... While it's perfectly okay that you carry the lice to the next fresh green leafs to get your extra portion of sugar?...
Am Samstag, 31. Januar 2015 schrieb archytas : > Most kids work out trees have backs long before phenomenological > philosophers get mugged by someone lurking behind one, thinking what the > things-in-themselves are really. > Consider some philosophical problems that will be familiar from > introductory metaphysics classes: Does the table that I think I see before > me exist? Does God exist? Does mind, conceived as an entity distinct from > body, exist? These questions have the following form: does x (where x = > some particular kind of thing) exist? Questions of this form presuppose > that we already know what ‘to exist’ means. We typically don't even notice > this presupposition > > Some of us think even to think this way is to take on presuppositions of > millennia that this is any way to think successfully and we merely bewitch > ourselves with language. The baby is already in the spaghetti of > evolution, DNA and culture. Regression to the child-mind is not > biologically possible. Freedom from dud theory and trauma may be. I sense > Gabby is right, but somehow don't want to be stung by the Gegen-wart or > suffer an outbreak of them. There is something simpler in Sue Linda's > learning from children. > > On Saturday, January 31, 2015 at 3:16:22 PM UTC, Gabby wrote: >> >> Hello Sue, it is not necessary to regress in a child's/childhood state to >> be then be able to look back at the present - the German language imagery >> might help you out there. ;) In what we see as "Gegen-wart", being present >> bans the fear of the "was" and its "evils" no matter how old you are. >> >> On Saturday, January 31, 2015 at 7:27:33 AM UTC+1, Sue Linda wrote: >>> >>> in your considered thoughts, the state of life would be more like a >>> child like mind who knows nothing of death, nor of life but enjoys each >>> moment that arrives. It is only by the events of evil works brought on a >>> child does it lean the effects of danger. Consider children as our >>> teachers. Before they learn of "evil" that being events that cause harm, >>> the child only lives in the moment and acts of "evil" on another child is >>> rare. >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 7:05:54 PM UTC-6, RP Singh wrote: >>>> >>>> Suppose there had been no consciousness and the entire world had been >>>> there but all unconscious , what would be the Truth? Just death , nothing >>>> else. Consciousness is what makes life , a proof that there is something >>>> which exists , Existence itself and not death. Look at the stars , the >>>> solar system , if it had self-direction where would we be? It all obeys >>>> laws and that is the reason for order in the universe and not chaos. What >>>> would humanity have been if we were not bound by our nature , no laws of >>>> biology , psychology , etc. , no predictability , no comfort that we would >>>> return to our homes at night ,no assurance that we would return home from >>>> work . Unpredictability is still there but it is minor , mostly there is >>>> satisfaction and assurance of well-being. >>>> >>> -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/minds-eye/sAm4Nlj4Ei8/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','minds-eye%[email protected]');> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
