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To: Neocon who wrote (6955)	4/7/2002 6:36:08 AM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

Actually, the opposite of following one's bliss..... Well one's mans reason virtue and vigilance is another man's bliss ! ;-) Shouldn't life be blissful? Liberty be blissful ? Happiness be blissful ? After some 225 yrs , if not for a little "Bliss" out there on the horizon over God's country , then ---->what as it all for Neo ? To be the world's largest consumers be cause we are it's largest benefactor & truest democracy ? But what really has changed from before? What did we learn from this great experiment so far ? And vigilance, temperance, dedication , sacrifice and virtue go hand in hand , and are the precursors of one order of bliss...surely there was something greater to come out of all that sacrifice , and Freedom such a Chimera for centuries fell into our hands at last in a land that was greater than the Conquistadores ever knew. (not the imagined "pie in the sky Bliss " , but the one right down here on Earth) ....there once was a revolution...life , liberty and the pursuit of _____? : " That quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation's development. A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success. Without a revolution in spirit, the forces which had produced inequities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration. It is not enough merely to call for freedom, democracy and human rights. There has to be a united determination to persevere in the struggle, to make sacrifices in the name of enduring truths, to resist the corrupting influences of desire, ill will, ignorance, and fear. ~Aung San Suu Kyi If it's OK with you , I'll follow my Bliss.