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This reading experience is infinitely jestful

"For, of course, to have a history means losing one part of your reality (because it has already slipped away into the past) and not yet having another part (because it is still in the future): in fact having nothing but the tiny little present, which has gone before you can speak about it."

Somewhat reminiscent of Being and Time!

The funniest part was people in class pronouncing all the words wrong.

Fear and trembling mentioned!

Maybe I'm a smidge closer to grasping some vague suggestions of a plot?

"Perfect behavior may be as unattainable as perfect gear-changing when we drive; but it is a necessary ideal prescribed for all men by the very nature of the human machine just as perfect gear-changing is an ideal prescribed for all drivers by the very nature of cars."

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth---only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair."

"It seems, then, we are forced to believe in a real Right and Wrong. People may be sometimes mistaken about them, just as people sometimes get their sums wrong; but they are not a matter of mere taste and opinions any more than the multiplication table."

Let's see if Lewis can successfully refute the meaningless absurdism of Camus or the atheistic existentialism of Sartre.

"That there may be some who need coercion [to remain in compliance with universal ethics], who if given free rein would riot in selfish pleasure like unbridled beasts, is no doubt true, but one should show precisely by the fact that one knows how to speak with fear and trembling that one is not of their number."

Also... found some cool parallels with Heidegger's concept of authenticity and the "they."

By the rivers of Babylon,
There we sat down, yea, we wept
When we remembered Zion Ps. 137:1

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation
of my heart
Be acceptable in Your sight,
O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer Ps. 19:14

I didn't expect Bible reading to get a Sublime song (albeit a cover of the original by The Melodians) stuck in my head!

By the rivers of Babylon,
There we sat down, yea, we went
When we remembered Zion Ps. 137:1

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation
of my heart
Be acceptable in Your sight,
O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer Ps. 19:14

I didn't expect Bible reading to get a Sublime song (albeit a cover of the original by The Melodians) stuck in my head!

"It takes a purely human courage to renounce the whole of temporality in order to win eternity, but I do indeed win it and cannot in all eternity renounce that, for that would be a self-contradiction; but it takes a paradoxical and humble courage then to grasp the whole of temporality on the strength of the absurd, and that courage is the courage of faith."

Certainly different from Camus' absurd.

"If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what then would life be but despair?"

Camus calls this "philosophical suicide," but his writing has no lack of "despair," so maybe Kierkegaard's right.

Bruh introduction was so dull and now I feel like I should have read Hegel first... but here we go...

"Dasein's Being is care. It comprises in itself facticity (thrownness), existence (projection), and falling. As being, Dasein is something that has been thrown; it has been brought into its "there," but not of its own accord."

That wraps up everything I'm reading in this book for my philosophy study, but I'll surely finish the remainder at a later date.

"If Dasein exists, it has already been thrown into this possibility."

Now I'm wishing I had read the chapter on thrownness before skipping ahead. I'll check it out later.

"This Being-with-one-another dissolves one's own Dasein completely into the kind of Being of 'the Others'... We take pleasure and enjoy ourselves as they [man] take pleasure; we read, see, and judge about literature as they see and judge... The "they", which is nothing definite, and which all are, though not as the sum, prescribes the kind of Being of everydayness."

Cool stuff.

I read the introduction straight through but will lose that chronological temporality (wink wink) and move on to the most important chapters (namely Division 1 Chapters II and IV and Division 2 Chapter II) as I'm a bit short on *time* in my philosophy independent study.

Holy scheisse part 2

Let's gooo Book of Job was amazing

Hahaha 67

Holy scheisse this may take a while

My copy is only 724 pages, not 796. Regardless of this, it’s awesome, pals.

I AM SO EXCITED WOOHOO CRIME AND PUNISHMENT HERE I COME