From: Steele, Kirk A (SteeleKA@nafm.misawa.af.mil)
Date: Thu Jan 10 2002 - 19:04:30 MST
gaining the knowledge, by definition is 'passing it on'. Michelle, these are
the same thing.
[Michelle](What I mean is that it floats my boat too but it seems more like
a step than a result.)
go read Plato's Republic
what keeps nihilism at bay? how come "we all don't just join hands and walk
into a chopper blade" - Hawkeye Pierce?
How come we all don't just spontaneously destruct at a certain level of
awareness?
Good question. It is not the question that is important. It is not the
asking, either. It is the awareness. This is a meta-cognition.
Welcome
-----Original Message-----
From: Michelle [mailto:michelle@barrymenasherealtors.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 8:11 AM
To: virus@lucifer.com
Subject: Re: virus: more important than love?
So Joe, it floats your boat but what then? What do you do with all that
knowledge and insight? You teach here, in a sense, and it seems like you'd
do that anywhere - ultimately, is the value in gaining the knowledge or
passing it on? (which would then kind of fall under the Casey-Love-Team)
Or is there another use for it? Do you invent things or make things or
write books or what? (What I mean is that it floats my boat too but it
seems more like a step than a result.)
What is it that keeps the nihilism at bay?
-----Original Message-----
From: joedees@bellsouth.net <mailto:joedees@bellsouth.net> <
joedees@bellsouth.net <mailto:joedees@bellsouth.net> >
To: virus@lucifer.com <mailto:virus@lucifer.com> < virus@lucifer.com
<mailto:virus@lucifer.com> >
Date: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: virus: more important than love?
On 9 Jan 2002 at 12:42, Walter Watts wrote:
Understanding the true nature of things is what most floats my boat.
>
> I have to line up behind your lovesick friend on this one, Michelle. If
> there is something more important than love, I sure haven't found it.
>
> Speaking of love, have you seen "A Beautiful Mind" with Russell Crowe?
>
> Very moving, indeed.
>
> Hugs,
>
> Walter
> PS--IMHO, money barely makes it into the top ten, and then only because
> time can be purchased with it.
>
>
> Michelle wrote:
>
> > I'm still reading The Story (thanks Kalkor!) and about 100 posts to
> > catch up on but I have a question for the group: The predominant meme,
> > at least where I've been, and among the young, is that love is all you
> > need, love lifts us up where we belong, and various other corny lines
> > strung together well in Moulin Rouge. My middle-aged, sick, nicotine
> > and caffeine withdrawing (needless to say cranky) boyfriend said
> > yesterday in response to a friend of ours falling in love that there
> > are more important things in life than love. Like what? His first
> > response, and I'm not sure if he was joking, was money. What else?
> > What really is the most important thing in life, in your esteemed
> > opinions? Remember there are many definitions of love... Thanks for
> > enlightening me*sigh*
>
> --
>
> Walter Watts
> Tulsa Network Solutions, Inc.
>
>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Wed Sep 25 2002 - 13:28:39 MDT