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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (52624)7/8/2002 3:26:06 PM
From: Solon  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
"Do you suppose that all of these thrills and sensations that elevate our spirit are mere matters of genes and neurons doing their thing"

Why reduce the grandeur of your feeling and appreciation to such terms. What we are when dead or disected...this is not what matters. It is what we are in our best living humanity which counts.

It is not a question of losing those grand qualities simply because we disagree on how we were built, or if there was or is a greater "WHY".

Here is a paper which I really like. I do not need to agree with every suggestion of the writer in order to appreciate his views, and to identify with much of the sentiment. All the marvellous pinnacles of human deed and feeling may be understood and honored as reflecting the very real range and nature of humankind. It does not need a mystical explanation any more than the ferocity of a weasel requires a divine rationale.

Please do not think that an agnostic or atheist stance is opposed to the private and gentle search for "God" or profound experience. There would be no rational reason for such opposition. Most of us simply wish political power or influence to be absolutely separated from anyone claiming a moral and social authority which may only be justified by force--not reason.


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