All reality is conditioned. I'm not such a Cartesian to believe that there
is one and only one reality, but I'm not enough of a cosmologist to think
that there is a reality somewhere where 1 + 1 does *not* = 2. So I guess I'm
a conditional conditionalist. How's that for obfuscating?
In regards to Environmental Ethics, I think, and hope, that the conditioned
reality of ethical regard for systems and abstractions such as "species" is
growing and changing.
And, thanks for the Web page, it's great if you go to the home site.
Steven
Nothing is true, all is permitted, nothing
is true, all is permitted, nothing is true,
all is permitted, nothing is true. . .
The Adventures of Omar Khyyam
-----Original Message-----
From: Discussion forum for environmental ethics.
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Ray Lanier
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 10:43 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: FW: White Man's Fall
Hello Steven B.,
R.A. Wilson is a very interesting and thought provoking author. It seems to
me that the Preface to the 1986 edition of Cosmic Trigger, Vol. 1, is very
relevant to your post. The poem and your comment on it reflect two
different views of "reality", imho. And I bring still a different "reality"
to the subject; a "reality" that has changed over the years and seems still
to be unstable. As my posts re: "world views" should indicate.
Is only ONE version of "reality" RIGHT?
A copy of Wilson's 1986 Preface is at:
http://www.rawilson.com/trigger1.shtml
I'd be interested in any comments.
Ray
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Bissell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 5:38 PM
Subject: FW: White Man's Fall
> I just got the, whatever, below. It took me a few minutes to figure out
what
> it was all about. But here we go again, all of the world's problems are
the
> fault of white males doing whatever it is white males do. I just finished
> the last of Robert Anton Wilsons _Cosmic Trigger_ trilogy and he knocks
the
> crap out of this idea far better than I could. Why, oh why, must some
> environmentalists blame all white males for all the problems? And,
probably
> worse, why do they make environmental saints out of "Indians" (I'm meaning
> this in the generic of any aboriginal group)? This sort of single minded
> simplicity is worthless.
>
> Steven
>
> All generalizations, including this one, are untrue.
> Pogo Possum
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 3:22 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: White Man's Fall
>
>
>
> Mid August,
> dry, dry, dry.
>
> Leaves are brown
> falling
> crunching under feet.
>
> Warm weather,
> naked trees.
>
> It could be Indian Summer,
> but there has been no frost.
>
> Could be White Man's Fall.
>
> [ public domain ]
> = + = + = + = + = + = + = + = + = + =
>
> "The goals we pursue are the seeds from which our future grows."
>
>
> http://www.SustainWellBeing.net
>
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