[Hank Kerchief]

The trick seems to be getting people to actually think.

Truly sad isn't it? Even more sad is the fact that you will never get most people to truly think, because they loathe it, like freedom, which most men hate because it means responsibility. Easier to just let some authority make your decisions and do your thinking for you.

Happy thinking!

Hank

[tim politicus]

I suppose that thinking, like charity, begins at home. Hopefully I can question myself and my conduct honestly and consistently as well as do for others.

Your point links together thought and freedom. That seemed to unbind my own thinking.

Isn't it thought that makes us free? Without thought are we not merely the conditioned automatons of popular scientific theory...er...um...is that hypothesis? Where thought is lacking, instinct, blind rote rules, no, binds. Perhaps the ancient Christian linkage between light, as a symbol, the eye, the logos (English: reason), and a sword or savior that sets one free is rooted in this connection between thought and freedom AND RESPONSIBILITY.

Consider, what is responsibility but the ability, the freedom to respond, to effect and be affected? What is thought but the movement of consciousness (call it light) from perspective to perspective, in its attempt to liberate the thinker from the ir-responsive sleep of his blind repetitive nature.

Hmmm... I already feel somewhat lighter since reading your post. I think I'll be reflecting for some time on that little illumination you handed me.