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Post by lanoo on Nov 4, 2010 12:12:16 GMT 10
"the latent qualities of the mind" that sounds like innate tendencies are part of the masonic model.
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Post by Smithee on Nov 4, 2010 17:45:33 GMT 10
All is latent in the void that is Mulaprakriti.
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 5, 2010 6:08:58 GMT 10
Similarly, all that it may encompass is latent in the stone.
To switch to a computer analogy, any latent qualities of mind may be compared to formatting rather than to programming. For instance, Chomsky argues that we are predisposed for language generally, rather than for a particular language. Likewise, we appear to be predisposed to recognize patterns (even where none were intended).
However, we are almost completely bereft of programming (instincts). Being born almost completely helpless, unable at first to even support our own heads, equipped with barely enough instinct to breath and suck milk. During our extraordinarily long period of maturation we are heavily programmed. This apparent weakness is instead a strength, enabling us to rapidly adapt to changing conditions using memes, far outstripping the slow pace of genetic evolution.
As for our genetic formating, this is basically common to all humanity (it's what makes us human).
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 5, 2010 12:53:59 GMT 10
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 5, 2010 18:37:46 GMT 10
Education is the transmission of civilization
Will Durant (Born this day 1885)
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The mind ain't nothing without the old body tagging along to follow things through
Sam Shepard (Born this day 1943)
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 7, 2010 11:03:07 GMT 10
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species
I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man: It is we
Konrad Lorenz (Born this day 1903)
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Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest — the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race
I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong
To say that mind is a product or function of proto- plasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception
Alfred Russel Wallace (Died this day 1913)
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A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object
Albert Camus (Born this day 1913)
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 7, 2010 11:08:18 GMT 10
We are all sprung from the same stock, are partakers of the same Nature and sharers of the same hope
2° W.T.s
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 8, 2010 5:42:32 GMT 10
[url=http://www.masonicdictionary.com/rosicrucian.html ]Rosicrucians and Freemasonry:[/url]
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 15, 2010 6:11:10 GMT 10
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing
Marianne Moore (Born this day 1887)
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive
Margaret Mead (Died this day 1978)
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 18, 2010 6:29:29 GMT 10
I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it
Margaret Atwood (Born this day 1939)
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