The Only Immortality

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Pete wrote:

And the two Number one top Oxy-Moron: )

 

1a. Microsoft Works

 

1aa. Consciousness of being

unconcious.

 

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Hi Pete,

Yajnavalkaya is asked when all the

aids to navigation that exist for a man

viz. sun, moon, light, fire, speech are

all gone out or are in abeyance; what is

it that exists for a light for a man or

what is it that allows him to be conscious

inwardly in dreams.

 

" We see also that the purpose of a light

is served in dreams, as, for instance,

meeting and parting from friends, and

going to other places etc; and we awake

from deep sleep with the remembrance that

we slept happily and knew nothing.

Therefore there exists some extraneous

light. " (from Shankara's Commentary on

Brh.Up.: IV.iii.6)

 

My C.O.D. has a defn. of 'oxymoron' as

(rhet) Figure of sppech with pointed

conjunction of seeming contradictories

(e.g. faith unfaithful kept his falsely

true)

 

The point is that by themselves, in their

root meaning, the words that are brought

into conjunction are opposed in meaning.

However once united they have a new

meaning and intelligibility and do not fly

from each other. eg. Wordsworth's truant

schoolboys - and as they run they look

behind and snatch a fearful joy.

 

The opposition in their root meaning that

must exist in the elements of the oxymoron

unfortunately disqualifies some of

Sarloji's top 50.

 

airline food, government organisation,

sanitary landfill, legally drunk, British

fashion, business ethics, military

intelligence, New York culture, software

documentation, child proof, Christian

Scientist, Temporary Tax increase,

political science, religious tolerance,

microsoft works.

 

Pete you yourself stand in doubtful

certainty on the matter of consciousness.

I would urge you to look in on the variety

of opinion amongst the White Coats on a

list called jcs-online. It's

associated with the Journal of

Consciousness Studies which I don't take

but you will be aware of what they are at.

Does a bacterium represents its world?

What's the difference between its

representation of its world and that of a

thermostat. Is consciousness an

epiphenomenon and so on, the binding

problem, hard boiled eggs and chicory

salad.

 

Michael