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 Chris Hedges: I Don’t Believe in AtheistsPosted on May 23, 2007
By Chris Hedges Editor’s Note: On Tuesday night, Chris Hedges and Sam Harris debated “Religion, Politics and the End of the World.” The following is Hedges’ opening statement, in which he argues that Harris and other critics of faith have mistakenly blamed religion for the ills of the world, when the true danger lies in the human heart and its capacity for evil. Click here for full debate coverage. Sam Harris has conflated faith with tribalism. His book is an attack not on faith but on a system of being and believing that is dangerous and incompatible with the open society. He attacks superstition, a belief in magic and the childish notion of an anthropomorphic God that is characteristic of the tribe, of the closed society. He calls this religion. I do not. What he fails to grasp is not simply the meaning of faith—something I will address later—but the supreme importance of the monotheistic traditions in creating the concept of the individual. This individualism—the belief that we can exist as distinct beings from the tribe, or the crowd, and that we are called on as individuals to make moral decisions that at times defy the clamor of the tribe or the nation—is a gift of the Abrahamic faiths. This sense of individual responsibility is coupled with the constant injunctions in Islam, Judaism and Christianity for a deep altruism. And this laid the foundations for the open society. This individualism is the central doctrine and most important contribution of monotheism. We are enjoined, after all, to love our neighbor, not our tribe. This empowerment of individual conscience is the starting point of the great ethical systems of our civilization. The prophets—and here I would include Jesus—helped institutionalize dissent and criticism. They initiated the separation of powers. They reminded us that culture and society were not the sole prerogative of the powerful, that freedom and indeed the religious life required us to often oppose and defy those in authority. This is a distinctly anti-tribal outlook. Immanuel Kant built his ethics upon this radical individualism. And Kant’s injunction to “always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as mere means” runs in a direct line from the Christian Gospels. Karl Popper rightly pointed out in the first volume of “The Open Society and Its Enemies,” when he writes about this creation of the individual as set against the crowd, that “There is no other thought which has been so powerful in the moral development of man” (P. 102, Vol. 1). These religions set free the critical powers of humankind. They broke with the older Greek and Roman traditions that gods and destiny ruled human fate—a belief that when challenged by Socrates saw him condemned to death. They offered up the possibility that human beings, although limited by circumstances and simple human weaknesses, could shape and give direction to society. And most important, individuals could give direction to their own lives. Human communication directly shapes the quality of a culture. These believers were being asked to embrace an abstract, universal deity. This deity could not be captured in pictures, statues or any concrete, iconographic form. God exists in the word and through the word, an unprecedented conception in the ancient world that required the highest order of abstract thinking. “In the beginning,” the Gospel of John reads, “was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” This is why the second of the Ten Commandments prohibits Israelites from making concrete images of God. “Iconography thus became blasphemy,” Neil Postman writes, “so that a new kind of God could enter a culture.”
God is a human concept. God is the name we give to our belief that life has meaning, one that transcends the world’s chaos, randomness and cruelty. To argue about whether God exists or does not exist is futile. The question is not whether God exists. The question is whether we concern ourselves with, or are utterly indifferent to, the sanctity and ultimate transcendence of human existence. God is that mysterious force—and you can give it many names as other religions do—which works upon us and through us to seek and achieve truth, beauty and goodness. God is perhaps best understood as our ultimate concern, that in which we should place our highest hopes, confidence and trust. In Exodus God says, by way of identification, “I am that I am.” It is probably more accurately translated: “I will be what I will be.” God is better understood as verb rather than a noun. God is not an asserted existence but a process accomplishing itself. And God is inescapable. It is the life force that sustains, transforms and defines all existence. The name of God is laden, thanks to our religious institutions and the numerous tyrants, charlatans and demagogues these institutions produced, with so much baggage and imagery that it is hard for us to see the intent behind the concept. All societies and cultures have struggled to give words to describe these forces. It is why Freud avoided writing about the phenomenon of love.
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By jIM h., April 28 at 2:06 pm # FIX THIS SITE? YEAR MUST BE ADDED----------------HELLO ROBERT SCHEER; ----------THIS SITE HAS A BUGS IN IT! YOU MUST ADD THE YEAR, AND BRING IT UP TO DATE! --------YEAR SHOULD BE 2008, MONTH APRIL! -------------SITE NOT UP-TO-DATE! --------------FIX IT!-----------NOW IF YOU DO NOT FIX THE DATEE, AND BRING IT UP-TO-DATE, I AM NOT INTERESTED IN COMMENTING FURTHER! AND NO ONE ELSE WILL! DAY, AND YEAR MUST BE INCLUDED!
