[MD] Dawkins a Materialist (is watching?)

[Heather Perella]

     [David M.]
> We have to deal with the other worldly
> allthe time: the past, the future,the possible,
> the potential, the emergent, the non-present,
> what is hidden from us in the Other, how we
> give borders to the actual, so that everything
> non-actual is other worldly, death, birth,
> creativity, destruction, the imagined, mathematical
> exploration, etc. Of course it's all real, but not
> always actual. But alot of our lives are bound up
with
> these non-actual otherworldly entities. Think how
much
> your dream girl messes with your actual life.


     How are you differentiating dream from this
world?  A dream exists here, now, in this world.  You
seem to be just separating this world with boundaries
that you made up, like political boundaries, imagined
paint lines on a piece of paper.  Past, future,
possible, etc... all of these happen here.  Other
worldly seems to be a metaphor for not present now,
according to you, yet, I believe in the one-long-now. 
Of course, I can delineated a past and future, but
these happen here and now.  You mention a non-actual. 
What is that?  For instance, you mention death.  Is
not death just a change?  Is not death something over
the hill where I can't see?  But, once I'm over the
hill, won't I just see another valley?


evening, icy rain, ice on the road, grass, branches,
SA


 
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