[MD] False Messiah

[MarshaV]

At 10:59 AM 3/19/2006, Ant wrote:
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 >Do you think this idiocy is partly due their general lack of time for
 >contemplation?  In other words. they are usuallly too busy with (and too
 >close to) the political process to be reading philosophy etc?
 >That they should "disappear in the woods" (like SA) for 6 or 12 months every
 >so often?

Ant,

I have been troubled, the last few days, by your question regarding 
'reading philosophy'.  I have read the writings of many 
philosophers.  Many of these difficult books I have read on my 
own.  My answer to your suggestion would be: NO.  The most important 
statement I have ever read by a philosopher were Socrates words, 
'Know thyself!'.  But they were really the words from the Pythia of 
Delphi, weren't they?  Now if that is what you meant by 
'contemplation'', my answer would agree.

What I do think helpful for civilization would be to replace 
religious training with training in critical thinking.

Marsha