#Dasein and Apologetics

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Godtuition

Godtuition comes from God and Intuition. Let me use an example: how it happens: every time when my money gets low, I am able to get money from unexpected sources. Another family friend of mine had a terrible car accident in which he and his wife had a narrow escape. I and my wife went to visit them in their home. To our surprise, there was a Pastor and his wife there praying. When I asked him whether he came because the friend had told him, he replied that God spoke to him to come and visit their house. Later when the pastor’s wife started praying, she started praying for us and to our surprise she started praying for our business, a school to improve and the surprising thing is that: she and the Pastor did not know us. So I believe God works through people, situations and experiences to bless and help us and that I call as Godtuition.

Dasein and Apologetics

Dasein is a German word introduced into Philosophy by Heidegger. Dasein literally means being there and in my words, Dasein is the presence of being. Let me use Dasein from the view point of Christian Apologetics. Christ the messiah came to earth as the presence of meaning, and took himself on the cross as presence to bear humanity’s sin and resurrected for our sake as the celebration of presence to celebrate life on this earth and eternity. Using Heidegger’s Dasien I say that Christ is the being presence of meaning for the celebration of life on this earth.

Beatnik and Christian Philosophy

Beatnik and counter culture are a prominent terms that was popularly prevalent in the 1970’s. Beatniks like Allen Ginsberg the poet became psychically involved with Eastern Religions, libidinal freedom (Ginsberg was Gay), use of drugs and so on. Unlike the Beatniks of the 70’s I am a Christian Beatnik and I celebrate life’s meaning to fullest of my will. As a Beatnik, I withdraw from Social Media and live a Christian life as a Bohemian. I free myself from the Nihilism of the Devil and I saturate my life with invocations to God for living an optimistic and useful life. As a Beatnik I celebrate the presence of meaning and declare that the choices that I make are God given, and God centered and that make my choices a privilege.

Dreams

I had two dreams recently and they were a car and friends. These dreams could suggest that I am travelling and my life goals are taking a new turn.

Einsoph and the Sephiroth and Apologetics

Einsof and the Sephiroth come from Jewish Cabala and Einsof means infinite and Sephiroth are the emanations of the infinite. These two terms became popular in literature and fiction after Umberto Eco published his novel Foucault’s Pendulum. For me Einsoph is God Jehovah Jesus and the Sephiroth are his divine attributes and they are: love, peace, grace, wisdom, kindness, tolerance, forgiveness, providence, and care.

The Scarecrow

I had a chance to see a scarecrow while I was traveling. It was hanging on a trunk with a pot was face and hay as the body, and it was also covered with a shirt and a trouser. Birds were peeing and shitting on him. The scarecrow was put on newly constructed houses as an omen to ward off the evil eye.

Mannequin

Recently I saw a mannequin being dressed. It was a she. I could see the outline of her body. She has well rounded breasts, wavy hips and sumptuous pubis. I am wondering if a mannequin in real life would submit to me.

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Ontology and Christianity

Ontology is a philosophical concept of being (Dasein) introduced by the philosopher Heidegger. Here I would like to connect Dasein with Christ and label a term called Essenceuality from essence.

Christ with his presence Shekinah becomes a relational God and carries to us what is Essenceuality the pure relationship with God. The presence of Christian essenceuality exists in a relational mode as the following:

Christ as God the Father

Christ the all-knowing God is a transcendental entity. He is an all-powerful God who has with his voice willed the universe into existence. No one can question his sovereignty. He created humans in his like image with a purpose that they might exalt and glorify him. Adam and Eve by eating the forbidden fruit became dusted with sin and they were cursed by God to hard-toil the earth. God as the Father appears in relational mode as the Supreme God Jehovah the almighty and he gave the law canon the Ten Commandments to Moses and wanted humans to comply with it and erring was treated with stringent punishments.

Christ as God the Son

Knowing that death is the only future for mankind, God sent his son Christ and the Mosaic Law became a life as Christ who forgives sins and who seeks the repentant souls. Christ as a being in presence became the sin of human beings and was crucified and rose up victoriously to give all of us eternal life. In Christ there is no condemnation. Christ is always willing to give all of is welcome similar to the return of the Prodigal Son.

The Holy Spirit

Before ending his sojourn on earth, Christ said to his believers that after I am gone, you will have the Holy Spirit with who can intercede on your behalf. Our relationship with the Holy Spirit is a psychic one. It’s an assurance that all will be well with us. The Holy Spirit is a psychic presence, seer-like connection with an immortal all-knowing and all seeing God.

God the friend

Christ as God the Friend

When we are in fellowship with God, he communes with and is a patient listener who is compassionate, merciful, loving, kind, forgiving God. We can enter the realm of the supernatural with heart of grateful prayer.

Nietzsche’s Death of God from an apologetic point of view

Nietzsche’s nihilistic howl as the death God paved the way for the crises in the existential philosophy. His proverbial statement rendered a nullification of human values and morals.

Here I would like to reframe Nietzsche’s dictum by saying that Christ God died but he resurrected as God. Nietzsche also meant by his death of God a virulent, canonical attack on the God Father but the resurrection of God disproved Nietzsche’s ideology. From an apologetic point of view God is not a stranger and he knew us before we were formed in the womb. God has given the free will for us to exercise it as choice we make whether to follow Christ or the evil one. Death of God can be taken as an idiom to mean, God’s love, mercy, tolerance, compassion, and grace.  

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Dasein and Apologetics

Dasein a German word is introduced by the Philosopher Heidegger and it literally means being there. This word was brought into prominence by the existential philosophers and has an appetite of nihilism where life is inherently viewed as chaotic and absurd and left to the individuals to create meaning. Here I would like to connect Dasein to Christian apologetics. Dasein from Christian apologetics refers to Shekinah (in dwelling presence of God) which makes our life optimum and successful. Dasein is also a meditative dialogue and conversion with God who miracleizes our existential experiences. Dasein also stands for the grace, mercy, protection, care and love bequeathed by God.

Now what does Dasein mean from the individuality of an existential experience?  Dasein becomes a state of existential consciousness. Dasein is the presence, possession, appropriation, celebration, catharsis, legitimization, actualization, and becoming of meaning in existential experience and life. Dasein is prone to a becoming of meaning.