XPost: alt.atheism, alt.philosophy   
   From: ralph@eddlewood.demon.co.uk   
      
   In message , Brian   
   Fletcher  writes   
   >   
   >Yet some individual "masters", well recorded, have been able to   
   >illustrate the meaningful journey of the individual, over eons   
   >demonstrating a priori knowledge.The multitude of attitudes to which we   
   >be become exposed, facilitates growth of  individuality, in fact, the   
   >more out of synch we become with external events, the more we seek (and   
   >find) our true individual nature.   
      
   Ye gods! This is worse than Joseph!   
      
   In the first place humanity has only existed in one eon, and for a very   
   short part of that. And who are these well documented masters? Little   
   has come down to us before Aristotle, and I do not think that he would   
   have claimed what you may appear to claim for him. And where did this a   
   priori knowledge come from? The Greeks were very smart, but they   
   actually knew little.   
      
   The multitude of attitudes ... might help us to develop individuality if   
   it existed. One of the more frightening things about today's world is   
   how much of the total information to which we are exposed comes from Mr.   
   Murdoch and his few cronies.   
      
   But that bears no relation to "being out of synch with external events",   
   which sounds more like mental disturbance. OK, there are some very   
   individual natures in the institutions for the care of such people, but   
   it is also possible, and I would suggest many would think it desirable,   
   to develop individuality whilst retaining contact with reality.   
      
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   ralph   
      
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