Dear Moderator FewMiles:

I think in this case that existential phenomonology as postured by the likes of Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty would be a better discipline from which to contemplate the meanings and essences of frequent flyer mile pursuit in the context of directed consciousness and the bracket-of-existence in it's effect on intentionality - don't you think?



Scientific thinking, a thinking which looks on from above, and thinks of the object-in-general, must return to the 'there is' which underlies it; to the site, the soil of the sensible and opened world such as it is in our life and for our body-- not that possible body which we may legitimately think of as an information machine but that actual body I call mine, this sentinel standing quietly at the command of my words and my acts.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, "Eye and Mind"