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It doesn’t matter how long or how intimately you know someone. They could be your best friend, or a colleague, a sibling, a parent, a grandparent, a trustworthy confidante, a lover, your beloved spouse. You can never TRULY know them, not entirely. There will always be something that goes unsaid, a hidden desire, a private shame, you do not need me to list the examples. You know them, because you are them. We all are. Philosophers describe these effects as The Other. Hegel used the term “geist,” or ghost. Sartre referred to this as “hell.” It is the impossible gulf that separates each of us from genuinely and completely understanding the impossibly subjective human experience of another person. Sometimes inciting event that reveals this fact is dramatic. Maybe one of these mysteries is unveiled, shifting the perspective, a diary entry is discovered, a piece of jewelry is lost, an eerie silence at the other end of a phone line. Or it is the quieter, more simple realization, sitting across from each other in a sun-filled breakfast nook, or holding hands across the starchy sheets of a hospital bed that you are staring into the eyes of a total stranger. A total stranger dressed up as Agent Scully from The X-Files. Mom? (Via TheUniblog.)
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“Mulder? This is Scully. I’m in the morgue. Turns out the body’s made of Styrofoam.”
but what if you were raised by a mom-scully that taught you that the truth is out there.
Slow entertainment news day?
I’m so distracted by the hair on her collar and sleeve. However, I’m happy to find that I’m more OCD than I am nerd-perv. All I can think about is tearing off all of her clothes and putting them in the washing machine while I finish reading this book.
I feel like I truly know you now.
We should all be so lucky.
Here is where I make a funny comment designed to give the impression that I’m totally not into this.
And here is where I ask if she does Amy Pond.
We would all like to see Scully do Amy Pond
Seconded. Motion carried.
I’d like to attach a rider to the motion. If you know what I mean.
I thought it was Leeloo in a suit.
And I guess I thought the reply button was the new comment button
The reply button was cosplaying as the new comment button.
Id hit that
It’s not a recession, all our jobs are just being taken by Agent Scully. Wait I have the best idea.
Donna “Drag Queen” Darko.
Dammit. I wrote that wrong. I need coffee.
That is so *obviously* a guy dressed up as Scully so he can get work with the FBI. Fingers crossed that someone makes a sitcom that makes light of such endeavors.
So are we complaining about this or is this post supportive? I think my Gabe-dar broke.
I honestly have no idea what we’re supposed to be looking at here. I’ve seen much better and much worse costumes out there. Maybe, as someone who has only ever seen one episode of The X-Files, I’m missing something?
facetaco, I’m scared.
sometimes i feel scared, but then i eat a salad, and i realize things aren’t so bad!
I feel like the best Scully impersonation is by the actress from the porn parody:
DISCLAIMER: This opinion based on knowledge that is weird to have.
This has nothing to do with anything but is making me laugh:
My question is can we really ever know ourselves? Is there a “Ghost” or “Other” that prevents us from ever truly understanding our OWN subjective human experience? Sometimes I look in the mirror and get this feeling like I am looking at a stranger. Anyone else? Or is this one of those reasons people tell me I am weird? The TRUTH IS OUT THERE!
I’m sorry, this has gone too far. I have to tell you. Several months ago I replaced your mirror with an old propaganda poster of Stalin. I thought it would be funny, but then you didn’t seem to notice right away and you started acting weird and questioning you existence and the prank sortof fell apart.
I’m so sorry…
Who would have thought the answer to it all was so simple?
Actually, Geist refers to the imminent truth of humanity that comes to actualization through dialectical history [& if 'Philosophy of Right' is to be believed, was embodied in the republican monarchy of the Weimar Republic].
While ‘the other’ is often thought of as an unknowable subjectivity, it is more specifically a projection of the unknowable for the purpose of denying the possibility of rational subjectivity within said object. This is one of the central ideas within certain strains of psychoanalytic French feminism [i.e. Irigaray] and it is also a grounding idea of post-colonial theorists like Edward Said. In fact, Said’s text ‘Orientalism’ is perhaps the greatest tome on the subject.
I don’t think people necessarily come here to learn, but upvoted because I love Edward Said.
I know, but as a former academic with post-graduate degrees in philosophy, I just couldn’t let it pass…
I come here to learn. You just made me look up Edward Said.
On an unrelated note, I originally typed Google instead of “look up” but remembered a discussion that happened at io9 a while ago where one commenter was complaining about specific brand names replacing more inclusive verbs or nouns, like Saran Wrap instead of… whatever the hell Saran Wrap is. Plastic wrap! I just Goo- looked that up too. At the time I thought the guy was a bit of a pretentious dork but it stuck with me and now I find myself doing the same thing: hesitating whenever I’m about to type or say a brand name and looking for other words. I don’t always have the patience to find the other words, particularly in spoken conversation, but my point is (now I’m gonna pretend I was building to a point) you should always be open to learning, even in forums like these. “Road to hell paved in unbought stuffed dogs,” as Ernest Hemingway would say. See? Literature! Learning!
I think the difference is that you looked it up in Google, right? The problem is when you say “Kleenex” when using the cheap store brand or “I Googled it” when you looked it up on Bing or in an encyclopedia ( A WHAAAAAT??!).
Who are you to say I didn’t Bing it? The Vampire Diaries rule! Elena + Stefan 4eva!!
I honestly do like The Vampire Diaries. But you’re right, I did Google it. However, as long as you’re not obnoxiously pedantic about it, I think it’s preferable to replace brand names with other terms when the brand name isn’t essential to your point, for the simple reason that when consumers become unpaid advertisers it encourages a monopoly. Which I am against, in case that wasn’t clear. I don’t know if “the youth” still wear Nike shirts but they used to and it always grossed me out.
For Halloween this year I was Scully, my boyfriend was Mulder and my brother was the Smoking Man. I like to think I looked this good, but my wig was traffic-cone orange because I bought the “red” hair spray from the dollar store.
facetaco, I’m scared.Life is so lonely .I am a sexy and single girl present but i’m not happy.I need a man who can chat with me at http://www.richsingleclub.com and we can be friends if necessary. Maybe you are my Mr right. Wooooo