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

To: Solon who wrote (7318)	4/17/2001 3:25:59 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

Moral monsters can't stand to have their ideology poked at with humor like The Good Soldier Svejk is capable of. Nothing will change or progress in this world until adults can face reality without myths. As far as fables go some of the best writers, such as Dickens but many others had their imaginations fired in the nursery by having fables read to them. Some of these more powerful fables that I call myths gave people a will and courage to fight against oppression and forced suffering. Just think of the early Christians who pointed to the Jesus myths and disobeyed their Roman masters and rejected Jewish orthodoxy in one fell sweep. There is a need for fables and I think many of us could not face the day without myths or booze or pills or....

To: Solon who wrote (7318)	4/17/2001 5:56:04 PM
From: Frederick Smart	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Energy, Energy, Energy, Love.... >>>>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...>> Solon: You started this thread with a compelling question: Should God be replaced? And I believe He should be replaced. I believe the God of mankind is God that serves the EGO - ie. it allows us to remain separated, remote and detached from God as if we are atonomous. This allows us to have the comfort of feeling confident we can continue exercising our free will, powers of reason, intelligence and what we understand to be morality in a way we feel comfortable. But the EGO's biggest fear is the belief or evidence the our soul will somehow discover the reality behind our divine inner nature. I believe heaven exists right here on earth. And I don't believe in the illusion that man is bad, humanity is inherently sinful and that there really isn't any hope. For I have great faith in a vision which that light and love can spread throughout this world in ways which duplicate, replicate and radiate with massive power. I see Light Houses going up all over the world which can generate REAL energy from natural/organic sources. This will be a calalyst which will enable individuals to understand that energy is inherently FREE - ie. a gift from God - and that every INDIVIDUAL has an unlimited ability to create and spread light, trust and energy all over the universe. So limits don't exist. Definitions don't exist. We are going to understand that Love is the only basis for all that is real and that we are, first and foremost spiritual beings. And, lastly, death does not exist. Peace. Light! ONE!! GO!!