12-08-2012, 07:01 PM
Klimkowski, if I missed "the point", it's because you hadn't made it.
Your remark, then, was obviously made with a "wink" or "tongue-in-cheek" style to other readers or members with whom you share something.
Your clarification by re-introducing the Amazon thread and re-presenting the remark by "smokestoomuch" implies that someone in this thread is also the same person as "smokestoomuch". I can only say that, as in the famous Buddhist story of the fellow who carried someone across the river, you are still carrying "the Amazon thread" as your lodestone.
I keep my own counsel, draw my own conclusions, and occasionally set them forth. At Amazon, I use my real name, and my own reviews there (easily found) have drawn a far higher ranking than those of Charles Drago. I have previously noted the fact that I care little about whether Charles Drago is Italian, Italian-American, Slavic-American, Catholic, Jewish, Presbyterian, pretending to be someone (or not), or unclear about his own personal, spiritual or political philosophy or identity. I don't imply that Charles Drago is any of those. The issue is not Charles Drago, or what someone else thinks of him or calls him. As in that Buddhist tale, I have left Charles Drago and the "Amazon thread on the side of the river and moved on.
I also have read about Prigogine and know that you can't step in the same river twice.
The issue is about the politics (the deep, historical politics) of what is going down right now in the United States of America, where I live, where I am a citizen, and where I have been well-read for decades.
Your remark, then, was obviously made with a "wink" or "tongue-in-cheek" style to other readers or members with whom you share something.
Your clarification by re-introducing the Amazon thread and re-presenting the remark by "smokestoomuch" implies that someone in this thread is also the same person as "smokestoomuch". I can only say that, as in the famous Buddhist story of the fellow who carried someone across the river, you are still carrying "the Amazon thread" as your lodestone.
I keep my own counsel, draw my own conclusions, and occasionally set them forth. At Amazon, I use my real name, and my own reviews there (easily found) have drawn a far higher ranking than those of Charles Drago. I have previously noted the fact that I care little about whether Charles Drago is Italian, Italian-American, Slavic-American, Catholic, Jewish, Presbyterian, pretending to be someone (or not), or unclear about his own personal, spiritual or political philosophy or identity. I don't imply that Charles Drago is any of those. The issue is not Charles Drago, or what someone else thinks of him or calls him. As in that Buddhist tale, I have left Charles Drago and the "Amazon thread on the side of the river and moved on.
I also have read about Prigogine and know that you can't step in the same river twice.
The issue is about the politics (the deep, historical politics) of what is going down right now in the United States of America, where I live, where I am a citizen, and where I have been well-read for decades.
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"