> > [image: Expand] > *16* of *30491* > > > [image: In new window]** > [image: Print all]** > [ARequiredCourse] Just a few thoughts from Mark Twain > Inbox > X > Reply > [image: More] > Ron [email protected] > via<http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=1311182> > yahoogroups.com > show details 3:37 PM (5 hours ago) > *Images are not displayed.* > Display images below - Always display images from [email protected] > ** > > > “Strange indeed, that you should not have suspected that your universe and > its contents were only dreams, visions, fiction! Strange, because they are > so frankly and hysterically insane – like all dream: a God who could make > good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; one who > could made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; one > who made them prize their bitter life, yet singly cut it short; who gave > his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to > earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children > with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice and > invented hell – mouths mercy and invented hell, who mouths morals to other > people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; > who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the > responsibility for man’s acts upon himself, and finally, with altogether > divine obtuseness, invites the poor, abused slaves to worship him!” – Mark > Twain >
> “You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a > dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly > creation of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks – in a word, > that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all > present, you should have recognized them.” – Mark Twain > > “It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no > universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a > dream – a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are > but a thought – a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, > wandering forlorn among the empty eternities.” – Mark Twain > >
