XPost: alt.philosophy, alt.atheism, talk.atheism   
   From: ralph@eddlewood.demon.co.uk   
      
   In message <1142370103.359732.277390@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>,   
   Joseph H  writes   
   >So we arrive....   
   >   
   >Hey, we're as tough as anything else. But we want a little explanation;   
   >and we need a little meaning; and we'd like a little comfort; and we'd   
   >like to belong; and we'd like a little harmony....   
   >   
   >But we can do it. We got the means to provide all the above. So we   
   >concoct a little explanation and we spin a little yarn and we provide a   
   >little hope...   
   >   
   >Hey, man, it's all nonsense. It's fiction personified, the more   
   >fanciful the better. But we believe it at once. Hey, it's doing its   
   >job, who cares? We got business to attend to. We got to eat and hunt   
   >and screw and fight. So don't rock the boat, man. It's alright.   
   >   
   >Oh? Truth? You're kidding! Truth is for wimps. It's for losers who   
   >aren't tough enough to survve.   
   >   
   >But...maybe now we need truth? Oh, you poor fool! No, seriously, maybe   
   >now that have come together we really need to know the truth. Fool, no!   
   >But truth as a unifying agent, truth now that we are finally capable of   
   >knowing, truth now that those who still believe are more powerful than   
   >the liberated rest of us? No, no, when will you ever learn....?  i   
   >mean, there is a hope; there is a truth.  No, no, no!   
   >   
   So, where's the truth about Jericho, think thou, Joseph?   
      
   --   
   ralph   
      
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