[MD] Some Abiding Beliefs-Part 2

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Quoting Case <case at ispots.com>:

> [Platt]
> For me it's the moment when the separate self sense disappears in the
> presence of great beauty.
> 
> [Case]
> Despite my best efforts, I can not say that I have ever felt myself to be
> other than myself. How do you achieve this?

Rather than something achieved, it just happens. At least that's been my
experience. 

> >> [Case]
> >> What would you regard as necessity, coercion or constraint?
> >> The need to eat?
> >> The force of gravity?
> >> Our three score years and ten?
> >> Duty?
> 
> [Platt]
> > All the above plus and especially totalitarian government.
> 
> [Case]
> I find the three score and ten a bit confining but what sort of existance
> would you have without food, gravity or duty?

A different existence for sure, but more free wouldn't you agree? But in our
present state, the static qualities of gravity, duty and need to eat are  
necessary constraints.


  



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