At 06:13 PM 7/14/2012, Guenter Wildgruber wrote:
Abd ul,
I am posting here with my real name, but who knows if that is true?
The liar's paradox, which became a serious problem with the net.
Who is who and who is telling the 'truth'?
Only personal acquaintance or a serious, consistent dedication to a
topic can tell.
If then.
I highly recommend hanging out with the ontological conversation.
Good for the soul.
Collections of symbols are not truth. Words are tools that are
functional or otherwise.
eg I have now doubt that YOU are a genuine seriously thinking honest
person, like Feynman is.
One of the blessings of my life was that I spent a bit of time with
him. He's not responsible for my goofs, but his approach to life
found an echo in me. I never got to beating 7 against 6, though, just
5 to 4. On a good day.
And I just look at stuff, trying to make some sense of what seems
impossibly complex, then I report what I've seen, and ask whatever
questions come up, and sometimes realms open up.
Now wrt to me, I try to be seriously questioning person with a funny bend.
Seems clear enough to me.
I was out on the street tonight, watching a street magician, talking
shop with a salesman sitting with his wife. I dropped a card in the
donation bucket of the gray-painted statue lady on which I'd written,
"This card is worth whatever you say," I had an extended conversation
with a man working at a pizza shop, that's his Saturday job, during
the week he's an architect and mason, and I shook the hand of a
drunk. And more.
I'm basically learning to listen.
Today I also talked on the phone with one of my sons who was watching
his nephews, two of my grandchildren I hadn't spoken to in way too
long. I asked the littlest one, he's about eight, what was important
to him. "Talking to you, grandpa."
