Re: Meyler creative thinkers
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In reply to:
Re: Meyler creative thinkers
9/21/99
Nancy:
Thank you for your message.Sorry to get back to you so late, but you must have replied to me just after I last checked the website.
Stubborness is partly a property of determination to deal with the truth (i.e. reality) rather than avoid or deny it.So, I welcome your comments and reflections.
Clearly, there are some genetic personality characteristics, and devotion to the truth might well be one of them (since it would be a means to achieve survival of the species-- rather than denying what amounts to the true state of affairs.)Lemmings are stubborn, too, though.So, clearly some stubborness is ill-advised for individuals to practise.
My grandparents were friends of the CIA Director who was once the Secretary of Defense (the year after the 1947 Roswell UFO crash), the thinker who advised Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis (fortunately, his advice was correct!).I still remember their insistence that I needed to believe in myself, when others doubted me.Perhaps that is a cause of some of my stubborness.
Regardless, the metaphysics about causation can be from a genetic or "other" cause (which might be based upon similarity of "naming" [for lack of a better word]).I found out, a few years ago, that I had a distant relative (Newton "Scotty" Miler) who was also Irish and who also knew THAT particular CIA Director (in fact, he worked for him, at one time, and was employed at the Roswell base, and was the Deputy Director of Counter-Intelligence for the CIA!!).Genetic and naming similarities do turn up quite often.Thus, it is hard to distinguish the difference between the two....
What I find really intriguing about this website, however, is the fact that the focus is on the name "Mealer", instead of "Meyler". Yet, I am a 2nd cousin of a Peace Prize winner who invented a type of wheat (a species of triticale-- a term you would be familiar with if you have watched Star Trek's 'The Trouble with Tribbles') and who dedicated himself to the eradication of hunger in the world.Since his family is Swedish, clearly the connotative meanings of "Mealer" ought to be irrelevant; but, perhaps empirically, they appear not to be.
Thank you again for your response!Thank you for reminding me of "Meyler stubborn-ness".I think that you have something there!
--Nick Meyler