But Cheers is already a missionary among the un-astute - inversely word are not hallucinatory our belief in them is dellusionary - in the same manner that you believe that one might make someone understand what they are getting at - rather than one doing the work of understanding what they (one) is getting at and as such end the game - in which case may I ask you what you are getting at using commands as "Make the users describe the notions behind their noises. Get them to see how psychoactive..." Are you telling us you think Cheers is the savior
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 2:22 PM, caldwell-brobeck < [email protected]> wrote: > Why "Make the users describe the notions behind their noises. Get them to > see how psychoactive, how hallucinatory, words are, especially that > deluding > figment "IS"." ? Why not try and understand what they are getting at, from > their viewpoint? > Cheers; > Chris > > > > > On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 3:09 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > In a message dated 7/29/12 8:20:58 AM, [email protected] writes: > > > > > > > And what is the essence of the human form? > > > > > All questions of the form "What is X?" are suspect because they in effect > > make existential assumptions. Words use the user. > > > > "What is genius? What is art?" "What IS a miracle? What IS a ghost?" "Who > > ARE you?" Think of so-called "words" as like bacteria. They are countless > > -- > > some helpful, some harmful. If you don't have - in your head -- an immune > > system for your "words", to detect and dismiss the bad ones, you're in > for > > trouble. Make the users describe the notions behind their noises. Get > them > > to > > see how psychoactive, how hallucinatory, words are, especially that > > deluding > > figment "IS". Do that, and you're halfway home. > > -- S a u l O s t r o w *Critical Voices* 21STREETPROJECTS 162 West 21 Street NYC, NY 10011
