View Single Post
Old 07-09-2009, 05:46 AM   #9
Backbeach Jake
Registered User
iTrader: (0)
 
Backbeach Jake's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
Posts: 5,985
Joe, I think that's because of the present scientific discipline of studying the mechanics of life rather than the art of life. Once we master the art without relying on under-classes to do our suffering for us, meaning the heavy lifting, then we'll approach our potential. We're no where close at present and sometimes I feel that we are sliding backward.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
Backbeach Jake is offline   Reply With Quote