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echo: philos
to: FRANK MASINGILL
from: DAVID MARTORANA
date: 1998-01-17 21:08:00
subject: up the mountain

 DM> Granting, that some ***CHOOSE*** to give myth meaning, I have no
 DM> arguments against the "scratch satisfaction, if 
 DM> itchy". Even as hungry
 DM> obsessions, in a host of forms, seems primal in 
 FM> much of human thought,
 DM> collective or independent. It can all play well: AS-LONG-AS',,, the
 DM> "feeding of appetite" is not masked over as the "dinner of insight"
 FM>    My understanding of what Day is saying is that any 
 FM> "dinner of insight" is
 FM> NOT a banquet feast and one is grateful for only a few. 
 FM>  One does not CHOOSE
 FM> to give myth meaning, "mankind" itself is a myth and in our role as 
humble
 FM> participants in a process not of our making the myth still requires to 
e
 FM> lived with and is always in danger of being used to destroy the pursuit 
of
 FM> science by confusing the two and allowing them to blend 
 FM> into each's separate  and legitimate domain.  
    Understand!    ....well said. 
                                     @@ ... Dave
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