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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 20:32:13 +0000 (UTC), Thomas Koenig   
    wrote:   
      
   >Steve Hayes  schrieb:   
   >   
   >> The Ring in this context is that which Bernie is reluctant to use and   
   >> that which Hillary is eager to use.   
   >   
   >Ah, I get it.  The Ring is a reference to the Ladies' room.   
      
   The nature of myth.   
            Source: Berdyaev 1948:70.   
       Myth is a reality immeasurably greater than concept. It is   
     high time that we stopped identifying myth with invention,   
     with the illusions of primitive mentality, and with anything,   
     in fact, which is essentially opposed to reality... The   
     creation of myths among peoples denotes a real spiritual life,   
     more real indeed than that of abstract concepts and rational   
     thought. Myth is always concrete and expresses life better   
     than abstract thought can do; its nature is bound up with that   
     of symbol. Myth is the concrete recital of events and original   
     phenomena of the spiritual life symbolized in the natural   
     world, which has engraved itself on the language memory and   
     creative energy of the people... it brings two worlds together   
     symbolically.   
      
   Why are you demanding that myth be turned into concepts?   
      
      
      
   --   
   Steve Hayes   
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