Martin Stower Wrote:
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> What this has to do with the Fortune Cookie Zen
> (Chán) of the Kung Fu TV series escapes
> me. It’s not a kōan.

I'm in an oriental frame of mind and I'm thinking of these if you ever have a few minutes to peruse them;

[www.aldokkan.com]

> No, I’ve come upon the fatal weakness of your
> claim that definitions “are the starting point
> of communication”. The objection (which is
> strictly a logical one) applies irrespective of
> the language.

No, this is just another case of someone handing me a dictionary and telling me if I organize the words properly I'll think just like him.

> Perhaps you’d like to offer some evidence in
> support of these claims of a linguistic Golden
> Age.

Ancient language had its own weaknesses.

But it had important strengths. Grammar was a mnemonic to remember how reality operates and words were a mnemonic to remember anatomy, zoology, and cosmology. Stars were mnemonics to remember history; no not the nonsense history we record about despots and murderous tyrants but of scientists, metaphysicians, and statesmen. In order to use language one had the sum total of human knowledge on the tip of his tongue or the business end of his quill. He used the words of the gods which tied all of knowledge, human history, and science into reality and into technology.

What more evidence is there than the great pyramids and the great corpus of ritual known to us as the Pyramid Texts? Everything we know as well as logic supports the existence of this language. Only science can generate the progress which culminated in the Great Pyramid. Egyptologists would have us believe that it was founded on superstition and ignorance and that this is why no ancient metaphysics can be detected in that age. They can't detect metaphysics because they don't understand the nature of metaphysics (won't even look it up in the dictionary) and can't understand that in this case language itself is the metaphysics.

The proof is in our face but it's not seen because people can't even imagine another kind of language. They refuse to do the scientific testing that would turn up the evidence of the funiculars. They refuse to do systematic scientific testing at all choosing instead to seek gold and confirmation of their own failed hypotheses.

It's a sad state of affairs. I never imagined the abysmal state of what we call modern scholarship and modern science. It's not only Egyptology but includes all disciplines. The kings wear no clothes. I imagined that if anyone discovered a new truth it would be adopted into theory in short order. Geologists don't believe in CO2 geysers and Egyptologists can't be bothered to read the PT or perform simple science. None of this seems to bother anyone. The attitude is "of course stinky footed bumpkins mustta used ramps, so who needs evidence or logic?".

In case anyone was wondering the pyramids each point "up". They point up because they were the instruments of ascension that turned the king from a flesh and blood man (No, not a god) into a star that was used to remember him forever; an imperishable star.