By Fritzwilliam, April 28 at 10:11 am # It's So SimpleChris Hedges, you do exactly what you criticize others for doing: taking a simple problem and making it complicated. Humans are not inherently evil--they’re inherently stupid. Everything you see and describe in your supposed anthology on the human condition leaves out one overriding (and the only) answer to the question, “Why do humans behave and believe as they do?” and it’s this: The human animal is subintelligent. Furthermore, as to whether or not there is a Darwinian connection, which you deny as the basic thesis of Dawkins and others. . .there is. The connection is the ongoing intellectual evolution of the species known as Homo Sapiens. When the species has developed sufficiently in the gray matter sense, all your talking points will become as dust on the forgotten books on all the forgotten bookshelves of the past.
By Melanie Stephan, September 6, 2007 at 7:16 am # Hi Jim, At times I get mad at the World to, but who are you really mad at? Are you mad at God or at Christians with twisted beliefs? God is not as evil as you make him out to be. Now some of these so called Christians are not going to Heaven either. That is why God has returned to set the record straight. Just google my name and you can find what he had to say in August 2007. If you can’t do that much you can remain ignorant.
By Jim H., August 28, 2007 at 7:50 am # ------------HELLO ROBERT SCHEER; ----------THIS SITE HAS A BUG IN IT! --------------FIX IT!-----------NOW
By Melanie Stephan, August 27, 2007 at 8:41 am # You can read more of what God had to say during the month of Aug. 2007, on this website [url="http://nonprophet.typepad.com/nonprophet/2005/08/are_ you_going_t.html" rel="nofollow"] Non-Prophet, Are you going to Hell? [/url] Melanie also gives PROOF that God
By Jim H., August 16, 2007 at 8:34 am # Re: 95312 samanthastevens Samantha Says: “Could you two please take your bickering off the site and reserve it for people who actually want to discuss the content???” I Say: If you mind your own personal business, and get to some point about what it is you wish to discuss, you are welcome! We who are ‘here’ do not need advice, nor idiotic suggestions from you, or anyone else who is only intent upon being critical, for the sake of being critical! If you do not like what is written, you do not have to read it! Writewhat you want, and read what you want! And we ‘all’ shall continue to do as we did before your arrival! If you do not like this, I suggest you go jump in a lake! Ciao, Jim H.
By Jim H., August 16, 2007 at 8:15 am # Re: 89596 straight_talk_11 You say:“--- why not apply that to consciousness?” (?) And you say: “---I ask if you believe in magic fables---”.(?) So, after demonstrating your childish naivet’e, you revert to your delusionary stance regarding any serious discussion of facts. And after these multiple ‘faux pas’ ‘you’ have the utmost ‘gall’ to suggest that it is ‘I’ who is: “---totally unworthy of any serious debate.” (?) You are NUTS! CRAZY! I say: “conscioness is a ‘human trait’! So, it ‘is’ the result of “EVOLUTION!” NATURALLY! DICTIONARY In your “more complete quote” you talk gibberish fairytales stuff, which is your ‘wont’! And not suprising to us, who ‘know’ the extent of your delusions regarding anything in the ‘real’ world! DON’T YOU KNOW: Isn’t it therefore scornfully ironic that the term “God” has been so twisted by those rotten crooks to supposedly mean something completely opposite? THE BIBLE?
By samanthastevens, August 15, 2007 at 9:33 pm # Could you two please take your bickering off the site and reserve it for people who actually want to discuss the content??? You make it very difficult to navigate through your personal vendettas against each other and read something substantial. Thank you!
By Jim H., July 26, 2007 at 6:28 pm # Re: 89857 I say: You are LYING AGAIN! I have quoted your WORDS EXACTLY! True: I have not shown interest in your attempt to distract with spin, and have only quoted excerpts, but I have ‘highlighted, copied and pasted’ ‘your words’ so, ‘they ‘are’ ‘your’ words! In your “more complete quote” you talk gibberish, fairytales stuff, which is your ‘wont’! And not suprising to us, who ‘know’ the extent of your delusions regarding anything in the ‘real’ world! More reasons to PROVE you are totally incompetent regarding debating, and unable to be serious about anything except an imaginary “God”, and constantly digressing from the subject. And, with your tenacious stance regarding your warped and deluded view of reality you are un-fit to debate an eighth grader about the weather! Get Help!
