Hi Carl, On 2/22/12, Carl Thames <[email protected]> wrote: >> Mark: >> Yes, I agree with dmb, if I am interpreting correctly what he is >> writing. Reality is not invented, it is realized in a manner which we >> humans find useful. We are simply interpreters of the given. If >> somebody interprets Spanish into English, this does not mean that the >> English is not something similar to the Spanish. It does not somehow >> make the English unreal. Our interpretation as presented through sq >> is as direct as the DQ which is being interpreted. To say that such >> analogue is somehow separate from the given is not correct. Our >> ability to think is very real, as real as the hardness of steel. We >> cannot say that we are "imagining" steel to be hard, or we once again >> get lost in the distractions of logic. > > Carl: > This is interesting. Last night, the fellow on Coast to Coast, Dr. Joe > Dispranza, (http://www.drjoedispenza.com/), commented that "Our personality > creates our reality." Upon reflection, I have to agree with that. I've > seen too many examples walking around. As you say, our ability to think is > very real, and HOW we think affects most of our perceptions. We interact > with our reality based on our perception of it. The problem with > translations are the cultural memes involved. A concept presented in > Spanish may have a totally different cultural base in English, and the > concept doesn't translate well. It's for this reason that the concept of > quality is so difficult to grasp. My concept of it will be different than > yours, even though we're using the same language to describe it. We can > transmit concepts, but we can never be sure that the receiver is getting > exactly what we're sending. (Explain to a Kalahari Bushman who's never seen > steel what it is, and how "hard" it is. Better yet, explain to someone what > it's like being in love. I know what love feels like, FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, > but there is no way to know what the word really means to you.) This is the > also the problem with analogues. The 'given' in this instance is very much > based on the perceiver. I don't think it's so much a matter of logic, > because your logic is fine, as is mine, it's just that things have a > different intrinsic meaning based on our personal background, experience, > etc.
Yes, perhaps this is a good way to see things, all stemming from the personality. At least we can assume some responsibility for what we do. It may get us out of this economy ruled by victims. Ity is always good to agree on terms, Love being one such thing, so that we can talk about them. If an eskimo started talking to me about his day in the 54 types on snow, I would certainly not appreciate what he went through. The problem that I have with Dr. D's viewpoint as I understand it from your post, is the same problem with the nature/nurture issue. If I had to make a choice of the two (rather than blend them like a good politician), I would choose nurture. That would be: what we are (personality) is more directed by what happens to us during life rather than the DNA begining. What happens to us during the day is "reality". Since you know S_ _T happens! But perhaps it is kind of a chicken and egg sort of things. It may even be something that is not essential for understanding reality. We do like to isolate causes, however. So my question to Dr. Joe would be: Is the personality somehow separate from the reality? Can we really say that one causes the other? Or is it perhaps a little messier than that simple statement. I am sure that Dr, Joe went on to discuss his statement, and since I missed that, I am only left with questions. Perhaps I agree with him, I don't know. Cheers, Mark > > 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 > 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
