Aneirin
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Joined: 3/18/2006 From: Tamaris Status: offline
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My thoughts are, we as adults are old enough to make our own judgements on what we read, we don't need guidance from priests, we can accept or reject what we believe is truth. But books that are old, fragile and unobtainable are no use, if what they contain are kept from people, they may as well be something other, a vase maybe, if they are not allowed to be opened. The other thing is, old things decay, they are decaying all the time, if efforts are not made to rerecord the contents, what is left will be lost to the human race forever. If not decay, there are insects, bacteria and the elements to consider, as anything made of the material of this planet is created and destroyed to be made again, we cannot halt the action of nature.Conservation is just delaying decay
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Everything we are is the result of what we have thought, the mind is everything, what we think, we become - Guatama Buddha Conservatism is distrust of people tempered by fear - William Gladstone
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