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The Habit

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Is There a God Who Throws You Into It?

Jonathan Safran Foer: "Throneness" is the idea that we find ourselves kind of thrown into a world we didn't make. Heidegger talks about this notion of throneness and how it's contingent and specific in particular. This is the life that you've been handed, he says. It could have gotten a million other ways, but that's not the way it went.

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