#being-towards-death

[escuerzoresucitado]

[somnolentdesolation]

“Being-towards-death is the central, most easily accessible mode in which our relation to nothingness shows up. The crucial point about our own deaths is that each of us is incapable of making sense of it: when it occurs or is realized, we will not be present, and that places it essentially beyond grasp – despite the fact that we know that our death is inevitable. So given that every moment of our existence might be our last, every moment of that existence is equally deeply and undismissably shadowed by the incomprehensible possibility of its utter annihilation. But what this shows us is that the significance of every such moment is determined by that shadow: it reveals that each such moment might not have happened at all, that it might have been otherwise, and that there is no guarantee that it will be succeeded by another such moment – one that is equally contingent with respect to both its content and its sheer reality. If we related to every moment of our existence in the light of such an understanding of its essential nature, it’s hard to believe that we wouldn’t be living very different kinds of lives.”

- Stephen Mulhall, interview with IIIIXIII

[fudacancerhospital-blog]

(通过 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCnrwkqRRbY)

[zeddified]

If you worship money and things — if they are where you tap real meaning in life — then you will never have enough. Never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you. On one level, we all know this stuff already — it’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, bromides, epigrams, parables: the skeleton of every great story. The trick is keeping the truth up-front in daily consciousness. Worship power — you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart — you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. And so on.

[sterwood-blog]

The self-interpretation of Dasein which towers over every other statement of certainty and authenticity is its interpretation with respect to its death, the indeterminate certainty of its ownmost possibility of being at an end

Martin Heidegger "The Concept of Time" p. 11 Lack of sleep has turned me into death today. Heidegger is addressing my feels.

[eatagiant]

... I become aware that one among my many possibilities is the termination of all possibilities. But in facing this possibility I become intimately acquainted with my own existence through realizing it's boundaries and uniqueness.

A quote from Heidegger that I found interesting while reading my Philosophy book.

[attaknyc]