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- From: cortese@skid.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese)
- Subject: Re: Critical Thought
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- Organization: University of California, Irvine
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 23:49:09 GMT
- References: <adams.727986896@spssig> <1993Jan25.193312.27059@coe.montana.edu> <1k1m18INNato@cuda.add.itg.ti.com>
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- In article <1k1m18INNato@cuda.add.itg.ti.com> webb@vault.tsd.itg.ti.com (Rosemary Webb) writes:
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- >A well-told tale is also more memorable for non-literate populations.
- >Keep in mind, though, that even (especially?) for educated believers,
- >an important dictum during the middle ages was "I believe _because_ it
- >is absurd." Once I encountered this, I stopped trying to make sense
- >of Catholic doctrine and started looking for another spirituality. A creator
- >that alien (or one who creates me with such limited comprehension) gets
- >no support from *me*.
-
- In Carl Sagan's book _Contact_, he has one of his characters muse at how
- Earth is a control world gone to seed. The PTB show this place to the
- apprentice gods and say, "Watch yourself, or you might REALLY screw up
- and make something like this!"
-
- The main reason I dislike the JCI God(tm) is how he is supposed to be
- some sort of carrot dangled in our faces, forever taunting us to be like
- him and staying just out of our reach. I want something that's down
- here, damn it. Like the Goddess, who is everywhere according to my
- metaphor. I don't want to be removed from God. I want to BE god.
-
- Blessings,
- Janis
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