In a message dated 29/09/2004 16:04:32 GMT Standard Time,
R.B.M.deBakker@xxxxxx writes:
Jud:
I mock the very IDEA of "Being" — the fact that in the 21st-century there
are still people who have faith in the notion of "Being," like
tree-worshippers
believing that a
spirit lives within the trunk of a tree just because some cavorting idiot
with a necklace of boar's teeth round his neck told them so, or some
prancing
idiot with a Nazi Badge in his lapel said the tree has a "Being"..
Rene:
Then you must be that idiot, cos Heidegger never said that. Just that when
we would look for the being of the tree, we would not know what to look for
and how to look, while undoubtedly the tree *is*. Or do you deny that?
Jud:
No, Rene - like Heidegger you lack the understanding. If you want to be a
transcendentalist taxi-driver you must "have the knowledge,"
and you can't charge double for a single ontic fare — the public simply
won't wear it and you'll lose your hard-earned badge.
The tree *is* a tree — and that is the reality. There is no additional
ontological passenger or level, no room for spirits in the boot - no additional
sphere or domain or transiting transcendental presence of *Being* — it's just
a encephalonic trick — a dreaded and deadly psychologism — a psychic worm
or trojan engineered and packed by the heiling hacker Heidegger into his
noxious little book.
Some are happy to be cozened in the transcendental never-netherworld and
thrive upon it, constructing and extrapolating
weird macrocosms of "Being" (familiar and instantly recognisable to the good
burghers of Hertogenbosch.)
But the ontological difference is a forgery — a pentimento or palimpsest
without an underlying image. You can wait until hell freezes over and you will
never know your precious *Being.* It will NEVER reveal itself unto you — for
it is no more than a obnubilated notion in you noddle.
For you folk a tree *is.* For me, who like Persephone has skedaddled the
depths, [we call ourselves the pomegranate-eaters] — a tree is a tree.
Regards,
Jud
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