--- TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > there seems to be an let's-start-an- > > island-nation fascination with TMers, but it's > just impractical and > > unnecessary anyway... > > Actually, the island fantasy is right in line with > the > "Vedic society" fantasy. Both are RETRO, meaning > that > they are based on trying to artificially create a > world > that resembles the way one *thinks* the world was > like > at sometime in the past. With islands, one hearkens > back to the fantasies of discovering a new world, > free > and pure and waiting for the faithful, like > paradise. > With the Vedic society fantasy, it's the same thing, > taking a set of myths and believing that there was, > at > one point, a time that was unlike Now, a time where > "everything was perfect and nothing hurt." > > There has never been such a time; there will never > be > such a time. That is the nature of the relative. > Those > who cling to fantasies such as these are, in my > opinion, > saying more about their inability to live in the > relative > world gracefully and with joy than about their > dreams. > Such utopian fantasies strike me as saying more > about the > dreamers' fears and aversions than about their > dreams. > > Unc
Well, guess who's going to voted off the island then??? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
