hi all sharing part of a discussion elsewhere janet ------------------ member: michael7733 posted: March 14, 2001 10:25 PM, in part: ... During discussions of this nature, it might be necessary to "go down this road" in order to clayify reason of thought. We are all, out of necessity in such a discussion, going down the same road. We are merely occupying different sides of that road. One day the road will branch, and each of us will come to our final destination. Until that time, I will imagine the future right beside those with whom I don't see eye-to-eye, and we can experience the adventure of it all(and what an adventure it will be!), but there will be times when some of us will disagree with others(often vehemently). Still, we will continue on the journey. ------------------ member: janet313313 posted: March 14, 2001 11:16 PM we generally don't see eye to eye on the journey because our vision is limited to the lenses which we have hammered in place and which have been muddied, cracked, washed, and polished by our experiences, which are unique to each one of us. but the lenses are not showing us the real world; we see what we have taught ourselves to see, what we think we want to see what i think i want is what i think i get is what i think i see but that does not mean that the looking glass isn't tinted rose or grey, or isn't ground to a convex or concave shape aside from lens considerations the time considerations are perplexing the past is gone the future never comes we only have now and each other janet ------------------ janet paterson, an akinetic rigid subtype, albeit perky, parky PD: 54/41/37 CD: 54/44/43 TEL: 613 256 8340 EMAIL: [log in to unmask] "A New Voice" home page: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ . "New Voice News" latest posts: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nvnNET/ . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn