Subject: Re: philosphy 101
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 15:00:46 -0400


bob,

I said "no patience", or more like moments of anger, of repugnant contempt
and disgust for thoughtlessness. I wasn't being frivolous with my choice of
words. There is a time when thoughts just come to an end, in an instant
there is an interruption, a break in a subjective train of thoughts that
then brings them out of the mind so to speak and into the 'clearing' of
everyday life. If one observes these trains of thoughts, one can see that
they come and go all the time and that they are always changing, they have
no permenance. In so far as they constitute a signifying network through
which interpretation takes place then they screen off our contact with the
real. It is only at the limit of interpretation that a dissolution of the
screen becomes a prospect and that limit could be things like
contradictions, paradoxes, oxymorons and such which slow thoughts down and
makes them stop, linger, dwell in questioning...

Gulio



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