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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (7315)	4/16/2001 6:27:58 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

I appreciate the imagination of a kid 7 or 8 years old. What I don't appreciate is how we lose it as we grow older. Well to some extent, the more one knows the less to wonder at. But ironically, the converse holds as well. It is a matter of the wonder becoming commonplace, and leaving the mind free to seek new areas of wonder. Unfortunately, the common recognition of fairytails, myths, and other wonderful products of human imagination--still remain miraculous to many adults, and prevent the human race from collectively embracing a higher and more positive vision. Many on earth still follow the imagination of ancient and modern misanthropes who believed (or pretended to believe) that people should suffer in this life, or at least be deprived or unhappy. Many still believe that pleasure and physical joy are ungodly creations of an imaginary devil. No, Averagejoe, I don't think adults have lost the capacity to imagine--but perhaps they have lost the capacity to imagine or to think for themselves...