Knowledge an impediment to understanding the new.

[AnnaG]

I noticed.
I don't suppose you would want to paraphrase that long bugger, too? (post #5)

lol Just kidding. It just looked to me like the little shovelful of ground that China dug with post #1 became a large crater for him to stand in with post #5.

 

[Niflmir]

Knowledge is conditioning. Dexter, you have bothered me.

Best I could do. Copy and paste about forty times and you get the jist of post 5. It is never explained why knowledge is conditioned. It is just asserted over and over again, in different ways. Then he tries to insult dexter in a multitude of different ways, mostly by claiming that he is conditioned and proud.

Copy and paste forty times. That is what I make of it. Hmmm, 40 might be an underestimate.

 

[china]

Dexter Sinister ,

A greater pity is that you can't recognized Niflmir's text as an accurate parody of the way you write

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and the Greatest pity is that you,Dexter Sinister don't or don't want to recognize that I am not questioning the "manner" of the text itself ,but the purpose of it being written .
As far as my writing goes ..don,t like it don't read it ,if you feel something is
not correct don,t say it is wrong -show me the the correct answer whatever it may be ;don't tell me that's the way it is because so and so said so or I can find it in some some reading material.If you don't know a correct answer don't tell me that I am wrong with whatever the topic might be ; doesn't make you look very bright .

 

[china]

Niflmir ,

Quoting china To discover if a new mushroom is poisonous you must eat it; ignore your analytical chemistry and biology teachings those experiences are merely the products of self-projection and therefore utterly unreal, false. If you are to discover for yourself whether it is poisonous, it is no good carrying the burden of the old, especially knowledge—the knowledge of another, however great. You use knowledge as a means of self-projection, security, and you do not want to die. But a man who is protecting himself constantly through knowledge is obviously not a truth-seeker...
For the discovery of truth there is no path...When you want to find a new poison, when you are experimenting with anything, your mind has to be very quiet--even dead--has it not? If your mind is crowded, filled with facts, knowledge, they act as an impediment to the discovery of poisons; the difficulty for most of us is that life is so important, so predominantly significant, that it interferes constantly with anything that may be poisonous, with anything that may exist simultaneously with the known. Thus knowledge and learning are impediments for those who would seek, for those who would try to understand that which is timeless: death by poiso

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The above is my interpretation of China's words

_ Then don't put Quoting china , mister ,I don't like it .

Quoting china Knowledge is conditioning. Dexter, you have bothered me.

Show me where I have stated that ......................

-you better cool it mushroom head .

 

[Dexter Sinister]

...if you feel something is not correct don,t say it is wrong -show me the the correct answer whatever it may be ;don't tell me that's the way it is because so and so said so or I can find it in some some reading material.If you don't know a correct answer don't tell me that I am wrong with whatever the topic might be ; doesn't make you look very bright .

Well, I'm a good deal brighter than you are. I've tried those things in the past, and more. You pay no attention. You deny, you obfuscate, you redefine words to mean whatever you want them to mean without explaining what you've done, and you turn to insults and abuse when challenged. Your grip on reality and the proper use of the English language is so tenuous you can't even perceive that every time you post one of your little philosophical harangues, you just look foolish. You have no idea what it means to think clearly.

 

[karrie]

No ounce of understanding, true understanding, about the depth of something or someone, is gained without prior knowledge of that person or thing.

Without knowing my husband as intimately as I do, I could never hope to understand him. Not truly. I could form some image of him based on my own desires of what I wish he were, but it would be only an illusion. And while illusion can feel very real if meditated upon and given immense amounts of energy, it doesn't make it actually real.

I could swear up and down that I know him to the tips of his toes if I had built him only within my own mind, never set a hand upon him, never touched him, never let him speak for himself. I would know every crevice of his imaginary body, every turn of his imaginary moods, and every inflection of his imaginary voice. I would understand his every whim if he were merely a construct, a reflection, of my own whims.

But, in reality, understanding my husband comes only through knowledge, through learning, through interaction and observation.

 

[china]

No ounce of understanding, true understanding, about the depth of something or someone, is gained without prior knowledge of that person or thing.

Without knowing my husband as intimately as I do, I could never hope to understand him. Not truly. I could form some image of him based on my own desires of what I wish he were, but it would be only an illusion. And while illusion can feel very real if meditated upon and given immense amounts of energy, it doesn't make it actually real.

I could swear up and down that I know him to the tips of his toes if I had built him only within my own mind, never set a hand upon him, never touched him, never let him speak for himself. I would know every crevice of his imaginary body, every turn of his imaginary moods, and every inflection of his imaginary voice. I would understand his every whim if he were merely a construct, a reflection, of my own whims.

But, in reality, understanding my husband comes only through knowledge, through learning, through interaction and observation.

Thank You for the wonderful and refreshing post.