[lit-ideas] Re: FW: Re: gashlycrumb tinies

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In a message dated 7/31/2005 12:23:01 PM Central Daylight Time, 
aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
It doesn't change that if you take off the external controls, the evil flows
Hi, Andy,
I really sometimes think you don't read much of what I write <wry look> given 
the group(s) you tend to put me in...


A.A. G-d knows, what groups do I put you in?



but that's okay.  Given a situation that my son is dealing with because of the 
lack of association in that sort of group, it is a bit ironic--and I'm not good 
with irony so I'll just use it as an opportunity for personal growth and 
development <wry look>. (don't worry--I'll spare you the details!)


A.A.  Thanks.



The point I was trying to make  (in my wordy way <sigh>) was that just because 
there is a moral law within does not mean that everyone studies it.


A.A.  Moral law presumably is in G-d's law.  At least some people think so.  
Lots of people study G-d's law.   Do you know any Marlena?  These are the same 
people who support the war "over there", correct?



And, so--perhaps the external controls put on those who do not study it were, 
actually, created by those who HAVE done so.


A.A. Needless to say, effective external controls weren't designed by religious 
types.



After all--if no one studied the moral law within, and thus only Evil Behavior 
reigned...why would anyone ever have set up the first external law to reign in 
such behavior?


A.A.  There was a time when nonreligious types prevailed and set up external 
moral laws to counterbalance the mythic and/or nonfunctional inner ones.  Now 
religion is pulling even natural law out of the educational system while 
spreading a moral one that supports war "over there" so its constituents can 
have the illusion of safety.



*someone* did that--and perhaps it was the first ones who dug deep within...


A..A  Yes, see above.  I'm still confused as to who The Other is and where 
he/she/it lives.  Presumably it doesn't live in Iraq.


Andy Amago


Waiting for the Sunday poem(s),
Marlena in Missouri

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