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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of meekerdb
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2014 9:54 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate.
On 4/19/2014 9:01 PM, Samiya Illias wrote:
Including Uri Geller, UFOs, a thousand people who want to "prove Einstein
wrong", Borley Rectory, the people trying to sell me something from Nigeria,
the Loch Ness monster, Ouija boards, Thor, Zeus, Odin and so on - yes, no doubt
one shouldn't dismiss anything, but life's too short not to prioritise.
Too short, yes! Prioritize, yes! Especially because if there is a purpose to
this life, and especially if there is more to life after death, and if this
short life is but a test, whose result is eternal, then we better study
earnestly. Difficult, yes, impossible, no!
"It's an incredible con job when you think of it, to believe something now in
exchange for life after death. Even corporations with all their reward systems
don't try to make it posthumous."
---- Gloria Steinem, women's rights activist
And how could it be otherwise… religion has always been a tool of the state to
mind control the slaves with promises of rewards in the thereafter in exchange
for loyalty, obedience and service throughout the span of actual life; balanced
with threats of eternal damnation for falling out of line. The narrative of
religion after religion seems tailor made, -- by their acts shall they be known
-- for the imposition of the centralized authority totalitarian mindset. Marx
got it right when he compared it to Opium; and I apologize for hurting anyone’s
feelings who may believe in some deity or other.
I think it is important to distinguish the pursuit of self-awareness,
enlightenment, transcendence, spiritual self-realization… these are exquisitely
personal acts and pursuits that have mostly been discouraged, frowned upon and
often repressed by force and threat by the forces of organized religion. Free
thinking and the spirit of questioning dogma is not something any religion
tolerates (except in rare moments of flowering, say the Golden period of
Moorish Cordoba)
Chris
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