--- In [email protected], "Irmeli Mattsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Letter from Jon Kelly Kirkpatrick to the editor of the Fairfield Ledger, > > snip > > However, if one really understands what Maharishi > > is saying, one is left with just two possibilities. When someone > > claims total knowledge as Maharishi has, it gives us a great > > epistemological advantage. How can anyone claim total knowledge > > unless he either has it or > > is a fake? Can you think of anything in between? > > snip > > I can think a whole universe in between. The world is not black > and white.
Ah, but it can be. Do you own a digital camera or camcorder? Chances are that there is a "mode" switch on that camera. Choose the right setting, and all the colors go out of the viewfinder. Point it at anything, and all you see is black and white. There's probably another mode for sepia. Choose that one, and everything in the viewfinder is displayed in shades of gold (or brown) and white. These are neat features. One can look at them as being analogous to our ability as humans to *choose* how we see the world. There is nothing inherently wrong in making a decision to choose a "viewfinder" setting in which the world appears all black and white, or all gold. What is questionable is when the person who has made such a choice starts to delare that the world really looks that way, just because they have chosen to see it that way... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
