Re: [-empyre-] question of empathy?

2014-11-13 Thread Mine Kaylan
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hello dear Empyre colleagues, Forgive the delayed intervention. It is true that I am ‘legless’ at present but neither in a serious (it will pass) nor unfortunately in a more pleasurable way. I have been considering the very interesting

Re: [-empyre-] From a distance

2014-11-13 Thread Yoko Ishiguro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hello all, Johannes and Alan Yes, in my previous post, I tried to reflect Alan's 'fragments' concluded: 'What I'm trying to present is the idea of an expulsion and an annihilation of  what's expelled. ISIS wants a purified caliphate

Re: [-empyre-] -amended! 'a question of empathy?

2014-11-13 Thread Mine Kaylan
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Apologies!! please replace..in my hurry I sent an unchecked copy w typos etc.. Please see below a little more coherent. Thanks. MK Hello dear Empyre colleagues, Forgive the delayed intervention. It is true that I am ‘legless’ at

[-empyre-] correction

2014-11-13 Thread Yoko Ishiguro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- A 'right word' not a 'write word'...I am sorry. Anyway I need to look at what 'Powerlessness' means to us more. All the best, Yoko ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au

Re: [-empyre-] From a distance

2014-11-13 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hi Yoko, Perhaps you're missing the point I'm trying to make? the equations are from the viewpoint of an absolute; X is a universal set, 0 is a null set; the origin of the symbol isn't an issue here. Following Sam Harris and some set

[-empyre-] correction 2

2014-11-13 Thread Yoko Ishiguro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Alan, Yes, you are right. I was out of the point totally. Pier and Johannes, I was very much confused when I wrote the previous email. Please ignore what I wrote. My apologies. I will write later. Thank you. Yoko Ishiguro

Re: [-empyre-] correction 2

2014-11-13 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- But you made another point which is equally valid, I think, that everything is within a skein, that there's always another other. And maybe there lies redemption, or at least the possibility of functioning in a world that at times