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#140- Heidegger's "What Is Metaphysics?" Part 2

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Boredom Is a Thing That Doesn't Happen to Dogs

Boredom is a thing that doesn't happen to dogs, only happens to humans. Only dazin can get bored. To put it in heidger's terms, it's not conceptual. Why are you bored? Because i have nothing to do. You have yof things to do. It's more like temistic sloth, where it's sadness in the presence of the good. That's kind of what he means. Remarkable indifference is what he calls it. Yes, boredom's really weird look on page 4 or 5. Fori does such an atonement in which man is brought before the nothing itself occur in human existence. And he thinks so. But there

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