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Young women that give us hope for the future

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  Now is the time for artists like Arlo parks. It's just a question of time, as art is in progress, maybe like all things.  Phenomena like Donald Trump is in decay.  That's a way of life we cannot afford us to ask for anymore.  We just to keep our eyes open for the new things and they will open up like flowers in front of us.  What it means? Maybe listen to the young girls and what they have to say, what they have to give to the world.  There may be no agenda, no revolution, just the decay of the old.  And what is the old - maybe the white man as conquer of the world.  Maybe another to look at Mother Nature, maybe another to look at love and gender, maybe a more mindful way to live.  But you better ask people like Arlo Parks.  Here - live at KEXP at Home;  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQHmIt9OVGU An here in another video

Heidegger on time and being - compared to Buddhism

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  Heidegger emphasizes  the knowledge of death  of the individual.   That awareness can give meaning to our life - it leads us to do thing that are meaningful for us - not following the crowd.  Not only death but also being is something we have in common with every living being.  And that means being in a specific place - Dasein.  As in Buddhist philosophy Heidegger mean that we interact with the surroundings.  Being comes before thinking, but Heidegger is not into meditation.  He is not either into scientific progress.  It seems that he wants to fins ground for being - maybe that's why he was into Nazis, - at least for a while (not so much antisemitic as thoughts about "blut und boten" - blood and soil ) As David Deutsch means philosophy may not aim to find a common ground, or common truth, but more of criticizing old philosophy and therefore move forward in an never ending progress.  Im sure Heidegger was interested in Buddhism, as we can see in the video below he anywa