When I first read Nerburn's article I was neuro-physiologically shaken. Yes, I was put off by the metaphor of the frog in the well.. but after some time I felt that what this reading says about the metaphor of the shorelines… i.e. about the ocean appearing different according to the way we approach it being very true! I find much help in Jason’s reflections but not in his mono mania with the metaphor. Also I feel sad when feelings are reduced to a “private well”. Like a friend who once told me that tears are the noblest expression of human sentiment. Here in India Shiv Viswanathan once held forth on Gandhi as a scientist which was not very acceptable to a cosmologist… Life is not a laborotory where conditions can be controlled “at will”… Life is mystery… Blaise Pascal once said that the heart has its reasons which the reason does not know… Or like someone who said, “What happens and how it happens we can say… Why it happens takes years to understand…” Why is genocide wrong? Is the rightness and wrongess of it just a feeling that we have? Like the philosopher who said, “Two things fill me with awe and wonder, the starry sky above and the moral law within me.”
On Sep 4, 2010 Austin wrote :
When I first read Nerburn's article I was neuro-physiologically shaken. Yes, I was put off by the metaphor of the frog in the well.. but after some time I felt that what this reading says about the metaphor of the shorelines… i.e. about the ocean appearing different according to the way we approach it being very true! I find much help in Jason’s reflections but not in his mono mania with the metaphor. Also I feel sad when feelings are reduced to a “private well”. Like a friend who once told me that tears are the noblest expression of human sentiment. Here in India Shiv Viswanathan once held forth on Gandhi as a scientist which was not very acceptable to a cosmologist… Life is not a laborotory where conditions can be controlled “at will”… Life is mystery… Blaise Pascal once said that the heart has its reasons which the reason does not know… Or like someone who said, “What happens and how it happens we can say… Why it happens takes years to understand…” Why is genocide wrong? Is the rightness and wrongess of it just a feeling that we have? Like the philosopher who said, “Two things fill me with awe and wonder, the starry sky above and the moral law within me.”