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Originally Posted by demk  To be perfectly honest with you I don't quite understand. |
Heh, I wouldn't even claim that I fully understood any of this either. And really, the more complicated these speculations are the less useful they tend to be. Which is what we see in philosophy; a limitless occupation with words as an end in themselves. It's almost like climbing a ladder to gain perspective on the ground underneath (which would be essence/truth), and then continuing to climb higher and higher until you no longer see the ground anymore. Before you know it, your life has become about climbing ladders instead of using them as a means of gaining perspective on the ground, and probably won't come in contact with the ground again until you fall off the ladder and crash into it face-first (finding peace through suffering).
It's important to remember that to realize
it, words can become a hindrance when approached as an end in themselves, rather than as mere pointers to something that cannot really be expressed with words.
When I write about these things, in my journal or on here, it's almost like the ready-fire-aim approach Steve has described in relation to business start-ups. I often don't really know what I'm talking about and just focus on stringing some words together, and every now and then something triggers an 'aha!' moment (in myself or whoever happens to be reading).