Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id BAA16496 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 13 Nov 2001 01:45:15 GMT Subject: Re: RE: Re: Wade's last week's phrase of the day... Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 20:39:48 -0500 x-sender: wsmith1@camail2.harvard.edu x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, Claritas Est Veritas From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> To: "Memetics Discussion List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-ID: <20011113013947.AAA9153@camailp.harvard.edu@[205.240.180.175]> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Hi Robin Faichney -
>One of my closest friends in my teens, who was more cynical than me back
>then (though not quite as badly behaved), subsequently joined Jehova's
>Witnesses. The brother of one of my closest current friends has been a
>Scientologist for over 20 years. Both, to me, like the people in the WTC
>on Sept 11 and the Taliban too, victims of mind-games taken too seriously.
>John Lennon had the right idea (sometimes).
I suppose we've all lost friends and neighbors to the 'death' of a cult,
of whatever tincture. And I don't know why some of us resist. I just know
I did, and do.
>I do "believe in" the *philosophy* of Buddhism
And I adhere, as much as I'm able, to skepticism, perhaps even
pyrrhonism, but, I take solace in the message and teachings of Confucius,
if I had to put anyone up on a dias.
(Then again, he's crowded a bit by Fuller, and Cage, and Beckett, and
Dali, among others.)
- Wade
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