Subject: Re: [lojban] OFF TOPIC? Re-evaluation + an idea - Was: A parable

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 07:06:55 -0400 (EDT)

Invent Yourself scripsit:

> > I can honestly see these two together for their whole lives - the
> > feeling with them is something like cranes come home to roost at the
> > end of the day.
> 
> I wonder how common this is to China at large. And how much of this is
> being eroded by It Is Glorious To Get Rich.

AFAIK the Chinese have *always* thought it was Glorious To Get Rich (And
Live Forever Too). Most of what Westerners think of as typically
Chinese is either an ancient import (Buddhism), a home-grown counterculture
(Taoism), or a modern import (Marxism). Not to say that Taoism didn't
also become a method of Getting Rich and Living Forever.

> Extreme Relativity, therefore, is an intermediate stage before a greater,
> synthesized rationalism that incorporates what sat previously beyond the
> boundary of the reasonable.

Or else it isn't.

"An open mind should presumably be open at both ends, like the food-pipe,
with the capability of excretion as well as ingestion."
--Northrop Frye

"It's good to have an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out."

-- 
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan [email-masked]
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