The job of the scientist (western thinking) is to find consequences - things that happen as the result of another happening. Best of all is the invariable consequence - the consequence that always happens. We call such inevitable consequences - Natural laws.
This is the way we categorize events and make it possible for us to see reality.
I don't think that talking in parables - being deliberately mysterious - helps us at all.
I suspect that such statements - I called them oracular - are more designed to seduce than to inform.
Harry
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Eric wrote:
From: Harry Pollard
> Eric,
>
> To attack "western thinking" you set up a hypothetical situation, then
> proceed to point out that our thinking cannot handle it. I suggest that
one cannot use the box to think outside the box
we are ALL dealing in MODELS...the only way for me to not do so is to shutup...like everyone else
> western thinking (whatever that is) can handle any real situation, but has
> difficulty dealing with the unreal.
cause-and-effect thinking CANNOT account for the universe as it is...this is why physics has left cause-and-effect far behind
and admits to just beginning to catch up with eastern 'mysticism'
>
> But then, so does any thinking no matter where it originates.
>
> However, I wouldn't want to lay on your shoulders the burden of defending
> these things, but I do think they are oracular rather than meaningful.
>
cool...i give meaning to such and you do not
glad we are not carbon copies of each other
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