On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 11:54 PM, John Mikes <[email protected]> wrote:
> Telmo: an AWFUL image! > Hi John, Awful things can be interesting too, no? I don't find it so awful. It's part of the History of our species. I was angry after my catholic education, now I'm just neutral. > 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. > I feel the same. > 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. > -- 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.
