GR 'Streets' (death and/or afterlife)
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Mon Apr 21 19:01:12 CDT 2003
Maybe the Tibet/Switzerland (the Herero as vaguely remembered and
nostalgically and romantically Returned to) is an example from the text?
See page 321
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Scott Badger wrote:
>
> Paul:
> > All this is predicated on the belief that there ever WAS a more perfect
> > time. The environment might have been cleaner once, but is there any
> > reason to think times were ever better overall. Fewer wars, more
> > freedom. Less suffering? I'm very doubtful.
>
> Me too. Given time, etc. I think a case can be made that even those humans
> considered more "in tune" with their environment, Native Americans, say,
> would have left their mark....
>
> > If we were to define freedom as the ability to improve well being and
> > happiness, then a Paradise would by definition have no use for freedom.
>
> Maybe I've been driving around with "Live free or die" on my license plate
> too long, but I just can't imagine, "no use for freedom"...
>
> Scott Badger
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