instead of a point by point rebuttal, I shall answer as best
I can from the bottom to the top…
I notice you ended your post with an insult,
“your out of your depth” but in fact, you are making
an assumption…based on your knowledge and
experiences…
I too have read IAM and I actually, as much as I can,
do understand where he is coming from and I believe
he has already answered your question…when he write
about Mary and John and abortions, he is quite plainly
giving concrete examples of where he was and where he is now…
he writes about “Dasein” which in German means “being there”
or “presence” and is translated into English as “existence”
in his “existence” or being, he has certain experiences which
allow him or give him or show him, his relationship with
“Being” or “existence”……he says he is “fragmented”
in regards to “Dasein” or existence…how does one make
this any more plain?
my “reality” or my “being” or my “existence” doesn’t have this
“fragmentation” and thus I do not experience it the way he does…
have I been “fragmented” in my past? yes, I suffer through
some bad years of being “fragmented”… but I worked through them
and I have reclaimed who I am…is my idea of “fragmentation” the
same as IAM? I can’t say as we experience it, understand it differently…
and I don’t have the language to make it clear what I went through
when I was dealing with my “fragmentation”…
to give an example of this, let us say, I explain what it means to
you about being hearing impaired… you might be able to understand
it on an intellectual basis, but that doesn’t mean you actually know
or understand what it means to be hearing impaired…
language cannot give us any type of clear explanation of experiences…
I say to you, I have been married for over 24 years,… you might understand
it, sorta of, because you may have been married for 5 years, but you don’t
really understand what it means to be married for 24 years until you have been
married for 24 years… language itself will not be able to make you understand
what it means to be married for so long…
you have far more faith in language then I do… I don’t believe that the use
of language will be able to explain what it means to be hearing impaired or
to be married for 24 years or to be “Fragmented” in the face of existence…
we believe that by the use of language, we can “understand” what others
are thinking and feeling, but language is a very poor substitute for
understanding because language is not really able to reveal experience…
so, I say, I am in love… you can guess what that means, but you can’t
really know what my experience or understanding of love is because love
isn’t outside of us, it is inside of us… love is an experience and
words, mere words cannot adequately explain the emotion of love…
I can give you examples until the cows come home, but you still won’t
be able to understand what love means to me because you have your
own understanding, your own experiences of love and the two cannot ever
be shared…
words, I would submit aren’t actually a very good way to share what it
means to be human because the same word to both of us may mean
quite different things… you want clarification on what it means to
IAM to be “fragmented” and yet, by mere language, he cannot ever
really describe what it means to him to be “fragmented”… because
words aren’t really able to give a true “representation” of what it
to be “fragmented” in the face of existence…
just as I can give examples of what it means to be hearing impaired
and yet, it won’t actually allow you to know what it means
to be hearing impaired by words… the only knowledge of
being hearing impaired that will allow you to understand is to
be hearing impaired…words themselves won’t give you any
understanding or knowledge of what it means to be hearing
impaired…
the difficulty in existence is all we have are words to describe
existence and words mean different things to different people…
Kropotkin