Marsha, Platt, That quote from Wilber is a favourite of mine. Part of my armoury against ignoring "excluded middles". It is so natural to divide things into two - every analytical cut creates two "opposites" from one whole, and it's so easily to forget and take this cut for granted. Making distinctions is indeed essential, but the implied opposites are entirely incidental.
In fact every cut is just a thin dividing line drawn across a continuum, and the two halves need not be more than a hair's-breadth apart, even though theire extremes may be poles apart. (The northern and southern hemispheres seem distinct opposites, but half a degree north is every bit as equatorial as half a degree south.) Ian On 5/26/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting MarshaV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I'm just playing, but does this make any kind of sense? > > > > Everything (good, black, table, me) cannot > > exist without its > > opposite (bad, white, background, you), > > But that includes Everything > > which exists > > from Nothing. > > > > Makes sense because sense depends on divisions. We divide to survive. To > continue to exist we must divide indivisible existence. Or as Wilber put > it, "We divide awareness, forget we divided it, then forget we have forgotten > it." > > Regards, > Platt > > > ------------------------------------------------- > This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ > 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/ > 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/
