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July 4th Fireworks, NO Blast for Pets, Keep them Safe

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July 4th Fireworks, NO Blast for Pets, Keep them Safe

Dont take your pets to fireworks displays.

Rather, keep them safe at home INDOORS in a quiet sheltered area. Leave the TV on for them at a normal sound to help distract them from the loud nosies outside.

Dont leave them in the car.

To help alleviate the fear and anxiety your pet may experience, Rescue Remedy, a natural remedy found at health food stores, usually helps to calm your pet during fireworks displays.

Never leave pets outside unattended, even in a fenced yard or on a chain. When they are frightened and scared, they will get out, or get tangled up in their own chain, risking death or injuries. More dogs get loose and are lost on the Fourth of July more than any other day.

Make sure your pets have ID tags on.

And, please don't let your dog be around any fireworks, even if he's not afraid. A video of a dog and a fireworks accident, HERE.

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The Rejection of the Enlightenment and the Resurrection of the Sublime
THE SUBLIME AND THE BEAUTIFUL
Kant's category of the sublime; (das Erhabene)
It was certainly never Kant's idea that his idea of the sublime would one day be used by post-modernists to delve deeper into their selective incorporation of Nietzsche's idea of aesthetics. Lyotard regarded himself as far removed from Kant, as the world had moved from deep reflection to competition on the market.

Kant described the experience of the beautiful as "pleasure without any practical interest whatsoever." The delight in art is purely a pleasure, it bears no reference to its commercial value nor is it influenced by knowledge of its archaeological background, nor does its ethical background (except maybe in Greek Tragedy), have any effect on us. Art is reduced to subjective enjoyment, a rose garden may be beautiful and experienced as so; if the practical consideration of the rose garden as part of an eco-system is invoked then it is not enjoyed as purely artistic. To enjoy art there should be no concise conceptual understanding, there should be a free play of the imagination.

The notion of the sublime, adopted from pseudo-Longinus, was popular in 17th c. Europe. In England there was also an interest in the beautiful (the majesty of the brute forces of nature Burke). Kant then transposes the aesthetics of the infinite (the Sublime) into his transcendental method of philosophy. He does not give reason a large role in this process. In his consideration of the Sublime he discovers how the free interplay of the sensuous Einbildungskraft (imagination), relates to speculative Vernunf (reason - which deals with ideas of the infinite).
Natural beauty carries a purposiveness in its form, by which the object somehow seems predestined for our judgement; whereas that which in us gives rise to the feeling of sublimity may in its form appear to oppose our purposive judgement, to be inadequate to our power of representation -in a sense to do violence to our imagination. Yet, in spite of this, it is judged to be the more sublime.

The Sublime as a contrast-experience; Kant, unlike the pre-modernists, refuses to locate the sublime in nature itself. The pre-modernists saw the sublime in the stormy sea in that they saw it as a witness to the tremendous glory of the Creator. Kant's experience of the sublime begins with the person being thrown out of gear filled with awe at huge sensuous impressions of phenomena, from here the human imagination reaches out for a visually grasping noumenal idea of human grandeur. The vision itself is not enough to capture the idea of human grandeur, but, the idea of human grandeur helps to overcome the feelings of terror and anxiety. In the experience we engender visions of human sovereignty and moral superiority over nature, a process that can be described as over-stretching the imagination.

Although reason and noumenal ideas play an important part in this, the sublime is an occasion pointing to the non-representable idea of human grandeur in its totality. This experience is both painful and delightful. Painful because it confronts us with the dismay before the chaotic phenomena of nature, delightful because the enlargement we receive is more than paying off. This is the victory of the powers of the mind over chaotic nature; this is our salvation. Again it does not cover the ethical (this still needs the categorical imperative; treat others as you would like them to treat you etc.), aesthetic enthusiasm is not the right criterion as ethics and aesthetics, despite certain similarities, are essentially different. Kant also has an idea of the mathematical sublime; comparing things according to their size, mass etc. This can also lead to dismay at our own size in the universe but we rescue ourselves by realising our superior moral and intellectual powers, the disarray reveals the purpose of our sublime destiny on earth.

The clash between nature and mind/spirit (Geist); The experience of the sublime is the elevation of mind over nature. The imagination stretches itself to overcome nature and reach to spiritual visions. The productive imagination must broaden itself, attracted by the lure of noumenal ideas. This is affected in the medium of a widened imagination.

