Re: OT


"Advaita Bob" <advaita.bob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
Mayura wrote:

Smell, pheromones etc. perhaps even the colour and form of a croup. But
would there be a notion of beauty?

I don't know. To me, 'goodness', beauty', 'truth' etc. might be just be
different ways of saying 'symmetry' according to the relevant
accompanying
data. E.g. mathematicians describe successful doo-dahs as 'elegant' or
'beautiful' or whatever.

Yes I happened to have one as a teacher.

You lucky devil :)

Could you ask the question more directly. Don't be afraid :-)

(But you're so scary... :)... E.g. <<In my first interventions on
Buddhist
groups on the Internet, I needed to get things of my chest about
Buddhism as
I experienced it that I could never get of my chest in real Buddhist
groups/sanghas>>

You find that scary? You should come and watch me at my group therapy
for beaten husbands.

:( So, do you consider that your alternating viewpoints thing is mainly just
temperamental rather than mainly a response to your human environment?

Jonathan


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