Abuse & Personal Mastery LO15447

Bill Harris (billh@lsid.hp.com)
Mon, 20 Oct 1997 10:34:49 -0800 (PDT)

Replying to LO15373 --

Winfried D wrote:

> "Peter H. Jones" <phj@actrix.gen.nz> nearly knocked me of my feet when I
> read his reply:
>
> ...snip...
> >One of the keys I feel is to nip anger in the bud before it gets out of
> >control. Also William van den Heuvel has posted some great papers at
> >http://www.muc.de/~heuvel/papers/ that make clear for me that emotions
> >like anger are not real. William would say (I think) that these emotional

> If emotions are "virtual" what were they before the concept "virtual" was
> even invented? How real do things have to be? Three years ago my car was

I think perhaps what this is getting at is Fred Kofman's and John Weeks'
notion of ontological inversion in their "Making Sense": the notion that
we sometimes name something and then give more import to the name we've
created than the thing itself. Often this is useful; sometimes it is
_very_ limiting.

Bill

PS: "Making Sense" is available from the MIT Org. Learning Center, I
believe; it may be referred to as document 1994 * 11.004.

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