worlding (61)

Can we measure the world?

from internet archive The world is not only hard to define, the world is hard to quantify. While the hardness itself is not of any practical measure, but of difficulty. A difficulty of perception, entwined as it is with appearances. So the world appears to us often more like the sky than the earth, a ground more like the moon than…

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Worlding: the minimum standards

It is likely that the worlding we do as religion or even philosophy, as drama or even industry, is a pre-existing condition. As such we tend to notice its success and take credit for them, even if they are natural to us, and blame them others over there… for their failures in the light of our own luck/efforts. Part of…

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Humiliating the world?

ZHERO Personal growth for the sovereign citizen © 2023 meika loofs samorzewski Prep In the Janus Ratio (substack) I begin to re-frame [how we intuitively, traditionally place or regard a point-of-view] not as a noun but now→as a verb→ to(self/world). to(self/world) is a verbing of two nouns into a complex gerund which blurs distinctions we live with, in order to…

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we world eternally in infinite jest

So I return decades later to the same room. Epidemics, heretical conflicts, peregrinations which inevitably degenerate into banditry, have decimated the population. I believe I have mentioned suicides, more and more frequent with the years. Perhaps my old age and fearfulness deceive me, but I suspect that the human species -- the unique species -- is about to be extinguished,…

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Umwelten

I use umwelten as a background assumption. I use it roughly and mess up the distinctions between who does what to whom (paraphrasing wikipedia) : • from the German Umwelt meaning "environment" or "surroundings • The term is usually translated as "self-centered world" • Uexküll theorised that organisms can have different umwelten, even though they share the same environment, and…

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