From: naccts (naccts@bowmans.info)
Date: Tue Jun 03 2003 - 12:33:55 MDT
Dac> In a message dated 6/2/2003 8:45:01 PM Central Standard Time,
Dac> Spudboy100@aol.com writes: As for humans, I suspect that what succeeds for humans is not only
Dac> academic skills, but social competition. The most agressive and assertive
Dac> persons, who possess people skills and the ability to hire good speech writers
Dac> and policy makers and deliver said speeches, is what these Republics we live in
Dac> are all about.
Dac> Mitch,
Dac> The Sufi believe the well developed person is developed in body, mind
Dac> and emotion or soul. They believe it is a mistake to be only a scholar,
Dac> athlete or mystic. The problem with that formulation as I understand it is that
Dac> the soul includes the understanding of oneself as well as others. I can't
Dac> understand why it should do so.
Dac> Ron h.
Social competition! Now that's what I was thinking about when I
mentioned superiors and inferiors. Evolution, consisting of
adaptability, all about social evolution. To evolve, to adapt, to
progress, we need to express our superiority socially. This is,
according to me, essential for our development.
Understanding yourself helps you to understand others. Understanding
others helps you understand yourself. It's an evolutive circle. At
least that's the way I understand it. To evolve in the human dominion,
you need others (diversity). This is where the concept of the sufi
applies. On your own, you are to doom to reach a dead end.
BIL.
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