The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #24567   Message #282915
Posted By: hesperis
22-Aug-00 - 10:14 PM
Thread Name: BS: Explaining the Unexplained
Subject: RE: BS: Explaining the Unexplained
Spaw, my feelings and actions do match my "belief".
It is not in fact a "belief" to me. Do you have to believe in a chair? No, you sit on it.
But what happens when other people say "there is no proof that there is a chair..." A chair is a concrete object, that you and I can both see and sit on. Unfortunately you and many others cannot see "knowing things." No, it's not a chair, but it is there and I have experienced it.

What I cannot do, is prove my knowledge according to your system - yet. I am frustrated, not in trying to prove this to myself, but in trying to translate something from one language to another, when the other language has no words for what I do.

I read a 'science' fiction book recently where one nonhuman race was stealing artwork from another nonhuman race, because they had no concept of rocks possibly being alive. The rocks in question were moving and speaking to each other, and to the humans, but the other nonhumans just could not get it in their heads that the rock things were people. They had no words in their language to describe that.

Yes, that was fiction, but this situation seems similar. I have no words in your language of Proof, to tell you what I have experienced again and again.

Carol, that is a very good point.
However, I would be able to understand the mathmatical relationships of harmony and sound. This is what frustrates me here. I am usually good at translating the logical and the intuitive.

I guess you have to experience it.
I should probably take Little Hawk's advice, and let some things remain mysteries.

Wow! This is a seriously fantastic discussion!

~*sirepseh*~