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XPost: alt.atheism, alt.philosophy
From: Smiler@Joe.King.com
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 05:40:22 -0700, tooly wrote:
> On Oct 25, 9:14 pm, Smiler wrote:
>> On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 02:28:27 -0700, yjk wrote:
>>
>> SUBJECT: Be humble before the God Almighty
>>
>> What god? You've yet to show evidence that such a being exists outside
>> your demented mind. Beliefs, opinions and 'holy' books are NOT evidence.
>>
>
> There is a precious egg out there sitting in it's nest...fragile as
> all hell. It is the egg of humanity; contained within it's innards
> all the hopes and promises of all generations gone by, in futures of
> high meaning as found in each new generation pushing on to a certain
> percieved manifest of an even GREATER humanity and then a greater
> humanity still. Heavenly vistas of paradise on earth, but not found
> in gold, but in the virtues of human compassion and moral BEing.
>
> Who is gonna sit on it NOW; who is gonna protect it with all the
> jackhammers and bulldozers of science and small minded intellectuals
> running about? Who is gonna nurture it's promise of a tomorrow based
> in higher virtue?
>
> Indeed...'what God'? What demented silly beliefs that held warmth to
> it's comfort in past years, will work NOW; in times of such
> learnedness and raised consciousness to the stars? Science tries to
> become a surrogate mother to it's domain, but it's cold objectivity
> only provides the egg with justifications of, well...that coldness it
> now feels that envelops it. Objectivity and rationality, will not
> sustain the core of it's BEing...for it is a BEing that wants and
> NEEDS to feel. It needs warmth.
>
> "WE" need to feel. And yet, our justifications are lost to stark
> realities we can no longer bear for long. Our shelter of God is gone,
> laying us naked to the elements..and our humanity slowly 'dies' within
> it's own yolk from the harshness, no longer protected.
>
> Who are we to believe now? Our fifth period physics professor? Alice
> next door? The man on the television? Maybe 'smiler' here has the
> answers? Or perhaps just to believe in ourselves, lost in time and
> space, but existentially real? Or like most of us, perhaps in a state
> of purgatory, caught struggling against the tide, while swept along
> against our will, not sure just where it takes us now. No logs by the
> name of God there now onto which we can hang to save us from
> drowning. Time to swim; time for nestlings to be pushed from their
> nest and fly upon their own [perhaps]; that we become our own moral
> agents...professed with memories of rapture and a determination to
> 'GET BACK' to our perch on yon hilltop.
>
> God was many things to us through the years; a meaning, a comfort, a
> goal. In last light, we might recognize that God was NOTHING;
> ever...and yet, we proceeded to know VIRTUE in ourselves nonetheless.
> Now, that we are FORCED to embrace that nothingness, it should become
> apparent also that we have 'free will' enough to demand of ourselves
> whatever we desire; no longer in need of God or the gods, but acting
> responsibly on behalf of ourselves.
>
> What does all this mean? Whatever God was to us...LOVE was real
> enough. In that conveyance, no object has ever dictated to us how to
> be, but only nurtured our capacity to FEEL. IN the end, perhaps we
> will need NO OBJECT; no ball and shackle...but freely feel as our will
> demands. Toward one another; toward the stars; toward God
> HImself...even as the nothingness that is all around...
>
> Why? I think it simply becomes a matter of choice.
Nope. No evidence there.
--
Smiler,
The godless one. a.a.# 2279
All gods are tailored to order. They're made to
exactly fit the prejudices of their believers.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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