Steve to Andre (previously): Does SOM cause philosophical Platypi?
Steve to dmb: ...Having the wrong ideas doesn't take one out of reality. ..Concepts don't take one closer to or further from reality. ...The point is that "not being in touch with DQ" can't be what is wrong with our concepts. ... Andre: Stumbled on this whilst reading and wanted to share this here as it seems relevant...somehow. Mind you, I have taken some comments from Steve but nothing 'personal' is intended. We would all do well to observe these words. They are from Rollo May's remembrances of Paul Tillich and the problem is the dualistic way of thinking which, when doing so [and we all do and I believe the MOQ attempts to rectify this]:" A whole hornet's nest of absurd problems is opened up, such as the question, How did God spend his time before he created earth?" Paulus [Tillich] told us once the answer for that given by his students in Germany: "Thinking up punishments for those who ask such questions".(In Wilber, The Spectrum of Consciousness".) In this sense, what Phaedrus designated as 'platypuses' can be seen as 'punishments' for thinking in a dualistic(SOM) way. "But it's so hard, it's really hard, sometimes I feel like going down" (John Lennon). 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
