Hi Mary,
> > Beliefs are static and difficult to overcome - so be careful what you > choose > to convince your children of. > > Careful indeed, Mary. Weight is also difficult to lift, but muscle needs resistance in order to develop. I was asking a question about the value of mental development from resisting the dogma that religion puts on your "barbells". So the fact that we hand our children all our hard-earned insight on a plattitudinal platter, I reckon is akin to bringing them into a world where they don't have to strive for anything. Water comes from a tap, food from McDonalds, ideas from tv. Give me about one more generation of this and I predict humans too flabby to think themselves out of whatever mess our rapidly collapsing economy devolves into. But hey, that's cool. I mean the important thing is that there be no real conflicts in belief, that we're all equally "special" and the personal rush of liberation we experience in our proudly won atheism is kept as our uppermost value. Because in the end, it's not about the effects of my thinking on society or my children or the future, is it? It's all about how it makes me feel in the moment, right? Nothing else matters to the nihilistic pleasure-seekers of the me generation. I know, I'm starting to sound like Rigel. Grumpy John > Mary > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
