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   From: Z@z.net   
      
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   dalton@nfld.com says...   
   > Sarah McLachlan's latest CD is entitled Laws of Illusion.   
   >   
   > But does illusion have any laws?   
      
   Rational thought makes and so 'has' laws that have been passed by the   
   legislature of disciplined observation of stuff like nature and heat.   
   What rational humans need and must have is a sense of order. This need   
   drives laws. So it's not exactly nature or heat or science or illusions   
   that have the law.   
      
   > The second song on that CD is entitled Illusions of Bliss   
   > and contains the line "Awash in the illusion of this bliss."   
   > I think this is a reference to comparative mythologist   
   > Joseph Campbell's advice to "Follow your bliss".   
   >   
      
   Campbell's word choice was unfortunate. 'Bliss' is more vivid than the   
   boring but, I think, more accurate 'interest'. "Follow your interest".   
   There is a true quality of bliss in being interested. This is a common   
   experience. Campbell, I believe, was saying be biased towards your own   
   interests as opposed to say the highest paycheck or social regard. Like   
   the guy in the movie "Office Space".   
      
      
      
   --   
   "The space ship hung in the air   
   exactly like   
   a brick does not"   
      
   Thus spaketh The Adams   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)