[at-l] 15 billion light yrs.

[icw39@ncfreedom.net (Clark Wright)]

Pirsig's book, which I first read at a very impressionable college kid
age, also knocked my mind for a loop - great stuff for "thru-thinking!"
:)

thru-thinker

Brian C Merrell wrote:
> 
> 1) You may wish to look up "eudaimonism".  Mostly defunct now (at least in
> a formal sense), it was a Greek philosophical/ethical concept that posited
> that when doing something for yourself you were also benefitting society.
> 
> 2) Remember, you're a rational human being.  You are perfectly capable of
> picking and choosing, and are not held to ALL tenets of any one system or
> set of beliefs.
> 
> (I'm just saying that they are only not compatible if you limit yourself
> to believing fully in one or the other.)
> 
> (And yes, that quote from Fountainhead was great.  All other things aside,
> Rand's stuff is well written and inspirational.  Mix that with some Robert
> Persig, from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance fame, and you're
> set. :)
> 
> -brian
> 
> --
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> 
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Clark Wright wrote:
> 
> > That post was f**kin awesome! For my entire adult life, I've struggled
> > mightily with these, three fundamental (and somewhat contradictory)
> > forces:
> >
> > 1)  My strong attraction to Ayn Rand's works, with her pure concept of
> > "selfishness" [i.e., Mother Teresa is as selfish as Bill Gates - they
> > both do what makes THEM feel good!] and pride in the accomplishments of
> > mankind;
> > 2)  My growing attraction to the pure basics of my Christian faith [no
> > dusty, organized fractions of the religion need apply!] and more vague
> > (but strong) feelings of "spirituality" such as recently touched on by
> > Shane's posts; and
> > 3)  My deep-rooted attraction to those portions of "nature" that have
> > least been altered by the hand of mankind.
> >
> > Perhaps it is important, in struggling to reconcile such forces, to
> > admit they are not fully compatible; they represent much that is deep
> > and ancient, and much that is new; and they come together in various
> > times and places to make me who I am, and who I may yet be . . .
> >
> > thru-thinker
> >
> 
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