Subj : Back again
To   : FRANK MASINGILL
From : RICHARD M. MEIC
Date : Sat Jul 14 2001 06:47 am

-> None of this has any relevance to me, Richard.  On the two occasions 
-> when I experienced high points in the tension between time and 
-> timelessness I came away with nothing to impart to the world in 
-> literary exposition and certainly whatever mystic experience I might 
-> have at least bordered on did NOT come from reading any "library 
-> philosophy section."  In fact, I have no training whatsoever in 
-> "Philosophy."  You must be thinking of somebody else.

Your extensive reading of other philosophers qualifies as training.  You 
overquote like the PhD philosophers, Frank.  You seem to feel that the 
support for a thought is more important than the thought itself, and as a 
result your messages are unclear.  They are rendered meaningless with over 
referencing and not one thought of your own makes it through.  On a number 
of occasions you mention your age, as if increased age automatically 
imparts wisdom... sorry, Frank but I have known many foolish old men in my 
life, so your age means nothing to me.  Your words carry no more weight if 
your 80 years old than if you are 8 years old.  I understand that you feel 
proud that you have read others so extensively, but you have allowed that 
pride to overtake the messages you try to impart.  

You'll love this... it was Condorcet who cautioned humanity to beware of 
the idols of the mind, for they distort reality.  Bacon said that the mind 
"... hastily and without choice, imbibes and treasures up the first 
notices of things, from whence all the rest proceed, errors must forever 
prevail, and remain uncorrected."  I will do as you now and not bother to 
explain why I chose those quotes.
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