Harrison: Sorry to came back to this "principle", but it was not my iniciative ;-)
--- Harrison Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > Ralph -- I have only known you for more years that I > care to remember. And > never have I found you to be at a loss for words or > explanations. The > problem with Principle #2 (Whatever happens. . .) is > simply that it is too > simple for your complex mind. A blinding flash of > the obvious, as it were. > It simply acknowledges the fact that what is going > on is going on. The point is, IMHO, that the statement "Whatever happens is the only thing that could have" DOES NOT mean exactly that (or only that, if you prefer). As a "principle of OST" what you are saying should read: "Whatever happens is the only thing that happens", or, maybe even better, "whatever happened is the only thing that happened" (because we only know what happened afterwords). Maybe a more detailed description could be "in the conditions defined (theme, diversity, openess of the space, etc, etc) "Whatever happens...". But the two expresions I am suggesting are truisms and one does not need to express them... But the main problem is that it is very easy to extrapollate from a "principle of OST" to a "principle of reality" (or a "principle of Spirit", if you prefer) - expecially has you had the iniciative to make that extrapolation yourself somewhere. And then your statement means that "everything is equally acceptable" (including nazism, or bushism, or the 9/11, or...). As a "principle of Spirit" this principle denies responsability, accountability, ethics and "livre arbitrium" (what is the equivalent in English?) Artur __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
