>John, Kenneth,
> than do you find the ER rather a will to vegetable inertia, ...and
>thence nihilism cum neo-epicure?
>
>contrarily, what of heid's ekstasis, ...eliot's "still pt of the turning
>world"?
>
> ...there the dance is,
> But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
> Where past and future are gathered. ...
> Except for the pt, the still pt,
> There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
>
>
>and if only the dance,
>
> ...thoughts, the slaves of life, and life, time's fool,
> And time...must have a stop.
>
>is the river of time/becoming teleological? does it all pt to one end? the
>funeral dance with its loud, disconsolate lament, nihilism? say, nukular
>armageddon, where (W & co. get raptured, and) we all get vaporized? or
>technology gone awry as the experimentation with 3rd world fertility turned
>to aids pandemic? collectively foundered in a consumerist apoplexy? ...
>or are there two dances (par ousia) going on simultaneously: (1)that of w &
>co, heroes of the ER, entirely innocent of resentement, infallibly willing
>the darwinian past; and (2) the resistance, heroes of the WtP? one absolute
>nihilist, the other, as manic to "redeem the time"?
>
>have you the like resentful thots?
>
>bob
well count me as one of the nummer who thinketh the ER is a gut wrenching
bummer
as toward it, 'n unlike N, just to also say, well, no, or maybe that, on
the whole, i'd rather be in philadelphia
but bottom line really is, the thot of the ER is tres too moot to make some
loner to give a hoot
ken?
v
--- from list heidegger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---
> than do you find the ER rather a will to vegetable inertia, ...and
>thence nihilism cum neo-epicure?
>
>contrarily, what of heid's ekstasis, ...eliot's "still pt of the turning
>world"?
>
> ...there the dance is,
> But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
> Where past and future are gathered. ...
> Except for the pt, the still pt,
> There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
>
>
>and if only the dance,
>
> ...thoughts, the slaves of life, and life, time's fool,
> And time...must have a stop.
>
>is the river of time/becoming teleological? does it all pt to one end? the
>funeral dance with its loud, disconsolate lament, nihilism? say, nukular
>armageddon, where (W & co. get raptured, and) we all get vaporized? or
>technology gone awry as the experimentation with 3rd world fertility turned
>to aids pandemic? collectively foundered in a consumerist apoplexy? ...
>or are there two dances (par ousia) going on simultaneously: (1)that of w &
>co, heroes of the ER, entirely innocent of resentement, infallibly willing
>the darwinian past; and (2) the resistance, heroes of the WtP? one absolute
>nihilist, the other, as manic to "redeem the time"?
>
>have you the like resentful thots?
>
>bob
well count me as one of the nummer who thinketh the ER is a gut wrenching
bummer
as toward it, 'n unlike N, just to also say, well, no, or maybe that, on
the whole, i'd rather be in philadelphia
but bottom line really is, the thot of the ER is tres too moot to make some
loner to give a hoot
ken?
v
--- from list heidegger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---