12-30-2011, 12:01 AM
Hi
I've been away for awhile.
I never found Castaneda's, or any other books, including religious texts, to be toxic. At least, once I learned to not ingest them , wholly.
I have found wisdom in the most inconsequential media, if only a sentence in 10,000 words, or a word in two hours of film.
Anne Rice did a good job of making us empathize with predators and parasites. Sometimes they have their blessings. But evil, as such, is not just a point of view, unless one thinks that, to coin a phrase, despoiling the nest, is a good idea. Maybe not evil, perhaps, just stupid and foul.
Why would a sane being **** in its bed and try to sleep in it? That has been the way of humanity since the beginning. I'd throw them out of Eden , too.
I've been away for awhile.
I never found Castaneda's, or any other books, including religious texts, to be toxic. At least, once I learned to not ingest them , wholly.
I have found wisdom in the most inconsequential media, if only a sentence in 10,000 words, or a word in two hours of film.
Anne Rice did a good job of making us empathize with predators and parasites. Sometimes they have their blessings. But evil, as such, is not just a point of view, unless one thinks that, to coin a phrase, despoiling the nest, is a good idea. Maybe not evil, perhaps, just stupid and foul.
Why would a sane being **** in its bed and try to sleep in it? That has been the way of humanity since the beginning. I'd throw them out of Eden , too.