Okay let me just start with this… I find it borderline irritating to have to question my own existence. It’s incredibly weird first off, but it’s sort of creepy. The reason it is creepy because having to question reality makes me think of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies that I watched very recently and it’s a little frightening. With that said I’d like to move on from that and just share what I found interesting about Tuesdays class, because Lord knows I couldn’t explain it. I guess it was interesting to think about if I didn’t exist but had a twin that did whether or not there would be something missing. That led to discussing that there would be a missing authenticity of you because you are not interchangeable parts. I think that this whole idea of an authentic self is sort of a more intelligent and maybe eloquent way of saying that every person is unique. We’re taught that from the moment we’re born, and that’s essentially what the authentic self is. So really I’ve just been thinking about it and it’s just got my wheels turning, pardon the cliché, concerning the authentic self.
I feel like this is more of a ramble but Heidegger is the most confusing thing I’ve read in my entire life.
P.S commented on Kelsey Parish’s post
I totally get where you're coming from concerning questioning your existence AND with Nightmare on Elm Street! I think that you've got a pretty good grasp on the authentic self concept, and I agree with pretty much everything you said. Heidegger has been the most confusing things I've read in the Honors Seminars.. and it probably will end up being the most confusing thing I've ever read... ever.
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