NP Cheating on Metaphysics (was Re: pynchon agnostic? II)

[davemarc]

From: Keith McMullen <keithsz at concentric.net>

> The
> instructor kept holding up his Styrofoam cup and saying, "There is no
> difference between this cup and a thought. The only reason you see a cup
is
> because we have all agreed that there is a cup." He further suggested that
> almost all of what is presented in the West as Eastern thought is complete
> hogwash, because the Eastern perspective is so fundamentally different
than
> how the West conceptualizes the nature of reality, that it is nearly
> impossible for us to grasp it and vice versa.

There is no difference between a Styrofoam cup and the instructor's
opinions.

Except that the former is more likely to hold water.

d.