Thread: Sometimes I Think Too Much (Carl's Philosophy)

I was saying, in a thread today, that it is always, for all participants of that ‘now’, ‘now’.

It is only the differing experiences of ‘now’ that make ‘now’ different for us all; esp in regards to location in space as a viewpoint.
I am talking of a single ‘now’ with many participants.

So, I then thought of Martin Buber’s comments about entering into a relationship with a thing; where an ‘It’ becomes a ‘Thou’ to our ‘I’.

And I thought of how a tree, then, therefore determines my ‘now’ by determining my experience of my ‘now’. And how every other ‘It’ or ‘Though’ that I experienced at that point in time also in part determined my experience.

I then thought why would I not accommodate, then, that other ‘Its’ or’ Thous’ determined the tree’s experience of ‘now’ which then determined mine.

At infinite levels, surely one could say, that to some degree, all of life is a shared existence, at least for all living things at that point in time?

Martin Buber's I and Thou is a great read for a lazy afternoon. You read one line and then consider it for an hour...

OK, it's official now, my head hurts. I should not read stuff like this first thing, 0508, in the morning without even a coffee under my belt.

Bob

Carl I have no idea what you're growing out in the back paddock out your way, but would you like to share some with the rest of us, so that we may all be on the same planet as you and your tree...


Mick

Speaking of thinking too much, here's some food for thought:

I thought a thought, but the thought I thought I thought was not the thought I thought I thought. If I thought the thought I thought I thought, maybe I wouldn't have to think so much.

The OP has me thinking too much. But, at least I have something to ponder at lunch.

Originally Posted by ReardenSteel

Speaking of thinking too much, here's some food for thought:

I thought a thought, but the thought I thought I thought was not the thought I thought I thought. If I thought the thought I thought I thought, maybe I wouldn't have to think so much.

That's exactly what I thought......I think

I'm not intelligent enough to understand any of it.
I got lost trying to understand how a tree of any variety could experience anything at all, or determine the experience of a sentient being. Unless of course the tree fell on thee, in which case one could determine that thou had experienced pain or even death.

Man, if anybody thinks too much its me. Although I've engineered my life in the past four years to help me get out of my head, and its definetely helped, some things just get to me and I can't stop thinking until its over, like my current legal issue I'm going through.

To paraphrase Wittgenstein: The limits of my idiom are the limits of my world.

And there is no such thing as thinking too much. In fact, according to my idiom, quite the opposite is true of the world today.

James.

Faced with such a daunting revelation of intricate contemplation, homo sapiens instinctual response is to slurp the gruel, slug down the ale, slap the female, defecate, and go to sleep.