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Re: <nettime> destroyer of worlds



Indeed, time at first heals all wounds, then consumes everything, even traces of the anthropocene shall one day be no more. Death is inevitable with time.


On 7/30/23 16:05, Jon Lebkowsky via Nettime-tmp wrote:
I can see where "time" and "death" could both work, if you look from a
Buddhist perspective of emptiness/impermanence.

On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 6:26 AM David Garcia via Nettime-tmp <
nettime-tmp@mail.ljudmila.org> wrote:

Amidst all the current Oppenheimer hype, I appreciated Zia Haider
Rahman, the author of *In the Light of What We Know* - ' who in a recent
tweet declared:

"I hate Oppenheimer a teeny tiny little bit for his knowingly bastard
translation of the B Gita (he was a Sanskritist). An accurate
translation would be "I am become Time, destroyer of worlds" so much
better, quite profound really"

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