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To: bobby beara who wrote (253)	3/24/1998 2:14:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1615

Here is part of my philosophy, bb: Each human being is unique and a veritable universe in him or herself. No ones spirit is contained within just the flesh, but reaches out in imagination, dreams, goals and the ability to change the environment around them. Most fail to do so because they allow themselves to become entrapped in a pedestrian way of life and thinking. Most (not all) teen-agers have a grand sense of life. Many lose this during their college years, or at least by the time they're thirty ("don't trust anyone over thirty"!). Yet, is "to be an adult" to be accepting of the status-quo, the mundane, the sense that "I am only one person, what can I do?" type of mind-set? Individuals can do good, or evil, or nothing. Most choose to exist and react to the stimulii about them -- just like rats. But to be truly human means going beyond rats, the Crips, the Bloods, the 9 - 5 jobs, the 11 0'clock news, organized religion, or the latest comedy show or sporting event. People are willing to barter away freedom because they do not understand its value until, every couple of generations or so, its value must be re-learned with the shedding of blood. People seek false guarantees against the unknown when they should embrace the unknown as the ultimate adventure. People want stability in an unstable universe. People seek protection against the unprotectable. People seek comfort at the cost of liberty. This is how freedom is lost; how despots grab power. It is the seed of revolution. For revolution begins with a revolt against apathy. BB, like you, most people in this world are followers, not leaders. Most believe what they are told and their thoughts and aspirations have a limited horizon. Bold ideas, change, the future frightens them -- yet to exercise freedom you must embrace these things. Individuals abort their self-esteem when they accept the trashy idea that they are nothing in the cosmos.Actually they are EVERYTHING in the cosmos. As far as each of us is concerned, the universe begins when we are born and ends when we are dead; what comes after is not even metaphysics. . . it is pure speculation. When an individual stands on the mountaintop and looks down at the verdant vistas of the earth below and feels a welling sense of power and feels a giant, that person is healthy. If an individual feels insignificant -- cowers under the stars like an ant instead of imagining traveling amongst them; quakes at the thought of monsters in the deep, instead of yearning to plumb them with supersleek submersibles; writhes in anguish at the thought of their impending end, instead of accepting mortality and striving to live every day to their fullest -- these are definitions of those that SEE and those who only see with lowered eyes, shortened vision, trepidation and fear of living and of their selves. The men and women who have lived large are missed, are remembered. The rest are swept -- quite rightly -- into the ashbin of history. Father Terrence