{"id":2832,"date":"2024-06-23T08:19:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T15:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/?p=2832"},"modified":"2024-06-23T08:19:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T15:19:03","slug":"when-to-use-and-instead-of-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/23\/when-to-use-and-instead-of-but\/","title":{"rendered":"When to Use \u201cAnd\u201d Instead of \u201cBut\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Who are people trying to fool when they say \u201cfirst give compliments, and then, before revealing to them what you have noticed that is not quite so complimentary use and<\/em> instead of but<\/em>!\u201d Who is so daft they won\u2019t detect this sleight-of-hand wordplay? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, there is a time when using and<\/em> instead of but<\/em> is absolutely the right thing to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You long to go to the beach, it is your escape from all that nags you, inwardly, outwardly, hauntingly, your ever-present, ever-distant destination. Alas, you are here, the beach is there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Picture yourself, then, in your back yard. No, wait, actually go to your back yard, or your front yard, or somewhere outdoors. Hopefully it is nice out, but it doesn\u2019t have to be. You sit, quietly, meditatively, peacefully, feeling the hot sun, or the cool breeze, or the soft drizzle of rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, if I am sitting next to you, or somehow I have gotten into your mind, I happen to point out how much the hot sun is similar to the hot sun at the coast. The breeze you are feeling could be coming off the ocean, and its sound in the trees\u2019 leaves is not completely unlike the ocean from a couple of hundred yards away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, your first reaction is \u201cyes, but<\/em>\u2026it is not the ocean – this is my backyard!\u201d WRONG! You ought to say \u201cyes, I feel it, AND<\/em> it is the ocean!\u201d The wind is<\/em> the same wind; the sun, too, has the same brilliance, the rain might just as well be the same rain that you endure just because you have come quite a ways to be at the ocean. Good smells in the air \u2013 the same! The beach is with us always. Here and<\/em> there \u2013 not here but<\/em> not there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And this is a lesson in being qualiadelic.<\/a> We can recognize that there are gifts everywhere, and the gift may seem different here or there, but they are in essence the same. The molecules that the breeze carries may be different but the invisible wind is the same. The waves in the ocean and the ripples in a lake are the same. They are qualia – the matter they carry may be different, but the breeze and the wind and the waves and the ripples themselves don\u2019t have any material existence, not any more than does a rainbow or a cloud. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our senses see and our mind interprets. Our senses tell us we are in our backyard and that\u2019s what our mind interprets. As an evolutionary survival game it works but we aren\u2019t living in the the same landscapes anymore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a gift<\/a>. Play with it. Experiment<\/a> with it. Appreciate it. No buts about it, only ands. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who are people trying to fool when they say \u201cfirst give compliments, and then, before revealing to them what you have noticed that is not quite so complimentary use and instead of but!\u201d Who is so daft they won\u2019t detect this sleight-of-hand wordplay? However, there is a time when usingContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-qualiens","post-2832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9QShd-JG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3232,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions\/3232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}