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NoME Part Four: Chapter 10: Session 873, August 15, 1979
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idealist
ideals
impulses
condemning
geese
– The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Part Four: The Practicing Idealist
– Chapter 10: The Good, the Better, and the Best. Value Fulfillment Versus Competition
– Session 873, August 15, 1979 9:31 P.M. Wednesday
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
(Over two years ago, in Note 2 for Session 801, and in the opening notes for Session 805, I described our decision to add the writing room to the house. All four of us involved in the moving were quite amused, then — for the friends who helped Jane and me carry the furniture yesterday are the father-and-son contracting team that built the room in the first place.
[... 13 paragraphs ...]
(Pause.) In larger terms, there are really only scientific and religious men and women, however, and fields of science and religion would be meaningless without those individuals who believe in their positions. As those men and women enlarge their definitions of reality, the fields of science and religion must expand. You must be reckless in pursuit of the ideal — reckless enough to insist that each step you take along the way is worthy of that ideal.
[... 22 paragraphs ...]
(The latest, Jane and I gather from a variety of reports, is that Three Mile Island’s damaged reactor, Unit No. 2, is still a sealed enigma, just as it was when I described it in Note 1 for Session 856. A great amount of radiation is trapped within the reactor’s containment building, so “many months” still must pass before it can even be entered. And “several years” will pass before scientists and engineers pronounce the site finally and safely decontaminated, at who knows what enormous expense, for each step in that cleanup process will have to be scrupulously managed for maximum safety.
[... 2 paragraphs ...]
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NoME Part Three: Chapter 9: Session 860, June 13, 1979
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– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
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– Session 860, June 13, 1979 9:19 P.M. Wednesday