Telmo: an AWFUL image! Someone wanted to get 'eternal' bliss for composing it SO complicated. (Mind you: 'eternal' does not mean a timespan.) When I still used the "atheist" epitheton I called the IRS (Tax office in the US) and asked if I can get a tax-free status for establishing an 'atheist' church with my friends? The answer was (and I could not believe the IRS has any humor): Of course, as long as you identify the "GOD" you pray to.
I wonder (Bruno!) if Materialism is a religion? unless we call ALL philosophys so, that are based on some basic beliefs. Atheism lately refers in my vocabulary to an ignorance about "GOD" - needed for denial. My agnosticism has one basic belief: that there is more to 'it' (i.e. the World, the Everything) than what we may know. Way beyond our imagination and fantasies. Beyond those qualia we try to fix within our mental capabilities. I confess I did not minutiously go through the graph so I don't know if power-connections are included server by the faith? The "fear-factors" of religions definitely point to such. The "Creator" is still on: we have no idea how that big cabooz got started. If there was a SuperNat'l Power, where did THAT stem from and where did that earlier Stemmer stem from? Why do the 'recent' (I mean biblical?) gods carry those human deficiencies, like a need to be adored, obeyed, confessed-to, irritability, wrath, and so on and on? If the Creator(?) knows everything, why are we, creatures, required to evolve and 'get better'? Why "sin"? Why hell? Who made Satan? (and 1000 more questions). Faithfully yours John Mikes On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]>wrote: > http://infinitemachine.tumblr.com/image/83867790181 > > A nice weekend to everyone! > > Telmo. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
