my mind begins to hum...

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 11:11 am

existential cross-identification disease

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 11:16 am

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H.G.Crosby · Post by **H.G.Crosby** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 11:43 am

existential cross-identification disease

Ja Zehrgut. C'est Incroyable, mais Vrai. Semper gumby. Zeligent.

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H.G.Crosby · Post by **H.G.Crosby** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 12:09 pm

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the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 5:13 pm

With our concept making apparatus called "mind" we look at reality
through the ideas-about-reality which our cultures give us. The ideas-
about- reality are mistakenly labeled "reality" and unenlightened people
are forever perplexed by the fact that other people, especially other
cultures, see "reality" differently. It is only the ideas-about-reality which
differ. Real (capital-T True) reality is a level deeper that is the level of
concept.

We look at the world through windows on which have been drawn grids
(concepts). Different philosophies use different grids. A culture is a group
of people with rather similar grids. Through a window we view chaos, and
relate it to the points on our grid, and thereby understand it. The ORDER
is in the GRID. That is the Aneristic Principle.

Western philosophy is traditionally concerned with contrasting one grid
with another grid, and amending grids in hopes of finding a perfect one
that will account for all reality and will, hence, (say unenlightened
westerners) be True. This is illusory; it is what we Erisians call the
ANERISTIC ILLUSION. Some grids can be more useful than others, some
more beautiful than others, some more pleasant than others, etc., but
none can be more True than any other.

DISORDER is simply unrelated information viewed through some
particular grid. But, like "relation", no-relation is a concept. Male, like
female, is an idea about sex. To say that male-ness is "absence of female-
ness", or vice versa, is a matter of definition and metaphysically
arbitrary. The artificial concept of no-relation is the ERISTIC PRINCIPLE.

The belief that "order is true" and disorder is false or somehow wrong, is
the Aneristic Illusion. To say the same of disorder, is the ERISTIC
ILLUSION.

The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid
one is using at the moment, and that (capital-T) Truth, metaphysical
reality, is irrelevant to grids entirely. Pick a grid, and through it some
chaos appears ordered and some appears disordered. Pick another grid,
and the same chaos will appear differently ordered and disordered.

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 1:05 pm

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mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 1:06 pm

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the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 2:45 pm

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mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 3:10 pm

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mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 3:15 pm

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 4:29 pm

or perhaps we need peddlers...

to lay out their blankets and tables

to spread across them elixers of strong dreams

that people's thoughts could be likened to pressure-cooked meats

soft... supple... and rendering it's nutrients with ease

elf's sword · Post by **elf's sword** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 8:59 pm

cut-away the lower self...

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 10:52 am

you know how to tell if a politian is lying?
when it's laid over with words?
the moving hand

*floggs himself a little*

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 1:23 am

If an act is unexpected and is assigned favorable interpretation, and it is
evaluated positively, it will produce more favorable outcomes than an
expected act with the same interpretation and evaluation.