Guest guest Posted January 2, 2006 Report Share Posted January 2, 2006 > Larry p.s. Again, your comment is mean-spirited, unkind, and rude. You have nothing to teach me, so get off of it. P: All those qualities were suggested to you by your own mind. Read Below this two pieces about online interactions. > But, the really great thing about these lists (aside from making it > obvious we are only speaking to oursleves), is that we do not always > respond to ourselves as we would expect. Now that really messes with > my mind when I try to figure that one out...... > > Nondual, indeed. > This is echoed by the other obsession: that of being 'into', hooked in to your own brain. What people are contemplating on their word-processor screens is the operation of their own brains. It is not entrails that we try to interpret these days, nor even hearts or facial expressions; it is, quite simply, the brain. We want to expose to view its billions of connections and watch it operating like a video-game. All this cerebral, electronic snobbery is hugely affected - far from being the sign of a superior knowledge of humanity, it is merely the mark of a simplified theory, since the human being is here reduced to the terminal excrescence of his or her spinal chord. But we should not worry too much about this: it is all much less scientific, less functional than is ordinarily thought. All that fascinates us is the spectacle of the brain and its workings. What we are wanting here is to see our thoughts unfolding before us - and this itself is a superstition. Hence, the academic grappling with his computer, ceaselessly correcting, reworking, and complexifying, turning the exercise into a kind of interminable psychoanalysis, memorizing everything in an effort to escape the final outcome, to delay the day of reckoning of death, and that other - fatal - moment of reckoning that is writing, by forming an endless feed-back loop with the machine. This is a marvellous instrument of exoteric magic. In fact all these interactions come down in the end to endless exchanges with a machine. Just look at the child sitting in front of his computer at school; do you think he has been made interactive, opened up to the world? Child and machine have merely been joined together in an integrated circuit. As for the intellectual, he has at last found the equivalent of what the teenager gets from his stereo and his walkman: a spectacular desublimation of thought, his concepts as images on a screen. (excerpt from Jean Baudrillard's " America " ) http://www.uta.edu/english/apt/collab/texts/america2.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2006 Report Share Posted January 2, 2006 Pete, A. This is a riot! B. I'll do my best Bill > > This is not a poem > Poets kiss and tell > Poets mate with God > And tell the world > > Ps: Well, at least the first sentence is true. > But seriously, most good poets are contemplatives. > Even those who don't believe in a deity, or a > spiritual realm are prone to rapture's attack as > the intellect subsides and the senses quantum leap > to direct perception. And here is when our poetic > inclination betrays us in its indecent rush to > translate rapture into words. > > Poets beware! Don't leave bliss's nest to crow > before the chicks hatch. > > Without > Thought > Sink > Sink > Sink > Within > > Pete > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2006 Report Share Posted January 2, 2006 In a message dated 1/2/2006 6:55:35 PM Pacific Standard Time, pedsie4 writes: > > >Pete, > > > >A. This is a riot! > >B. I'll do my best > > > >Bill > > > > P: Don't be coy, Roy! > That wasn't for you, > and you know it. L.E: Still true though! Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 3, 2006 Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 On Jan 2, 2006, at 2:20 PM, Nisargadatta wrote: > Pete, > > A. This is a riot! > B. I'll do my best > > Bill > P: Don't be coy, Roy! That wasn't for you, and you know it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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