Heidegger

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Before reading this, I always just considered poets to just be another elegant form of writers. Frankly, nothing really divides them from normal people other than they put their thoughts and stories lyrically down into text.
Within just the third page (of the pdf, not the actual pages themselves) I found it strange how poets were referred to. Mortals who can follow the paths and stories of fugitive "gods". How odd does that sound? What does it mean to follow a fugitive god...?

On the second half of pdf's page 14, it also talked about Being. I'm pretty sure I wasn't the only one to understand it this way, but it seems like it's being said that "the danger is in the Being, not the action." Which is 100% true. Actions can't happen without being.

I commented on Sophia and Zelda's posts.

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  1. Phillip VoFebruary 26, 2018 at 11:04 PM

    While I'm not too sure as to what you mean for the second part concerning Beings and Action, I can get behind the confusion in the first part of the reading!!! I honestly couldn't even grasp much until that third page, but I think the fugitive god is a symbol for something, maybe hope or literally God. Maybe it's just enlightenment, but regardless of what it is, I don't actually know and that annoys me :).

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 26, 2018 at 11:36 PM

    I kinda understood the idea of following a fugitive God by comparing it to law enforcement tracking a criminal. We have already "established" that God created the world (his crime) and poets (the authorities) are looking for him and the first question they both will ask is "why did you do it"?

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