nellpilgrim said:
Perhaps one perspective is the warp the other the weft... and we weave our, merely human, understanding of truth out of both?
Excellent! A new approach! I had to look it up; we call it
schering en inslag referring to weaving and similar often repeated patterns of behaviour and speach; things that people often say or do.
This is what I meant above with taking a decisive corner from the empty desert into the oasis where all our hopes may be met. Like in weaving we may have to canter our views and thoughts.
Gravity is perhaps the best opening into this realm since pilgrims are dealing with it all day long.
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update 2-7-13
http://travel.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/tr ... d=all&_r=0 - By JACK HITT
Hiking Through History, With Your Daughters - Published: April 17, 2013
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'There’s nothing quite like quitting one’s comfy hotel after a breakfast of chorizo and café con leche, hoisting a pack and walking out the door. The transition into hobo is immediate. Meandering through a Spanish city with a backpack is hardly arduous, but then the outskirts come, and then a dusty trail alongside asparagus fields, and soon sweat and fatigue. And there you are, in a brute animal slouch, lugging the weight of your own self and belongings, watching the miles go by very, very slowly, the sun hissing just outside your sunglasses. When we pulled into a pensión that night, we soaked our steaming feet in cold water. If it hadn’t been for extreme hunger, we would never have made it downstairs for dinner.'
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'In one town, we came upon a gallery filled with ancient pilgrim art. The sponsor of the show was Opus Dei, a Catholic group known for its adherence to tradition. A young cleric approached and offered his view that true pilgrims were those who met three conditions — they went first to the cathedral, participated in Holy Communion and prayed for the pope.
In my crummy Spanish, I reminded him that the road had been a spiritual walk long before Christianity. Pagans and Goths and other non-Christian people walked the road, also known as the Via Láctea (the Milky Way) because even at night, it was said, one could follow the path west. The town they were aiming for, though, was not Santiago so much as the little town farther on — Finisterre (End of the Earth, until 1492). As the westernmost spit of land on the Spanish mainland, it was a place of mystical obsession long before an errant hermit found St. James’s sepulcher.
The cleric held his own. At one point, we both looked out the window at the motley parade. “Apparently, the pagans have returned to take the road back,” I said.'
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http://makezine.com/2012/05/29/on-amate ... tt-part-1/ -
On Amateurism: Interview With Jack Hitt, Part 1
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'MAKE: And what allured you to the notion of amateurism in the first place?
Jack: I spent a while hanging out with the Kansas City Space Pirates, a team of amateurs competing in a NASA competition involving power beaming. The goal, ultimately, is to build a space elevator — a 60,000 mile long ribbon built of carbon nanotubes, a slightly-but-not-entirely cracked idea that would permit us to easily escape the gravity of earth and more handily domesticate space. After some time with the Pirates, it struck me that the world of backyard tinkerers was not a halcyon time that has passed but one that has come cycling back around.'
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escape the gravity of earth
I recently learned that we cannot escape gravity. It may look or feel that way when the effect of speed of traveling [flying past or falling down to earth] equals that of gravity -gb
) would have been interested as to how things have developed, and are developing. 
I have to say, I find it quite extraordinary that any modern, educated person would attempt to diminish the achievements that have been made through science. The benefits it has brought have transformed the lives of almost every person on the planet, have delivered us from drudgery, allow us to feed an extraordinary human population (soon to be 7 billion) preserve us from the early death which dogged our forebears, provided us with cheap transport opportunities to go on pilgrimage and a million other things, including the technology to create a forum so that Luddites can slag off a form of enquiry which has delivered more to us than our ancestors could ever have dreamed of.
