Two Favorites – Korzybski & Dunham

Korzybski Explains Abstracting with a Push Toy Fan

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“Meet Achmed the Dead Terrorist” | Spark of Insanity | JEFF DUNHAM

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By vinaire, on June 2, 2013 at 7:24 AM, under Uncategorized. 7 Comments
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  • Chris Thompson's avatar Chris Thompson  On June 2, 2013 at 1:10 PM
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    Korzybskis model is profound and is an example of how mankind has continued to work out the meaning of life and existence over the millennia. I have begun to realize that this game of wringing meaning out of our perceptions and consequently our experience seems basic to humankind.

    • vinaire's avatar vinaire  On June 2, 2013 at 4:28 PM
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      The “Manifestation-Filter-Perception” model seems to be consistent with what Korzybski is saying. See Chapter 5 in

      Reality & Mindfulness

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      • Chris Thompson's avatar Chris Thompson  On June 2, 2013 at 9:27 PM
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        Agreed and is consistent with what many great thinkers worked out. In fact, you seem to be there as well. There is a mathematical point of view which states that .999. . . = 1. You showed me how to prove this. If and when you’ve reached .999…, it seems we can call it done. Or?

        • vinaire's avatar vinaire  On June 3, 2013 at 5:38 AM
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          Absolutes are not there in reality, but we can approach them as closely as we want.

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  • Chris Thompson's avatar Chris Thompson  On June 2, 2013 at 1:24 PM
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    Jeff Dunham is funny and profound!

  • vinaire's avatar vinaire  On May 27, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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    The world is not an illusion. It’s whatever it is except what we abstract from it. We are sort of a mirror, and we mirror only inside us in our nervous system what is going on outside of our nervous system. The correct expression is that we are dealing with abstracton of some order.

    You see an apple… you made the apple alright. What exists there is only a process going on. We abstract out of it the apple we see. This applies to all abstraction. The abstractions do not mean that it means nothing. Except it’s the human mirroring of the process which is going on, if we want it or not.

    Now this is a very, very important point.to realize that the world is not an illusion. That the world simply happens to be an abstraction.

    There is only a process of ABSTRACTION going on. The nervous system creates reality through this process of abstraction.

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