By Jim H., July 26, 2007 at 7:42 am # Re: 89596 straight_talk_11 You say:“--- why not apply that to consciousness?” And after these multiple ‘faux pas’ ‘you’ have the utmost ‘gall’ to suggest that it is ‘I’ who is: “---totally unworthy of any serious debate.” (?) You are NUTS! I say: “conscioness is a ‘human trait’! So, it ‘is’ the result of “EVOLUTION!” NATURALLY! DICTIONARY In your “more complete quote” you talk gibberish fairytales stuff, which is your ‘wont’! And not suprising to us, who ‘know’ the extent of your delusions regarding anything in the ‘real’ world! Isn’t it therefore scornfully ironic that the term “God” has been so twisted by those rotten crooks to supposedly mean something completely opposite? THE BIBLE?
By Jim H., July 25, 2007 at 6:00 pm # Re: 88974 ‘Then’, you said:“Or, do you believe---it just popped up out of nowhere---.”(?) Regarding your ‘conceptual’ “God”: You ‘talk’ about an IMPOSSIBLE “BEGINNING”? That never happened!
By Jim H., July 22, 2007 at 8:06 pm # Re: 88584 When you say, “I agree with you, and, then disagree, ‘THAT’ IS A LIE! And the rest of that post is gobbledygook garbage! There is no question that you are DELUSIONAL, and that somewhere sometime you were mesmerized, or indoctrinated into believing that asinine notion about some kind “Supreme ‘Being’, which you decided to redesign to better fit your own idea of what a makebelieve farcical “God” should be! And apparently, you are still in the process of ‘perfecting’ your new design! You can’t face “Cold Turkey” renunciation! It seems as though you may be coming to your senses slowly, but you are having a problem facing the fact that for so long, when you thought you were a brilliant example of humanity, you became enslaved to the idea, and enamored by the belief and a mental image of “God”, which you now realize was all a lie and a fantasy, that you should have seen through long ago. So, naturally, it is a shock to your ego, and stirs a slow burning sensation up your spine into your head, to finally accept that you have been a patsy, and a chump!
By Jim H., July 21, 2007 at 2:50 pm # RE:88522 straight_talk_11 You say: “Can’t you see I’m agreeing with you,---"(?) THIS IS A LIE! In your “88415” Post, You said: Quoting me “Mass/energy never disappear And, you said: “No argument."(?) Then, you contradict YOURSELF, AND, ME! When you say: “---You(?) know (?)’matter’ (?)and energy(?) didn’t come from nothing.---"(?) THIS IS AN ABSURD CONTRADICTION! And, ‘THIS’ IS NOT “AGREEING WITH ME!” It’s just Another lie! And you cannot even READ your own writing! For your edification, “matter” is included in the ‘terms’ “Mass/Energy” which has always been extant in the Universe! And I said: “---THERE NEVER, NEVER WAS ‘NOTHING’! Got That? “Mass/Energy Never disappear Ever were Ever here”!
By Jim H., July 20, 2007 at 9:06 pm # 88415 straight_talk_11 Then, you say: “No argument.---- You know matter and energy didn’t come from nothing.” (?) I say “matter and energy ALWAYS WERE! THERE NEVER, NEVER WAS ‘NOTHING’ !!!!!!!!!!!! I say: Now! you cannot even read! Or you cannot comprehend a very edifying and succinct message! The words describe the Universe we live in! They say: “Mass/Energy never disappear! Got That? ALWAYS HERE, NEVER DISAPPEAR! The next line which no doubt you did not read says: (referring to the prior words) “Ever were ever here”. Now, if Mass and/or Energy were ‘ALWAYS’ here, then there NEVER was NOTHING! Idiot! The rest of your ridiculous asinine diatribe that rambles on about other mindless conceptions you dizzy your mind with, are not worth more than this! Please, address your tortuous words, and quests for salvation to your confessor, and leave me out of your thoughts? Mass/energy never disappear THE ORIGIN OF NATURE
By Jim H., July 20, 2007 at 6:05 pm # Re:88354
By Jim H., July 19, 2007 at 6:02 pm # Re: 88063 straight_talk_11 You Say: “---your posts regarding postulates, etc.(re)---science, mathematics,---"(?) I say, ‘you’ are the “postulates” proponent! I, being an inventor, must keep MY postulates secret; until I protect the ‘end product’ by patent! And, I have not discussed mathmatics, here; so, you continnue to spin, away from the subject at hand! I suppose I owe you an apology for believing you are one of those criminal charlatan Evangelical crooks who ravage little kids after convincing them it is the only way they can be granted grace for the “sin” (whatever that means) they were “born’ with”! But, I have never before known of someone who was ‘not’ a “member of Clergy” that spent so much effort, and wrenched out so much perverted diatribe in an effort to support such tenuous assertions about a makebelieve, fairytale symbol of ones insanity. And, after all our ebb, and flow of disagreeing verbiage, I can only wonder who, or what is responsible for doing such a masterful job of ‘inducting’ you into the army of imberciles that the ‘Godist’ religious minions epitomize. You appear so ‘addicted’ to that scheme, that I think of those little Muslim kids that thrill at the opportunity to die in an act of MURDERING non-believers, to prove they know better! Your apparent bewitchment appears so strong that I have no doubt if we were living in earlier times here in the USA, you would try to have me “pilloried” or stoned to death, as a heretic! Such is the depth of your ‘bigotry’, and conviction that a “postulate”, guess, is far better than any established proven fact! A fully sane, reasonable person would totally reject your “God” if for no other reason than that ‘it’ required absolute bigotry, and rejection and repugnance for one’s fellow man, who did not accept this farce! Such a dividing influence is the antithisis of the harmonious uniting indivisibility, our nation is meant to be! Mass/energy never disappear If anything ever was
