hey khaled,
> > A few weeks back, there was another study with the > following conclusion: > " Children's willingness to try new food is > hereditary". Well the study > should say "hereditary tends to influence", because > as we grow older with > time, we become more liable for our own decisions. > > Yes they are our decisions, because we think and > question. Yet, nature > tends to play favorite with some and not others. > That's all no i don't agree there khaled, even though it may seem to be a truism. this is a limited view. nature is not playing favourites as 'favourites' implies separate, comparable entities. these don't strictly exist. from a reflective, ie reasoning, perspective separate entities do exist. some seem to have been given a harder time than others. this isn't playing favourites though. nature's caprice is not whimsical, it is logic of evolution: co-operative, creative evolution. who is happier - the gorgeous, rich, neurotic hollywood starlet, or the guy down the street who thinks he hears god through the transistor radio pinned to his ear? all must pass through trials to evolve; the nature of the trials differs just as each persons unique astrological signature differs: different trials for different astrological (or if you like - genetic)make -ups. we are all one. self-consciousness allows us to abstract ourselves from this one. we can then relate ourselves to the whole.. this is the higher purpose of intellect, reason being the lower. reason is descriptive, after the fact. intuitive intellection is to see through and to see as a whole...erm what's that called? - a gestalt perhaps? anyway i get off track. to recapitulate: the universal principle is the mirroring of the mythic and conscious; the dreaming and the waking reality; the potential and actual; the inner and outer; as above so below.... jung is very good on this sort of stuff. you can't separate the observer from what is observed: kinda imporatnt to remember that i reckon. > Khaled > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sick of deleting your inbox? Yahoo!7 Mail has free unlimited storage. http://au.docs.yahoo.com/mail/unlimitedstorage.html Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
