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Subject: Re: Relevant text - Mon, 26 Feb 1996 23:46:09 -0500
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 23:46:09 -0500
Message-Id: <199602270423.XAA27592@dns.enter.net>
From: Michael Clements <orgonome@dns.enter.net>
To: orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Subject: Re: Relevant text
Sender: owner-orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
I just tried to read one of my postings and couldn't make sense out of it.
I wrote it in a few seconds. I often have 2 choices: write nothing,
or write something as fast as I can. Many of you would probably
prefer I chose to write nothing. The following is a slightly
re-written version that reveals better what I was trying to say.
> You are on to something. Using only words and their meanings to
find perspectives and directions in life
(thinking with words --- what we tend to call consciousness) is a severly
limited technique.
> The resulting perspectives are weird. For example, there either is
> "limitation of constraint" or there isn't, and what does that mean?
Trying to use words as tools to see the world
> is like OSHA making 10,000 rules to ensure safety and then within
> days forgetting the purpose is to ensure safety and focussing only on
> the rules, regardless of effect.
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> I used to try to "think" myself out of problems with my conscious
mind with words and without allowing for feelings.
> I have discovered that what we call consciousness (control over
feelings, rationality, logic-at-all-costs), leads mostly in
faulty directions.
> It works better for me if ideas and perceptions which are first derived
from feelings are then explained with words. The ideas and
perceptions come first. Words and their meanings do not work well
as "crobars" to work my way to accurate perceptions of the world.
> Using words as tools to explain my ideas and perceptions works much better
than ideas derived from the meanings of words.
Safety is much better
achieved with common sense and judgement (feelings) than by following
the rules of OSHA. Trying to discover the meanings of the words in
OSHA rules will not help.
Another example, for some people "sancity of life" means that we
should kill a suffering
wounded animal which cannot be helped. For others it means keep
every human alive no matter what and at all costs. Then they have
to define "human" and so on. Words here can be a "cover," or an
justification for other hidden feelings.
> Feelings derived from words and rules are often cockeyed. I
> don't know if you know what I mean, or if it matters. It is hard to
> explain.
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> I have found that when anything I thought or felt was based on the
meaning of the words I was using, and was thus based only on the"logic"
of the definitions of words, (philosophy?) I was "in trouble."
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> Mike C
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