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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (9226)	3/25/2002 4:37:06 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 13020

That's an amazing quote, especially considering the source. Thanks Len. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser, who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, - 'But these impulses may be from below, not from above.' I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil.' No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition, as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.« -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series, Self-Reliance

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (9226)	3/25/2002 4:37:29 PM
From: HG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13020

Howdy ! I have a good mind of dissing Rajneesh ! But... Before I do that... Let me ask you.... Are you or were you ever a disciple of his ? That was a decent quote though ! <smile>

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (9226)	3/26/2002 12:27:55 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 13020

Re: Find new mistakes, invent new mistakes, and you will be growing, and you will be flowering." -Rashneesh "It's best to learn from the mistakes of others, because you can't possibly afford to make them all yourself." -Warren Buffett