Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: George S. Montgomery who wrote (24061)	8/3/1998 11:44:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

George, A lot to think about there. While trying to construct a coherent reply, a comment on Alex's comment: Having erred (grotesquely) on the side of abstraction, let me get simplistic about it. As I have an 8 year old son, I'll draw on recent folk mythology. It's like Star Wars... we have the force, we have the light side and the dark side. The way that traditional religious and political institutions control the dark side is to try to squash the force altogether. It often fails - examples of both sides pop up all too frequently. It succeeds, too - it's all too easy to see that vast hordes of people around the word behave like docile, de-forced mobs of sheep, doing and believing whatever they're told to do and believe. The answer? Stop trying to squash the force and start training people to recognize and use the positive side of it. Obviously, Star Wars is kid stuff, and we're not talking in those terms. But there is a real energy and vitality in humans that can be turned to either positive or negative uses. And I don't think that enforcing obedience to words written down on paper is the way to do it. What is the way? Wish I knew. I think that acknowledgement of the conscience, which cuts across most religious lines, as a far clearer expression of the divine will than anything written down on paper might be a good start. How much have things changed since old testament days? If your priest, pastor, rabbi, mullah, or whatever came down from the hilltop and told you that God wanted you to put the next town to the sword because they didn't believe, would you do it? Or would you call the nearest asylum? Some things do change. Steve

To: George S. Montgomery who wrote (24061)	8/5/1998 12:08:00 AM
From: MiriamsSon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

George-You are way too deeply into your head.Your body needs you.It might help your body and sole to pay as much attention to your feet as your head.Its Body and Sole.From your post"I expose,I made,I recall".Your "I's" are way too overlapped and overworked.May you be happy.May all beings be happy,MiriamsSon