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mezomian community?, the blog, on differentiation of the past:

When do we let difference into our lives? In the case of everyday living, most people will only let it in if it is forced upon them. Even when we think of the future, we are not thinking of a different future, but as a future, which is the same as the life that we are living. Or the static image of the life that lives us - life seen as a being, rather than as difference, as becoming, as more-than-being. Heidegger claimed that we fall from a conception of the future, back into the understanding from the past, our history, and into the present. How beautiful this picture may be, it means that we would constantly be rethinking our understanding of the past in an image of the future, and both the past and the future are dynamic, rather than static, difference rather than being.

This ties in with yesterday's excerpt on Protagoras, and whether the Greeks and Descartes are just going on about the same thing using different vocabulary, and Heidegger's emphatic "Never", it's about teasing out the differences.  ¶ 6:57 AM