<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a serious question for everybody and no > implicit criticism is meant and I'm also curious if > there is a legitimate/valid, whatever reason, someone > can come up with that I'm not quite getting. Why do we > need any story whatsoever regarding MMY? We can > neither confirm nor disconfirm any story. The > arguments go on and on. Most of our stories whether in > the pro or con camp are simply narratives of what we > already believe. All we have is our own experiences > regarding MMY. The stories can never, ever resolve; > they never "make sense" unless you deny huge chunks of > contradictory material. So, why and what is this need > that some, all, a few, including moi, struggle with? > -Peter
Hi Peter, Surely it's human nature to struggle to understand the world? The alternative to understanding is to say "it is that way because that's the way it is", in which case we'd still be living in the trees, or the oceans. So it's only natural that we should try to understand MMY, who is after all, an important part of our world. Maybe someday someone will be able to explain him, in a way that "makes sense", and all that contradictory material will fit right in and won't be contradictory any more. Maybe the the paradoxes of MMY are like one of those things no-one can understand until Copernicus, Newton or Darwin, and after they've explained it, everyone else says "Well that was obvious. Why didn't I see that?". If we ever do get a true story/understanding of MMY that "makes sense", maybe it'll just be an interesting intellectual exercise, or maybe it'll also help in our quest for enlightentment. Here's hoping... JF To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
