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Originally Posted by TGS
Sorry, I misunderstood, I thought your passage that I quoted was a contribution to an ongoing discussion. I asked "therefore what?" to try to encourage you to articulate, so that I could understand, what implications you were drawing from your observation that the cult of the Mother is possibly the longest lasting cult known to humankind, in the context of that discussion. It seemed that you were using the longevity and distribution of the cult as evidence, or at least suggestive, of something. Perhaps I am mistaken, perhaps you are drawing no implications but simply making an observation.
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Good. It seemed to me, when I made that post, that there was a search for some long lasting universal, and by a confutation technique, the bicycle riding of Plato was invoked. I suggested what I think is our most "permanent" concept (the word was chosen carefully). So if one looks for universals (space-time in my intention, literally universal is associated with just space), one could consider the oldest still around. Obviously, going with the very old we are in a pre-history contest. Concepts of that kind arrive to us through myths that have a strong poetic content.
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Originally Posted by TGS
On the contrary, however, discussion of reality, such as might take place on a discussion thread, can only start once one has found a form of words which approximate a representation, or give some hint or suggestion as to the nature, of that reality.
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By all means. That's how we communicate. Although there is a wise man traditions in certain cultures of making use of synthetic metaphors and even pictures. But you are right. In this tread we have to stay with words, and philosophic approaches. It was really the Plato bicycle that triggered my rebel nature. If some one was offended I apologize