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From: elvish@noshpam.org
Joseph Humming wrote in
news:5408fe17-eb98-4d99-8b7a-898848e96a20@b29g2000hsa.googlegroups.com
to alt.atheism on 20 Feb 2008:
> On Feb 19, 10:38’pm, "Sanity's Little Helper"
> wrote:
>> Joseph Humming wrote in news:b8c43364-1553-
>> 463c-850d-9411a26ed...@u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com to alt.atheism on
>> 19 Feb 2008:
>>
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>> > 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
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>> > 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?
>>
>>
IOW, take the fucking blindfold off.
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