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echo: philos
to: DAVID MARTORANA
from: FRANK MASINGILL
date: 1997-12-26 10:17:00
subject: Darkness & Myth

 FM> I have probably failed once more to explain what I mean.  It's
 FM> "pandemic" with me!!!
 DM> It is pandemic with you because you **ever seem** to push what words
 DM> can convey beyond their limits. As an example: when you use the word
 DM> "myth" (having monitored ""MANY"" of your postings), I do not read it as
 DM> I do when others use the term. Instead, over time, your usage of the
 DM> word has grown to translate into my reading as: "mind-magic-to-meaning"
 DM> ....a more powerful suggestion than its literal definition ...perhaps
 DM> best described as the search for truths  *ever weighed*  on a blind
 DM> scale of epic hope. Knowingly or unknowingly,  you push the envelope of
 DM> words to force out a last drop of meaning (perhaps experiential
 DM> crafting). ALSO!!!  you often brush near the edges of poetic license
 DM> without wanting to be accused of such. Our words effect everyone they
 DM> touch and teach .... some a bit more and some a less. Your "eudaemonia"
 DM> oft doth spillith some beyond your words to realize .......From my oft
 DM> bent humble view!!!
   I see a reaction to MY use of the word "myth" but no explanation of what
"myth" means to you.  Is it simply another word of "lie?"  Is it merely the
fantacizing of primitive minds now completely surpassed by "science."  Is
there a "myth of science?"  I thought I had offered some explication of its
meaning as I view it.  In fact, I thought I did so in the very post you were
answering although I didn't choose to re-quote the whole.
Sincerely, 
                                     Frank
                                                                              
                                                       
--- PPoint 2.05
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* Origin: Maybe in 5,000 years - frankmas@juno.com (1:396/45.12)

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