Re: OT: Reality (was: Re: Atlantean)
From: | Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, January 13, 2004, 10:20 |
Quoting Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>:
> --- John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:
> > Andreas Johansson scripsit:
> > > > You can't avoid the
> > > > consequences of your actions by
> > > > "waking up".
> > >
> > > And how could one possibly know that?
> >
> > Well, you can avoid the *personal* consequences of
> > your actions by dying,
> > which may, after all, be analogous to waking up.
>
>
>
> > Nobody knows.
>
> Or, as Lao Tzu observed, those who don't know, talk.
> Those who know aren't talking. (Tao Te Ching, don't
> remember which chapter.)
Then we're a a pretty ignorant bunch. Big news.
Andreas