Nothingness nihilates by its presence. The existence of nothingness was discovered by Heidegger when he philosophized his way through anxiety. That is why some find his writings comforting. Discourse on Thinking is particularly good, and I think admitting that nothing is real yet remains nothing is an important step along the philosophical path

I'm thinking that the heaviness of objects causes a squish on spacetime and that actions that seem like a "force" are really radiations of energy. So we would have weight and energy that would account for what appears to be Newtonian force. Is that explanation sound in your mind?

I was listening to Dr. Gregory Sadlers videos on this last night. Type in "Gregory Sadler Heidegger nothing" on YouTube and you'll find 4 ten minute videos on this. I will try to write more on this later today

If gravity is not a force how can there be gravitational waves?

Some people are turned off by Heidegger's modern work a-day German.

I mentioned the "actual idealism" of Giovanni Gentile. I did so because he completed the thought of Rosmini, which is in line with Jewish esotericism and gnostic Platonism. He was killed by antifascists while he was on his way to defend other antifascists from being executed. To his credit..

For Heidegger our bodies are made of matter but our consciousness comes from nothing. This and how it is connected to how we experience being Dasein (beingness IN time) was a mystery for him. Sartre wrote of this too, saying our consciousness is always being created anew

It depends on how well someone understands the concepts presented by any language. The German language is capable of having a very multifaceted presentation of philosophy, according to German writers, which allows one to think quickly about matters which could otherwise cause someone to get stuck and rushes the mind to the ends of philosophy rather quickly. Each language perhaps is suited to a particular philosophical outlook

G. Gentile's philosophy ("actual idealism") is interesting when separated from his politics. Since Luther (in Germany) there was a desire for a German Christian quasi-pagan Kabbalah like system with a strong emphasis on language. Not all the fruit from that tree is bad

Thanks for the quote. His three targets are Catholic scholasticism, the Enlightenment, and the Romantic supremacy of "sensibility". The idea of a new religion of the Holy Spirit taking over from the obsolete tradition of Jesus and of the Popes was prophesied by Franscican friar Gerardo Dan Donnino and Joachim of Fiore and seems to have started (to the mind of the First Reich) with Eckhart and continued through Tauler and systematized by Jacob Bohme. This was a properly new cultural religion like the Italian philosophy of Antonio Rosmini and Giovanni Gentiles. Maybe Heidegger was outside his great tradition as B. Croce found himself to be in Italy. In separating politics from philosophy and mysticism, I would be interested to see more passages from Heidegger that people have issue with. I always found him profound

In double slit experiments they can predict light patterns, so it seems we can know the paths of light from its destination. I do not know if light picks up information from its environment

What does entanglement have to do with light. I know light can be turned into heat but I am not aware of it having spin

A photon is a quantum particle that is massless and is thus composed of infinitesimal pieces of mass. All objects reflect wave modality to our measurements, but particles are fundamental. We still live in the world of Greek atomism. Now sub-atomic particles have infinite path integrals and can collapse in on themselves infinitely. Infinitesimals are a measurement phenomena, so light is like a cloud or rainbow in that it is a substance but because of its quality of speed, light is in another realm entirely (with regard to time). It lives in an infinitesimal of time

"The being of all beings is but a single being, yet in giving birth to itself, it divide a itself into two principles... Creation itself as his own love-play between the qualities of both eternal desires [justice and love?]". Jacob Bohme, who's friend was a Kaballlist student

This, Hegel recognized as the first expression of dialectic in his culture.

Hegel's favorite philosophers were probably Leibniz and Jacob Bohmn. Leibniz is maybe very logical but they too point to Bohmn

I would like to see Hegel's language and that of Heideggers from comparison with High Middle German. This might reveal their ideas better, if only that they may be critiuedt

Hans Denck, Sebastian Frank, Sebastian Constellio, Valentin Weigel, Johann Arndt, Philipp Spener are just another side of the mountain of mysticism. Henry Suso and Tauler were two early proponents of a new cultural mysticism

Luther was the first to say German was as good as Hebrew, Greek, and Latin as a church language. His edition of the German Theology speaks of union to God so complete that it sounds Kaballastic

Ye, literally the First Reich. Christianity has a weird effect on the paganism that preceded there. Mysticism is a way to escape all that. Can a philosophical mysticism really be objectively bad?

