Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id HAA08053 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 28 Sep 2000 07:53:45 +0100 Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 19:26:36 +0100 From: Robin Faichney <robin@reborntechnology.co.uk> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: mysticism etc Message-ID: <20000927192636.B11352@reborntechnology.co.uk> References: <20000927124852.AAA17741@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]> <f04310103b5f7a33dcf91@[194.154.110.185]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <f04310103b5f7a33dcf91@[194.154.110.185]>; from chrislees@easynet.co.uk on Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 02:32:19PM +0100 Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 02:32:19PM +0100, Chris Lees wrote:
> >On 09/26/00 03:47, Robin Faichney said this-
> >
> >>Sez you, if you say your EEG does not belong to the universe.
> >
> >Ah ha.
> >
> >I now perceive the mobius strip of your argument.
> >
> >- Wade
>
> Which leads me to a world as depicted by Escher. Perhaps the
> portrayals by Picasso, Magritte, Dali, Bosch, can reverse-
> engineer the mobius strip into a fluctuating multi-dimensional
> yin-yang symbol, the additional dimensions to accommodate
> even the opaque differences between Chris Lofting and Joe Dees
> ( am I right ? apologies if I'm not ) as to trinities and dualities,
> which remain obscure to me still, as indeed the divine pleroma
> of a unified or tripartite Supreme Deity which manifests a Son,
> Krishna, Pentecostal Fire, or Sacred Dove, Holy Spirit, Burning
> Bush, Black Holes,Big Bang, String Theory, Infinite Parallel
> Universes, etcetera... all things included without exception.
If it feels good, believe in it. Though not literally, of course!
:-)
BTW, if anyone is interested, there's a great hoo-ha going on across a
whole slew of Buddhist usenet newsgroups between fundamentalists and a
relatively sophisticated postmodernist group around Stephen Batchelor's
Buddhism Without Beliefs. I can't say you'd find it enlightening,
though, as it has about the same heat to light ratio as the typical
usenet discussion, or "flame fest".
-- Robin Faichney Postmodernists merely mock-believe=============================================================== This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing) see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit
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