On May 11, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Arlo Bensinger wrote: > [Marsha] > Mark has it right, "words" are a kind of imprisonment. > > [Arlo] > Mark, and you, have it half-right. No one said language was not constraining, > not me, not any of the structuration theorists I mentioned. Of course it is. > So you if focus on *that*, of course words can seem like a prison. > > But, think about all the things you are able to do each day BECAUSE of > language. You can read poems. You can post youtube links on a metaphysics > forum. You can learn to drive a motorcycle (indeed, motorcylces can be > built!) and drive across the country. You can read LILA. You can go shopping. > You can play chess or checkers. > > And when you see this, you will understand that, like I've been saying all > along, language (or any "structure") is both enabling and constraining. They > allow us greater ranges of agency at the same time they constrain that same > range. > > I'll take the "imprisonment" aspect of "words" any day for the amazingly > great range of "freedom" such a structure also imparts.
]Marsha[ You are correct, and I am a very conventional woman. Yes, some of this conventional chit-chat is good. But this is a list devoted to metaphysics - the nature of reality - so bottom line: there is no-thingness to know and no-self to know it... And that, Sweet Arlo, is beyond words. ___ 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/md/archives.html
