--- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], new.morning <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > And/or -- parallel to greeks -- Hericlitus? -- its ever changing. It > > has no permanence. Its here today, gone tomorrow. How can one give > > that the status of "real". > > That is precisely the anti-relative perspective that I'm talking about.
That you see that as anti- anything is interesting. > And, just because something changes means it's therefore not real? Its not a real as something permanent. And you appear to view everything as changing. Its a view where identity continues with a new form. I tend to look at it differently. The carrot on my plate is no longer thre. You can continue to call it a carrot as it moves through my bowels, is processed in a sewage plant, and is scattered who knows where. i tend to say that THAT carrot not longer exists. For a few months it was here. Over the last 6 billion years, most of the time it was not. Perhaps "real" is not the best word to descibe that. Unsubstantial? Not as substantial as a sequoia redwood. Or a glacier. Or the earth. Or the universe. And even all of those emerge then die. None as substantial as that which remains. But that doesn't not mean i am anti-carrots. I love them. And I love films. Though I know they are an illusion. I love many things that come and go. Why would owning up to their impermanence have anything to do with not liking them? That you apparently find anyone who sees things as impermanent or an illusion as being anti- that thing is both surprising and interesting. 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
