Sunday, February 06, 2005

At Starbucks


Dualism
Originally uploaded by mincaye.
Met up with Choon Wei, Eugene and Chee Loong (who's going to Australia for further studies come Saturday), at Starbucks yesterday after Reunion.

When I looked up from the table, I saw this word, and couldn't resist taking the photo, for reasons d'NAers and Sivin will know ;-)

Oh how we often unconsciously subscribe to dualistic perspectives which violently isolate the physical and spiritual, the natural and the supernatural.

And all along, the truth is that all things in existence, empirically measurable or not, are either all supernatural, or else all natural.

It makes no difference, since the distinction is in our different angles, not the properties of the subject, as dualism would have us believe.

(Inscribings on the walls of Starbucks can be very philosophical. I once blogged, on the now obsolete mBlog, about a conversation between two Sirens that I saw at the Cold Storage Starbucks in PJ)

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