Re: virus: Fred Reed on Religion...

From: Walter Watts (wlwatts@cox.net)
Date: Wed Sep 03 2003 - 15:46:36 MDT

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    Thanks, Blunderov.

    You're one of the reasons I love this "place".

    Walter

    Blunderov wrote:

    > > [Jonathan 1] This appears to be a handy cop out. "Before" refers to
    > > time/space and since time/space only started at Big Bang, there can be
    > no
    > > "before" Big Bang. Only that is the very problem: From whence/what
    > comes
    > > space/time?
    >
    > <snip>
    > Burnt Norton
    > TS Eliot
    >
    > Time present and time past
    > Are both perhaps present in time future
    > And time future contained in time past.
    > If all time is eternally present
    > All time is unredeemable.
    > What might have been is an abstraction
    > Remaining a perpetual possibility
    > Only in a world of speculation.
    > What might have been and what has been
    > Point to one end, which is always present.
    > Footfalls echo in the memory
    > Down the passage which we did not take
    > Towards the door we never opened
    > Into the rose garden. My words echo
    > Thus, in your mind.
    > But to what purpose
    > Disturbing the dust on a bowl of rose-leaves
    > I do not know...
    >
    > ...Or say that the end precedes the beginning,
    > And the end and the beginning were always there
    > Before the beginning and after the end,
    > And all is always now. Words strain,
    > Crack and sometimes break, under the burden,
    > Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,
    > Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place,
    > Will not stay still.
    > </snip>
    >
    > Recordings of 'Burnt Norton' and 'The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock',
    > read by TS Eliot himself, can be downloaded free at
    >
    > http://digilander.libero.it/ccalbatross/download/eliot.htm
    >
    > (I am trying to find a free download of 'The Wasteland' but so far no
    > success.)
    >
    > Best Regards
    > Blunderov
    >
    >
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