Hi All, Usually on Christmas eve I send to my fellow MOQites a copy of "Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus." Since all of you are no doubt familiar with the full version I decided this year simply to offer a snippet of the most relevant part as a reminder that no matter how much we think we know there's a lot we don't, prompting us to be humbly admit to our limitations. Here's the excerpt:
"The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding." But, of course he too could be wrong. Thus, to each his own beliefs, and a rededication to the principle of freedom to choose one's belief system so long as one's choice does not impinge on another's freedom to do likewise. Merry Christmas to all, Platt Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
