From ragnarok@pobox.com Mon Jun 11 09:54:51 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: raganok@intrex.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 11 Jun 2001 16:54:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 57975 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2001 16:54:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 11 Jun 2001 16:54:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO intrex.net) (209.42.192.246) by mta2 with SMTP; 11 Jun 2001 16:54:49 -0000 Received: from Craig [209.42.200.34] by intrex.net (SMTPD32-5.05) id A7D8B1230076; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 12:54:48 -0400 Reply-To: To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Purpose of bridi Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 12:54:50 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <35.1661d592.28564d30@aol.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-eGroups-From: "Craig" From: "Craig" >1) It is not the bridi or the truth of the bridi that has a purpose, the >purpose attaches attaches to the equivalence relation : the one is as good as >the other for this prupose (maybe for something else they differ -- they >certainly do in their "altitude" on whatever scale it is marked). I disagree. I have studied alchemical theory at length and my understanding is that, since (for example) gold and lead are both originally made of the prima materia, they are the same thing (as Hermes puts it, lead is as gold) and so we can do 'miracles of one thing' - miracles which stem from the fact that there is only one thing. The one is as good as the other for any purpose at all, we just see them as different. --la kreig.daniyl 'segu temci fa le bavli gi mi'o ba renvi lo purci .i ga la fonxa cu janbe gi du mi' -la djimis.BYFet xy.sy. gubmau ckiku cmesanji: 0x5C3A1E74