Re: Toggling nature's auto-erase

From: Robin Faichney (robin@reborntechnology.co.uk)
Date: Thu Mar 15 2001 - 20:36:44 GMT

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Subject: Re: Toggling nature's auto-erase
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    On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 01:37:33PM -0600, joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
    > >
    > The myths of the noble savage and the ancient sage and the
    > shamanic/indigenous perfect
    > knowledge/understanding/comprehension and the primal eden are
    > all themselves maya; pernicious memetic ill- and/or delusions
    > passed again and again from the credulous to the gullible.

    Such "myths" are less pernicious than the tendency to disparage that
    which one does not understand. 

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