[MD] Quick one: causation

[ml]

Good morning, artist

Marsha: 
> Every philosophy, science, religion, telling of a golf game and 
> justification is a mental construction.  Names, definitions, 
> descriptions and memories are mental constructs, analogy all
> the way down.  

mel:
Yes and no

Marsha: 
> That is humanity's conventional world.  Ultimately the 
> Universe is uncaused, like a net of jewels in which each is a 
> reflection of all the others in a fantastic, interrelated harmony
> without end.

mel:
...and yet the harmony arises in the conflict of patterns
to create what never was before.

Marshe: 
> If I get hit by a falling brick, you might ask 'Is the brick 
> real?'  I would answer, 'It is conventionally real, but ultimately it 
> is experience.'

mel:
It's just another brick in the wall to
the singer of Roger Water's song, 
mental construct though the wall 
may be.  But, it could be a brick in
the arch above the gate that lets
you through.

Being more of an arch man, 
my(nonexistent)self, it seems 
there is no experience without the 
brick, no brick without the kiln, no
kiln without the brickmaker and the 
beautiful earthen goop someone 
named clay.  No arch without brick, 
no arch without architect.  

No experience without two patterns
in collision, harmonious though it 
may be.  The illusion is of one; the
separation of all and that the experiance
is ever without what passes behind the
'named' conventionally real.



Oh, what pretzellation this illusion 
makes.

Happy MLKday

thanks for letting me play
with your word-toys
 
thanks--mel