Emails from the Token

[LuisP]

Nope.

Laura Moore, what you saying ?
If so, gimme a break ... please !

[LuisP]

Jumping the gun, here, surely.

C.R. Van Anden ?

Nope, too.
But I might, yes.

[wags]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Scott_P ... s_Traveled

Possibly?

[LuisP]

Would never have guessed.
Layers there, inside that stone faced Poker hand !

"The Road Less Traveled, published in 1978, is Peck's best-known work, and the one that made his reputation.

It is, in short, a description of the attributes that make for a fulfilled human being, based largely on his experiences as a psychiatrist and a person.

In the first section of the work Peck talks about discipline, which he considers essential for emotional, spiritual and psychological health, and which he describes as "the means of spiritual evolution". The elements of discipline that make for such health include the ability to delay gratification, accepting responsibility for oneself and one's actions, a dedication to truth, and balancing.

In the second section, Peck addresses the nature of love, which he considers the driving force behind spiritual growth. The section mainly attacks a number of misconceptions about love: that romantic love exists (he considers it a very destructive myth when it is solely relying on "feeling in love"), that it is about dependency, and that true love is NOT the feeling of "falling in love". Instead, Peck argues that "true" love is an action to take with one's willingness to extend one's ego boundaries by including others or humanity, and is therefore the spiritual nurturing of oneself as well as the person's beloved."
(my colors, for emphasis)

Very interesting, Wags. Very.
Many thanks.
Another book to go into my "Waiting List".

[wags]

Luis,

I think you may appreciate this, as a man of theological papers...

I think this would be a good place to put this link...
http://www.cbn.com/entertainment/books/ ... lomon.aspx

[Mikado14]

San Bernadino Library

[Fruitbat]

Talking of books, I got "the phenomenon of man" for £3 in hardback!

I was taught some time back that love comes in several flavours. Agape, eros, filius are the ones I can remember but apparently there is a fourth too. You'd think that sort of knowledge would be a bit more mainstream really...

FB.

[LuisP]

FB
Up to you to judge the sincerity of anyone who "pats you in the back".
And to recognize that Loyalty is something one Owns only to Self.

Not to anything, or anybody, else.
Ever.

That said,

Those may be some of the best 3 Pounds you have ever spent !
I even think it is a bit obscene, to "access" something so powerful, so cheaply.
In "hardback" at that, so as to add insult to injury !

You have in your hands one the the most amazing and "dangerous" (Rose ?) products ever "built" by a "Unifying Thinker".



Hope you can deal with it.

[LuisP]

And Wags ?
I’m not a “man of theological papers”.

Just because I do “Biblelese” and it is fun to sometimes indulge in it, making hybrids and in other ways acknowledging it as a source of “ The Wisdom” – to me, that is – it doesn’t make me (too much credit, thanks, I guess) a man of theology.

I’m a very “secular” guy, and a sinner one, at that. But since I believe in Repentance, I always have an “easy way out”, for “7 times 77” were afforded – and promised - to the likes of me, if truthful in that “repenting”. More chances than a Cat, then !

So remember – if you read it, that is – that I am a true believer in “sinning” principles such as “everything that Kills me makes me feel Alive” and all that it implies.
Thank God (ahem) I did it enough to not need it anymore. For - again if you have read my delusional ramblings – I also believe in the saying “that good Advices are given by those who can no longer give bad Examples”.

But hey, sure, I understand I’m “heavying” your post a bit too much (then again, maybe not, eh ?) so I followed your link and ….it was disappointing. Very, I’m afraid.

Sorry to say, but it is (to the likes of me) too much American, and even … shallow. “Lincoln”, “George Washington”, “Reagan”, “Roosevelt” ? You baiting ... or branding me, Wags ?

How about Alexander (The Great), Hannibal (The Carthaginian) , Caesar (Julius), Gustavus (Adolphus) and Napoleon (Bonaparte) ?
Not to mention, that this Pat guy could have “voraciously” read about Sun Tzu, instead, as a synthesis of the mentioned. The top dog, above all referenced, as I see it.

No better master for “Ancient Insight into Modern Times”, regarding Leadership, Strategy and Battle.

I’ve done battle – or not ! – inside my “corporation” trying, my utmost, to follow his EVERY advice, best I could and it might be adapted. End result ?
I’m still alive.
Others aren’t.

Maybe I was just lucky.

I leave you with these fantastic (voracious ?) Principles from him :

1. The supreme art of war is to subdue your adversary without fighting.
2. Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
3. Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
4. Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
5. A leader leads by example, never by force.
6. Opportunities will multiply, if you size but one.
7. Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
8. When the adversary is relaxed, make him toil. When full, starve him. When settled, make thim move.
9. Build your opponent a golden bridge, to retreat across.
10. Those skilled in war bring the adversary to the field of battle, and are not brought there by him.

PS : Use all of it, when applicable, in Chess.
PPS : These 10 Principles are the least “dangerous”.
As if I’d tell you the most. HA !

[wags]

Luis,

I think your post on the ten principles most apt and I think you would make an excellent 'Chess' reporter.

My link I admit owed more to application rather than theory of such principles.

Wags