Short Update: Students Return to School Amidst Nationwide Confusion

Now is about the time of year when young students return from summer vacation to their studies.
I wish them all the best,
and have even been getting an inkling that Philosophy is coming back amongst the counter-culture youth.

Let's all support students' around the country keeping lifelong learning as an ethic.

We can always graduate,
but the learning in life should never cease.

I hope these young students (Gen Zers and Millenials), who are very well trained in the discipline of learning, can find something redemptive in studying the early greek philosophers.

I spent my younger years trying to BE Socrates,
always questioning people on subjects of import and inquiring into others beliefs and morays.

I learned a lot from those years of questioning.

I hope the young bright minds of America can really get a taste of Philosophy and the power of knowledge and wisdom!

Let's all encourage deep thinking in our friendships and family (and perhaps even work) life...

Here's to the young,
with an unquenchable thirst for justice, freedom and equality.

DDU 2019

Primordial Coping as Engagement and Being-Alongside-Death

We're generally keen on coping in the USA.

We understand coping, and we understand what it means to engage with the world.

And we can surmise quite easily what Being-Alongside-Death may mean in a common sensical way.

But what if we're wrong about coping and death?

What if our previous understanding (verstehen) shows itself to be inadequate?

What if we acknowledge that we don't know what this configuration of the phonetic alphabet really signifies?

Then we must carefully examine "coping as engagement with the world" anew, with a dialectical knife.  We must cut through what obscures our understanding of the hermeneutical aspects of the simple word "coping", and regain an understanding of the world as Reason.

Primordial coping, as referenced in Heidegger, is how we blindly and ignorantly deal with a world of engagements.  Socrates once said "the only thing I know is that I know nothing".  Perhaps one may stratify what this means in terms of universal structures and archetypes.  I cannot bring myself to touch a webster-miriam, as I consider looking up definitions of words to often cause our verstehen to become, once again, obscured.

Coping, as in all that human Dasein engages with in everydayness, is primordial exactly in the sense one would commonly recall if asked to a normal human.  To even ask oneself what coping really means is to engage in a willful act of preconscious existential Being-Alongside-Death.

When we cope with what I'll merely call the "World-as-Such", we are setting a series of willful engagements with the world.  The world, which is also not entirely known, is a vicious and dangerous place.

Often we cope with the world by coping with death, even though it is an act of living spirit.  The Geist, Mind or Spirit is not only ontically verifiable through self examination and the eidetic reduction as per phenomenology, but in fact constitutive of what it means to be an entity-in-the-world (Dasein). 

So the question it would seem is oblique...

What does a Dasein DO exactly when it engages with Being-Alonside-Death?

Well what it does is as the structure of Reason does universally, i.e. primordially cope.

Coping is no mere mechanism!

Primordial coping is simply ALL WE DO!

So looking at coping as the way a being often engages with Being-Alongside-Death reveals ultimately that "Death" is an issue that needs resolving.  Death is often pictured in literature and culture as a horrific hoodie clad being with no face.  How different is this conception of death from what actually in all facticity transpires when one goes from life to death?

Perhaps things such as moral malfeasance, the criminal black market, lack of discipline or self control in interpersonal relationships or even substance abuse disorder are constitutive of a kind of coping that has a certain kind of facticity due to the necessity of "Being-Alongside-Death".  Perhaps the best way to verstehen coping is to circumspect with intentionality about the ontology of the structure which death gives to every Dasein.

Life is the positive structure of Death,

just as

Death is the negative structure of Life.

Death.

Life.

Death.

Life.

Death.

Life.

So when we cope with our own death (other peoples deaths are unimportant for this examination as we can never know what the experience of death is to another Dasein),

we should revel in our own ignorance about the primordiality of Being-Toward-Death (our own utmost potentiality) and existentially come to responsible and moral conclusions as the willful act of our coping with the world-as-such.

THANKS FOR READING!

RT STILLWELL DDU 2019

El Paso Shooter Certain to Get Death Penalty: "Only Good News I've Heard" Says DDU Founder

Some gun owners out there must surely feel existentially alienated after the shooting in El Paso that took 31 innocent lives, including children...

I have to say,
the worst thing about this slime mold who shot up a Walmart (of all places), is that he shot at and killed CHILDREN~

I think we may all, for once, be vindicated in justice.
Texas is the most pro-death penalty state in our republic,
and the anti-christ shooter who executed innocent children is sure to receive the highest penalty administered by law - the death penalty.

Now,
I don't want to revel in the whole "Kill The Killer" thing,
but this man should not only be executed lawfully and justly?
But he should be hanged...

There are,
the last time I checked,
still states that use hanging as a way of putting people on death row down.

I just hope we can lynch this guy instead of the decidedly more humane gassing or lethal injection.

His sure demise by state sanctioned execution is really the only positive thing I've heard come out of this tragedy so far.

But I return to gun owners perhaps feeling a bit disturbed by this shooting in El Paso.

The shooter (who in his jail outfit looked like a total dishrag) was clad in basic "firing range" regalia!

I mean, imagine how responsible gun owners who go to firing ranges must feel right now!?!?!

Think about how I feel!?!??!

I mean this douchebag turd sandwich dishrag even had a MANIFESTO!

Seems to me that this man had a very simple MO (Modus Operandi).





He wanted to start some kind of revolution, clearly.

It's not uncommon for people with narcissistic tendencies to think the entire world is in the state of an inevitable full on revolution, and that THEY are going to start off the revolution by murdering people (hence then they would assume everyone like them will join with the ideology of their manifesto and have a violent revolution).

The only loose thread in this argument is that a republican is president and Texas, the state in which it occurred, is a predominantly red state...

Perhaps he was just a xenophobe with a gun and nothing to loose...

I don't know for sure...

But I - for one - am voting New Founding Fathers in the coming election-

The only party with sensible legislation on taxidermy rights and televised executions of mass shooters!



J/K

DDU 2019