I am curious about a thought and wish to have a discussion with the various

peoples around me of whom I value the way they think.

But to do this I am mostly certain I will need to build up to it.
Build up part 1
Keep in mind that I am pointing at various ideas initially so we can have a
clear sense of how those ideas will later be used to point at something
different. No, I do not have a way to simply point at the first idea without
there being a lot of thought noise about that idea and that would fuzzy up
what I want to point at so much that no one would be able to see what I want
to point at in the first place.
It is sort of like the zen master and his dog. The zen master points at the
moon and his dog barks at the hand. not having any concept of the master pointing at the
moon ! perhaps because dog mind "ust operates that way !! but I hope you see the
difficulties in front of me now by "ust using and then e#plaining this
metaphor.
I am going to describe an event and then look at the various points of view
about that event.
There is a gathering of $ people and myself ten total!. I have before me an
easel %
& any of
these would work, but I am also sure the idea of an easel that first came up in
your mind would work as well. 'n the easel I have a blank canvas %
& and
again any of these would work, the pictures "ust help to clarify. Then on my
painters palate I have an arrangement of colors. %
& of which any of these would do.
I put a daub of yellow on my brush and make a single stroke of it on the
canvas. 'f those assembled we all seem to agree that there is now a yellow
stroke on the canvas. There is one lady that says she wants the truth of this
matter and proceeds to get out a collection of intricate instruments. (he puts
the canvas under a powerful microscope and finds that it is made of various
shades of yellow particles and in fact there are a few particles of completely
non)yellow. (he then shows what she has found and says that the yellow
stroke is made up of various colors, but indeed we see mostly yellow, but it is
not a purely yellow stroke. I am forced to retract my statement and yield to
this argument that it is not a yellow stroke. I then ask those assembled to
simply agree on the fact that in general the unaided eye see*s a yellow stroke,
of which we unanimously agree.
Now in the proceeding there will be plenty of places to debate the minutia of
my statements, however for linguistic purposes I am wanting the reader to
glide along with the broad strokes of the various ideas and let my summary of
those ideas point at something. +ith your agreement on that, I proceed.
Build up part 2
In the non)human! animal world, generally carnivores kill to eat. There are
a few that ,play with their food-. .#ample / cats, killer whales, bears, but for
the most part they engage in that activity because they see the ob"ect as food.
0nd yes, I am sure there are those that can find the aberrant animal that kills
for some strange reason, other than identifying the ob"ect as food. 1y point
here is that humans have the capacity to kill for reasons that are purely
figmentary. .#amples / sport, psychopathology, ritual compulsion, )))))
2rom the Bible ) perhaps the story of adam and his family is more about the
first time one human could see in their mind why an other human would kill
for a reason that has nothing to do with sustaining him3herself on the planet.
It is this author that could see how the human mind had an unknown capacity,
the unconscious... and because at the time there was no easy way to talk
about the idea and the mystery it pointed at.
I suspect this author also understood himself4herself as a part of a whole. The
total thing being beyond the capacity for the rational mind to hold, but for the
unconscious mind maybe not so much. +as the a pathway for humans to
touch something or someplace. The place or thing being the origin of
mystery itself.
This individual was aware that there were no words to apprehend the totality
of this mystery, and so 5od thought was born. By dancing around it with
words one could point at the e#periences one has contemplating the workings
of thought itself.
.nd part 'N..