Hi Marco, Andrea and all,
First, I apologise for mistakenly attributing to Marco the following words,
which were actually from Andrea:
> > > If a road to truth is just that - your travel towards the truth,
> > > this yields many good roads [snip] So we
> > > have different specific goals, different roads, for each of us.
> JONATHAN:
> > Let me interject that the part of any road one truly knows
> > is the section one is on. If you want to go to Rome, you
> > need to have a good plan/map to get you there.
>
MARCO
> Well, I've said exactly the same thing in my message of March 17.
Another apology - I'm finding it difficult to keep up, and often only have
time to briefly skim the posts, especially the long ones.
MARCO (17th March):
>You can say that you are going to the top or to the bottom only if you
>already know the road, or if someone else gave you a map. But if this is
>the first time you run a road, and you have no maps, you can't say where
>the road is leading. The only thing you can say is if the road is
>comfortable or not. The only road you really know is the one under your
>feet.
Marco, we agree only partly. I think that we judge the road we are on not so
much by its comfort, but by its APPARENT destination. The road may be
decidedly uncomfortable, but if I have sufficient reinforcement that it leads
to my destination, then that's the road to take. I don't have my copy of ZAMM
with me right now, but I can think of several passages about following
uncomfortable and lonely paths, though both the geographical and the
philosophical terrain.
MARCO
> > I wish to make the point that one may (perhaps accidentally)
> > find a road that leads to somewhere better than Rome.
>
> Agree. Completely. Columbus is the example.
A great example, and worthy of reproducing . . .
MARCO:
>Columbus was going to India and
>found America. Did he discovered or created America? The answer is....
>MU.
>
>Of course he has discovered America... but at the same moment he has
>created a new America. What's nice is that both the Natives and Columbus
>did not know anything about America. The formers did not need that term,
>for them America was "all there is"; the latter was sure to be in Far
>East.
Marco, I hope you agree that Columbus was brave to follow that uncomfortable
and unmapped route.
Jonathan
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