Re: Why I am I?

2009-12-05 Thread John Mikes
I admire this list. Somebody asks a silly question and 'we' write hourlong wisdom(s) upon it. After my deep liking of Stathis's what difference does it make? (or something to that meaning) - my question went a step deeped: *for: How do I know I am I? - (rather:* How (Why?) do I think I am I?) I

RE: Why I am I?

2009-12-05 Thread rmiller
From: John Mikes [mailto:jami...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2009 10:00 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Why I am I? I admire this list. Somebody asks a silly question and 'we' write hourlong wisdom(s) upon it. After my deep liking of Stathis's what

Re: Why I am I?

2009-12-05 Thread Rex Allen
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com wrote: Rex Allen wrote: What is your alternative to the everything universal acid?  That things just are the way they are (uniquely), and there's ultimately no explanation for that.  Right? Exactly so.  It's just happened

Re: Why I am I?

2009-12-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Dec 2009, at 21:00, Rex Allen wrote: On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com wrote: Rex Allen wrote: What is your alternative to the everything universal acid? That things just are the way they are (uniquely), and there's ultimately no explanation

Re: Blood Meridian

2009-12-05 Thread m.a.
Kelly, I read Blood Meridian recently and was utterly blown away. The endless abundance of vivid natural imagery couched in the most erudite language is only equaled by by the casual articulation of the most extreme violence imaginable. McCarthy's novel rises as far above western

Re: Why I am I?

2009-12-05 Thread Brent Meeker
Rex Allen wrote: On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com wrote: Rex Allen wrote: What is your alternative to the everything universal acid? That things just are the way they are (uniquely), and there's ultimately no explanation for that. Right?

Re: Why I am I?

2009-12-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Dec 2009, at 20:47, Johnathan Corgan wrote: On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com wrote: I thought it was impossible to live that and to be able to come back from such an experience, but it happens that with salvia divinorum, some subject can

Re: Why I am I?

2009-12-05 Thread benjayk
Bruno Marchal wrote: It is actually an art to find the dosage and the timing so that you understand better some, well, let us say statements you get there. One is just impossible to memorize, or you stay there, and a copy is send here. This is a copy effect experimented by a

Re: Why I am I?

2009-12-05 Thread Johnathan Corgan
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: All of this indicates that salvinorin A has potent but short-lived effects on the brain systems involved in memory, identity, body image and perception of time and space (along with a host of other effects not discussed