Category: Existence
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Darth Vader, Parmenides and why Yoda exists...
Can someone actually claim that Darth Vader exists? Can someone think that Yoda actually exists? Well, if you read Parmenides, you will answer "Yes" to both these questions. How can you refer to something that does not "exist"? How can you even talk about something which does not "exist"? What "is not" does not exist…
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A = A and why death is not “bad”…
You are afraid to die. But if you were objective as a “scientist” you should not be. We do not know what life is, we do not know what death is. How can we be sure that death or sickness is something “bad” then? We ex-ist (εξ’ ίσταμαι). We are conscious. And yet some people…
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Philosophy of Colours - Do they exist?
We do not always agree about colour. Your red might be my pink or orange. Vietnamese and Korean people do not differentiate blue from green – leaves and sky are both coloured xanh in Vietnam. The late English artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman once met a friend on London’s Oxford Street and complimented him on…
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Emoto, rice and how Thinking formulates Reality
Masaru Emoto conducted an experiment with rice: Boil rice and put some rice in two jars. Put a label "I hate you" on one jar and a label "I love you" on the other. Then every day and for 30 seconds, open each jar and start talking to the rice inside - repeat "I love…
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Heidegger, σκόλοπες and the road to accepting non-thinking...
Heidegger is one of the most controversial and one of the least understood philosophers. Whenever I am in a forest opening I cannot help it but think of his “Lichtung” (Gr. Αίθριο). Every time I say the word “is”, I cannot but think how he told again and again how we have been driven away…
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