By Jim H., July 18, 2007 at 5:17 pm # Re:87740 Your nose must be elongating like Pinnochio’s! Check your mirror when you next powder it!
By Jim H., July 17, 2007 at 9:23 pm # Re: 87567 & 87571 You talk about “logic” but you are illogical! You need to have someone read back to you several of your posts so you may come to realize how very illogical your ridiculous persistance in offering postulated guesses as proof of something! Though “postulated” guesses are used to help arrive at what may become a valid conclusion, they of themselves, do not PROVE ANYTHING! And I do not wish to debate the possible validity of an idiot’s “postulated” guesses! Instead of babbling a diatribe about the relativivity of postulates to logical deductions, I don’t need that info, you do! so follow it, to it’s “logical” conclusion, and see if you can come up with anything other than your inane, asinine, farcical conception of a delusion! Haven’t you stolen enough from your flock of innocents, and fools? Why not stop all the lies, and try somehow to ‘atone’ for all the rotteness you have caused those whose lives you have touched, and their At your very next Church meeting, tell your flock that you have discovered the truth; that there is no such thing as a “God”, and that you have been lying just to swindle all the money you could squeeze out of them, so that you could live like a rich person, and enjoy the plelasures that only money can provide. And stop snooping into my personal privacy! Your nose is elongating like Pinnochio’s!
By Jim H., July 16, 2007 at 6:43 pm # Re: 87274 Then you ‘ADMIT’: “Postulates are not provable---."(!) (Your own words!) Stop “postulating”! This is but another audacious lie! I have repeatedly said, or implied, that your “postulate” (claimed) (’Godist’ ) “Creator God” or other conceptual idea of “God” you may have, is an absurd!, makebelieve fairytale tool of charlatans like you, used to enslave innocent children, and fools! Prove otherwise! Where, from whom, or how did you ever come to imagine such a stupid idea? Your problem is that ‘you’ have accepted (without proof) something that neither you, nor anyone else, can prove ever existed, and, based on your HALUCINATORY acceptance of a virtual “pig-in-a-poke” you want others to believe what you absolutely, have no valid reason for believing! If you were the least bit HONEST, and serious, about truth, you would endeavor to find a valid reason for your surrender to such an overpowering addiction, that has caused your outlandish renunciation of sanity in favor of a benumbing, fawning delusionary idolatry that has deprived you of your innate reasoning! WHY do you believe this great lie? Where’s the evidence? How did you first come to believe in this illusory, chimerical conception? Who told you about such a ‘thing’ ? What made you accept that person’s ‘word’ about ‘it’? If after a very thorough research, you came to realize that what you have accepted as true, and believed in for so long, was beyond any doubt whatsoever, totally incompatable with reason, or fact; do you believe you have the mental power to withstand the the hurtful shock to your ego, that admitting to yourself would cause, from knowing you have been a victim, a patsy, and a fool, to have ever believed the lies that caught you so unprepared to deal with it, from the very first? “POSTULATES” do not prove anything, and are totally worthless as PROOF for anything at all! You have said: (Outlandishly!) “---God---"creates(?) from within---"(?) I say: Prove it! What does your delusion of “God” create? Aren’t you sensible enough to realize that what cannot be proven, is not fact, but folly? And that claims are worthless unless supported by facts, PROOF! You say: “Postulates” are not provable."(!) (Your words!) So, why, when you admit ‘they’ are ‘worthless’, do you ask someone: to “show- why, (your) “postulates” are unreasonable or unfounded."(?) (worthlesss!) Not proveable, means: guesswork, speculation, conjecture, infer, suppose, surmize, suggest, imply, hint, intimate, unfounded, without reason, fallacious, containing fundamental errors in reasoning: false, illogical, invalid, sophistic, specious, spurious, deceptive, delusive, ‘delusory’, illusive, illusory, unsound, misleading, assumption, ‘postulate’, without ‘proof’, judgment, estimate, or opinion arrived at by ‘guessing’, and implauseable!
