I am somewhat surprised that what I intend to write about this week may indeed not be a HUGE leap from what I wrote about last week. Many things have been going through my mind — or maybe I should say: many influences. When I finally came up with the title for this post, it… Continue reading All Through Our Existence: The – A – My
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On the Internet …
One thing that irritates me time and again is when someone tells me they saw something “on the Internet”. It’s an insult to humanity to have such a low degree of literacy. In order to begin to understand how absurd such a statement is, consider how you would feel if someone talked to you about… Continue reading On the Internet …
Pick an Existence
Up until Friday afternoon, I was planning to write a follow-up to last week’s post. I knew it would be about “thinking” generally, but I was still pondering on which image I wanted to act as a simple signpost for the basic idea — which I think may actually be difficult to capture in a… Continue reading Pick an Existence
The further on I go, the less I know
Wittgenstein had a saying about “die Grenzen meiner Sprache”, namely that these correspond to “die Grenzen meiner Welt”. [1] In my not-so humble opinion, this quote misses something very fundamental about language: that it does not exist in any “particular individual” (see also the previous post, “Self Mythology“). Language is a technology that exists between… Continue reading The further on I go, the less I know
Self Mythology
This week a person near and dear to me used a particular term in a rather peculiar way … which I feel is at least odd, which I do not subscribe to, and which also seems confusing and misguided (from my point of view). Yet I cannot call it “wrong“, judging by what I can… Continue reading Self Mythology
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