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"For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that is seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance."
˜ Descartes as quoted by Kierkegaard

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I wonder if that's why they say "Ignorance is bliss?"

I like the signature!
trosie

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Mouse,

At the rate I'm going, I'd have to live to a hundred and twenty just to make a dent in the booklist I have started. Every book that I pick up seems to lead to ten more that I need to read just to understand the one in hand.

And just when I think I understand something, something else comes along that makes it irrelevant or obsolete.

When I was younger I thought at some point I would feel educated, but all I feel is amazement at how much there is to know, and how impossible it is to know much of anything. Sometimes I'll be at Borders and I'll look up at a shelf of books and it will suddenly hit me how much struggling and learning and living over hundreds of years went into producing them - and it almost hurts to think about it.

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Semeia I've got another book you can add to your list. Its called Information Anxiety. Its about the discrepancy between what we know and what we feel a responsiblity to know. Its really rather funny. Go here to check it outwww.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0385243944-9

AND STOP GOING TO BOARDERS!!! Powells is so much healther, and you'll feel better about yourself. And they do sell books new also. Plus they give you free shipping for orders over 50$ and you know that your supporting a good group of folks.www.powells.com/

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I was just thinking about it yesterday while reading Ethics. I thought of Bonhoeffer's life, how incredible it was, the insights he had, the time and place in history in which he lived, how he was called upon to use what he had learned in the most powerful way anyone ever can be: by giving his life.

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Anther reason why you should read The Gift of Death. www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0226143066-0

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But he left these ideas that have so much life in them more than half a century later, and perhaps for hundreds of years to come....
Like a figure ground reversal, everything looking different. And the singular unique individual life that he lived somehow creating something that reaches into the future,which continues to act as a creative force. Most of us will never write a book, or paint a painting, but I wonder how much of what we are, for good or ill, pushes forward beyond us, like dominoes set in motion and falling in waves away from us with every step.

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Another reason why we should believe in fate. And another reason why you should watch Red and read Nietzsche.

So hurry up! To help you navagate thru all of these books I'll just order you around. Because it is always easier to take legalistic orders right? I think so, and I am always humbly right!

So first things first. Read Holy the Firm because it only takes 1&1/2 hours to read it. But it is soooo good and there is so much in it that your going to want to read it once every day in the morning. So make it a disipline to read it once a day.

During the rest of your ever shrinking day pick of the Vintage version of The Brothers Karamazov and work on that for a month or so. After that await further orders. This message will self destruct in T minus 5 seconds...4...3...2...1KABLU-EEEE

Alas, we always already begin a lifetime or two behind.[sigh]

EMILY: “Oh, earth, you’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?--every, every minute?”
STAGE MANAGER: “No. The saints and poets, maybe--they do some.”

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Tim: Yes, ambiguity is inevitable, however, I believe the Bible is not doubtful or uncertain, particularly as to the significance of its language, when it comes to salvation.

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Well, Andy...

B.S. -- Well, you knows what that is.

M.S. -- Well, That's more of the same

But Ph. D. -- That's special. That means piled higher and deeper!