>
>Day Brown wrote to Mark Bloss about "nothing"
 MB>  to a distant sphere - then your tools will have made you God, 
 MB>  and you will know the fullness of being, and win the bet. 
 
 DB> I don't need to do it quite that way Mark, all I need 
 DB> to do is increase the bandwidth so that I may draw on 
 DB> the mainframe databank of God. I do not need to do all 
 DB> the research, I can draw on his.  At the heart of the 
 
 You already _did_.  When it was "decided" you are to be.  So, you
 haven't yet grasped meaning.  All data will do for you is give you 
 a headache.
 DB> eastern mystic belief is the idea that one can change 
 DB> oneself to open up this channel.  The advantage of the 
 DB> computer is the metaphor it provides to understand the 
 DB> whole process. 
 DB> 
 
 The only real metaphor which has meaning is the sensation of
 being _alive_.  The thinking process itself is not up to the
 task.  Its quest for meaning produces no end result that will
 survive the activity.   The delight of which Aristotle speaks,
 though manifest to the thinking ego, is ineffable by definition.
 "The activity of thinking [energeia that has its end in itself] 
 is life."
 DB> Nor, do I need to limit my understanding by the limits 
 DB> on the insight of the Biblical authors; there is also 
 DB> the vast collection of the Greek, Persian, Egyptian, 
 DB> Sumerian, Hindu, Confucian... Joseph Campbell has done 
 DB> a pretty good job of integrating all the mythology, 
 DB> and tracing the evolution of myth has it's own clues. 
 The chief difficulty here is that language itself is entirely
 metaphorical, yet it bridges the gap between the visible and
 the unvisible.  It is our senses which are essentially cognitive,
 and if understood as activities, have an end outside themselves;
 they are not energeia, an end in itself, but instruments 
 enabling us to know and deal with the world.  If you say "Nor, do I
 need to limit my understanding" - then your understanding is
 already limited by your invisible Self.  You _understand_ or you do 
 _not_ understand.  Being well read does not make you understand any 
 bit better than a three-year-old.  And finding clues from the history
 of myth will not enlighten you _better_ than your ability to
 understand the _meanings_ of the myths themselves.
 
... I am dyslexic of Borg, Prepare to have your ass laminated.
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