Jim Callahan magicjim@islc.net
Creator of Applied thought Technologies
http://www.magicjim.net
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From: joe dees <joedees@bellsouth.net>
To: virus@lucifer.com <virus@lucifer.com>
Date: Monday, April 12, 1999 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: virus: levels only two
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>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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