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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Things that stuck out to Me

I want to go back to the discussion about "Thrown/Flung" into a particular space. In class on tuesday we talked about the existence of a twin if the other twin was never born. For example, Joy and her sister Judy. Would Judy's existence be known by someone if they did not know Judy had existence. I called this the "Joy-Judy Twin Scenario." If I was not born to my parents but my sister was would my existence even be missed? This goes hand in hand with "Dais Sein"-- Being There. I would say no because if i was never there than how can I be missed? I was never THERE so that is not possible.
    Another thing that caught my attention in reading Heideger (dont know if i spelled that right) was the idea that who you are defines what you do. Or is it what you do defines who you are? At first I found this concept to be confusing. If what i do defines who I am then is that not the same as who you are defines what you do? I thought about this for awhile and began to gain understanding. Just as Joy wrote in her blog, If you are a follower of Jesus Christ then your actions will portray that. Would it not? The same is true for a person who one saw going for a run. They would assume that person who was running is a runner. So, yes, i agree that this is true.

p.s i commented on Joy's post

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