sorry, Richard

[barbara100 at jps.net]

I'm sorry Richard. I'm was just overcome with frustration.  Fight for Freedom--the phrase that I gag on the  most. We flock to in in blind patriotism, without question. We don't even ask what it means.  He died on the Cross.  Okay.  Fight for Freedom, for Peace. Okay.  
How come I'd feel a lot more free if I was friends with my neighbors and not enemies?  It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out! Why do we take them at their Word? 

The reason I write again, though, is to say something about Freedom.  Upon my reading and 'reading up' on Gravity's Rainbow, I stumbled across the "paradoxical freedom in the complete dissolution of the ego." It's haunted me in my reading ever since, a sentence fragment writ on a scrap of paper and stuffed between the pages. There's a paradoxical freedom in the complete dissolution of the ego..........War is all ego......

She should not be a mystery to you, Gottfried. (GR  Pre-Launch)
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