Why "Make the users describe the notions behind their noises. Get them to see how psychoactive, how hallucinatory, words are, especially that deluding figment "IS"." ? Why not try and understand what they are getting at, from their viewpoint? Cheers; Chris
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 3:09 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > In a message dated 7/29/12 8:20:58 AM, [email protected] writes: > > > > And what is the essence of the human form? > > > All questions of the form "What is X?" are suspect because they in effect > make existential assumptions. Words use the user. > > "What is genius? What is art?" "What IS a miracle? What IS a ghost?" "Who > ARE you?" Think of so-called "words" as like bacteria. They are countless > -- > some helpful, some harmful. If you don't have - in your head -- an immune > system for your "words", to detect and dismiss the bad ones, you're in for > trouble. Make the users describe the notions behind their noises. Get them > to > see how psychoactive, how hallucinatory, words are, especially that > deluding > figment "IS". Do that, and you're halfway home.
