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   XPost: alt.philosophy, alt.atheism   
   From: elvish@noshpam.org   
      
   Joseph Humming  wrote in news:b8c43364-1553-   
   463c-850d-9411a26ed98b@u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com to alt.atheism on 19   
   Feb 2008:   
      
   > Human beings tend to believe their view of existence is complete and   
   > inclusive. Why should they assume otherwise?   
   >   
   > When first - some little time ago - we encountered others whose views   
   > differed from ours we were certain they were wrong. They simply did   
   > not comprehend that the golden egret was the begetter of all life -   
   > the smelly fools!   
   >   
   > But we tolerated their unwisdom. Only when our combined numbers grew   
   > too great for the space we shared did we attack them. Warfare would   
   > easily have continued forever - for how could we forgive those who   
   > murdered our brothers? - were it not for some tyrant who forced peace   
   > upon us. The bastard!   
   >   
   > And then we believed that tyranny was the natural order. And others,   
   > holy men, offered us new beliefs which subsumed and incorporated our   
   > earlier faiths.   
   >   
   > This might have continued forever. Why not? It was stable - and   
   > unbreakable. And efficient in a limiting way.   
   >   
   > But then men proposed that men should really be free - and even women   
   > sometimes. We might all play a part. If we had talents prepare to   
   > express them now. Hey, it worked! We did a lot more and learned a lot   
   > more. Our rights were inexhaustible. The world was made for us.   
   >   
   > This might have continued  forever. Why not? It was good fun for those   
   > for whom it was good fun. But then we discovered that the resources of   
   > the planet were running low. And climate was behaving oddly. And many   
   > were still poor. And rights could lead to excess. And others   
   > challenged our civilisation.   
   >   
   > This might have continued forever. Why not? It was unstable in a sort   
   > of dynamic way. We kept making money. But then someone proposed that   
   > we should really - finally, at last, and all that - see the human   
   > phenomenon in its entirety; that we should base our values on this   
   > perception, that all our values and perceptions to date were partial   
   > and flawed, that until we saw the human enterprise in full and valued   
   > it accordingly we would never succeed in achieving the global harmony   
   > we desired.   
   >   
   > Joseph Humming   
   >   
      
   Very perceptive.... So, how come you're still pulling on the elephant's   
   tail trying to get it to ring a middle C?   
      
   --   
   David Silverman D.B.E.   
   aa #2208   
   Lord Mayor of Dis   
   Lawful copyright holder of the term "Earthquack".   
      
   The monkeys are loose in the library again. They're gibbbering something   
   about "Answers In Genesis".   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)