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  • From: paxamicus AT earthlink.net
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Sweet truth, wherefore art thou?
  • Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:06:25 -0400

That's one of the reasons I love Monticello, I think it's one of my favourite places in the world. I am sure that's exactly what it was to Thomas Jefferson, a grounding place in the midst of political turmoil. It's the real National Cathedral, as far as I'm concerned.

I wish we were all reduced, tomorrow, to local-only transportation for the majority of our needs. Because when you're living within community, you are responsible to and for each other and your neighbourhoods, to a certain extent. And life is better for everybody. That's my Utopia and I'm sticking to it.

And let me just say, I love that your neighbour operated on you on the kitchen counter. That's a good woman, right there. She deserves some ditch lillies. : )



On Apr 29, 2008, at 8:43 AM, Gene GeRue wrote:

Early on in the history of the Internet I forecast a great
democratization. With almost all information available to all people
in all parts of the world, everyone would know the truth. The
miscreants among us would be exposed and made ineffectual. Goodness
would be common because badness would be less possible.

As is often the case, I was naive. Yes, information has become
available on a scale that none of us imagined. We have access to more
daily, updated information than is held in the great libraries of the
world, more than we have time to read.

It is at once too much and not enough. It is too much because anyone
can bolster a notion with myriad sources. As with those who argue
about the truths of great religious books, the truth is everywhere and
it is not to be found because of contradictions of sources. It is not
enough because rather than settle us it confuses us.

So I wonder, is there any truth? How fallible are our observations?
And if mine and yours are fallible, then so too are the observations
of others throughout the world. Who is trustworthy?

On the homestead list we disagree on various subjects. To make our
cases we quote sources. Another quotes a different source. And so it
becomes a battle of the sources. It is educational, it is fun, or it
is simply annoying depending on one’s mood.

To the garden. The garden seems always truthful. Whether I like it or
not.




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