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  1. GrahamLewis

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    That does not compute. In my admittedly limited experience psychedelia and mysticism supersede logic, they do not incorporate it.
     
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    Maybe human logic and the logic of the universe differ.
     
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    Maybe life and the universe supersede logic altogether. Logic is a human attempt to make sense of the insensible, to fit existence into mental boxes. IMHO.
     
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    This reminds me of the famous syllogism:

    1. All dogs have four legs.
    2. My cat has four legs.
    3. Therefore my dog is a cat.

    By the same token, you could create the Politician's Syllogism:

    1. We must do something.
    2. This is something.
    3. Therefore we must do it.

    But doing something is sometimes worse than doing nothing. (And some people would argue that doing anything is worse than doing nothing ... which is also called Creative Inertia, i.e. coming up with excuses for not doing anything. :) Thank you, Anthony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, for creating "Yes Minister"). ;)

    Then you may find Bill Hicks to be exactly your cup of tea. :D

     
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    But some stroke of coincidence, yesterday I came across an article in the Marginalian, entitled: The Great Indian Poet and Philosopher Tagore on Truth, Human Nature, and the Interdependence of Existence

    The article quotes excerpts from Tagore’s book The Religion of Man – drawn largely from his Hibbert Lectures given at Oxford University in May 1930 - that lend meaning to our discussion about the shared-self and logic.

     

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