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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (27367)	12/27/1998 9:52:00 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

Bob other people through years of searching ended up dying in the jungles of Guyana for what they thought was truth. People find all kinds of "truth"- some of them spend their whole lives looking for it, but alas quantity does not equal quality. You have found something that works for you. If it makes you feel good and it doesn't hurt other people I think that is great. But once you get to the point where you "find" something you have to realize that you are no longer open to ideas. You have decided on your personal truth. You are prejudiced- you think you have weighed all the religions and ideas of the world and have found the one truth- you have JUDGED and have come to a decision- of course that is prejudice. We are all prejudiced. We all make judgments based upon our previous experience. That experience is as honest as we let it be- it is my opinion that no one can lie to us as convincingly as we can lie to our own selves.

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (27367)	12/27/1998 10:19:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Bob, What you may call preconceived ideas for me are actually the results of years of searching and sifting and waiting for the truth. Are you willing to accept the possibility that others may spend years searching and sifting, and come up with conclusions that are quite different from yours? Or that those conclusions might be as valid as yours? I don't claim that your way isn't right for you; it obviously is. What I dispute is the assumption that it must therefore be right for everyone, and that the results of other people's searching and sifting are somehow less inherently valid than the results of yours. I started over 20 years ago with a clean slate. An interesting claim, unless you are referring to your birth. I don't think any of us get out of infancy with a clean slate. Steve