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To: Neocon who wrote (15275)	6/2/2001 3:01:57 PM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 82486

Who knows what attenuated influences may be, lost in the mists of time. oh Neo , we actually can go back thru into the "mists" of time if you'd really like , and consider the earliest mythological foundations and symbols of man's psyche going forward. If we are prepared to open our minds wide enough... Just as science has peered deep into the atoms or out past the solar system and expanded our cosmology we are able go back and trace the symbols and mythic themes that have linked us all together . Or set us apart... I think without doing damage to my original feeling of a kinship of thought between Aristotle's "Golden Mean " and Siddartha's "Middle Way", I could readily withdraw any inference to a direct influence connecting them cross culturally, but still show a very close approximation of their practical approaches... To say that " the cases are too disimilar " as atoms to solar systems , that they weren't even thinking on the same plane , is your choice to see or not see as you would choose to infer. And as you say the mists of time ...and all the things we can concieve to set ourselves apart , and alienate ....but time goes in a circle, the world expands and sooner or later Aristotle was always meant to come face to face with Siddartha , and I think the two would have much to discuss happily. Happy/serious/delightful philosophical little pagans that they were ! ;-)

To: Neocon who wrote (15275)	6/2/2001 4:21:23 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Happy/serious/delightful philosophical little pagans that they were ! I meant to add also , at that juncture and all things being equal in the "kinder , gentler world " with it's many thousand points of light ... That Buddhism is not just what you percieve it to be from it's seemingly passive role that it has seemed to play , comparing Eastern to western progress. I think many in the past have tended to draw the conclusion, that because of the success of the European nations in technological progress , government, laws it follows this is a rationalization of the superiority of Judaic/Christian traditions . And must be proof of the "Truth" of that set of prophesys , God , and Messiah. I don't draw the same conclusion Neo. I don't see anything as finished or man arriving to some superior attenuated plane just yet . Whether the first idea of monotheism arose in Israel , Persia, or in India is fairly irrelevent to me personally. The idea I have is of a world ongoing , with much left unfinished within us . Much mastery of self on a personal level , goals of execution , and realization of many newer attitudes and outlooks have yet to be fully achieved . The realization of such internal goals , dealing with negativism moern Buddhism adresses quite well as a science of thought rather than a mystical cult beliefs . ;-)