Re: a political (and spiritual) being

Very stupid response, Tina. Comparing religious experience to drug
induced highs isn't quite the same as comparing shades of blue from
crayon boxes. I don't think you can even begin to talk intelligently
about comparisons unless you've had both. Any two people looking at a
streak of blue on the same sheet of paper from the same crayon, though,
are having the same light frequencies hit their retina, even if they
don't quite see the same shade.

I wonder if Dennis Miller ever read Wittgenstein?

Jim

tina carson wrote:

> Dennis Miller said:
> "I stopped getting high, not because I didn't like it but because of
> the people you get high with. 'How do I know that the colour blue I
> see is the same as the colour as you see?' Buy a fucking box of
> crayons!"
> Surely we couldn't have conversations like these or even conversations
> at all if it weren't for a difference between our subjective realities
> and a merging thereof on some levels? Now, buy a fucking box of
> crayons and let's get on with it.
> "annoyed with nit-pickers" tina
>
>> I can see that. But to make a meaningful comparison -- to say that
>> good drugs "do the same thing" -- you'd have to have some knowledge
>> of another person's experience as well, no? Perhaps I read you wrong.
>>
>> That's clearly was Huxley was doing in his book, by the way. This
>> isn't uncommon.
>>
>> Jim
>

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