This mediation bridges the difference between the aesthetics of the sublime and ethics. In ethics the human is forced to act in accordance with a categorical imperative, this transfers us to the noumenal sphere of morality without a visual mediation. Ethics become situated in the affirmation of the human's moral superiority over nature. Unlike the earlier notions that we have encountered, the superiority is affirmed in the medium of ethical decision rather than aesthetic playfulness. Kant has combined the aesthetic and the ethical in one; two things fill my soul with ever new and increasing admiration and awe; The starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Lyotard and the Sublime; Lyotard, unlike Kant, does not situate the experience of the sublime in a confrontation with the brute forces of nature. Lyotard situates his sublime in facing historical disasters, to call attention to these is a gesture that testifies to the sublime. Here he differs from Kant. Kant saw in the great acts of history (French revolution etc.), an effort to attain human emancipation, Auschwitz forbids us to find any delight in the lessons of history. Lyotard advocates that modernity's political project must collapse because it contains an excessively homogeneous pattern of thought. Lyotard sections off the different realms of life more explicitly than Kant did. For Lyotard, each had its particular language game. The sublime can only be voiced in a low-key against the negative experiences that testify to the sublime in its mode of absence. Lyotard is interested in reflecting on historical disasters that have accompanied the modernist dream of steady progress. At the same time he does not answer the question whether post-modernity's playfulness is a valid alternative to modernity's political project.

His notion therefore is the sublime as a contrast experience; it flows from the grief and gives a pessimistic understanding of history. Adorno is also on this line in that he denounces the concentration of power present in modern culture. Lyotard, unlike Adorno, does not advocate an anti-story, that the memory of the horror should spur us on to the cause of justice.

Lyotard also draws on Taylor's absent sower in the parable. Lyotard is fascinated, not so much by the disappearing origin that allows the seed to be disseminated, but by the absent origin that can only present itself in the mode of its absence. The idea of humanity cannot be exemplified in history, we must testify to its hidden existence in its absence from historical events. To keep going, despite the atrocities, is a testimony to the idea of humanity enjoying freedom, the essence of Lyotard's experience of the sublime. It is important to remember that Lyotard here has replaced the Creator God with Kant's transcendental idea of freedom. He wants to testify to Kant's noumenal reign of freedom - which he thinks can never have a phenomenal reality. This is more radical than Kant in that it shows that he has abandoned any concept of a lure towards freedom, there is no role for hope in Lyotard's work. For him there is no steady progress, only a progressive differentiation, a global enthusiasm for making the world a better place is out of the question. This is the point where Lyotard has departed from Kant although he accepted his vocabulary.

Bearing witness to the unpresentable; (Lyotard's conception of the sublime and its deviation from Kant. Kant drew a line between the noumenal and common empirical reality; the idea of the totality of the world is super-empirical, it can never be identified through observation. The totality of the world surpasses every existing vast unit that is measured by it, it is unpresentable in empirical reality. This notion is common to both Lyotard and Kant.

July 4th Fireworks, NO Blast for Pets, Keep them Safe
July 4th Fireworks, NO Blast for Pets, Keep them Safe
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Commonly question about July 4th Fireworks, NO Blast for Pets, Keep them Safe

Question :

What liquor should I buy to celebrate 4th of july?

Last year it was jagerbombs and the year before that it was 151 with malibu rum n pineapple juice
at the most ill buy two bottles for the 4th. (no whiskey or scotch just personal preference on all the variations that are good and great to drink while watching/blasting off fireworks (: points for best answer
Answer :
Why buy this? Drinking is horrible over any long weekend and not really good. Best to drink some oj
Question :

Fireworks?

I was looking for some questions dealing with fireworks. When i searched alot of people were saying there stupid and a waste of time. Why is it stupid to light firewroks off 1 or 2 times a year (New Years + 4th of July)? I love setting of fireworks. We go to Phantom Fireworks and buy a bunch of them then set em off. Why do people hate it so much? Also I live in the middle of no where basically. And the few neighbors we do have set their own off.

I just dont see the big deal. If ur resbonsible and ur not doing stupid sh*t with them then they are not that dangerous. As long as u kno wut ur doing.

It may be a waste of money but its only a couple times a year. Also if u buy enough u can have a good time setting em off all night. Last year we started around 5 Pm and didnt end till 2am. It was a blast.

Wut are ur thoughts?
Answer :
Well i love fireworks and if you love them then i say do it! I buy some fireworks too sometimes and they are really fun! So go ahead even what anybody says still do what you love!
Question :

What is this loud firework called?

This firework is a type that you would see at a professional firework show on the 4th of July, it is one of the loudest ones, has a very small blast radius, and has practically no color. Thank you!
Answer :
Those are aerial salutes.

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In the fireworks biz.

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