I guess this conversation is 'over' but I am just now catching up with two weeks' worth of unread emails so here are thoughts from me.
Duff, I experienced Paul's words about medicine as attacking, angry and space-closing. My first thought when I read his 'attack' was 'thank goodness he is not attacking me today'. At first, I was going to ignore his angry aggression but when I read your kind critique, I decided that I have a responsbility to my OSlist community to also share my discomfort with Paul's tone. I have sometimes gotten private emails offering support when Paul has attacked me aggressively on this list and I think it might be best if we all send such messages to the list. Transparency is always good, eh? since I am also sometimes guilty of being injudicious in my posts to this list, I invite folks to openly chastise me onlist as well. About medicine: allopathic medicine, which seems to be the medicine Paul gives the most power, is just one approach. Just as there is no one 'right' spiritual path for all humans, there is no one right medical system for all humans. Actually, I'm sitting here wondering how 'we' could possibly know if curing polio was a good thing or not. Everytime human ingenuity meddles with the laws of nature, consequences are unleashed into the cosmic whole. We don't really have any way of knowing what is right or wrong. * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist