First, your "means" is not an effect, if you are using the word in any ordinary sense.
Second, sure they are! I know it from seeing it in myself! A single instance to the contrary serves to disprove a universal assertion. What you say is not entirely without sense; yes, there are dispositions to be actualized, or tendencies or potentialities. If I were a much more mellow person than I am, I would, perhaps, not be irritated as much as I am while driving by reason of the cause postulated. But I am, and so are others; externals do act as causes. (In fact, a cause by definition is "external" to its effect while, in another respect, being the same reality in number. Parse that one!) Over and out, 10 4. Amen. Best, Patrick On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Garth <garth...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well Patrick . .. I would be being me if I did not be me . . lol. > > The cars, the people and the structure of America and every country and > city are but the *means(effect)* of expression of one's "state of being > conscious, their choice of moods", they are not the *cause* of anything > of themselves. > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ Patrick Moore Albuquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten ************************************* * "Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place.* * "Nothing outside you can give you any place," he said. "You needn't to look at the sky because it's not going to open up and show no place behind it. You needn't to search for any hole in the ground to look through into somewhere else. You can't go neither forwards nor backwards into your daddy's time nor your children's if you have them. In yourself right now is all the place you've got. If there was any Fall, look there, if there was any Redemption, look there, and if you expect any Judgment, look there, because they all three will have to be in your time and your body and where in your time and your body can they be?* * "Where in your time and your body has Jesus redeemed you?" he cried. "Show me where because I don't see the place. If there was a place where Jesus had redeemed you that would be the place for you to be, but which of you can find it?” -- *Flannery O'Connor,* Wise Blood * -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
