Message-Id: <199904080657.CAA06181@websmtp1.bellsouth.bigfoot.com>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: A more (?)
From: "joe dees" <joedees@bellsouth.net>
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 03:31:35 -0400
At Wed, 7 Apr 1999 14:54:45 +0100, you wrote:
>
>In message <81e71268.243cb800@aol.com>, MemeLab@aol.com writes
>>In a message dated 4/7/99 6:51:35 AM Central Daylight Time,
>>robin@faichney.demon.co.uk writes:
>>
>>>> To sum up: Blackmore is right in that "the self" is not ultimately real,
>> but then nothing else is either. Jake is right that it remains a highly
>> useful concept, at least, and perhaps an indispensable one. There is no
>> necessary conflict there.
>> --
>> Robin Faichney <<
>>
>>Only if I agree that nothing is real.
>>
>>I know that some people think it would be so nice if everybody could be right.
>>
>>I personally don't worry myself with such wishes.
>
>Can't you grasp the distinction between ultimate reality and pragmatic
>realism? Hint: I did *not* say that nothing is real.
>--
>Robin Faichney
>
And wise you were not to. To maintain that there is nothing that is real is as absurd as maintaining that everything is, for you have stripped the meaning from the word. In the second case, there is no essential difference which may distinguish exactly what it is in everything that is real, for there is nowhere that reality is not to be found, and in the first case its meaning dies for total lack of a referent.
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Joe E. Dees
Poet, Pagan, Philosopher
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