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Existentialist Coffee
Don't grind beans and pour water over them. There's no reason to. It wouldn't do any good. | |
Here's the idea. A cup, or lack there of, for use by existentialists in the morning. This cup would be filled with a lack of coffee. Since, the world is all in your head and coffee's awakening effect is a somewhat mental process it should be fairly obvious that a synthesis of these two factors may result
in imagined coffee achieving a similair effect as non-imagined coffee. The key is belief. That is why I suggest a cup which reads, "this coffee is equally as unreal as the last cup of coffee I intook". It does not matter what brand of coffee you use in this cup. The benefits? Less time wasted. (if you believe in that sort of thing.) Less money wasted. (same thing) And there's no chance of spilling it on your shirt and scallding yourself. You can even drink it in bed! The only issue is that it will certainly be very addictive. Use it carefully.
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This is probably not existentialism in the Sartrean
sense, but you've made me wonder what would be
existentialist coffee. |
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I Kant be Sartrean about that question, I’m Søren to say. I must be on a Heidegger to Nietzsche. |
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Wouldn't there be two cups?... |
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Yeah, but ... you're not really describing
existentialism. This is more hallucinatory delusion
coffee. |
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In the absence of evdence to the contrary, it could be Solipsist
coffee… |
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"Teach the pot … phenomenology…" |
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There are grounds for suspecting that, yes. |
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// Has this got something to do with the essence of
bean?// |
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All take note: given the context, this is a good pun. |
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There will be no execution today. |
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Two empty cups, [2 fries]. |
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To bean, or not to bean... that is the question:
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"The quality of Mocha is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from Heaven
Into the mug beneath ..." |
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Th' Espresso's wronged the proud man's
contumely
The pangs of despised Robusta, not Arabica,
The insolence of Americain, and the spurns
That patient drinker of th' unworthy takes. |
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The title does work if it's simply seen as a reference
to existence rather than Existentialism with a capital
E. Maybe "ontological coffee" would be less
ambiguous. |
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Oh, well, if all you're going to do is quibble over semantics, you'll
just make the whole idea seem ridiculous. |
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It's idealist coffee, strictly speaking. |
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Yeah I'm going to have to go the other way on voting for this now. I agree with 19thly that this idea gets its philosophy wrong. Although this sounds a bit like Kierkagaard with the solipsism. I had voted in favor of it because I like the type of idea. The by-line (summary) reflects more of a cynical or fatalist philosophy, defeatism or pessimism. |
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My own attempt at Existentialist coffee would be decafinated coffee that contains a seditive, so you become sleepier as you drink more. |
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Would this coffee be more suitable for Epicureans, or Stoics ? We suspect the latter. |
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Not empty [blissmiss]... they preffer to be reffered to as 'waiting to be filled'.
It's all semantics. |
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//you've made me wonder what would be existentialist coffee// |
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Well, my current understanding of existentialism is that its main purpose is to reverse the definitions of good faith and bad faith. So, an existentialist cup of coffee would be almost anything other than the cup of coffee you originally requested and paid for (in, in the old sense, good faith), on the grounds that *that* cup of coffee would be bourgeois and inauthentic. |
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However, I haven't read enough Sartre to say that with complete conviction. So, would anyone here who *has* read Sartre like to comment? |
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Existentialist coffee would induce nausea, n'est pas?
So, it's baked, or rather brewed |
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Seditive? Something that promotes or facilitates
sedition? That would be anarchist coffee, surely? |
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No, you're getting confused with "revolutionary tea" the sort you
make by throwing tea into Boston harbour, and Secessionist
coffee, which was what Jefferson Davis used to drink. |
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Not sure about Sedition/Anarchist coffee… sounds like sonething
Lenin might drink. Anarchist coffee probably consists of a group
of people who all secretly want coffee, and talk constantly about
how good the coffee will be when they get it, but since no-one's
in charge they don't actually have any coffee to make it with,
and besides, there's no individual responsible for putting the pot
on the stove; they just sit rouund, complaining about the violence
inherent in the system. |
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That's kinda how one would define sedition, [8th]. |
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//Anarchist coffee probably consists of a group of people who all secretly want coffee, and talk constantly about how good the coffee will be when they get it, but since no-one's in charge they don't actually have any coffee to make it with, and besides, there's no individual responsible for putting the pot on the stove; they just sit rouund, complaining about the violence iherent in the system.// |
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This anno alone is worth a bun! |
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Comeand see the violence inherent in the system! Help,
help, I'm bean repressed! |
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Ooh, Dennis, there's some lovely used coffee grounds over
'ere! |
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I have read Sartre of course, and written stuff on his
philosophy, but i couldn't say for sure what
existentialist coffee would be. I'll give it some
thought. |
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// I have read Sartre of course, and written stuff on his philosophy, // |
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But can you prove it beyond reasonable doubt ? |
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// i couldn't say for sure what existentialist coffee would be. // |
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// I'll give it some thought. // |
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Cogito, ergo sum .. isn't that more Descartes than Sartre ? |
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// Help, help, I'm bean repressed! // |
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<Points meaningfully at door marked "EXIT"> |
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Functionally the same as Decaf. |
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9 pence? I'll have two please... |
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Oh, you're so Gullible ... |
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Right, we've made a pun. Now it's someone else's Tern. |
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//sounds like sonething Lenin might drink.// |
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there's the old joke of Lenin going to Bakunin's (?) and being given a cup of tea. It tastes really naff and he complains, but Bakinin says "I thought we had already agreed that proper tea is theft?" |
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//and written stuff on his philosophy// |
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Published? And could we read it? (I mean, whether or not you'd like to share it here, I'd be interested to see it). |
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There'll be a couple of things in Warwick Uni library, i
expect. I've never bothered to try to get anything
published because i already have enough despair in
my life and when i put it on Freecycle it takes ages
for people to come and pick it up. |
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Just huffin' and puffin', [8th]. |
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Cogito, ergo my brain is a physical piece of machinery
with a demonstrably real chemical dependency |
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Well, coffee isn't actually an enjoyable drink, it's the having a coffee that's the good bit. |
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{obligatory covfefe reference} |
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