Báirbre F Maolán Proud Catholic.🇮🇪

@ThomasDKersting ……..!!!!

@meekazzz @EoinLenihan Idle talk … Heidegger described idle talk as a form of “inauthentic communication “ where people simply repeat clichés or information without genuinely engaging with the subject

@EoinLenihan It’s the human condition, we bury ourselves in the mundane, because the truth and chaos that surrounds us frightens us. Beckett pointed this out. Winnie in Happy Days loved idle talk it was her escape 🤷‍♂️

I'm taking my time going back through Being and Time. The part that has really stood out this time and with the Irish context in mind is his ideas relating to "idle talk", "curiosity" and "ambiguity" and how they reinforce one another to distract us from focusing on pursuing meaningful experiences. His idea of Verfallen is the culmination of these three factors which keep us essentially and obliviously trapped in the mundane averageness of the everyday. The obvious examples of this is social media. Scrolling through idle talk on our timelines we are allowed to feel like experts on Palestine, US healthcare, historic Northern Irish sectarianism. Our curiosity flits from one to the other and we get just enough feedback to feel like we're "in the know", tuned in and able to contribute something to the noise. But for Heidegger these are powerful distractions from focusing on the (limited by our own lifespan as temporal beings) few authentic and fulfilling possibilities open to us. I am still in the middle of it - just getting into the section on Verfallen and Thrownness but there is a hint of the Biblical original sin about Verfallen which I think is a very useful means of looking at the underlying malaise in Irish society without resorting to a reactive - we need to go back to religion answer while not excluding it either.

@EoinLenihan “and obliviously trapped in the mundane averageness of the everyday” Wow🥂

@WatchdogIRL @rtenews Ár mbratach álainn Éireannach🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

@rtenews Executed for raising the tricolour over the GPO in 1916: Patrick Pearse (Executed 3 May) Tom Clarke (Executed 3 May) Joseph Mary Plunkett (Executed 4 May) Willie Pearse (Executed 4 May) James Connolly (Executed 12 May)

Former president Dr Mary McAleese has criticised the use of the Irish flag to intimidate and compared it with the experiences of some Irish people who emigrated to the US and the UK rte.ie/news/politics/…

@rtenews Ah the noble tricolour. green for our Catholic roots white for the peace we have bled to forge orange for the union of all our people once a defiant emblem of resilience from the Easter Rising to the fields of France, now under siege. In the hands of this government

@Joycewillbenext @rtenews 💯

@rtenews She's another featherhead.

@TheMandyGall @rtenews Yep🥂

@rtenews We have just about had it with snotty pontificating woke politicians, NGOs & media....nobody cares anymore, get a life omg

I lived in the UK for close to two years as a student. I never felt intimidated by a Union Jack or King James's Cross. If you do feel intimidated by flags I would recommend a trip to a therapist. I would also celebrate the eradication of serious racism in a nation if flags are your greatest concern.

@EoinLenihan @rtenews Ah Mary Mc…….🥂 if the Irish tricolour is now a weapon of mass intimidation God help us 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

@rtenews Did Mary Mc Try to ban potatoes for triggering the Famine…….. eejit Ár mbratach álainn Éireannach🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

@Faithful2Pray Amen

Saint Rita, hope of the hopeless, Pray for us🙏🏻

@EoinLenihan @cmisbackagain @MichealMartinTD Go on ya boy ya @EoinLenihan 🥂

You people are amazing. Micheal Martin getting vital reading recommendations this Bloom’s Day! 😊

@EoinLenihan 🥂

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