks for the humour, I think I am gong to be out of my depth on here for a long while.

Shame about Louis, oversaw independence of India only to be blown up by people whose cause he would probably have sympathy with.
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Interesting about Louis was that he was the first governor general of the independent India. If India went Indie, why would they need a governor? That's why they had to blow him up. Not him, personally, but the symbol that he was representing... the old monarchy that kept hanging on with tooth-and-nail to some outdated vassal relationship in symbols.

Here, in Canada, we have a governor general as well, as the queen is our sovereign. But Canadians are wealthy, we never go hungry, and we never lack, so we have something to risk when we blow a figurehead up. My native country, however, is getting hungrier and hungrier, and guess what -- racism is rearing its ugly head there. Escapism, scapegoatism.

My aunt used to say, "they never start a revolution just after lunch." Poor Louis, he was not even fat, and he had to die martyrdom on the altar of poverty.
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I am already in a quandry here, do I compose my replies using what I know or think I know. In so doing the reader is more acquainted with me as I am or do I use the internet to further my (perceived) intellect.

Having read Scotts advice stickies I think I am inclined to the latter.
As an example, I thought your aunt was quoting John Lennon, I thought for a while about affirming this, on some forums, as in life , until people know me I pretty much play the fool to avoid conflict. The intellect on here is obvious, so I concluded it would only be of mutual benefit to find the origin, William Cobbett "I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach"

Lord Louis Mountbatten was blown up by the Irish Republican Army.

Since you dont mention your mother country I will not ask in case it is sensitive. Are your family still there?
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Hee, I made a huge factual assumption, which turned out to be wrong. I stand corrected.

Or maybe it was the Indian leg of the IRA that blew the old chap up.

My old country is Hungry. I mean, Hungary. (Cheap pun.) But I am half-Welsh. I used to call myself therefore "Well-Hung" for short, but some quickly and spontaneously acquired girlfriends' big brothers advised me to stop doing that. (Belaboured and an all-too transparent pun.)

Seriously speaking, I do come from Budapest, and part of my family still lives there. Other parts here, in Canada. And I am not half-Welsh.

Thanks for asking.

And which part of the British Isles you call home? England... Soccer fan or rugby? Or perhaps cricket or polo...

I used to have a friend who had come from south London somewhere, with the most typical, lyrical, melodic British accent that nobody could understand here. He told us that he had travelled to Israel, and he was looking to mail a letter one day, and asked a passer-by, "sir, could you please tell me which way to the nearest post office or mail box?" The stranger looked at him, and trying to be helpful, first asked, "do you speak English?" The way he told this was priceless.

I have no doubt that Sommerset Maugham or any one of the other British anectoders has written this up, too, similarly to the fate of all my funny stories.
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Cricket, still play, albeit at a reduced level. Live in Devon, beautiful county.

I think Ive really met my match here, perhaps it is the broad and varied subject matter of which I can flit in and out. A nice bottle of red wine, sat by the fire discussing one subject would be easier for I.

My first (and extremely arrogant )thought was "Surely ,if I read understand and quote an author then I am just reiterating his views, I want my thoughts to be mine without dilution." Yep, well that lasted about an hour. It is most apparent that I cannot think and therefore argue within the logical construct of many on here. With that in mind (ha, see what I did there), its time to start at the beginning and start reading, not so much ideas or philosophies, more how to reason. I see Kants Critique is recommended more than once, any others you would recommend?
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