Breakfast with Nichts or Nothing for Breakfast
September 30th, 2007, search relatedRelated posts :: Breakfast with Nichts or Nothing for Breakfast :: Qualia as Dissimulatia :: Nothing is easier than to turn being into a being or beings :: Defining of Is/Am
Jud broke his fast with this snippet:
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> I think of Heidegger’s notorious “Das Nichts nichtet” “nothingness
> nothings” a gnomic remark somewhat similar to saying: “being beeze”.
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> Such obvious idiocy risked him being stuck away back in the mental home
again.
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Jud, I think again you miss at least something of the point of such “obvious
idiocies”: like “rain rains” (what else can it do!), “nothing(ness)
nothings”, and both are cast that way to suggest that what is normally cast
as a name/noun (nothing, rain) is to be seen rather verbally, as an activity
or a process(ing) or a happening, as something taking place, emerging and
submerging from nothing, etc. For me it’s a sort of literary tactic to bring
one to think differently of those things and beings that are named that they
be heard as, as it were, thinging, in short: be-ing; to engender the coming
to be of those things that are present (that the apparently static state
[sic] covers a dynamic). This only works so far because even thinking of
things as processes (the processing of thinging) is easily unwittingly
transformed into further static things (processes ‘are’ beings), so that a
tantalising glimpse of (the) be-ing (of a being) is immediately cast as yet
another being; in the end we spy the ontological difference however
fleetingly. Of course, you’ll rubbish this with humour and ridicule, but I
cannot stop that, and this is just my take on this Heideggerian sleight of
hand.
regardings
mPing
