At Mon, 12 Apr 1999 09:58:41 -0700, you wrote:
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>Jim wrote:
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>> You make my point for me.
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>If so, then you have a very good point. But I don't think that the portion of
>the post you quoted makes the point that freeing oneself from the chains of
>Belief undoes all of the learning and experience that you have acquired on your
>journey. There may be aspects of child-like thought in the mental state of
>someone who has rejected dogmatic thinking, but that person will also have the
>assets of years of experience which were not available to him before his years
>of service to his master BS.
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Thisd is an example of the "Return to the Wisdom of Innocent Beginnings" meme, found (in varying guises) in the Eden myth of Judeo/Christianity/Islam, the Uncarved Block/Original Face of Buddhism, the Peaceful Agrarian Matriarchy of Wicca/Paganism, the Noble Savage, the Good Old Days, the Glory That Was Greece/Rome/Egypt etc., Communism's Original Barter Economy, the Wise and Enlightened Aboriginal Shaman, and Jim's Child as Sage contention.
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>> To search for what was lost is often extremely
>> time consuming and frustrating.
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>"Of all ambitions, perhaps the least practicable is that of regaining something
>that has been lost -- a love, a trust, or any other desirable state of affairs.
>(..) That which we won and held by luck, confidence and simple good humor is
>far less available to the strained pleading of the dispossessed."
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> -Robert Grudin
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>> I do not infer that a child is more
>> sophisticated than a adult . ...The answer is out there....Not in a
>> book.
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>Well, I'm about to head "out there" for a week, but weakling that I am, I'm
>taking a book.
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>See you all in a week.
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>-KMO
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Joe E. Dees
Poet, Pagan, Philosopher
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