Tag: Dasein
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Go backwards. Surprise the Universe!
Driving to work becomes routine — but could you drive the entire way in reverse gear? Humans, like many animals, are accustomed to seeing objects pass behind us as we go forward. Moving backwards feels unnatural. In a new study, scientists from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) reveal that moving forward actually trains the brain […]
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Killed by lightning. Ancient tribes. Being.
Eleven Wiwa Indians killed by lightning during a tribal ceremony in Colombia’s Sierra Nevada mountains will be left unburied where they died according to their traditions, an official said Sunday. The community of about 60 families will abandon their remote village in the wake of Monday’s tragedy, but it was not yet clear where they […]
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Flowers. Being. For ever.
A flower. Creating seeds. Future and past locked together. Paused in time. (1) We can see them as if we were there. But wouldn’t we always see them if we were there? Time is just another dimension… The flowers are here now. The flowers existed back then. Always. Along with us. I will always be […]
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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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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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