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Timebinder, v. 1, Issue 2, 1945

til he has achieved this end. I'm sorry I did not express myself more clearly on this point at first. -- EEE)).

"Secondly, as to personal pattern of living, I agree with you on the Golden Rule although we might interpret it a little differently. I think perhaps that too much emphasis can be put on the aspect of doing things for other people, or even on your pet philosophy of doing things for others for yourself. You suggest something else later in which I am more interested, and that is the spontaneous outgoing of life and joy which rises from one who has peace and love in his heart. Then his actions are spontaneous and unconscious. Self-consciousness I believe can be a serious handicap to complete giving. This is just an idea. What do you think of it? ((I am studying it seriously, and believe you have given me a much better concept that I formerly held. -- EEE)).

"Along with this, in my own mind, goes the idea of equality of men. I have had considerable change of thought on that score. Perhaps we have been mistaken in our interpretation of the equality of men. I do believe that there is something good -- or something of God -- in every man and that all men live and thrive or die as they receive of the fruits of the earth. But perhaps our concept of equality has led to our extreme rugged individualism, competition, etc., which has given some men wealth and others slavery to an unfair economic system. Perhaps we need more concern for our neighbors and less thinking that they are just as good as we so why worry about them. This is quite radical, perhaps, but I wonder if we have not misinterpreted a good thing?

"Incidentally, Dad, didn't you tell me a year or so ago that you did not believe in eating or living with a negro? How does that fit in with your philosophy of equality? Just curious. ((I think you misunderstood me, Ginia. As you know, I have lived and slept and eaten and played and worked with negroes many times and in many places. If I remember rightly, the expression I used was that 'I probably would not deliberately choose Negroes for my own close personal associates, any more than I would whites whom I felt had no compatible traits with mine'. -- EEE)).

"Well, these are two rather basic philosophical questions, and now I'll go through the book and bring out more specific ideas as my mind responds to your words.

P.I - p.4 This is to me the real value of THE TIME-BINDER. What did you learn new about yourself. I'd be interested in knowing. ((Briefly, that I wasn't as much of a man as I had egotistically thought I was, and a firm resolve to make myself so, if humanly possible, with Divine help and guidance. -- EEE)).

p. 5 Thinking loses much of its value when it is abstracted from experience, which can be a real test of ideas. Experience helps us to keep our ideas fluid so that they continue to grow and not stagnate. 

III We all need to find a method of achieving personal adequacy.

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til he has achieved this end. I'm sorry I did not express myself more clearly on this point at first. -- EEE)). "Secondly, as to personal pattern of living, I agree with you on the Golden Rule although we might interpret it a little differently. I think perhaps that too much emphasis can be put on the aspect of doing things for other people, or even on your pet philosophy of doing things for others for yourself. You suggest something else later in which I am more interested, and that is the spontaneous outgoing of life and joy which rises from one who has peace and love in his heart. Then his actions are spontaneous and unconscious. Self-consciousness I believe can be a serious handicap to complete giving. This is just an idea. What do you think of it? ((I am studying it seriously, and believe you have given me a much better concept that I formerly held. -- EEE)). "Along with this, in my own mind, goes the idea of equality of men. I have had considerable change of thought on that score. Perhaps we have been mistaken in our interpretation of the equality of men. I do believe that there is something good -- or something of God -- in every man and that all men live and thrive or die as they receive of the fruits of the earth. But perhaps our concept of equality has led to our extreme rugged individualism, competition, etc., which has given some men wealth and others slavery to an unfair economic system. Perhaps we need more concern for our neighbors and less thinking that they are just as good as we so why worry about them. This is quite radical, perhaps, but I wonder if we have not misinterpreted a good thing? "Incidentally, Dad, didn't you tell me a year or so ago that you did not believe in eating or living with a negro? How does that fit in with your philosophy of equality? Just curious. ((I think you misunderstood me, Ginia. As you know, I have lived and slept and eaten and played and worked with negroes many times and in many places. If I remember rightly, the expression I used was that 'I probably would not deliberately choose Negroes for my own close personal associates, any more than I would whites whom I felt had no compatible traits with mine'. -- EEE)). "Well, these are two rather basic philosophical questions, and now I'll go through the book and bring out more specific ideas as my mind responds to your words. P.I - p.4 This is to me the real value of THE TIME-BINDER. What did you learn new about yourself. I'd be interested in knowing. ((Briefly, that I wasn't as much of a man as I had egotistically thought I was, and a firm resolve to make myself so, if humanly possible, with Divine help and guidance. -- EEE)). p. 5 Thinking loses much of its value when it is abstracted from experience, which can be a real test of ideas. Experience helps us to keep our ideas fluid so that they continue to grow and not stagnate. III We all need to find a method of achieving personal adequacy. 27