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Old 10-11-2018, 11:37 PM
weareunity weareunity is offline
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Dear Shivani--and all. Thanks for your reply Shivani, and especially for the way it begins. I am encouraged to do likewise by your example. I can see that doing so with sincerity shares a sense of significance between participants in discourse at the outset, thereby diminishing any need for any party to use such discourse merely as a vehicle to establish or enhance their own importance/significance.

Thinking aloud, wondering and pondering without certainty--might it be that as a species we feel, consciously or otherwise, that our ability to reason depends so much upon the supposition/premise that all questions have answers that we experience a discomforting level of uncertainty, insecurity, perhaps even insignificance, if we do not ourselves have answers to some fundamental questions concerning our existence?

If so, does this have the consequence of creating a powerful appetite for answers from others? And again if so, with what possible consequences both for ourselves and such "others"?

All the best. pete
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