Hi Marsha, Joe, Joe said: IMO Matt and Marsha arrive at the same page, life, from different perspectives: variety is a difficulty of life, or variety is the spice of life. How many varieties does life come in? Is the inorganic a ³present variety² of life? Why isn¹t evolution discovered in a ³process of finding truth in our experience of the world?²
Marsha said: If I look to the West, truth looks one way, and if I look to the East the truth looks another way. I never want to be the one who assumes truth to be: This is what I think, this what I feel, so this is the way it is... I would have never thought so, but I am beginning to think that the closer I look, the further I get from any kind of "truth". The generality is closer to the truth, the specific instance is just made up story, myth, or maybe a beautiful song, or poem. But I don't know... Matt: In all honesty, I've never been very good at understanding Joe, but I like the way he puts Marsha and I on the same page, "life." There is a sense that I've been coming to appreciate more and more in my writing that "life" is the widest, most important concept/thing. I can see why he pits us with the point of views he does, but when I'm not doing philosophy (in the particular way I do it), I quite like the variety of life myself. I'd like to think that whatever philosophical viewpoint I have, it encompasses both the difficulty and spicy versions. As it is with the point of view you enunciated, Marsha, I think you've bled together quite well parts of wisdom that I like, parts that can be found from both the East and West. In the West, it is a philosophical tradition that begins with Socrates, continues with the Pyhrronian tradition, into Montainge, Emerson and Nietzsche and into the Existentialists. I think it is fundamentally a humanist and ironist tradition, a string of intellectuals who look askance at the common sense of their time, people who feel both the need to speak and take back everything spoken, often producing a very ambivalent tone in their writings. Matt _________________________________________________________________ Enjoy 5 GB of free, password-protected online storage. http://www.windowslive.com/skydrive/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_skydrive_062008 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/
