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Buddha was reported to have at first refused to teach because he said no one would get it. Then was convinced because maybe a few people would. There is a zen tenet that goes something like "when you encounter incongruities between what you wish was true and what actually is, there is nothing...

Any solution that requires everyone else to understand d something is no solution at all

It seems to me that the only people with the right to an opinion on the subject are women.

I do think it is the kind of thing that when you first really internalize what it means, it shows up as a brand new insight and feels like no one has ever explained it correctly before. Truth as a pathless land kind of thing. I know it did for me anyway.

That is the entire point of general semantics

Agree very much. He did what they asked and it turned out they hadn't really understood what they wanted.

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To his credit, he did a number on that one in his dissolution speech.

I very much think LSD therapy should be at least strongly encouraged at 18 and then again at all the decades. Brains need it.

Over the years, I have gradually found that i am fitting all the philosophy that interests me within Kuhn's paradigm concept.

I just realized my autocorrect needs to be punished for the various things it tries to do to Hayakawa. Anyway, I haven't read them for decades but I read both relatively thoroughly long ago. Before this thread veers off course, I think it's important to note that Korzybski is dead and, whether...

He had some things to say about people who saw him as a guru.

One of the concepts that has influenced me greatly, that I probably got from Pirsig rather than J Krishnamurti although the latter did I think a good job of explaining it here: https://jkrishnamurti.org/about-dissolution-speech Is that truth is a pathless land. Everyone gets a profound insight...

I don't know how to edit posts apparently.