XPost: alt.philosophy, alt.atheism, talk.atheism   
   From: brianf88@bigpond.net.au   
      
   "alan jones"  wrote in message   
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   > Joseph H wrote:   
   >> 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!   
   >>   
   >> Joseph H   
   >>   
   >> www,humanisation.org   
   >>   
   >   
   > You speak like the man who's just discovered the world   
   > isn't what he first thought it to be. The world far from   
   > being flat, is round, has always been round, will always   
   > be round. You speak like the man who's just discovered   
   > this truth, after a life time of lies.   
   >   
   > Does this new truth change you? Should it change you?   
   > The you, at the center of all you perceive.   
   >   
   > Do you now walk with caution, threading gingerly on this   
   > uncertain world, do you take your cue from those around   
   > you, also discovering this truth? The world has not   
   > changed just because you've discovered this new meaning.   
   >   
   > I come with further news for you. The world is not only   
   > round, it traverse a path around a blazing star. The   
   > world far from being this flat plain, at the center of   
   > the universe, is a speck in a universe of unimagined   
   > order and complexity.   
   >   
   > Truth is knowledge. The knowledge we discover, the others   
   > have, the knowledge we may never know. Truth waits for us.   
   > In the mean time there are the lies, we don't yet know   
   > are lies.   
   >   
   Great perspective.   
      
   I would substitute illusions for 'lies' in ther above context.   
      
   The illusions are stepping stones to personal realisation.   
      
   BOfL   
      
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