• You identify with your system. It cost you blood to build it, and if it is attacked, it is your blood that is being shed.
• You cannot tolerate tentativeness, suspension of judgment, or anything that does not fit the system.
• You cannot apprehend anyone else's system unless it supports yours.
• You believe that other systems are based on selected data.
• Commitment to systems other than your own is fanaticism.
• You come to believe that your system entitles you to proprietorship of the entities within it.
• Since humor involves incongruity, and your system explains all seeming incongruities, you lose your sense of humor.
• You lose you humility.
• You accept all those points - insofar as they apply to builders of other systems.
• So do 1. (P.S. I hope I believe in the cult of fallibility)

It has been an honor and a privilige to gather with you over this semester. I ask each group below to ask yourself what Rabbi Hillel asks all of us?
I wish to thank those of you who had the courage to send me your pieces, it reminds me of the joy, suffering, truth, and ambiguity of this existence we share and it awes and terrifies me. I ask only that you find the courage to ask yourself If I am not for myself who is for me?
I wish to thank those who had the courage not to send their pieces, it reminds me of how, my fear, arrogance, and pride has kept me from listening to many who I had much to learn from. I ask only that you find the courage to ask yourself and being for my own self what am I?
Finally, I wish to thank those who had no idea that there was a page at all, it reminds me of how I might be wasting even more time on this class than I already have. I ask only that you find the courage to ask If not now when?

Andreas Agiorgitis