[Buddha-l] Natural lucidity for Socrates

jkirk jkirk at spro.net
Mon Sep 4 13:48:22 MDT 2006


Jim------only in Idaho?...........I hear there are more Mormons in Idaho
than in Utah, leaving aside the polygamist revisionists.
Joanna
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> ......I think you, of all people, will appreciate this story. When I moved 
> to Idaho I moved out of a university environment into an engineering 
> environment. I could find nobody at all who was interested in what I  was 
> interested in outside of winter mountaineering. So, my beautiful  and 
> kind-hearted secretary told me one day about a group she belonged  to that 
> read great books, and she thought I would be interested. So  she got the 
> group to invite me on the night it was to meet at her  house. They were 
> reading the Apology, Phaedo, and Crito. I was really  excited and reread 
> the works carefully. With some eagerness and  trepidation I went to the 
> meeting, but found very soon that the  purpose of the meeting was to prove 
> or disprove whether Plato was a  proto-mormon!  As politely as possible, I 
> thanked my guests, but was  not invited (thankfully) to any more meetings.
>
>
> Jim Peavler
> jmp at peavler.org
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