Interestingly, "German Theology" claims its source as coming from ancient Greece. Some saw Jesus as Greek others realized he was Jewish and so had their herth mentality about their mysticism. Hegel was cordial towards the Jews perhaps because of the societies he was in. The Kaballah claims descent from Moses back to the beginning of life when God wrote the first book of Genesis. This book is represented through God's finger into all of creation. That's why Hegel calls the world rational

Zen points a way to The Way

No person is perfect until they reach enlightenment. The action resulting in conceptions passes on its psychological make-up (an act) into the psychy of the being conceived. This is why we say "conceived" instead of made. Spinoza spoke of enlightenment and Abulafia, another Jewish writer, says "the ultimate composite, which is man, who comprises all the divine fire [sefirot ], and whose intellect is the active intellect (ten emanations of God's mind); and when you will unite it's knots, you will be united to yourself [Yahweh] in a special way." Heidegger approached this in a cautious, scrupulous way but stopped pointed to it in all his writings. The " German Theology", as it was called in the Renaissance, arise right along side the Kaballah. I don't know why Germans and Jews had division in the past but i all glad that this is over, and (I would add) if Heidegger is a problem for people then we should at least place his thought in their proper place historical so that there can be concord about these issues that have been with us for a while

Bicameral minds don't get confused like we do because the two hemispheres working so closely in modern human minds creates some situations where ideas and experiences don't have the proper differentials in them

German words are wicked. — coolazice

Is there a superiority of Hebrew over German, of Kabbalah over Heidegger? Heidegger's tradition started by Meister Eckhart, of who's following quotation I have attached my commentary:

Eckhart, Sermon IV, Latin Sermons: Teacher and Preacher,

"Here note that when we say that all things are in God this means he is indistinct in his nature..."

This is kind the opposite of what Aquinas says and in line with Kaballah

"and nevertheless most distinct from all things, so in him all things in a most distinct way are also at the same time indistinct."

So everything is indistinct, God included. But He makes everything most distinct by His existence.

"The first reason is because man in God is God. Therefore, just as God is indistinct and completely distinct from a lion, so too man in God is indistinct and completely distinct from a lion, and likewise with other things."

God is all in all

"Second, because everything that is in something else is in it according to the nature of that in which it is."

God is everything within things

"Third, because just as God is totally indistinct in himself according to his nature in that he is truly and most properly one and completely distinct from other things, so too man in God is indistinct from everything which is in God"

So God is indistinct by being distinct from other things which He creates. Everything has distinction and indistinction, and God has both in the highest grade. God's indistinction makes us distinct and or distinction reveals the indistinction of us within Him

"(‘All things are in him’), and at the same time completely distinct from everything else. Fourth, according to what has been said note that all things are in God as spirit without position and without boundary. Further, just as God is ineffable and incomprehensible, so all things are in him in an ineffable way. Again, every effect is always in the cause in a causal way and not otherwise."

God's distinction makes things indistinct and his indistinction makes things distinct. That part sounds like Hegel.

Ye I think the book Frankenstein applies to all of use. We are fashioned by the gods (evolution?) in ways we really don't understand. We approach the world with love, expecting acceptance, but we find things happen to use that don't make sense (Camus's "absurd") and we become resentful and doubtful. We don't know who is to blame for the whole situation but we feel like we shouldn't be on this earth in this condition. We feel like the world owes us more. In the final analysis, we oscillate between pure idealism ("I create reality") and perfect realism ("only matter exists"). I think this dialectic is what "phenomenology" means.

