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Ein Glas noch

Ist das Glas halb voll oder halb leer? Oder vielleicht einfach zu groß? Mindestens ist es zu dünn. Ja, es ist zu dünn. Es ist tatsächlich eigentlich gar nicht das bestellte Glas und

  • Marcel klehr
    Marcel klehr
1 min read

The bold promise

Summer. The bold promise of the good life; the climax of the whole year, long-awaited with feverish anticipation through months of mundanity and greeted with determined exhilaration as spring finally fades. Once more

  • Marcel klehr
    Marcel klehr
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philosophized

Why doesn't it just work? - On abstractions

Do you know how your car works? Or your computer? How the food you buy in the supermarket was produced? Granted that the world is growing ever more complex, how can we still survive when we're clearly not able to see the entire picture our life amasses?

  • Marcel klehr
    Marcel klehr
5 min read
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What is real?

is it the urge to feel the need to shiver a desire to leap across the river the bottomless hole of trust without doubt into a soul to revolve around or is it

  • Marcel klehr
    Marcel klehr
1 min read
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Downward

We are drowning Born into a world that does not forgive Like babies dropped into the water Grasping for straws, we learn to crawl Screaming for help, we learn to talk Trying to

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    Marcel klehr
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Going up north

I'm going up north where the wind chilps the water blows and the birds flow away

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    Marcel klehr
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Mecca of meanings

a forest of facades a labyrinth of streets the mecca of meanings replaces your feelings but doesn't touch your heart

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    Marcel klehr
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poetry

Grime

There's a house up on the hill shattered windows from the storm plants growing through the cracks

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    Marcel klehr
1 min read
poetry

Weakness

A boy is born. He is quiet. He is shy. Is he weak? ...

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    Marcel klehr
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philosophized

What have we learned? - On Public Education

Have you ever thought about why we go to school? Why we spend a dozen of years of our life going to the same place every day to be taught what is right

  • Marcel klehr
    Marcel klehr
8 min read
philosophized

Nothing to hide? - Why we need privacy after all

Why do I need an umbrella, if it never rains? This sounds like a strange question. Inadvertantly we think: You probably don't need it, but is that a realistic scenario? It's quite unlikely

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    Marcel klehr
10 min read
philosophized

And who am I, again? - About identity, values and emotions

Life is a pretty huge delivery. Every one of our days is full of impressions, packed with experiences that, like life as a whole, only have one question for us: How will you react? They demand that we show ourselves, decide on who we want to be. And who are we really?

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    Marcel klehr
15 min read
philosophized

Determining the future - Does science make sense?

Time is a strange thing. It's like those stalagmites you find in large caves: It's constantly dripping, but you can only see what is accumulated on the bottom. The stalagmite; the past. If

  • Marcel klehr
    Marcel klehr
4 min read
philosophized

Why "free will" is an oxymoron

Today's society presumes the existence of free will. Otherwise, how should punishment be justified if I'm not really responsible for my actions? How can democratic decisions be fair if people don't act on

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    Marcel klehr
4 min read
philosophized

The god complex - a philosophical journey

God is a very powerful idea. It's probably the most successful idea, too, as it's about as old as humanity. This article is a kind of FAQ on God and theistic belief: What

  • Marcel klehr
    Marcel klehr
7 min read
philosophized

On fake news: We're still living in a pre-factual world

These days, many people seem to observe a departure from the era of facts, due to the rise of fake news, which spread misinformation and shape opinions. Has there ever been an era

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    Marcel klehr
1 min read
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Who is awake?

At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping. He knows nothing, let him sleep on. from "Waiting for Godot", Samuel Beckett

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    Marcel klehr
1 min read
poetry

Don't you get tired

Don't you get tired of all the longing and all the laughter of all the fights and the prayers thereafter of lies and spies and blackmailing of gods and money and fortune telling

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    Marcel klehr
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Suchen und Finden

Wenn jemand sucht [...], dann geschieht es leicht, daß sein Auge nur noch das Ding sieht, das er sucht, daß er nichts zu finden, nichts in sich einzulassen vermag, weil er nur immer an

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    Marcel klehr
1 min read
cited

The archer

If an archer is shooting for nothing, he has all his skill If he shoots for a brass buckle, he is already nervous. If he shoots for a prize of gold he goes

  • Marcel klehr
    Marcel klehr
1 min read
poetry

Nacht

Die Stadt ist leer Dunkelheit schwingt weit ein Vogel singt Rauch

  • Marcel klehr
    Marcel klehr
1 min read
poetry

Unseen

Close your eyes to look right through all that blinds and deceives you to see the mind and find someone like you

  • Marcel klehr
    Marcel klehr
1 min read
poetry

Niederungen

Ich bin von Sinnen in mir drinnen, bespucke Leute von den Zinnen, die sich trauen raus zu gehn, beneide die, die oben strotzen, belächle die, die unten kotzen, obwohl wir alle gleich aussehn.

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    Marcel klehr
1 min read
poetry

nur ein Kiesel

ein Kiesel, rund und klein, liegt verworfen auf dem Boden, bis er schließlich aufgehoben, von seinem Los befreit und luftig fliegt der Stein Augen lachen, Kinder johlen, Finger zeigen unverhohlen -- wie hoch

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    Marcel klehr
1 min read
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phantasie

Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist begrenzt. — Albert Einstein

  • Marcel klehr
    Marcel klehr
1 min read
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