My most treasured possession
What's your most treasured possession? What would you rescue from a fire (be it for sentimental or purely financial reasons)?
My Great-Uncle left me his visitors book which along with boring people like the Queen and Harold Wilson has Spike Milligan's signature in it. It's all loopy.
Either that or my Grandfather's swords.
( , Thu 8 May 2008, 12:38)
What's your most treasured possession? What would you rescue from a fire (be it for sentimental or purely financial reasons)?
My Great-Uncle left me his visitors book which along with boring people like the Queen and Harold Wilson has Spike Milligan's signature in it. It's all loopy.
Either that or my Grandfather's swords.
( , Thu 8 May 2008, 12:38)
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Hmmm...
I have in mind something more radical than "self-definition" - something more along the lines of the idea that we're fundamentally tied in with the world around us. Abolish that world, and you could abolish a person. (Think of the way the Khmer Rouge tried to create a new kind of person - and that Robespierre tried to do the same thing through the Committee for Public Safety. In those cases, people died - but I don't think that that's all that important, and I don't see why they should have to have...)
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I have in mind something more radical than "self-definition" - something more along the lines of the idea that we're fundamentally tied in with the world around us. Abolish that world, and you could abolish a person. (Think of the way the Khmer Rouge tried to create a new kind of person - and that Robespierre tried to do the same thing through the Committee for Public Safety. In those cases, people died - but I don't think that that's all that important, and I don't see why they should have to have...)
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