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Van: heidegger-bounces at soca.ecu.edu.au namens Philip Baker
Verzonden: zo 4-6-2006 0:38
Aan: heidegger at soca.ecu.edu.au
Onderwerp: Re: terror and error

In article , That Pete writes
>— Philip Baker wrote:
>>
>> Isn’t H speaking here of some far deeper terror?
>
>Agreed. The terror of the error.
>
>> What is
>> labelled terrorism causes great suffering for a few but
>> overall causes a minute part of the suffering of humanity
>> and we are often not terrified or even concerned by the
>> aspects of human life which may potentially cause us to
>> suffer in the near or distant future.
>
>Although statistically the chances of being a victim of
>the common variety of terrorism are slim, I think the
>terror of terrorism does affect many people. That’s why
>its terrorism and not just murder. It affects where and
>how people decide to travel, how they vote, and in
>economical terms there are beaucoup bucks to be made in
>the War on Terror ™.

I can’t say that I’ve been terrorised by terrorism - perhaps
some apprehension in the back of my mind even though I have
heard one or two bombs go off - but that was the other lot.
–
Philip Baker

Philip, that’s precisely it. Your remarking fits to what i
dicussed some time ago re the dimension of thinking
and logos as the dimension of Greek thinking..
If it is left out, unaccessible, because we would
be subject of a thinking which cannot acknowledge
anything beyond its own making, and if it is our ‘Geschick’,
the peculiar of our tradition, to *maintain* that dimension,
than the lack and consequently the forgetting cannot but
develop terror, fear for fear, and so the impossibility
to get out.
What is our way of thinking? When “terror” is discussed,
they refer to … Heidegger, but not to the all-envading
dimension-less space which is closer to us than our heart,
so close that also this dimension-less dimension is not
perceived. It is possible to laugh about “Being”, but one cannot
help finding, eh … not-finding oneself in no dimension. The point is
that then humanity has stopped, man is Da-sein, to be in and to
and for the dimension of the Da.. ‘Beings’ will still walk around, sure.
But left by Being. It is inconceivable, but it can be witnessed.
We are experiencing something inconceivable according to our
own measures. That’s why no dialectics can help anymore, only
Kehre. We are all in this dimension, and moreover: it has been
shown to us.

It would be hybris to despise nihilism, litterally: Vernichtung,
that everything becomes nothing, dass es mit dem Sein nichts ist.
. As if that which is going down, deserves to be saved?
That is the spirit which reigns the terror scene, it only wants to
save itself, its own safety. But that cannot be. Americanism is also
a dimensional word.

thanks
rene

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Posted on Sunday, June 4th, 2006 at 12:50 am
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