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>
> Keep on writing.
>
> While rooting around in the basement the other day I ran across a quote that
> seemed important to me as an undergraduate. I guess I must have copied it
> down and carried it in my wallet. Ah, the glories of being an
> undergradutae. (it is written on the back side of my membership card in the
> McGill Psychology Club, Dr. Freud where are you.....)
>
> "The only power is natural law. There is neither a personal creator nor an
> infinite intelligent being. Nature is wholly indifferent to man. Natural
> law may be spoken of as "spiritual force" but this in no way adds to or
> changes its character"
>
> Not a lot has changed vis a vis my outlook. My latest one liner is "life is
> a crap shoot."
And may we add:
Unregulated capitalism without social welfare erects a second-level
layer of crap on top of the first: a man-made second-nature that
is wholly indifferent to > 95% of humanity, who become
for the < 5%
a second layer of human resources to be exploited, on top of
the first, bedrock layer of natural resources?
>
> I also think that religion is a wonderful social technology. Extremely
> important in too many ways to mention. Somehow it never "took" with me.
I believe that advertising originated (or at least was given a
big boost...) by the *propaganda of saints* in the Roman
Catholic Church in the Middle Ages:
Make your pilgrimage to St. Cureall's today!
Experience for yourself the difference a miracle makes!
> Wish it had, would sure make the ups and downs of life a lot easier to
> endure.
Alternatively, you can just stop caring about anything,
not just about your own (OK, my own...) selfish personal
likes and dislikes, but about other people's likes and
dislikes too: Selflessness with a vengeance! (And this would
seem to me to meet the logical criteria of Kant's Categorical
Imperative: To do nothing for nobody and expect nobody to do anything
for oneself. Bellum omnium contra omnes looks logically
consistent to me!)
And, of course, one can always console oneself that the
survivors survive (Darwin).
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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