Presence & presentism

fritzbooks:

After hiking the Western Wood, 2.29.16

Presence is to presentism as sex is to sexism.  The sexist avoids experiencing the body, how the body is unique and free.

Similarly, the presentist avoids experiencing time, how time is generation and a chance.

The sexist doesn’t understand the body. 

The presentist doesn’t understand time.

When we enjoy each other’s bodies, we love better and open up intimacy.  We truly deepen sex.  In becoming bodies in freedom, we become “bodiless" in that no specific body matters – only unique bodies in freedom.

Similarly, when we are present, we love better by feeling time.  We hear past and future.  The future receives time just as we did; we are contingent on our past. 

In this way, we find “timelessness.”  No specific time reigns, but all times blend in the chance.

So these are the paradoxes: 

* The sexist doesn’t understand sex.

* The presentist doesn’t understand presence. 

* To be present is to feel time and thereby timelessness too.

* To experience sex is to transcend the body in being embodied.

On the way to Oregon, 3.3.16

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                             thanks for this question about presence