Michael: Would you accept: "Everything is marvelous, to me."?It's "marvelous" that your experience is as it is. Others might have different experiences.(After all, the World Wrestling Foundation is ... something, too.)Bela C
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Brady" To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Work creates the taste Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:18:05 -0500 William: > All that Catholic learning is responsible for your habit to > explain the mysterious as if it were causal -- or something like > what you said. In other words, what you say might be true, true > enough to reveal its falsity. From causality to casuistry? Nah. I'm using a razor here, trying to scrape away all that can be properly explained by causal arguments. Then we're left with marvels. We go from causality to splendor! I think that the intricacies of the natural world are marvels that are almost inexhaustible, and that emanence of the marvelous suffuses every experience. I think the rather common reaction of going from seemingly inexplicable event--such as how blood clots or how a few lines on a white square can "become" some representation--to asserting the presence of some "mysterious" operation or force is a shortcut around the true marvel of knowing how it happens. Everything is marvelous. How is it that I can look at a photograph taken in the 30s or 50s and recognize my parents or my one-year-old brother? How does our brains work to cause that? It may be subconscious, in the sense that such a think happens outside of our conscious awareness, but that doesn't mean it's invisible or unknowable. I marvel at number. The unity of one. The duality of two. And then there is three, and what comes after them. I marvel at the cleverness of the clinical studies that reveal or discern behavioral mechanisms. I marvel at the odd coincidence that the electromagnetic spectrum goes in a "linear" progression of wavelengths from infrared to ultraviolet, which is the exact progress of the color wheel **and it circles back on itself**!! I find that to be such a perplexing recurrence, kind of like a rising canon in music. And language. And words. The nature or quality of individual preferences. On and on. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brady [email protected] -- Be Yourself @ mail.com! Choose From 200+ Email Addresses Get a Free Account at www.mail.com
