To: ahhaha who wrote (22611 ) 5/25/2000 10:44:00 PM From: Solid Respond to of 29970
ot-ot-ot The result is that the inheritor of Plato, Alexander, arises to simplify the knot of confusion by cutting it with the sword. This destroys further vain and futile intellectual dabbling and replaces it with the blood and guts of war. "Through an age of fighting men When sword was mightier than pen Born of blood line dating from The hundred battles warrior Conn For three hundred and fifty years The western highlands lived in fear Fighting to regain the Isles Down to Islay and Argyle. The warrior kings lived by the sword From hill to loch and dark fjord Battling 'til his life he shed Leaving the throne To the Sons of Somerled." We have not crawled all that far from the cave entrance, and yet we have the ability to ascend within our understanding to great heights. We do well to remember this as a nation. We cast disrespect to our fore Fathers and trade ignorance for truth when we forget.The profusion of confusion 'The Killa from Manilla' 'Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee' A TKO in the first round. Remember Plato's metaphor of the cave. To the one who brought news of 'reality' the rulers of 'their own reality' killed the messenger. It is one thing to 'see' and another to understand. A small country has fewer people. Though there are machines that can work ten to a hundred times faster than man, they are not needed. The people take death seriously and do not travel far. Though they have boats and carriages, no one uses them. Though they have armor and weapons, no one displays them. Men return to the knotting of rope in place of writing. Their food is plain and good, their clothes fine but simple, their homes secure; They are happy in their ways. Though they live within the sight of their neighbors, And crowing cocks and barking dogs are heard across the way, Yet they leave each other in peace while they grow old and die. lao tsu...tao te ching