Mike,

That's not the point under discussion that Merle raised...


Edgar



On Nov 25, 2012, at 7:12 PM, mike brown wrote:

> Edgar,
> 
>> The holocaust is truth. Was the holocaust beautiful?
> 
> The Holocaust is actually a conventional truth and not an absolute truth.  
> Also, there are examples of people giving shelter to Jews at great risk to 
> themselves and their families. Isn't this an example of beauty?
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Edgar Owen <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected] 
> Sent: Sunday, 25 November 2012, 23:39
> Subject: Re: [Zen] truth is beauty
> 
> 
>   
> Merle and Joe,
> 
> This is so obvious.
> 
> The holocaust is truth. Was the holocaust beautiful?
> 
> If not then TRUTH IS NOT = BEAUTY.
> 
> You two need to start using your heads on this.
> 
> If you don't agree then to you the holocaust and all other horrible truths 
> are beautiful...
> 
> 
> Edgar
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 25, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Joe wrote:
> 
>   
>> Edgar,
>> 
>> Thanks, yep.
>> 
>> That's me; warm and fuzzy; fuzzy and warm.  I have left hard-headed 
>> left-brain sidedness aside.  At least in my post with Merle!, which is where 
>> it counts.
>> 
>> With you, I reverse the hemispherectomy, and come at you with both fists.
>> 
>> I mean, just don't tempt me.
>> 
>> ;-)
>> 
>> --Joe
>> 
>>> Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote:
>>> 
>>> This is fuzzy thinking on your part. Mathematicians and many scientists 
>>> agree with me that truth is beautiful, but it is not beauty itself, it's 
>>> mathematical and scientific truth which has THE CHARACTERISTIC of beauty.
>>> 
>>> Important distinction though I doubt it will register with the fuzzy 
>>> minded...
>> 
>> 
> 



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