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Old May 20, 2007, 04:02 AM
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> I'm moved by stuff. Like the night sky... I went stargazing and I was in awe of our universe. It made me cry.

That sounds beautiful. Wittgenstein wrote a little about the mystical experience. For him, he found it in the contemplation of the universe. The question: 'why is there something rather than nothing?' Why does any of it exist.

'The answer to the problem of space and time lies outside space and time'

'The appreciation of the world as a limited whole, that is the feeling of the mystical'.

> I like feeling small and insignificant. It comforts me to know that we are but a speck of dust and even if the whole world blows up, it probably won't make a difference. LOL I'm strange.

That reminded me a lot of the last quote. I think his notion was that appreciating that there are limits on the world (a beginning and an end)... To see that it is limited... But that it is 'whole' too (in the sense that all our experiences occur within its limits seeing as they are experienced within space and time)... Is the mystical experience.

So...

I don't think you sound strange at all ;-)

(Though there are of course issues to do with whether it is limited or not... Though the notion of the big bang would seem to qualify as the 'first event in the natural world' it is of course possible that there is a natural cause and effect chain extending back infinitely... Though this is really controversial... I actually think that it seems boggling either way... Just comtemplating infinite causes and effects or the cause of the first event in the natural world - which must by definition be supernatural - brings on the mystical experience for me).