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Postby JRosemary » October 20th, 2007, 4:46 am

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Postby rusmeister » October 20th, 2007, 10:25 am

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Postby Karen » October 20th, 2007, 12:35 pm

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. -- Jorge Luis Borges
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Postby Ben2747 » October 20th, 2007, 2:07 pm

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Postby JRosemary » October 20th, 2007, 2:30 pm

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Postby Lioba » October 20th, 2007, 2:41 pm

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Postby Lioba » October 20th, 2007, 5:57 pm

Hi, My ancestors from my mothers side are huguenots both from the side of my grandmother and my grandfather and they really are in a certain way proud of it, but the family moved to the french -german border on the german side, but kept a close connection to the french culture, but now I´m living in the North of Germany.
If you believe, the people in Nuremberg have a harsh way of speaking, you never were in the North- West.
When I first came her, I really thought everybody is angry with me, nobody likes me and people are hopelessly impolite.
Was a bit difficult for a young man, who fell in love with me.
But in the end I understood, that he seriously wanted to marry me.
Well, he is a fine husband and through the contact with my folks he became a bit softer.
His mother still speaks the genuine dialect of her village and it partly sounds like a kind of english with an extremely hard pronounciation.
It is a dialect based on old saxon, with almost no influence from other dialects.
But it will die out, because the young people don´t speak it any more
and for me and other `immigrants ´ it is impossible to pronounce.
Some folks try to save it, their is a grammar and a kind of dictionary.
Back to Aristotle:
I agree with you, that we should first cope with the things around us and then go to the abstract and more elusive. So the metaphysics have to wait a while.
There is one idea that I discussed with a friend in the last time. in the practical christian life, some young people seem to make the same mistake, the head so up in the sky, that the feet loose the contact to the ground and in the end, their is a long drop.
My friend, who is by the way an old lady of seventy, said all the trouble lies in being to spritual, filling your head with words´that sound good, but it doesn´t go to the heart and to the hand.
She thaugt , that doing your duty in everydays life and discipline comes first. Learning to treat everyone around you properly-even if you don´t like him , is more important for your spiritual growth than talking about how much you love Jeus and what you will do in his service sometime in the future. I think, she is not wrong.
cheers, Lioba
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Postby Ben2747 » October 20th, 2007, 7:04 pm

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Postby Karen » October 20th, 2007, 7:31 pm

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. -- Jorge Luis Borges
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Postby Lioba » October 21st, 2007, 6:58 pm

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Postby Kolbitar » October 21st, 2007, 7:53 pm

Hi Lioba.

Ben mentioned Adler -- he is priceless. His Ten Philosophical Mistakes is indispensable for someone seeking fundemental truth about knowledge and morality. He also gave a sermon called On the Golden Rule which deals with the "ring of Gyges" dilemma. It's not long: http://radicalacademy.com/adlergoldenrule.htm

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The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before. --Chesterton

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Postby Ben2747 » October 22nd, 2007, 3:37 am

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