Re: virus: levels only two Joe

Jim (magicjim@islc.net)
Tue, 13 Apr 1999 17:10:11 -0500

Joe,
I understand the parallels that you draw. But - (you knew there had to be one didn't you). I contend that it is a group of basic thought processes possessed originally in child hood and compromised by aging in our society that can be debugged and used to enhance ones life if it is desirable to the individual. A way of looking at things not a regression and not a hierarchy. I am sure that there are those who would corrupt this idea and those who will fight it because of the monetary loss or gain it presents.

Best Wishes
Jim

Jim Callahan magicjim@islc.net
Creator of Applied thought Technologies
http://www.magicjim.net

-----Original Message-----
From: joe dees <joedees@bellsouth.net>

To: virus@lucifer.com <virus@lucifer.com> Date: Monday, April 12, 1999 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: virus: levels only two

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>At Mon, 12 Apr 1999 09:58:41 -0700, you wrote:
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>>Jim wrote:
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>>> You make my point for me.
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>>If so, then you have a very good point. But I don't think that the portion
of
>>the post you quoted makes the point that freeing oneself from the chains
of
>>Belief undoes all of the learning and experience that you have acquired on
your
>>journey. There may be aspects of child-like thought in the mental state of
>>someone who has rejected dogmatic thinking, but that person will also have
the
>>assets of years of experience which were not available to him before his
years
>>of service to his master BS.
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>Thisd is an example of the "Return to the Wisdom of Innocent Beginnings"
meme, found (in varying guises) in the Eden myth of Judeo/Christianity/Islam, the Uncarved Block/Original Face of Buddhism, the Peaceful Agrarian Matriarchy of Wicca/Paganism, the Noble Savage, the Good Old Days, the Glory That Was Greece/Rome/Egypt etc., Communism's Original Barter Economy, the Wise and Enlightened Aboriginal Shaman, and Jim's Child as Sage contention.
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>>> To search for what was lost is often extremely
>>> time consuming and frustrating.
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>>"Of all ambitions, perhaps the least practicable is that of regaining
something
>>that has been lost -- a love, a trust, or any other desirable state of
affairs.
>>(..) That which we won and held by luck, confidence and simple good humor
is
>>far less available to the strained pleading of the dispossessed."
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>> -Robert Grudin
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>>> I do not infer that a child is more
>>> sophisticated than a adult . ...The answer is out there....Not in a
>>> book.
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>>Well, I'm about to head "out there" for a week, but weakling that I am,
I'm
>>taking a book.
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>>See you all in a week.
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>>-KMO
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>Joe E. Dees
>Poet, Pagan, Philosopher
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