File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2001/heidegger.0103, message 27


From: "Jud Evans" <Jud-AT-sunrise74.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Man Overboard!
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 23:24:39 -0000



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From: "Jan Straathof" <janstr-AT-chan.nl>
To: <heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 10:42 PM
Subject: Re: Man Overboard!


> dear Jud,
>
> interesting mullings indeed, you wrote i.a.:
>
> >My contention is that we only have an instantaneous present and
> >no past or future.
>
> how then do you explain the findings of archeology e.g. dinosaur bones,
> or a greek vase etc. ?
>
> yours,
> jan


Dear Jan,
The discovery of the bones is a felicitous confirmation of  my proto-theory,
for the dinosaurs were trapped in the riverine mud in the present continuum,
changed their modality of existence and were drowned in the present
continuum - their  bones have been lying in the rocks in the present
continuum, and have been unearthed in the present continuum - they are being
viewed in the present continuum and are being discussed by you and I in the
present continuum, and at this very moment in time, [although the museum
where they are housed is in darkness and the only sound is the clicking
heels of the night-watchman,] the dinosaurs in their present continuum
stripped of their dinosaurness [except for their skeleton,] stand there in
their present modality of existence [with not a dasein sprite  to be seen on
the premises,]  with their bones connected by wires. In fact everything
about those bones is screaming: Present!  Present!  Present! But the
attendant looks at his watch and cries: "We're closing soon!  Please make
your way to the exit ladies and gentlemen - it's 5pm!"

I would describe my theory as "Bullshit-free Buddhism."  :-) Weeelll -
something like that.  :-)  The more vases - the more bones - the more visits
by Aunt Maud last Wednesday the better!  If I believed in the future [which
I don't] I would say "Hope to hear from you in the future."  But as you know
Jan the future never comes, because there is only the present. :-)

Best wishes,

Jud.



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