> himself. And setting in revolt the creatures that were
> subject to him, I made them his enemies; so that man is now become like the
> brutes and so estranged from me that there scarce remains to him a dim
> vision of his Author. So far has all his knowledge been extinguished or
> disturbed! The senses, independent of reason, and often the masters of
> reason, have led him into pursuit of pleasure. All creatures either torment
> or tempt him, and domineer over him, either subduing him by their strength,
> or fascinating him by their charms, a tyranny more awful and more imperious.
>
> "Such is the state in which men now are. There remains to them some feeble
> instinct of the happiness of their former state; and they are plunged in the
> evils of their blindness and their lust, which have become their second
> nature. "From this principle which I disclose to you, you can recognize the
> cause of those contradictions which have astonished all men and have divided
> them into parties holding so different views. Observe, now, all the feelings
> of greatness and glory which the experience of so many woes cannot stifle,
> and see if the cause of them must not be in another nature.
> ...

> Jesse !!! Here is one of them. I wasn't online at that time. I was
> at work and not near the computer.

> And how come just now, when you are
> on the opening page of the group, the posts go in order of time
> posted, most recent first, there showed a post from Cathy today at
> 2:40, and that was 1 and second was something posted at 4:30???
>
> Carrie

> On Jan 11, 4:37 pm, Rick Carroll wrote:

> How does someone ride piggyback on my username? I never posted this
> stuff?

> weariness, and this weariness would spur us to seek a more solid means of
> escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously...