andrew fildes wrote:
Ah but the problem is that there are only so many OM questions - most
lists that enforce a no OT policy eventually die of boredom because
the banter is the lubricant that keeps it going. Most of the OT stuff
is flying between old hand who are perfectly happy to answer OM
questions - just ask one. But you have to fill the gaps in the rest of
the time or it will all drift away.
I agree. The important trick seems to be keeping the OT from drifting
into acrimony far enough to lose valuable members.
(And did someone call Philosophy crap? Hold my coat..)
Now, now. Remember that 'crap' is the manure that allows new things to
grow.
When Carl Jung married, which brought him money, he wrote to antiquarian
book dealers all over Europe. He told them he was particularly
interested in buying Alchemy texts in which students had taken notes in
the margins. He collected quite a few of them. What he found was that
most had notations to the effect that the teacher said that the prima
materia, often thought, or said in the text, to be lead, was actually
the experimenter's excrement. That was not published in the texts to
avoid any more criticism than was already about. This is in symbolic
agreement with the Buddist idea, at least in some Tibetian Buddism, of
the manure field of life, consisting of all the 'shit' we have lived
through, which is absolutely necessary as the fertilizer from which
movement toward enlightment grows. So, if philosophy is indeed crap,
it's in good company!
Moose
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