Subject: Re: Numbers Game Question
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 01:12:34 +0100


I was intimating the ways in which coverage of the war are taking over
everything, esp on TV.  I think war can also be a distraction away from the
serious issues at home, in fact war might be defined as an activity designed
to distract we the people away from corruption and ineffiency on our
doorstep, as our brave troops on the Malabar Front battle with the foreign
demons we too must clench our fists and salute Big Brother.  So, we should
have an awareness of this, I think.
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From: "David" <persona69-AT-comcast.net>
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Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 12:10 AM
Subject: Re: Numbers Game Question


> Paul,
> I disagree.  While, perhaps, one ought not totally immerse themselves in
> what is going on--as it might drive them nuts--it seems rather important
> that we not sit idly by and remain reticent.  Dare I say, we should do
> something.
>
> > get these images of
> > destruction to the margins of existence.
>
> Often it seems that what has been relegated to the margins is that which
is
> in the greatest need of discourse.  While I too recommend swimming, seeing
> films, reading poetry, reading Sein und Zeit and listening to beautiful
> music, this too, I think, requires time and thought.
>
> David
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Murphy" <Villanova-AT-btopenworld.com>
> To: <heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 5:43 PM
> Subject: Re: Numbers Game Question
>
>
> > Hi, I think we should get back to reading Sein und Zeit again, say the
> pages
> > 3-6.  I know this is a difficult time, and the war is v distracting, but
I
> > took time today to watch 'The Hours' and to swim.  I urge you all to now
> > read poetry and listen to beautiful music, and get these images of
> > destruction to the margins of existence.
> > all best wishes,
> > Paul Murphy
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Anthony Crifasi" <crifasi-AT-hotmail.com>
> > To: <heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
> > Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 11:20 PM
> > Subject: Re: Numbers Game Question
> >
> >
> > > John you can't just keep doing this. You just keep posting without
> > answering
> > > the specific texts and arguments that I gave in my last reply to you
> > > concerning your interpretation of Heidegger. Especially damning for
you
> > was
> > > the text on anxiety which I posted, because your whole "Heideggerian"
> > > justification for Deep Ecology is the mitigation of anxiety. As that
> text
> > > showed, anxiety not only should not be eliminated, but CANNOT be
> > eliminated,
> > > because anxiety is precisely how Dasein is authentically disclosed as
> pure
> > > potentiality for being. The fact that you think anxiety (as Heidegger
> > means
> > > it) can be mitigated or even eliminated clearly shows that you are
> > > interpretating anxiety ontically. Anxiety is not about just any
> non-being;
> > > it is specifically about the "non-being" which is Dasein itself (pure
> > > potentiality for being). To mitigate anxiety, you would have to
mitigate
> > > Dasein!
> > >
> > > Anthony Crifasi
> > >
> > > ====================> > > >From the UPI International Desk
> > > Published 3/21/2003 2:46 PM
> > >
> > > "A group of American anti-war demonstrators who came to Iraq with
> Japanese
> > > human shield volunteers made it across the border today with 14 hours
of
> > > uncensored video, all shot without Iraqi government minders present.
> > Kenneth
> > > Joseph, a young American pastor with the Assyrian Church of the East,
> told
> > > UPI the trip "had shocked me back to reality." Some of the Iraqis he
> > > interviewed on camera "told me they would commit suicide if American
> > bombing
> > > didn't start. They were willing to see their homes demolished to gain
> > their
> > > freedom from Saddam's bloody tyranny. They convinced me that Saddam
was
> a
> > > monster the likes of which the world had not seen since Stalin and
> Hitler.
> > > He and his sons are sick sadists. Their tales of slow torture and
> killing
> > > made me ill, such as people put in a huge shredder for plastic
products,
> > > feet first so they could hear their screams as bodies got chewed up
from
> > > foot to head."
> > >
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