So the fundamental substance, the universal experience is faecal, not
metal. Heavy shit indeed. And when it reaches my chin as it sometimes
do I go all stoic for what else can one do?
TOPE Turd Topic?!
AndrewF
(Hoping to achieve the serenity of the deranged).
(And did someone call Philosophy crap? Hold my coat..)
Now, now. Remember that 'crap' is the manure that allows new things to grow.
When Carl Jung married, which brought him money, he wrote to
antiquarian book dealers all over Europe. He told them he was
particularly interested in buying Alchemy texts in which students
had taken notes in the margins. He collected quite a few of them.
What he found was that most had notations to the effect that the
teacher said that the prima materia, often thought, or said in the
text, to be lead, was actually the experimenter's excrement. That
was not published in the texts to avoid any more criticism than was
already about. This is in symbolic agreement with the Buddist idea,
at least in some Tibetian Buddism, of the manure field of life,
consisting of all the 'shit' we have lived through, which is
absolutely necessary as the fertilizer from which movement toward
enlightment grows. So, if philosophy is indeed crap, it's in good
company!
Moose
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