[lbo-talk] Argument

[Autoplectic]

On 4/12/05, tully <tully at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Tom, you are truly an artist with thought and language.  This post is
> outstanding.  These great ideas need to be explored, tossed around,
> perhaps with the goal of trying to develop a more evolved form of
> communication that can help bring diverse people together instead of
> driving us all further apart.  Aren't we taught to judge instead of
> to understand?  Can we develop tools to help each other learn new
> alternatives to this destructive teaching?  There's been some good
> work done on consensus building that might help.
> 
> I always liked Thomas Moore's interpretation of the Garden of Eden
> story, which simplified was something like how eating of the Tree of
> Judgement is what continues to keep us out of the Garden of Bliss,
> that only by refusing to eat from that tree can we ever get back to
> the garden.
> 
> --tully

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There is no garden of bliss, not even metaphorically; anymore than
there was ever a garden of eden.

Contingencies of consensus are interminably fragile. Just look at the
history of Xtianity, or Islam, or the Samurai, or Capitalism or
Marxism, or any other ism or anti-ism.................

It's doubtful there's a thinking adult on this planet who hasn't
gotten high on the narcissism of small differences...............