Post subject: Re: reid where is that quote in your signature from?
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:11 pm
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Early in the book he makes an analogy that describing our own degree of happiness is much like trying to describe what a color looks like to someone else. We never really know if what we see as yellow is what someone else sees as yellow, or if an identical experience of something makes us the same kind of happy that it makes someone else. The sig quote is how he surmises that we could try to describe a color, but really it gets us nowhere.
Post subject: Re: reid where is that quote in your signature from?
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 2:40 am
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washing machine wrote:
Early in the book he makes an analogy that describing our own degree of happiness is much like trying to describe what a color looks like to someone else. We never really know if what we see as yellow is what someone else sees as yellow, or if an identical experience of something makes us the same kind of happy that it makes someone else. The sig quote is how he surmises that we could try to describe a color, but really it gets us nowhere.
you read this book? so did i?
_________________ No matter how dark the storm gets overhead They say someone's watching from the calm at the edge What about us when we're down here in it? We gotta watch our backs
Post subject: Re: reid where is that quote in your signature from?
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 3:03 am
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washing machine wrote:
Early in the book he makes an analogy that describing our own degree of happiness is much like trying to describe what a color looks like to someone else. We never really know if what we see as yellow is what someone else sees as yellow, or if an identical experience of something makes us the same kind of happy that it makes someone else. The sig quote is how he surmises that we could try to describe a color, but really it gets us nowhere.
sounds like a good read
reminds me of trainers and doctors asking you what your level of pain is on a scale of 1-10
i'm always a little perplexed at that one.
_________________ stop light plays its part, so I would say you've got a part
Post subject: Re: reid where is that quote in your signature from?
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 3:33 am
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corduroy_blazer wrote:
washing machine wrote:
Early in the book he makes an analogy that describing our own degree of happiness is much like trying to describe what a color looks like to someone else. We never really know if what we see as yellow is what someone else sees as yellow, or if an identical experience of something makes us the same kind of happy that it makes someone else. The sig quote is how he surmises that we could try to describe a color, but really it gets us nowhere.
you read this book? so did i?
Well, I'm still reading it.
I had a novel going which I finished, now another novel, and a good story seems to take precedence over nonfiction for me. The Gilbert book is on my night stand and I try to read a section or two casually before bed. I enjoy it, but for my hours on end reading it's novels novels novels.
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