Doug Renselle (renselle@on-net.net)
Sat, 28 Feb 1998 18:32:22 +0100
TLS,
If you can, see the latest - March/April 1998 Issue of the New York
Academy of Sciences magazine, 'The Sciences.'
At least three items of interest for TLS here:
"Unmasking Tradition," by Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf on Sudanese female
circumcision as a socio/cultural rite.
"Initial Conditions - Rite of Shame," forward to the above article by
The Science's editor Peter G. Brown. Brown broaches the actuality of
many truths across different cultures and the tendency for humankind to
lapse into, '...a paralyzing cultural relativism...' Here is a real
world example of how MoQ solves a very difficult cultural problem.
Also, in the same issue, in an article titled, "All Wet," about alcohol
abstinence, there is a beautiful Rene' Magritte: 'The Raw Nerve,' 1960.
(re: the Einstein Meets Magritte conference, 1995, where Pirsig
presented SODV)
Enjoy!
Mtty,
Doug Renselle.
-- "Now, we daily see what science is doing for us. This could not be unless it taught us something about reality; the aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relations between things; outside those relations there is no reality knowable."By Henri Poincaré, in 'Science and Hypothesis,' p. xxiv, translated from French in 1905 by J. Larmor, published 1952 by Dover Publications.
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