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To: Solon who wrote (46736)	2/17/2014 1:19:57 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Oh, I agree with you 100%. I was very lucky being born where and when I was. I know that. On balance I have had a very good life. Born to a kind smart mom in the California Bay area. Healthy and normal with good genes. I often think how good I had it and still have it. Old but still hale and hearty. I was not feeling sorry for myself as much as just being an old man so tired of the ignorance and hatred I have had to wade through my whole life. It is common to hear the old free thinkers complain, just like we complain about our aches and pains. We are just tired from so many years of battle. Montaigne said: "the older I get the less I fear to say what is on my mind. Here is my favorite quote of all time from Will Durant: "The persistent effort to subordinate fancy to reason, is the dominate quality of the Greek mind. Ergo, Greek literature is modern, or rather contemporary. We find it hard to understand Dante or Milton, but Euripides and Thucydides are kin to us mentally and belong to our age. This is because though myths may differ, reason remains he same, and the life of reason makes brothers, of its lovers, in all times and everywhere. Will Durant (his preface to his book on ancient Greeks) in his tomb ; "The History of Civilizaiton."