Theos-Talk Archives (October 2003 Message tt00388)

Bart wrote: <<	More precisely, I see that he 
thinks of himself as the Great World 
Teacher(tm), of us as ignorant children, and 
that all he has to do is show up and that we 
will treat him as the Enlightened Master(tm) 
that he believes himself to be.	For some 
strange reason, I find that annoying.>>

<<"Nothing can impose better on a people than 
verbiage; the less they understand the more 
they admire. Our fathers and doctors [of the
Church] have often said, not what they 
thought, but what circumstances and necessity 
forced them to [say]." - Gregory of 
Nazianzen. (This appears in a letter he wrote
to "Saint" Jerome. Quoted in Isis Unveiled 
2.183.)

Another comment:
"if we use learning in asserting the errors 
of antiquity, we ruin ourselves by 
gracefulness and smoothness of speech; but if 
we apply learning and grace of speech to the 
assertion of the truth, I think that not a 
little advantage is thereby gained."
- Clementine Recognitions i, xxv.>>
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Those two quotes appeared today on this list.

How one might "more specifically" 
interpret/express such things as "learning" 
and "gracefulness and smoothness of speech" 
might have a few things to do with a few 
things, though, I suspect. And I wonder if 
verious considerations about "applicability" 
(in whatever sense) might have a way of 
influencing a few things, including, maybe, 
how String Theory might be "proven and 
unified" (in keeping with its predecessors: 
Theory of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics).

I wonder if string theory might be about as 
close as any kind of mainstreamy, essentially 
dualistic approach might ever get to 
"unifying everything" equationally (ie, 
regardless of how many more 
"proofs/unifications" there might be beyond 
the existing 5?).

^:-/ ...
Mauri