Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 21:01:00 +0100
From: Erik <erikb-AT-agoranet.be>
Subject: Re: Thanks, but...


At 08:03 -0500 16-02-1999, Unka Bart wrote:
>Hi Marius, (My) favorite) Sprout, and others;
>
>> True... I thought unka bart didn't meant that one cannot change the
>> world without having found oneself inside oneself... I thought he
>> was talking about how one can fulfil ones life?
>
>Pretty close there, Marius.  Pretty close, indeed.  And Eric, you'd be
>as close, except that I wasn't talking about changing the world, but *just*
>about finding oneself inside oneself.

i know, unca bart, but i thought bringing in some things you mentioned in
some distant past.

...
>
>Now when it comes to "religion," it is *not* my aim to tread on anyone's toes;
>yet this puzzles me.  There are a number of very well educated, and otherwise
>intelligent folkx who actually believe as Holden professes here, some of my
>own relatives, in fact.  Now I'm talking about seriously smart folkx here, my
>56 year old little sister, for one, who has a PhD in Biochemistry; and my
>79 year-old Aunt, who has a MS in Math and a PhD in Psychology, for another.
>
>And for the life of me, I just cannot reconcile how anyone with such exposure
>to the world can accept uncritically that some book contains the ungarbled
>word
>of god, simply because someone else told them that such is the case.  Or
>because
>they read it somewhere (which is the same thing).

Well it's easy. It's called being unable to accept that some things can't
be known. Many people tend to fill that void with anything that gives sort
of an explanation. Most people do not like when there are loose ends.

Me, I prefer the void.

Erik