[Ailist] Re: Connecting with Others

[Lionel Boxer]

What an excellent string of ideas here.

The last one I like especially; Harry explains how "the cultural norms of Thailand results in peacefulness of soul".  However, what I noticed in Bangkok was the seemingly omnipresent interaction of white men with Thai women and the human misery that it produces.  Even in my seemingly respectable hotel, I was quite amazed to observe - while I was eating dinner in the hotel lobby restaurant - the routine process taking place that involved crusty white men leading young women to their rooms and the matter of fact way that everyone in the hotel was treating the situation.

The problem with humanity as I see it is that humans are susceptible to becoming addicted to take advantage of those less fortunate and subject them to deprivations that satisfy their own perversions and certainties of their own omniscience.

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>>> "Michael Newman" <Michael.Newman at towerhamlets.gov.uk> 18/03/08 1:56 AM >>>
Dear Harry et al,
One of my several personal breakthough points in my own development were:
1. history could be contingent with many humerous asides and that science was and is a human endeavour...
2. Dr Jacob Bronowski's TV series 'Ascent of Man', an incredible episode called 'Knowledge: certainty and doubt'. 
In it he explores the nature of knowledge and truth in science...
"It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave. This is what men do when they aspire to the knowledge of gods."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mIfatdNqBA

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Subject: RE: [Ailist] Re: Connecting with Others

Dear Appreciative Colleagues,
"the word "skeptic" would not be a pejorative term"
"I have come to assume no one knows THE Truth. It enables me to APPRECIATE what others say with an open mind which results in dialogue and greater creativity and greater APPRECIATION for one another."
"Living in Thailand, Lionel,it is much easier to now APPRECIATE the cultural norms of this nation which results, not in frustration because they do not do things the way we do( which I use to think was the Right and True way to behave), but results in peacefulness of soul."