Keeping the dream alive.
Freitag, März 03, 2006
Little Miss Perfectionistic Fickle Flirt.
that's my title so far.
anyway..
had too many people asking me for the meaning of my msn nick ' Einmal ist Keinmal'
literally, it means 'once is not once'
it's taken from the book 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' by Milan Kundera.
i took this out of a forum
Basically, Kundera is arguing that we have no way of proving which methods are superior to others. We live but once, and because all situations are unique, we cannot "try different approaches" to an issue, so to speak, since no two events are the same.Thus, because we cannot "test" out attitudes or actions, it is as though they had never happened to begin with. It has no value.
No two situations are the same. X may cause harm to Y at a time T. But that would not be the same as X causing harm to Y at a time N. Time is very much a central matter, as far as I can see, in that theory. Time also equates to events occuring. Events affect people (their sentiments, knowledge, attitudes, etc...). So, if they are basing their response to an event on previous actions to an identical event (which occured sometime earlier), the two are still not identical.
And that's where Einmal ist Keinmal came about.
anyway..
had too many people asking me for the meaning of my msn nick ' Einmal ist Keinmal'
literally, it means 'once is not once'
it's taken from the book 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' by Milan Kundera.
i took this out of a forum
Basically, Kundera is arguing that we have no way of proving which methods are superior to others. We live but once, and because all situations are unique, we cannot "try different approaches" to an issue, so to speak, since no two events are the same.Thus, because we cannot "test" out attitudes or actions, it is as though they had never happened to begin with. It has no value.
No two situations are the same. X may cause harm to Y at a time T. But that would not be the same as X causing harm to Y at a time N. Time is very much a central matter, as far as I can see, in that theory. Time also equates to events occuring. Events affect people (their sentiments, knowledge, attitudes, etc...). So, if they are basing their response to an event on previous actions to an identical event (which occured sometime earlier), the two are still not identical.
And that's where Einmal ist Keinmal came about.
posted by [E]imaJ, 11:19 PM
