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Re: terms (Psychiatrists, State,Liberty and Schizophrenia)
Errol Back-Cunningham (ebc@ix.netcom.com(Errol)
2 Oct 1996 11:13:54 GMT
In <32523ee1.1469024@news.mis.nb.ca> chasede@mis.ca writes:
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>On 2 Oct 1996 02:11:02 GMT, ebc@ix.netcom.com(Errol Back-Cunningham)
>wrote:
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>:|>>"The truth. No; by nature man is more afraid of the truth than of
>:|>> death--and this is perfectly natural: for the truth is even more
>:|>> repugnant than death to a man's natural being. What wonder,
>:|>> then, that he is so afraid of it? ... For man is a social
>:|>> animal--only in the herd is he happy. It is all one to him
>:|>> whether it is the profoundest nonsense or the greatest
>villainy--he
>:|>> feels completely at ease with it, so long as it is a view of the
>:|>> herd, or the action of the herd, and he is able to join the
>herd."
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>:|>> Soren Kierkegaard
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>:|> Love it.
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>:|> Errol
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>What if the "truth" is: A life situation in which - one finds himself
>being the best thing since sliced bread ?????????????? Good lover
>BMW in the 2-car garage...beloved of his company, fast tracked for the
>top...the church elders all dote on him etc etc etc ...
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>Naw. S.K.'s outta context here somehow
What you've described is a well-attributed member of the herd.
There is nothing non-herd in that analogy.
Errol
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