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Comment by Ian C Dengler on December 15, 2013 at 5:39pm

Molly is the dog's name. Truffles is another dog's name. Some people use a child restraint seat or the seat belts in the back seat of a car to keep the dog(s) from jumping around. My mother's Molly dog quickly learned that the front seat was Verbotten, but the rear compartment was free. She would jump from the middle to the rear of the car whenever she had a Heidegger Moment.

Comment by Ian C Dengler on December 15, 2013 at 4:55pm

another added: "Oh!  Well, I have a lot to say about this.  
Just on the surface level, Truffles did that (jumping on my lap while I was driving 65 mph on I-880 northbound to Piedmont) to me when I first got him from the Humane Society, nine years ago.  Now I put both dogs in harnesses, which are fastened onto seat belts in the back seat."

Comment by Ian C Dengler on December 15, 2013 at 4:12pm

What about the poor dog? Oh my goodness, that's Miss Molly!!!  And, poor little thing, she still does have a lot of anxiety due to an unstable puppyhood.  And it was authentic too, as she and her small canine companion were abandoned in a Madera backyard while their people moved on without them.  They were stuck without food for a week, until a kind woman came and rescued them.  But, because she's less than a year and a half old and somewhat malleable, she's slowly starting to come out of her shell and is, I think, becoming less anxious.

Comment by Ian C Dengler on December 15, 2013 at 2:33pm

Oh no it's the AUTOBAHN OF LIFE song: there you are, driving at 200 km an hour down the freeway (or 1609 Km an hour through space on planet earth), passing a big, red truck and your DOG JUMPS UP INTO YOUR LAP AND BLOCKS YOUR VIEW, pushing against you and the steering wheel. It's a Dog Day for someone; you're having Heidegger's Wolf's Lair Willies (the Fear That Authentically Makes or Breaks Being).

Dog in the Manger! Church of Blinding Beliefs! Beware of Greeks Jumping up on you with THE GIFT OF LOVE

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on December 15, 2013 at 1:07pm

Woof!

This can't be the self-same Heidegger who achieved fame in Monty Python's song:

"The Philosophers Song"

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant

Who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.

There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya'
'Bout the raising of the wrist.
SOCRATES, HIMSELF, WAS PERMANENTLY PISSED...

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away;
Half a crate of whiskey every day.
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart: "I drink, therefore I am"
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed!

Woof!

Val

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Comment by Ian C Dengler on December 15, 2013 at 9:09am

Martin Heidegger: philosopher of authentic anxiety.

 

Are there groups or individuals too friendly for your own good? And did you turn out to be the source of their over-affectations? That is the problem with mob rule. Marx thought that all facts are social. Well, he was working in a community library. Eric Fromm thought that personality was social.  Alvin Goldman is one of many progenitors of modern social epistemology. Lynn Hankinson Nelson is philosopher of group-think in a feminist perspective. Is the individual thereby exempt from personal responsibility? What about the children? How are they to decide if they are not to defend themselves? THERE’S TROUBLE AHEAD.