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To: Michael M who wrote (67587)	12/20/1999 1:07:00 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

I don't want to see life go the way of the movies I enjoy- most of them end badly. The lesson I learn from literature is that "the WORST are full of passionate intensity "(to paraphrase Jeffers)- I, however, do not lack all conviction, and I am most strongly convinced that being less emotional and more rational means I am less likely to do an injury to my neighbor (by neighbor I mean an individual in society that might be affected by me- I am not using neighbor in the literal "next door neighbor" sense). In literature one sees so much that could be fixed by honesty, rationality and calmness, especially if it were combined with education. If Madame Bovary had been more educated, more rational, and less emotional she wouldn't have had to take poison. If Medea had thought her situation out a bit more carefully she wouldn't have had to kill her children- tragedy is all about lack of impulse control- look at poor Lear's foolish and impulsive choice governed by his weak minded emotionalism. IMO the way to true happiness is to be guided by what is rational, moderate, and intellectual.

To: Michael M who wrote (67587)	12/20/1999 10:23:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

Irrationality has destroyed the world many times in the past and could destroy the world again. Nothing is to be admired about irrationality as the more irrational a human or a society becomes the more divorced from reality that human or society becomes and the more of a parasite that person or society becomes, feeding off of others that exhibit less irrationality. As for judging others, it is not only a necessity, but a duty. To judge is to express values and to define a morality or lack of morality. A judge-less society is a society without rights; a judge-less individual is an individual without a philosophy. Irrationality is the bane of human progress and achievement. It has created wars, religions, socialism, despotism, occultism, mysticism, and most of the ills of mankind. Irrationality at its most extreme is madness. You embrace the irrational? Then I can only say... "Sic Transit Gloria Michael"!! Father Terrence