Hi Stephen P. King
My dialectic from of mind comes from my studying Hegel long ago. And my simplifications come from analyzing the metaphors of the I Ching. [Roger Clough], [[email protected]] 12/17/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-12-11, 16:01:15 Subject: Re: Avoiding the use of the word God On 12/11/2012 9:33 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: > Dear Roger, > > It's called an attempt at humor. I apologize if it didn't meet your > standards: I am a learner in comedy, not a knower. > > A point here which puts my attempt at humor directly on topic: I ask > myself whether everybody is a TOE? And is the ability to share that > some measure for quality? By whose standards? > > Everybody breaks down the world into some set of primitives and looks > at it through that lens + there is some truth to knowledge gleamed > here, which can be shared and some that cannot. Monads, numbers, > sense, quarks, humans, a great watch from descartes, the back of a > turtle, and the plethora of new age perspectives and primitives: they > might not obey the debatable laws of what constitutes an ontological, > philosophical, or scientific argument... but if the bet is laid open > and reasoning somewhat sincere, then I'll listen to a mystic over some > dull philosopher or scientist and their linguistic labyrinths any day. > I don't mind if they can express it formally or not. > > I raise the bar for TOE: not only must it address problems and be > formally precise etc: It has to also be cool and have the gonads to > laugh about itself. > > If we can't laugh at our own gods, then they are tyrants or rather > grumpy. I make fun of my idiocy of seeing the world musically all the > time. > > Roger, why would I want to attack what you hold dear? > > My reason for joking is much simpler than oedipal stuff: My Inbox > reads "Monads, Monads this, Monads that, but actually Monads this" and > so I joke about gonads and Leibniz biscuits in X-mas time that are > everywhere in Germany. > > But if you need to make a Freudian oedipal diagnosis, then tell me at > least what I have to gain by "attacking the previous generation" on an > internet list? > > The answer is easier than "attack": laughing is nice, so I try. > > Cowboy Hear Hear!!!!! -- Onward! Stephen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
