From: ed@somewhere.in.the.uk   
      
   oldernow wrote:   
   > There's seemingly a world of a thousand or so objects   
   > associated with words/names, but one of them is    
   > taken to be an object, to which all the other objects   
   > appear, and it's a neat, tight, self-sustaining feedback   
   > loop reinforced by any/all thoughts, because all those   
   > seeming objects are merely thoughts, as it the seeming   
   > individual object taken to be subject to the other objects.   
   >   
      
   "Enlightenment" has been highjacked; it was co-opted by the great 18th   
   c. thinkers to cover what they experienced - the throwing-off of the   
   shackles of religion and superstition; and to live under the light of   
   reason.   
      
   Or you might quote one of Friedrich Nietzsche's hymns to the arrival of   
   the "great noonday".   
      
   I suppose these days it might ring loud for someone who's cast off the   
   cloying chains of a trapped existence, and lived to see the gifts.   
      
   Ed   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)