>"Winfried Dressler" <winfried.dressler@voith.de> wrote
Keep in mind I just joined this list...
>We need to distinguish our thinking of reality and reality itself. But we
>must not fragment or separate thinking of reality and reality itself. A
>common mode of such fragmentation is not to distinguish thinking and
>reality but to identify both. Such identifications are the root cause for
>hurt feeling like ubuntu und ubuntu feeling like hurt.
I find this interesting in that I believe that people can only deal with
reality by defining what it is. From a semiotica point of view, events
happing outside of our bodies will not even register in our consciousness
unless we have the codes in our minds to notice the events.
So the 'root cause' for hurt feelings cannot really be known. For
example, if I am an animal rights activist, I have in me those codes that
trigger hurt when I read/hear/see events like slaughtering animals for
food. Carnivores would not feel hurt by those events.
The event of killing an animal in really neutral. If I kill the animal in
self defence, then even myself, a vegan, will not be as hurt as I would if
I killed the animal for food.
Help me understand how I can deal _directly_ with reality. I
>If it is so dangerous to fragment thinking and reality, why do I have to
>distinguish them? Because:
>
>I have to distinguish thinking and reality in order not to fragment them.
>(I hope I could exemplify this statement above.)
>
>I expect that the generalisation is still true: One needs to distinguish
>in order not to fragment. (Deutsch: Man muss unterscheiden um nicht zu
>trennen.)
You may or may not be familiar with Coach University. One of things
Personal and Business Coaches do is to help peple compartmentalize (my
term) their experiences so they can take a new perspective and put new
energy into reaching their goals. Check out this web page to see some of
the distinctions:
http://www.distinctionary.com/nuggets.shownuggets.fcgi
The disctinctions are usually between closely related words and not between
words like "hate" and "love".
Paul Rousseau
roussea@server.uwindsor.ca
St. Clair Beach, Ontario
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