"Trepenning puts more blood in the brain. When you're born the plates of your skull aren't jioned together. When they are completely sealed it suppresses a pulsating in the brains arteries. The capillaries then shrink. You lose blood volute from the brain when you grow up. That is why children are 'higher' than grown-ups. It is the age that the plates seal- between eighteen and twenty- when people start to drink and take drugs in order to get high. They are trying to regain the consciousness they had as a child." Joey Mellen

The Extraction of the Stone of Madness is a famous painting by Hieronymus Bosch depicting trepanation

Joey Mellen and Bart Huges were advocates of trepanning in the 60's They would make very small holes in peoples' skulls and people claimed it gave them a permanent high. The Beatles almost did it as a group but chickened out. I can blame them. It is true however that in modern medicine they take ou parts of the brain in people with very serious mental illness. A little hole to relieve pressure is nothing compared to that, but of course most people aren't seriously mentally ill

Ye there was a theory among the counter culture in the 60's that says that ever since humans began to walk upright they have gotten less blood flow to the brain and that the relationship between the left and right bran has been disturbed in humans for many thousands of years. I don't know if there is any truth in this, but it was also alleged back then that the human skull is overly right in modern human adults and that this restricts the proper bloodflow to the two hemispheres of the brain. The "cure" that was offered back then was trepanning and acid, which I don't think is a good idea. I do wonder though if there is some truth to humans having an imbalance in their bicameral minds that results in confusion on issues of free will, the supernatural, and stuff like that.

"The Germans have always been a comforting people" Sheldon, Big Bang Theory

Aquinas thought existence actualizes what some thing is (form) to makes its existence in reality (essence as accidents and substances). But doesn't a form have to exist in a sense before being actualized?

Heidegger admittedly does leave you wondering what the truth is, so his style is a segway into something else. I'm not sure who you read after Heidegger. Hegel didn't have a good style but he always has an idea he is looking for. Heidegger perhaps was obsessed with language and it's abstractness and I don't consider him top-notch thinker like Hegel, Einstein, Hawking, or Aquinas. Those thinkers presented ideas in their fields that far exceeded what someone would usually expect. But this cannot be said for Heidegger

My twin brother has a 138 IQ. I tried to join the Navy in my 20's but I couldn't pass the physical requirements. I scored very high on their intelligence abilities test but I don't know how to write well, which is probably why some of my posts are hard to read

I am simply concerned that people are intimidated and afraid of German culture. Mysticism is usually seen as a great thing but if it's in Heidegger suddenly it's bad..? German intellectuals are disproportionally spoken about in the West. Intelligence tests have tended to say that Asians, Italians, and Jews exhibit the most abstract thinking in the context of such tests. However, rationality cannot be fully or even accurately tested by the methods we have so I would agree with modern cultural theory that we should not judge different cultures and languages as if they are in a hierarchy from worse to better. Heidegger actually anticipated modern thought on this in a lot of ways but wanted his country to find the fruits of great riches spiritually and materially and ended up, much to his latter dismay and confusion, supporting a party who's ultimate objectives were irrational and crazy

Take the 5th way. It says there is design which by definition means "done by an intellect". So he assumes God's mind in trying to prove it. The 4th way is not an argument and the first 3 ways assume contingency and God's necessity in the premises.

People no longer want to investigate matters of culture. They want to make broad cliche claims about history without asking serious questions

1) things exist

2) things have existence

Aquinas thought he could argue that 2 is true and 1 is wrong but his arguments presupposes God's existence although he is trying to prove it. All his 5 ways have God's existence in the premises

So the German language is bad? Hebrew is not bad and neither is German. A language is part of a culture so you are condemning a culture. We don't know all the connections between language, culture, and biology, so maybe your condemnation extends to all of German descent.

Necessity and contingency in Aquinas's sense don't exist because a thing doesn't have form\matter, accidents\substance, and existence\essence divisions. An object is one thing composing necessity and contingency and everything is related to something else. Aquinas could write endlessly on these subjects but really doesn't have any sound arguments

Hitler, Hegel, Gödel, Cantor, and Nietzsche (all German) were all geniuses. Only one them kept their sanity until death

Oh, well quoting German words as if they are Nazi implies that can't be used apart from the Holocaust