[MD] Ah-ha Qua Ah-ha

[MarshaV]

On Nov 28, 2010, at 2:47 PM, John Carl wrote:

> Thanks for interrupting my football watching Marsha.  I'm sure you're doing
> good things for my brain.
> 
>> 
>> Hi John,
>> 
>> 'Only in transcending it.' is a mouthful.  'Beyond rational explanation' is
>> another.
>> 
> 
> Let's chew on one mouthful at a time.  What I mean by "only in transcending"
> is that a real contradiction only seems that way because of a taking things
> at one certain level.  When contradictions are resolved by jumping to a
> higher level, then I call that "transcending".  An example would be helpful
> here, I know, but I can't think of any quickly.  :-)  If you want, I will
> dig deeper.


Hi John,  

No need to dig deeper, I understand.  

Let's put it this way, you cannot accept the existence of unpatterned experience 
because you've never had such an experience.  I can accept your rejection.  

Sorry to interrupt your football game.  


Marsha







> 
> However, "beyond rational explanation" implies a non-rational explanation
> and by that I guess I'd posit an artistic explanation, or perhaps drawing a
> picture by analogy.  Something which illustrates the limitations of
> language.  And as you can see, those two terms are somewhat the same.
> 
> 
> Your little post on "mediation as meditation" imeans to compromise to your
>> liking,
>> and 'embrace contradiction' means when it seems rational for you to do so.
>> 
>> 
> Mediation doesn't mean compromise, it means something different and it
> refers to "our" liking, not mine alone.  I'm refering to what Royce calls,
> "Absolute Pragmatism" and in analogistic terms, think of a view of the
> elephant with which all the blind men can concur.  Not because they are
> being nice and comprimising, but because they have faith in the honesty of
> their fellows and understand some greater contextual picture is needed in
> order to embrace all their visions.
> 
> 
> 
>> You write "All experience is patterned in some way or another".  How do you
>> know?
>> 
> 
> I know because that's my experience!
> 
> 
>> It's quite possible you've never had but patterned experience.  All?  All?
>> All?  What
>> comes next a 'therefore'?
>> 
> 
> Well, as Platt says, I could be wrong.  But it's awfully hard to imagine
> how.
> 
> Yours as always,
> 
> John
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