being_and_becoming The Night Star slip in to philosophical mode, knowing that you can't know and only love what there is to know: sophist's beware. lover's of wisdom versus the wise men "that's the difference between me and you, you see you only think I'm wrong where as I know you are." [plato's symposium] being, What is Being? First, Why Being? What Being? How do you know Being? Why does being mean Being must exist? Drop the Platonic dogmatics: The Forms exist but not as a higher level of reality, Instead as Cultural Memory Cultural Memory Embedded in language, Which in itself is in no way Godly. And God is dead, no? And we killed him. Many little individuals lights in the night sky connected by what? What, if God is dead? By Being? Is that just not a place holder for God? If we are to kill the Divine- Personal to make it conform with reason, emotion, intuition Are we not to kill the Impersonal God and stop pretending that the place holders mean anything but God-in-different-words. Drop the God Drop the Being. How do you get either from the observable notions of existence, from Matter and Motion, the most liberating equation. Without a higher power, we merely, we Supremely ARE. And the PostModernist Is the Cultural Imperialist: "I am right seeing that everyone else is wrong. Their lives, built in rotting houses of False Experience and Wrong Opinion, {let me drop Platonism while dropping Platonic phrasings). "I am right by writing though I, the author, am Unknowable." The Unknowable, again becomes God, or a Place holder there fore. The cycles, drawing from Hegel, The cycles the cycles the cycles. Don't forget the cycles and Speak of Eternity when You really mean Now Or the past Two thousand years. Don't Speak of the World When you mean Classical Greece Nineteenth Century Germany, England, France, and Euro-America. Don't speak of Being when you mean exactly the same thing that the theists mean by God but are too afraid to face it as such. Don't speak of philosophy, for you haven't yet established that first "Why?". Not 'Why do we exist?' But 'Why do we question existence?' The latter question is more important when deciding if philosophy is for you. "Put down your books, pick up your lives" Philosophy is only relevant through lived experience, and life is only knowable through a philosophical experience. Remember, lovers of wisdom, you know nothing. And you ask stupid questions. 061118 ... Hooray! "Put down your books, pick up your lives" 061207 what's it to you? who go blather from