[Oe List ...] Very close to the indicative is the imperative

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Randy, Herman, et al,
 
If you haven't seen the movie, "The Last Station" about Tolstoy's last  
days, it is excellent. In the view of that movie, it was Tolstoy's followers,  
not him, who insisted that his views were real.
 
Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend. 
 
Love and blessings,
Jann
 
In a message dated 11/27/2010 11:31:34 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
rcwmbw at yahoo.com writes:

     
Herman,
 
Does anyone in fact "see the world as it  is"?   Doesn't everyone rather 
"see the world as they  see the world."  I.e., is there any world view that  
is not subjective?  I would caution that our "views of the  world," much like 
our "stories of reality," are not "the  world" and are not "reality."  They 
are our views and  stories.  In fact, isn't that what Brooks is trying to 
say  about Tolstoy, that he forgot, or never knew, that his  views and 
stories were perceptions, and thus presented them as the  "real thing" and 
insisted that everyone receive them as  such?  My guess is that Tolstoy did not 
allow people to see  the world as it is, but rather to see it as he saw it.
 
Help me out here.  I may be way off base.
 
Randy






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