09-12-2005, 12:00 AM
I think I see where you're going with that Abe. It doesn't really matter what happens before a person's spiritual transformation. For that matter, we're all boobs before introspection anyway. I was talking with someone the other day about their kid who is in his 20's. He's butting heads with people, headstrong, certain he knows all there is to know about life. I offered that if I met myself at 21 at the age I'm at now, I'd think I was a supreme ****. But of course then I was CERTAIN that I was at the apex of wisdom!
Ah the remedy of time. It doesn't always equal wisdom. And the funny thing is now that I know the miles I've come, I know the miles I have yet to go; and that at 60, if I should be lucky enough to reach that age, I'll think I was a knucklehead at 40.
How unusual or usual of a sirname is "Castaneda" anyway in South America? Carlos is like "John" in the english-speaking world. So if Castaneda is not unusual, then certainly it would be quite possible for several, maybe even scores of "Carlos Castanedas" to be in Peru at any given moment??
Ah the remedy of time. It doesn't always equal wisdom. And the funny thing is now that I know the miles I've come, I know the miles I have yet to go; and that at 60, if I should be lucky enough to reach that age, I'll think I was a knucklehead at 40.
How unusual or usual of a sirname is "Castaneda" anyway in South America? Carlos is like "John" in the english-speaking world. So if Castaneda is not unusual, then certainly it would be quite possible for several, maybe even scores of "Carlos Castanedas" to be in Peru at any given moment??