Reality as myth
Eric Maillet
The reality we have invented is of mythical proportions.
A truly splendid achievement!
Eric Maillet
Pheonix, Arizona
The Metaphysics of Blue
Looking for the soul of a soulless world
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Simon Todd
Eric Maillet <cybe...@phnx.uswest.net> wrote in article
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> The reality we have invented is of mythical proportions.
> A truly splendid achievement!
>
What a bazaar way of putting it!
We're arrogant enough to think we invented reality, aren't we!?
Or is it that Descarte bloke with "I think therefore...."
Or the Anthropic principle that reality is the way it is because of us.
Lets get humble.
Si
Carl KICE Brown
Sure, we didn't actually invent reality -- we imaged or imagined
it -- and our images and imaginings changed abruptly about the
times of Kant and Descarte. I thought I'd throw my bazaar way
of putting it out into the agora.
--
Kice Brown
Lone Tree & Iowa City
"These things never happened, but are always"
-- Saloustios, _Of Gods And Of the World_
Greenman
>
>
> Sure, we didn't actually invent reality -- we imaged or imagined
> it -- and our images and imaginings changed abruptly about the
> times of Kant and Descarte. I thought I'd throw my bazaar way
> of putting it out into the agora.
> --
>
> Kice Brown
> Lone Tree & Iowa City
I keep thinking that, even though our philosophers have thought all this
thing through, we would still all rather there were gods and spirits and
leprechauns and little green men and virgin Mary's floating around to
reinforce for us that "I think therefore it is"
Si
Carl KICE Brown
Greenman wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Sure, we didn't actually invent reality -- we imaged or imagined
> > it -- and our images and imaginings changed abruptly about the
> > times of Kant and Descarte. I thought I'd throw my bazaar way
> > of putting it out into the agora.
> > --
> >
> > Kice Brown
> I keep thinking that, even though our philosophers have thought all this
> thing through, we would still all rather there were gods and spirits and
> leprechauns and little green men and virgin Mary's floating around to
> reinforce for us that "I think therefore it is"
>
> Si
Kice again: Just read over the weekend, in a book on Incan myth, a
reference to Picasso's being asked once why he didn't paint things as
they are. He told the man asking he didn't understand the question,
and
so the man showed him a photograph of his wife, saying "See. My wife
looks like that!" Picasso is reputed to have responded "My! I see
she's
small and rather flat."
--
Kice Brown
Lone Tree & Iowa City
"These things never happened, but are always"
joshua geller
Carl KICE Brown <cbr...@mail.pmeh.uiowa.edu> writes:
> Kice again: Just read over the weekend, in a book on Incan myth,
hee!
> a
> reference to Picasso's being asked once why he didn't paint things as
> they are. He told the man asking he didn't understand the question,
> and so the man showed him a photograph of his wife, saying "See. My
> wife looks like that!" Picasso is reputed to have responded "My! I see
> she's small and rather flat."
there's a better one. reporter talking to picasso. picasso asks him if
he has a dollar. reporter shows him a dollar. picasso signs his name
on it and says "it's now worth more than a dollar.".
josh
Greenman
>
> Kice again: Just read over the weekend, in a book on Incan myth, a
> reference to Picasso's being asked once why he didn't paint things as
> they are. He told the man asking he didn't understand the question,
> and
> so the man showed him a photograph of his wife, saying "See. My wife
> looks like that!" Picasso is reputed to have responded "My! I see
> she's
> small and rather flat."
>
>
believe Manet, who was busy painting away and an admirer came to have a
look at the work in progress. She said, " That woman's arms are too long."
"Madam," retorted Manet" That is no woman, that is a painting!"
I saw a program on TV at the weekend where Terry Pratchett was being
interviewed. He was asked about the problems of being labeled a fantasy
author. He responded that we all live in a world of fantasy anyway and took
the example of Justice, being this code of no physical embodiment by which
we are all supposed to live, created by mutual agreement out of nothing.
Si
April
> Just a pretentious retort on my part here, there was a French Painter, I
> believe Manet, who was busy painting away and an admirer came to have a
> look at the work in progress. She said, " That woman's arms are too long."
> "Madam," retorted Manet" That is no woman, that is a painting!"
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Kim Burkard
In article 69...@geocities.com, April <dejavu...@geocities.com> () writes:
>> Just a pretentious retort on my part here, there was a French Painter, I
>> believe Manet, who was busy painting away and an admirer came to have a
>> look at the work in progress. She said, " That woman's arms are too long."
>> "Madam," retorted Manet" That is no woman, that is a painting!"
>
>I thought Monet did landscapes...
Edouard Manet was a French painter. Besides just being a contemporary
to Claude Monet, Manet also painted in the same style (Impressionism) -
if I recall my art history correctly! :)
Any art history book should give you more information on Manet, should
you be interested.
-kim
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Carl KICE Brown
April wrote:
> I thought Monet did landscapes...
>
> --
You say tomayto, I say tomahto
You say potayto, I say potahto
You say Monet, I say Manet
Let's call the whole thing off