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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (8256)	9/15/2004 9:17:20 AM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 20039

Gus > the geocentric model puts humans in a special place at the center of everything. Think of it this way: You are trying to recruit people to your belief system, a system that, during its conception and for the first several hundred years it was around, people were persecuted for. It is human nature to want to feel special. Therefore, your religion offers as one of its fundamental beliefs that you are not only a special person, created personally by your divine being, but you live in a special place: At the center of everything. As far as I am concerned, that's still the way most people in the world see it, especially the religious ones. Didn't you know that Hubble was Christian -- and he "proved" through the red-shifted light and the Doppler effect that the earth was at the center of the Big Bang. Don't you know that every galaxy in the universe is receding away from the earth? Why is that? Because any and every observation always relates to the observer. