Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00281)

thalprin wrote:
> Life's weird and lively I think, but, or evidently, that doesn't necc. 
> suggest that we can't/won't work out a/o work within those parameters.
I don't know if it shows, but I've been 
trying to speculate and qualify some of 
what might tend to appear to me as 
somewhat extreme dualistic meanings in 
general, with the objective of at least 
"possibly modifying" some of those 
"apparent dualistic/interpretive 
extremes," in some sense, maybe, "at 
least from my perspective," possibly, in 
some cases, maybe. (Quotes were meant to 
be in reference to "possibly keyish" 
interpretive variables, whatever they 
might, in turn, be seen to be from 
whatever interpretive bias.) Not that 
those efforts on my part haven't created 
(or might not have created, possibly, 
apparently, or really ...) some general 
or particular impression that my posts 
are circular. Thanks again, Leon, for 
pointing that out. To my way of 
speculating, that comment from Leon 
might be seen to give my 
speculative/qualifying approach some 
credibility, maybe, in a sense: I'm 
tending to speculate that there might be 
some sort of speculative, circular 
"middle way" (quotes per "in a 
sense"...) that might have the effect of 
modifying various apparent or 
real-enough extremes for some people, 
maybe, possibly even in terms of "one's 
worldview," to some extent, maybe. I 
guess one might suppose or theorize that 
I might be practicing or trying to 
practice a kind of "middle-way magic" on 
my I-Not-I. Is it working? If I 
answered that with a "yes" or a "no" 
that I hadn't "qualied enough" (ie, 
"hadn't qualified enough" in the sense 
of "'basically,' in my mind, at least"), 
I don't see how I could be practicing 
the kind of circular, speculative, 
quoty, continually- or often-qualified 
"middle-way magic" that I seem to think 
I might be practicing. So, "then 
again" ... ^:-/ ... In a world or 
worldview where extremes of various 
kinds are seen as the cause of many 
problems, why go on promoting the roots 
of various extremes (in terms of "weird 
and lively," or whatever)?

^:-/ ...
Mauri

PS Not that it might not appear to be 
possible for one to speculate and 
qualify some things to death (in 
whatever sense), but, then, (one might 
wonder ...), how else could one at least 
"attempt to get around" (ie, "at least 
in terms of one's interpretive 
tendencies...") some of the more-obvious 
or more-apparent dualistic/extreme 
effects/affects or aspects in life ... 
For me there would appear to be a kind 
of "middle way" approach or mindset that 
has (I'm speculating ...) tended to 
boil down towards what I've been calling 
"just being." In other words, "just 
being" seems to me as if it might 
provide a way (a kind of "middle way," 
in a sense ...) by which one might 
transcend the various extremes in 
dualistic reality.