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“How do you study Philosophy?”

This is my questions after weeks of continuing headache.

Then I find this answer during hallucination.

“Just like how you eat an elephant. One bite at a time.”

“First, chew the language (English) slowly, because otherwise it is going to kill you.”

“Second, think like an actor, because following other people’s logic (mind) is exhausting, if not frustrating.”

“Third, smiling. You just won an Oscar”.

“Forth, wake up! You have a lot of homeworks to do!”

In a 2004 talk at the European Gradate School, Derrida again discusses “forgiveness” – for him “pure forgiveness” can only be given by a “singular, irreplaceable person” to another singularity (it cannot emanate from a government) and involves two possibilities: forgiving the person who wronged another or forgiving that person’s wrongful acts … pure forgiveness concerns our ability to forgive the other even when that individual has not repented, asked for forgiveness or acknowledged responsibility – Derrida calls this type of forgiveness “impossible” – but, the only forgiveness “worthy of the name” … customary (or conditional) forgiving, involving exchange – that the other, for example, acknowledges wrongdoing – is not true forgiveness … for Derrida, we must “forgive the unforgivable” – we have to allow the (that) “other” in me, not my usual self governed by reciprocity, to actually bestow proper forgiveness …http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuL6HlLSzyc