Hi RC, With all due respect, you're sounding like that fellow Horgan we we discussing earlier in the week, who believes that all science has been done and nothing new will be discovered.
Perhaps you should try reading some of Hesses' novels; I would suggest Siddartha because it's a popular story and your old pal Jesus C. makes a cameo appearance. But my favorite is a lesser known work entitled "The Journey to the East". You can buy a copy this morning and read it in an afternoon, a small investment which will pay off handsomely. Hesse shows you the nature of the problem, and unlike the religious literature you may be familiar with does _not_ offer easy answers. Rather, he attempts to synthesis the best of the thoughts of all of the major religions, and in the book I mention above attempts to tell you something about the actual practice of seeking for spiritual truth, and how this relates to the arts and sciences. If you take away anything from your involvement with this list, it should be that the real world is far more complex and deeply structured than what we currently understand or will understand in the near future. 2000 year old books are just the beginning of a very long road; one in which the journey is far more important and relevant than what destinations are reached. The easy road is for sleepers and parasites; the pioneers take the difficult path. How else can you expect to find the New World? K. -----Original Message----- From: RC Macaulay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 9:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OT sim-sync Jones, Interesting insight into Hesse's writings and even deeper insight into his " hippie" ways ( grin). The difficulty with being a half learned man such as Hesse is that being half learned, his blind side appears more pronounced. Ever searching and never coming to an understanding of the truth. In discussions, a friend remarked that a lack of self esteem is profoundly self destructive. Self esteem can include self worth, and being satisfied with one's self . Lack of self esteem provokes people like Hesse to write works that are fiction represented as truth. His works, at best, are a poor analogy to true works of literature beginning with the Bible. I am uncomfortable with a person that searches for knowledge and wisdom eludes him. Richard
