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To: nigel bates who wrote (40463)	10/26/2008 1:41:21 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) of 149317

>> The saying is the "all power tends to corrupt..." ... but I do think that absolute power corrupts absolutely, which is why your great presidents didn't want monarchical powers. And anyhow, 60 Democrat senators falls a long way short of 'absolute' power.<< If you believe that, then you deny a persons intellectual ability to resist power. I believe strong self actualized people, can easily resist the trappings of power. After all, power means nothing in the end, to a person who understands it means nothing. I have had a fair amount of power several times, and never abused it, and had no trouble at all walking away fom it. Many people have no desire to have power over anyone. I ceertainly do not. Einstein turned down the presidency of Israel. An enlightened person realizes power is nothing but an illusion. Siddhartha knew that-lol.

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