week 9
My E-Prime Day
Standard English:
Today I had to cut class to catch up with my assigned homework.
English Prime:
The choice that I made today was to arrive late to class because I was behind on homework that I should have completed at another time other than when class was in session.
In language as in law (including the laws of science) nothing is absolute and just about every statement can be expanded on for the purposes of making the statement more clear, or perhaps, more confusing depending on what your intentions are.
Can I synthesize East and West?
It is my belief that the East and West has to be synthesized and that this will happen if it hasn’t already been happening for millennia. The East learns from the West and the West learns from the East. Since it is innate in our nature to want to create more things, ideas, etc. When we run out of new materials with which to create from, we pause for a moment and observe what else has been created which is surrounding us constantly, waiting for a new idea to come. In this way we are always borrowing from what has already been created to make a new creation (we hope). Even though there are definite distinctions between the sciences and philosophies of the East and West I don’t think it is so important to differentiate between the two because ultimately the approaches came from the same place and ultimately are traveling towards an end point which will also be the same. The two are intimately connected like Yin and Yang and perhaps the difference of approaches is the thing that keeps the balance of all things in harmony.
2 comments:
Eastern and Western ARE yin and yang. I like how you described that. I wrote a similar thing in my blog, but yours captured the essence and beauty of it much more profundly.. Always a pleasure to read your blog, HH
What a great synthesis of the concepts - it really put it in a remarkable clear visual of the yin and yang. Sounded great to me
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