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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
13d ago“Should universities continue to teach Martin Heidegger despite his Nazi affiliation?”
- Fredwage...
The Bookend Rules of Humans Living on Earth The Ubiquitously Encompassing Macrocosmic Rule of Human Existence: We are all humans, being; living and evolving in a subjective world.... I love Tom! what does "to get to Being" mean, in a context where Being is whether or not we get to it? Are we "getting to" a moment's feeling or recognition or cognitive overlay or subjective awareness, or ongoing (which overlays some ontology of time and consistent personhood... I had this experience when I was in college and one of my mentors was dying and I spent 24 hours in a daze really contemplating what does it mean to die….... - Fredwage...
So bringing this concept down to the ground, how does the common human live out the experience of Being? In the past most humans have put on what amounts to a great social/ spiritual cloak, created by those before them, presenting the capacity to live life with most of the... I see two possibilities: 1) God, who put us in charge: Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing... Thank you! This reminds me of Blaise Pascal quote: "For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either.... - Editec...
- Fooljeff...
Well, ain't that the kind of high-minded fuckin' philosophy that finds its way to my ears after enough whiskey's been poured? The more power a man accumulates, the more he starts to wonder if there's anyone actually sittin' behind his eyes, or if it's just stories all the way...