What a dreadful Gegen-wart to dream up Gabby, and how aptly it may describe the classroom presence.
On Saturday, January 31, 2015 at 4:44:37 PM UTC, Gabby wrote: > > ... 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]. >> 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.
