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To: Hank Kerchief
Philosophy...my favorite subject. (laotzu & philosophy go way back....back to that turn-coat, lieing bastard Confucious!!)

Philosophy is a personal search for an understanding of truth. It is a quest that must be engaged and experienced; not memorized or transplanted. It is, by definition, very challenging....and provides great simplification.

Philosophy is a luxury allowed by living a secure existance.

Philosophy is a task of ingesting volumes of information, which ultimately teach that the answer was not a matter of learning at all....but a matter of realizing that which you knew all along.

Philosophy is not being able to see the forest for the trees; as truth is everywhere and does not hide.

Philosophy is the false promise of finding a great truth. There are no great truths. Truth has always been right there beside you all the time, and will always have a sense of familiarty to it.(hence, no 'great' truths)

Philosphy is the discipline of not ignoring the 800 pound gorilla(truth) sitting beside you.

18 posted on 03/21/2003 12:49:59 PM PST by laotzu
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To: laotzu

Philosphy is the discipline of not ignoring the 800 pound gorilla(truth) sitting beside you.

I like that. Here's an 800 pound gorilla: doing the same thing and expecting a different result; voting for the lesser of two "evils" despite that evil always begets evil.

24 posted on 03/21/2003 1:01:00 PM PST by Zon
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