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This list servers a useful and very high purpose.
I made a post the other day and only realised afterwards that I hadn't been aware of my own views on certain issues until after i had written them to the list. I've noticed this on other forums I have participated in. It's as if our real knowledge is hidden in a potential form, until some action or other crystallizes the knowledge so that it can be known. Maybe that's the highest function of a mechanism like this list, that it stimulates innate knowingness into focus so it can be known in present time. So rather than looking for answers in the list, we use the list find out the answers each of us already have, but are hidden. I guess it's the same with books and other forms of knowledge, one man reads them then contains them unchanged inside, another will read it and find his internal and pre-existing knowingness is stimulated, and then the book can be dispensed with, or only referred to when needed. I think the latter is the route to freedom. Words on paper are only as good as a vaccine or a small dose of virus, in that they stimulate the creation or revelation of inner knowledge, like a vaccine does with our natural antibody defences. But mistake the book (TROM included) for the real thing, and you are simply allowing yourself to be infected by yet another illness from the outside. I guess in the end we are freed only through the action which knowledge can only point to. Happy new year. JM
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