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lauantai 28. maaliskuuta 2009

A modest proposal

Ye Immortal Gods in Heaven! You amiably inspire me to make a modest proposal, sharing with you as I am, the firm conviction that Mother Earth, whom you call Gaia, is already in her death rattle. For this reason we, all of us, without any exception whatsoever, instead of turning out the lights for just one "cosmetic" hour, as it were (nothing but a pathetic gesture), should turn them off completely, for ever and ever.

Philosophy bids us to believe that non-existence is a decisively better option than existence on the surface of the polluted Gaia. It is time to go, in order to meet our Maker.

perjantai 14. maaliskuuta 2008

Quid 'existentialismus' sibi voluerit

"Omnibus hominibus obeunda mors est; cum igitur sit communis, patimur etiam communia omnes". Hoc modo Daniel Juslenius, ecclestiacus necnon humanista Fennus, orationem funebrem, quam habuit in memoriam cuiusdam iudicis, nomine Loskioeld, incepisse cernitur.


Duobus fere saeculis post Heidegger hanc de morte velut firmissimam veritatem paululum a se mutatam ita exprimit: omnibus quidem est moriendum, sed, nota bene, separatim. Huic assentiuntur omnes fere saeculi nostri individualistae, quorum maximus est factus numerus; hoc est, nisi fallor, verum, quod ratione humana non potest refutari.


Hocce loco addi possit infinitam seriem similium mundorum infinitam parere seriem similium philosophorum, qui vicissim et separatim vivant et patiantur.


In memorias Juslenii, Heideggeri, Democriti