Category: Existence
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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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On the belief in Existence
We see. We feel. We believe that things “exist”. And then we philosophize on what “existence” means. And in order to do that we attempt to see what “seeing” is. We try to model reality only to realize that reality continuously escapes us. We analyze things only to see that too much analysis destroys their…
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What exists is what we Write…
We believe that some things “exist”. But why is that? Everything we think exists only because we write it down and give it a name. Everything we speak of today, did not even exist as words 3,000 years ago. Most of them will again not even exist as words in a million years from now.…
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