Sometimes I Think Too Much (Carl's Philosophy)

[carlmaloschneider]

I was saying, in a thread today, that it is always, for all participants of that ‘now’, ‘now’.

It is only the differing experiences of ‘now’ that make ‘now’ different for us all; esp in regards to location in space as a viewpoint.
I am talking of a single ‘now’ with many participants.

So, I then thought of Martin Buber’s comments about entering into a relationship with a thing; where an ‘It’ becomes a ‘Thou’ to our ‘I’.

And I thought of how a tree, then, therefore determines my ‘now’ by determining my experience of my ‘now’. And how every other ‘It’ or ‘Though’ that I experienced at that point in time also in part determined my experience.

I then thought why would I not accommodate, then, that other ‘Its’ or’ Thous’ determined the tree’s experience of ‘now’ which then determined mine.

At infinite levels, surely one could say, that to some degree, all of life is a shared existence, at least for all living things at that point in time?

Martin Buber's I and Thou is a great read for a lazy afternoon. You read one line and then consider it for an hour...