[MD] Three Hot Stoves

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John,


On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:58:36 -0800, "John Carl" <ridgecoyote at gmail.com>
said:
> Something has bothered me quite a bit for a long time, and I'm gonna
> fumble
> through an analogy of sitting on a hot stove in three different
> environments, in order to get at the conceptualization (of
> conceptualization) which bothers me.   And then I'd like to discuss this
> thing "psychological nominalism" which recently popped up in my reading,
> as
> well as this list.  Such congruent leadings should always be heeded, imo.

[Tim]
Caution! 'congruent leadings'!  For someone who is pretty well tuned up,
perhaps this 'always be heeded' might be read as an acceptable
simplification, but - and as suggested by your conclusion to case two,
for someone who is out of tune, or balance, or experiencing discord,
however else we might express this, such a principle could be horrid. 
Think of the 'congruent leadings' that brought Lila, the lady, to be
taken with her doll-child and boat trips to an island!  And, to be sure,
people do all sorts of 'insane' things in the name of their gods, and
prompted, I don't doubt, by 'congruent leadings'.  Yikes!

Otherwise, thanks for the examples.  What I wonder is if that second guy
got the best of it, because he got to watch the waves ;)

Tim
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