Posted: Oct 15, 2014 11:40 am
Kafei - You give me a problem! How am I to say how I respond to your message without giving offence?
For there are two options. Either you are saying contains important truths which are, for the present anyway, utterly beyond my comprehension -- just as my cat can't comprehend calculus. Or you are simply stringing fine-sounding words together, but not actually saying anything.
The bottom line is that I simply cannot make any sense at all of your message. If the fault is mine, then is there anything else you can say which might bring me (and others too, I suspect) a glimmering of understanding?
Indeed, you made me think of an excellent little book, 'Straight and Crooked Thinking' by Robert Thouless. (It's available as a .pdf at http://neglectedbooks.com/Straight_and_ ... inking.pdf ) If you read, in particular, chapter 9, which starts on page 64, you'll find on page 68, a few paragraphs which may show you where I'm coming from.
For there are two options. Either you are saying contains important truths which are, for the present anyway, utterly beyond my comprehension -- just as my cat can't comprehend calculus. Or you are simply stringing fine-sounding words together, but not actually saying anything.
The bottom line is that I simply cannot make any sense at all of your message. If the fault is mine, then is there anything else you can say which might bring me (and others too, I suspect) a glimmering of understanding?
Indeed, you made me think of an excellent little book, 'Straight and Crooked Thinking' by Robert Thouless. (It's available as a .pdf at http://neglectedbooks.com/Straight_and_ ... inking.pdf ) If you read, in particular, chapter 9, which starts on page 64, you'll find on page 68, a few paragraphs which may show you where I'm coming from.