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~johano

amen (non-ironically intended)... i've reached similar conclusions, hepled along by my linguistic adventures, exposure to Korzybski's General Semantics, and many other factors...

also love the usenet quote!

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~inquiry wrote (thread):

Well, no wonder our smileys and winkies seem to have so joyful an alternating coexistence! :-)

Pretty sure I've mentioned this next quote before in these parts, but it remains a fave:

"All mental is illness."

Context:

The species seems wont to discuss some relatively limited forms of mentality constituting illness. But I've noticed I'm significantly happier and/or more at peace sans thoughts altogether.

Sure, some thoughts are seemingly fun for a season, but have a tendency to invoke their own opposites (e.g. can you think about light without dark, heavy without light, loud without soft, etc., etc.? ), and eventually become infested with a loathsome what-might-be-called "ennui mold".

But sans thoughts altogether... how could their be either a problem or its opposite? There's essentially no modeling of an alleged objective reality in terms of pairs of opposite notions.. not even an infinitely lonely, "free-willed" instantiation of subjectivity relative to said object reality, just <of COURSE it can't be said>.