J Y S Czhang scripsit:
> If the human brain was any simpler than it is, it would be way too
> far complex for us to even ponder pondering it ;) intriguin' paradox that...
In one of Douglas Hofstadter's articles about counterfactuals, he speculates
on what his paper would have been like if it had been written by his dog.
He guesses that it would have been about chasing squirrels, and would have
contained a paragraph speculating on what the paper would have been like if
it had been written by a squirrel.
> Jeepers! Just how many Taoists & Buddhists (and Taoist/Buddhist
> similar/sympathetic) are on this list 0_o?
> It's hasta be an email list record for a non-Taoist/Buddhist email list!
> (And better grasped ;) than some of those lists, too... Proud of ya peeps.)
I think there are an extraordinary number of faith-holding Christians, too.
Perhaps one characteristic of the list (besides diversity) is the tendency
to take things seriously that "mainstream culture(s)" don't take so seriously.
> I have hard time using pronouns when it comes to these Higher Things... I
> usta cringe at the Masculination of the Godhead and foam at the mouth when
> any one compared the Tao to the personified male "God" of Christians. The
> Chinese Boxer and the Militant Mystic really comes out to the front(lines) then...
Time to employ the Harmonious Fistette (!).
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John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan
Original line from _The Warrior's Apprentice_ by Lois McMaster Bujold:
"Only on Barrayar would pulling a loaded needler start a stampede toward one."
English-to-Russian-to-English mangling thereof: "Only on Barrayar you risk to
lose support instead of finding it when you threat with the charged weapon."