Failing eyesight makes the zoom feature a blessing. I now prefer electronic text to paper. Pity electronic speech is so dire and difficult to speed read with (some blind colleagues have got used to listening at speeds I can't).
I wish Molly was right on the move to something more spiritual, but research suggests a big physical element in electronic receptions. I'm not sure the imagination button is switched on n most people, and soon we will have products for all kinds of physical simulation to go with the mobile. On Saturday, April 4, 2015 at 9:50:27 AM UTC+1, Allan Heretic wrote: > > Thank you. Sleep allows the brain to reset. . My episodes are always > early morning. . 5 - 7 am. Figures other than to me they are very boring. . > As it is adult onset.. i am wondering if my smart phones ae part of the > problem. > If i really want to read a document i prefer a combo of paper / > electronic.. > I like human content. . My preference a cuppa coffee / tea sitting > around a table talking with friends. . The Internet will do. And is nice > for long distances.. and is convenient as you can answer when up.. i always > turn my phone to airplane mode while sleeping. > > I do think the internet is slowly down the ability to think.. to much us > being passed off as truth when in reality it is a lot of cut and paste .. > i am left wondering if the are not basting a idea from a bad recipe. > > BOO... > > تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين > Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others > > -----Original Message----- > From: Molly <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 9:06 AM > Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: Imagine That > > Big hug across the divide to you, Allan. Speedy recovery. > > On Friday, April 3, 2015 at 5:56:42 PM UTC-4, Allan Heretic wrote: >> >> The older i get the longer it takes to recover. And they run in cycles. . >> Unfortunately medication is only sliwing them and cutting severity. >> But that is better than raw.. >> The poery is only madness running thu my head hooe it is not to crazy >> >> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين >> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: archytas <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Fri, 03 Apr 2015 11:48 PM >> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: Imagine That >> >> A head full of soap opera, nightmare indeed. >> >> On Friday, April 3, 2015 at 6:45:07 PM UTC+1, Allan Heretic wrote: >>> >>> I have a dislike for episodes. . One thing is they are not gòd for >>> clarity of thought.. but one good thing it was lite. Problem is I have >>> been having them for msy many years even befor I came to Europe.. i always >>> thought of them as severe nightmares. >>> It is good to know . . . I think.. >>> >>> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين >>> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: archytas <[email protected]> >>> To: [email protected] >>> Sent: Fri, 03 Apr 2015 4:32 PM >>> Subject: Mind's Eye Re: Imagine That >>> >>> Despite imagination Allan, I have never been able to regard meeting a >>> bloke as a date. The way round this seems to be not dating in order to be >>> gender balanced. Never liked the performances anyway. Tired today, i that >>> 'after 'flu' way. Looking forward to dog walk being less of a trudge and >>> no throbbing pains in my left eye and head. Instructions to buy Ginger >>> Wine for hot toddies. >>> >>> I agree all that Molly and it all expands into several books - though >>> really one can only create the conditions for a trail every so often. This >>> would be worth talking through, though most spirits are too weak to try. >>> >>> I'll try again if Max leaves me any energy and the toddies don't get too >>> overwhelming. May just let them. Much of what needs saying is not in the >>> public domain, which is odd given how easy much of it is. >>> >>> On Friday, 3 April 2015 12:33:14 UTC+1, Molly wrote: >>>> >>>> I will take my carbon dating as a compliment as I think the age of >>>> reason our downfall. We only seemed to have an inkling about how our >>>> extension through technology would bring us back through it where >>>> reasonable paradigms don't work for us, and as close as we can get to a >>>> working model is again mystic. Not to say reason is thrown aside. It must >>>> be integrated and given its mechanical function so we can move into >>>> something greater, having been hijacked for too long and used in the power >>>> and control games. We are more than mental, but are beaten with it until >>>> we >>>> give it all up to merely survive, our self image blown to smithereens >>>> >>>> For too long, no one recognized the magician of the beautiful, those >>>> that move naturally and leave beauty in their wake. We've lost our ability >>>> to recognize beauty, having been drenched in mundane by deteriorating >>>> culture and technology. But something has come of it. And there are those >>>> among us that move in action of the divine principle within, and those >>>> among us that can recognize the beauty that surrounds them and envelops >>>> us. >>>> If we can let go of the need to know why, and move along in this action, >>>> we >>>> can be taken where paradigms are no longer necessary. I am not sure if a >>>> group can be carried along, or if we, moving in action of the divine >>>> principle within, move with the world as it is in perfection, accepting >>>> the >>>> imperfection as inherent to the divine principle, knowing the imperfection >>>> is changing into perfection through the action. Maybe its always been like >>>> this. Maybe it always will be. >>>> >>>> On Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 5:52:32 PM UTC-4, archytas wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I had a nice afternoon. Turned a bar in Manchester into an old-style >>>>> tavern with folk singing and a free barrel of Old Peculiar. The themes >>>>> were about returning to Greek and Medieval notions of rationality, which >>>>> have long struck me as in need of a few beers to get into. Debate went >>>>> so >>>>> well I hardly needed to say anything. >>>>> >>>>> The Greeks were all over the place around the relevant time, in Italy >>>>> and around the Med. This was the time of the of what Hans Joas dubbed >>>>> "cosmic religion" of late Antiquity, a fusion of Greek cosmological >>>>> speculation. Babylonian astrology, Egyptian theology, Jewish thought and >>>>> popular magic. There were many attempts to translate this into political >>>>> constitutions. Most of this was put to the Roman sword, and >>>>> intellectuals >>>>> became mystic, aspiring to find new ways to transcend earthly systems >>>>> entirely, rising through planetary spheres, purging themselves of >>>>> materiality to pure reason - that human reason that is simply the action >>>>> of >>>>> a divine principle within us. Rationality here becomes beyond spiritual >>>>> to >>>>> the mystical achievement of union with he divine. In the absence of >>>>> Molly, >>>>> we did the internal warming of Old Peculiar and some Lancashire Folk. >>>>> >>>>> So why look to the past like this? The simple answer is that our >>>>> present is still full of it. >>>>> >>>>> The second area we looked at once the beer was going down was the >>>>> Medieval. You need to be half-cut to take what went on then. One of the >>>>> strongest features of this time concerns just how humans consider >>>>> themselves superior and different to animals. We are still taught this >>>>> crap as kids - 'it's rationality stupid'. Cue some cute pictures of >>>>> animals problem solving and being very rational (lions hunting at night >>>>> is >>>>> a real killer). And a run out for Allan's soul, with a slight twist. >>>>> What >>>>> separates humans and animals is that humans can imagine they possess an >>>>> immortal soul. If the soul is the seat of reason, to say humans are in >>>>> possession of one is to say we are rational creatures. >>>>> >>>>> You need the top shelf now, as these forms of religiosity are the >>>>> basis of bureaucracy and rationality. Descartes becomes spiritual and >>>>> mystic. The question, of course, is whether we can escape. It's bank >>>>> holiday here on Friday. This brings discussion of the archaeology of >>>>> "heroic societies" other than just the Attic tragedy kind, as engines of >>>>> the self-aggrandising story. >>>>> >>>>> By the end (people fly home Tuesday) we hope to be able to talk new >>>>> economic, perhaps find some partnerships to write something different - >>>>> or >>>>> not write and think of different things to do. After a couple of pints, >>>>> I >>>>> was imagining dating Molly and Allan in about 500 BC to 1500 AD. >>>>> >>>> -- >>> >>> --- >>> 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. >>> >> -- >> >> --- >> 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. >> > -- > > --- > 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. > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. 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