Good on you Larry! Ken WilbEr would be proud of you. Winston
> I have a couple of responses Autur. One as a social activist who worked > his buns off to change the nature of homelessness in Canada. My social > analysis led me to see the root causes of so many things, but > particularly homelessness as things that "could" have been different. > It could have been different if -- even to the point of saying that if I > had done something different in my youth -- protested harder, loved > more, had Paul's faith, gone to church more, become a celibate, not > rebelled against my parents. I am convinced that had people, > governments, citizens, Hitler, Mohammed all made different choices it > could have been different. But, they did not make different choices and > I cannot remake those choices now. I can only learn from "whatever > happened" and make the choice I can make now. It is liberating for me > to assume that "what ever happened was the only thing that could have". > It is where we have gotten from the combination of choices that were > made -- and like Ken Wilbur I think all of reality makes choices in > becoming what it is in every moment, not just people. * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