By Jim H., July 16, 2007 at 6:18 pm # Re: 87274 Then you ADMIT: “Postulates are not provable, of course."(!) (Your own words!) This is but another audacious lie! I have repeatedly said, or implied, that your “postulate” (claimed) (’Godist’ ) “Creator God” or other conceptual idea of “God” you may have, is an absurd!, makebelieve fairytale tool of charlatans like you, used to enslave innocent children, and fools! Prove otherwise! Where, from whom, or how did you ever come to imagine such a stupid idea? Your problem is that ‘you’ have accepted (without proof) something that neither you, nor anyone else, can prove ever existed, and, based on your HALUCINATORY acceptance of a virtual “pig-in-a-poke” you want others to believe what you absolutely, have no valid reason for believing! If you were the least bit HONEST, and serious, about truth, you would endeavor to find a valid reason for your surrender to such an overpowering addiction, that has caused your outlandish renunciation of sanity in favor of a benumbing, fawning delusionary idolatry that has deprived you of your innate reasoning! Where’s the evidence? How did you first come to believe in this illusory, chimerical conception? Who told you about such a ‘thing’ ? What made you accept that person’s ‘word’ about ‘it’? If after a very thorough research, you came to realize that what you have accepted as true, and believed in for so long, was beyond any doubt whatsoever, totally incompatable with reason, or fact; do you believe you have the mental power to withstand the the hurtful shock to your ego, that admitting to yourself would cause, from knowing you have been a victim, a patsy, and a fool, to have ever believed the lies that caught you so unprepared to deal with it, from the very first? Aren’t you sensible enough to realize that what cannot be proven, is not fact, but folly? And “POSTULATES” do not prove anything, and are totally worthless as PROOF for anything at all! You have said: (Outlandishly!) “---God---"creates(?) from within---"(?) I say: Prove it! What does your delusion of “God” create? I say: Why don’t you attempt to prove the validity of your assertions? Where’s the evidence? How did you first come to believe in this apparently illusory, chimerical conception? Who told you about such a ‘thing’ ? What made you accept that person’s ‘word’ about ‘it’? If after a very thorough research, you came to realize that what you have accepted as true and believed in for so long, was beyond any doubt whatsoever, totally incompatable with reason, or fact, do you believe you have the mental power to withstand the the hurtful shock to your ego, that admitting to yourself would cause that you have been a victim, a patsy, and a fool to have ever believed the lies that caught you so unprepared to deal with it from the very first? Aren’t you sensible enough to realize that claims are worthless unless supported by facts, PROOF! You say: “Postulates” are not provable."(!) (Your words!)
By Jim H., July 15, 2007 at 3:01 pm # Re: 87091& 87095 straight_talk_11 You say: “---’MORE’ (?) compelling reasons---?” “---they’re already here.” “---I have (offered) compelling reasons---” (?) I say: LIAR! You have not cited even ONE! Liar! I Say: You are a ‘disgusting’ LIAR! You have not offered even ONE REASON! for any one to accept your so called, absurd “POSTULATES”! A “postulate” is a CLAIM! It is ‘NOT’ a REASON! DICTIONARY: postulate I say:That statement (think) says it all! IT PROVES YOU ARE A LIAR! Even a dope like you should know that “think” there is a reason, is NOT stating a REASON! And it shows that you have not provided even one (1) “REASON”! Not even one (1) reason in all of your critically bigoted babbling attempt to “prove” the un -proveable! Not one (1) reason to support your ceaseless lies! How can you lie so much, and so often, and then keep teling lie after lie in an attempt to support all the rest of your repeated lies, without knowing what you are doing? You say:"---(No) readers--- have---critiqued --- my postulates (claims)---? This is but another audacious lie! I have repeatedly said, or implied, that your “postulate” (claimed) (’Godist’ ) “Creator God” or other conceptual idea of “God” you may have, is an absurd!, makebelieve fairytale tool of charlatans like you, used to enslave innocent children, and fools ! Prove otherwise! Where, from whom, or how did you ever come to imagine such a stupid idea?
