Thrownness · you did not choose the conditions

Geworfenheit — Heidegger's word for finding yourself already in a situation you did not select: this body, this century, this language, these parents, this mortality. Jonas took it back to the second century and showed the Gnostics had it first, and in a stronger form: the texts say the spark was thrown.

The honest reason this material still lands. Nobody today needs convincing that they were dropped into conditions they did not pick, and Jonas's further claim — that modern nihilism is a Gnosticism minus its God — is the argument that keeps it current.