[Serious] Thomism: Then & Now

[emjay]

My italics... you might as well be I've always been curious, where do you get all this info from anyway? I kind of picture you like Johnny Five or Data, just flip through an Encyclopedia, 'okay, got that... next!' Did you study Philosophy at university or whatever?

Ish.  I initially hoped to be an engineer, but frittered my time and money away on elective courses in rhetoric, western lit, and cultural anthropology at UF.  Segued that failure into a position in combat leadership back in the aughts, and all of that into a position collecting raw data for federal and state governments since.  Turns out a committed student makes a baller nco and a not too shabby grower.  Oddly enough, what I did study was probably going to lead me to work for Eller.  I did a few pitch boards for them back in the day.

-But that's all I am, all I've ever been.  All I ever will be.  That's the cool thing about the subject of thought.  We're all (or we could all be) subject matter experts.  Just takes appetite.

As far as the impresssion where all discrete x blends into a nondiscrete y - well..that's my zen, that's why I grow flowers.  I like watching it happen, even though I realize that it's not actually happening, that my sensory systems are being flooded with input, in mere reality.  That my thinker is failing.  I may not know what's true of reality, but I've definitely got a handle on what true of my reality survival suit.  You can find me expounding on it to no one one in the middle of some field all alone, talking to the wind.  I actually open my mouth and talk, and rehearse the comments I'll post here.... that sort of shit.

That's beautiful... you've got me all teary-eyed now I wish I could be there with you, in a field somewhere, just mindfully looking out over it all, and talking about everything under the sun... sounds like heaven