By Jim H., July 13, 2007 at 9:04 pm # Re:86700 Rev. nahida Thanks for reading my posts, and your (free) critique. Don’t mess up your ‘Alb’ with sputtering spittle. You say: “received---unfounded(?) accusations of irrationality, insanity and believing in fairy tale stories;---"(?) I say: You must be a drug addict! No one in their right mind would lie so OUTRAGEOUSLY! I say: “Accusations” of irrationality, insanity, and believing in fairy tale stories---"are extremely ACCURATE! when discussing someones ‘belief’, or ‘faith’ in something totally falsle, absolutely impossible to prove, a figment of a charlatan’s evil criminal mind, and the delusional symbol that induces people like you to be the asinine blowhard verbose bigot you are. If you wish someone to believe in your ‘Godish’ fetish, all you need do is present some ‘proof’ that such a ‘thing’ ‘IS’ REAL!, and not a makebelieve, fairytales, device, used to lure innocents, and imbeciles ‘like you’ into a form of slavery to an irrational conception of life, and a world of mindless delusion that causes the type of bigoted agressive attacking misstatements, and a ‘pedantic’ attermpt to demean, belittle, and insult the intelligence of someone who is by far, light years, your mental superior! YOU ARE TOTALLY CONFUSED! ‘YOU’ ‘IDIOTS’ ARE THE BELIEVERS! We, The rational ones! who accuse ‘you’ criminal idiots of lying and chicancery, and warping innocent children’s minds with your schemes are the NON-BELIEVERS! Sane, rational, people do not ask, nor expect others to PROVE the non -existance of “santa Clause’. the “Tooth Fairy” “Mickey Mouse” or other makebelieve, fairytales entities such as a “Creator-God” and “little Orphan Annie”! Sane, rational people KNOW these are comic, or farcical conceptions, and do not, nor have they ever existed except in the minds of storybook writers! Or, in the case of the “Creator-God”, in the ‘heads’ of all you, the DELUDED ‘MINDLESS’! Don’t demand others to prove you are a liar! The proof is in your absurd twisted assertions! You talk about “logic”! Isn’t it logical to you that what does not exist does not need to be proven not to exist? Your problem is that ‘you’ have accepted (without proof) something that neither you, nor anyone else, can prove ever existed, and, based on your acceptance of a virtual “pig-in-a-poke” you want others to believe what you have absolutely no valid reason for believing! If you were the least bit HONEST, and serious, about truth, you would endeavor to find a valid reason for your surrender to such an overpowering addiction, that has caused your outlandish renunciation of sanity in favor of a benumbing, fawning idolatry that has deprived you of you innate reasoning! I say: Why don’t you attempt to prove (or, disprove) the validity of your assertions? WHY do you believe this great lie? Where’s the evidence? How did you first come to believe in this illusory, chimerical conception? Who told you about such a ‘thing’ ? What made you accept that person’s ‘word’ about ‘it’? If after a very thorough research, you came to realize that what you have accepted as true, and believed in for so long, was beyond any doubt whatsoever, totally incompatable with reason, or fact; do you believe you have the mental power to withstand the the hurtful shock to your ego, that admitting to yourself would cause, from knowing you have been a victim, a patsy, and a fool, to have ever believed the lies that caught you so unprepared to deal with it, from the very first? Aren’t you sensible enough to realize that what cannot be proven, is not fact, but folly?
By DSA, July 13, 2007 at 4:01 pm # Happy Friday to All! Why can’t our dear, great world leaders spend the abundant resources we are gifted with toward the welfare of all mankind… instead of on these destructive wars? The turmoil you see and hear in Afghanistan and present day Pakistan was not seen or heard of during one era in their history… and that was when the Buddhist leaders ran those countries… Their only secret was the belief in nonviolence and respect for all life. Why are the present day Devout/Faithful so angry, confused and destructive? Wishing everyone a fun weekend, With love, DSA |
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