On Mon, 19 Jul 1999 04:13:42 -0700, Steve <rstevew at armory.com> wrote:
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I am not sure what your post is in relation to mine or me. I can't see
any so I will just treat it as a new thread.
>Anyone who thinks they know is not humble. Believers and disbeievers
>think they know and say they know. They don't, and they can't, they are
>lying.
I thought this once. But I think otherwise now...
I know not what other people know or don't know. They may have some
truth which is just not apparent to me. So what? It is my truth that I
should be concerned about, what little there maybe.
Asserting anything else about anyone else is subject to the same
criticism possible for all those who dare assume far too much in
life... what is a little assumption and what is a lot cannot really be
compared.
>Whatever you are just sure that you've been through and are now certain
>about, ponder confronting a gigantic being beyond life which has power
>even over your mind and heart, and then contemplate that it STILL may
>only be a powerful evil pan-dimensional alien and not God at all.
To you, but why bother anyone else?
>Humility is truth. It is the core of the scientific method. Be humble.
>Anyone who says that they know, this side of death and for all I know
>the other side, is surely foolish. Do what makes sense and feels right
>and good, but don't try to justify your life with invented human
>malarkey, and that's all there is available besides love and warmth.
>>The only justification for your life that makes sense is what is written
>upon your heart before the foundation of the world. You can't count on
>it being in books intact, and you will find it in many more and
>different books than supposed 'holy" books. The important thing is this,
>that it is inside you, and that YOU are what validates it when you see
>it and it makes sense. The book is just dead plants and is as often
>wrong. Your "heart" is the ultimate authority because you have to live
>there.
This seems a little peculiar to me. If the spirit of a holybook
reverberates in ones heart as the truth, what is wrong with that? Why
not leave people to their truths as much as you would like to be left
to your own (haha, this statement is almost hypocritical, trying to
change someones mind about making attempts to change someones
minds...)
>Atheism that rejects the feudal monarch model of "God" is fine, as that
>was clearly only an economic despotism. But if that's all it is it
>remains in the dark ages. Profound atheist materialism looks like
>somebody wasn't paying attention very well to how very strange it is to
>exist at all and to feel you are you. Why is that required at all?
I find the materialism of the world a box of giggles... and here is me
studying economics, maybe that is more funny.. :/ Ah well.
>And what in the world does it imply?
Who cares, it is other people, I can be content being an individual
who loves being an individual rather than fretting for the world
beyond my own.
>Be gentle with each other.
Yes, indeed :)
