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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (40407)	6/13/1999 8:13:00 PM
From: jpmac	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

>>Your average schizophrenic is highly motivated to think straight<< Only until the bills are paid and dinner is cooked. Then it's party time. But maybe I'm not average. <g>

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (40407)	6/14/1999 12:01:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I don't think the will is always subject to the flesh. I think it is the other way around sometime. The will may be strong, but the flesh is not necessarily an enemy, it may be a servant. Do you think that new record holders have always superior flesh. How does Agbayani crawl up from the minor leagues when he is past his physical prime. How does he face the speeding ball after being beaned in the eye. The unknown craft by which the will makes his flesh superior to its own pain and pleasures and conforms to the will's own dream is the path to greatness. I think about Xenophon in the Anabasis. I think of the lst Marine Div (Reinf) coming out of Chosin Reservoir. I think about the DDE and DD's attacking Kurita's fleet at Leyte Gulf. I think about men and women everywhere facing not almost certain death, but certain death (like Cranmer and Socrates), whose will to duty does impossible things, and light lamps to remind the rest of us that dying isn't hard, but living up the last available instant of time, when the flesh at last overcomes our will, is great and beautiful.