Re: Mind's Eye Are You A Human Being ?

Enduring desire does not mean it will result in much- Rick-
"Casablanca" we don't amount to a hill of beans, I think was his
comment. Plenty of handsome lads thought they would be war heroes but
wound up dead or insignificant.//"In the pages which follow, one can
pick up all the threads of a tangled web: the disorder, the corruption
and the moral decay of an impotent political system; the dark threats
of watchful enemies on the frontier; a New Deal with a slogan of peace
and prosperity; the valiant struggle for the creation of a new morale
based on internal reform and harking back to the great old day; the
criticism of problems yet unsolved, like the ostentatious rage for
wealth and the irrational lure of the city." Complete Works of Horace,
Modern Library, 1936. Introduction by Casper J. Kraemer, Jr. p.vii.
(Quintus Horatius Flaccus; 65-8 BC--Roman lyric poet and satirist)

On Aug 10, 8:03 am, James <ashkas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The enduring desire to see outside oneself, the resulting interpersonal
> dialogue with other beings, nature, creatures of many sorts, chronology,
> and reflections of that story back into our own essence becoming more.
> Vision, pathmaking, seeking, with potentially unlimited potential (to be
> circular).
>
> On 8/10/2012 4:05 AM, Vam wrote:
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> > How exactly do you specify that ? Being Human, that is...
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> > Put aside the biologist telling you of your classification or the
> > scientist detailing the features... What exactly tells that you are a
> > human being, apart from the rest of the animal kind ?
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> > I know it is easy to go frivolous, or quote the millions of texts in the
> > library. But what does it mean to you, that you can vouch for, pointedly ?
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> > What sets me apart is my capacity to know, to engage single-minded in
> > that process of discovery of what I seek to know, one after another, and
> > to be able to tell myself what I do know, its how and why, and share it
> > with others. The knowing leads me everywhere... into the universe, the
> > earth, environment, other beings and things, language, arts, economics,
> > values system, and myself.
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> > The next important capacity is to love other people, not just my own
> > offspring, not just for people's utility value or until they are useful
> > to me, but precisely because of the lifetime of knowing they represent,
> > and for the values they embody on account of what they know. In fact,
> > love isn't just directed towards individuals... it invariably includes
> > the "good," life and growth, light, greenery, panorama, beauty, truth,
> > honesty, freedom, expression... and much of what the universe itself is.
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> > What else or more, as it is with you ?
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