by dan Thu Apr 26, 2018 8:01 am
jofo,
Why do I think anything? Why do you think anything?
I think because I am...... you think, too, please.
I like coherence. It’s an esthetic. I’m a coherentist. If you don’t know what you are, you are probably a correspondentist, wanting to be a coherentist. I’m here to show you how.
It’s easy to be a coherentist. You just have to believe in believing. Believe, hon....... as we say in Bawlimer. You have a big choice to make....... you either have to believe in atoms or persons. If you know Descartes, you know there’s no choice. You have to start as a personalist. After forty years of thinking about Truth, you’ll end up as the holy ghost or a personalist, maybe both.
That’s all she wrote, jofo. What more can a body say? If you know truth, you know God. If you don’t know any truth....... God help you.
If you’ve ever had any faith in anything, you know truth. If you’ve never had any faith in anything, God help you.
You can’t believe in something if it doesn’t make any sense. Science makes lots of little senses, but there is no big Sense. Science abhors magic. It takes all the magic in the world and sweeps it all into atoms. I just sweep the other way....... all into the monad. But, when you stop to think, for forty years, you’re gonna realize that it doesn’t make a hill of difference.
Whatya gonna believe......?
Am I going to believe in the rattling cage down by the Lake? Am I going to ask you to believe?
Yes and no.
I like to think that I’m not here by accident. I like to think that life is not an absurdity in a meaningless universe. I know a lot of wonderful existentialists who love nothing more than to believe that. Each to their own.
But, not quite. As I say, everyone is going to have to believe in something. So where do we start? We can start with atoms or love. If you start with atoms, you’re going to end with atoms, so why start? If you start with love, you’re going to end with love, so why stop?
It’s that simple, sports fans.
I believe in Tinkerbell. I’ve seen, maybe because I believe.
I spoke with Bob Collins last night. He’s seen and heard a lot of things. Ron says Bob is crazy. The scientologists got hold of him.
Did you know that the Aviary started in Reykjavik, in 1972? Go figure. Did you know that Ernie Kellerstraus was a scientologist? I’d forgotten all that good stuff. Ron is my historian.
1..........
Some things never change.
Kevin likes powerpoints. I don’t. If he starts a power point at the mountain, I’m gonna pull the plug, like I threatened to at the church.
Somebody asked me what was the difference between a jesus freak and a bible freak.......
A jesus freak believes in history. A bible freak has a lot of trouble understanding Greek......... namely, the word... logos. They think that the bible is the word of God. Jesus is the logos. They’ve got the God of history. Just follow the bouncing ball.
But understand that this is not sunday school. What is this?
This is philosophy 101...... what they used to force you to take your senior year, in order to graduate.
If you took all the science departments, and stacked them, one on top of the other, on the very bottom would be philosophy. The bottom is ok, but it should also be on the top.
What good is knowledge, if it doesn’t impart wisdom? It imparts cell phones. What good are cell phones?
What good is a rattling cage? Joe thinks it will get to the stars. Ok, but then what, Joe? Joe has no answer.
(cont.......)
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