Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 08:06:53 -0700
From: RTG <guevara-AT-rain.org>
Subject: Re: Language?


>i think the first thing that fundamentalists do is demonize the other--
>that which is not according to their fundamentalist tenet.  then,
>whether it is music, books, or other cultural practices, they find 
>out what they can to argue the thing as evil.  in many ways org'd
>christianity was founded on this process of demonization.
>check out elaine pagels' _the origin of satan_.  it coherently
>describes the christian message as one of both love... & hate.


could it be that our metaphically given "minds" similarly demonize that
which is.  "what's so" shouldn't be....and let me tell you _why_....


>plato would have poetry banned from the republic.  he, too, wasn't into
>this "getting carried away" crap.


crap.  indeed.


>heidegger, i think, probably had a pedantic quality about his
>appreciation of poetry and art, tho not as crude as fundamentalists
>i'm sure.  but i think his point is that the "truth" comes from a
>vast infinite (as far as we can tell) source of continuous uncovering
>and opening up and gathering into the open and etc.  such a move just
>naturally seems to make langauge flow from poetry and not vice versa.


but from the view of my assertion that language is that which grants being
(vice language as the spoken/written word) it would seem (to me) that
language is most originary in terms of being.  the big-bang if you will.


>whereas we with our tinier and tinier tunnel-techno vision keep thinking
>that the further we strip away, quantify and calculate, the closer to the
>truth we get.  because, lets face it, we do think of language as
asystematic >symbology of signs.  and computers can "think."
>
>heh, heh, heh,


we as "what" or we as "why" think that?

can computers and their binary language uncover a new dimension of
relatedness?  like a possibility?


BTW..Henk writes:
[...] fireplace is the centre of the house on the Olympos, and in the same
way Being is the centre of being(s). The house of Being is language.
Therein man dwells (alone, since the gods have left him). As a thinker and
one who creates with words, man is the guardian of the house. 


so then.  could it be possible "to realize" that Being is indeed at the
center of our being.  once we come to a completion of metaphysics as the
ground that gives us.


Robert T. Guevara   | guevara-AT-rain.org
Electrical Engineer | guevarb-AT-mugu.navy.mil
Camarillo CA, USA   | http://www.rain.org/~guevara


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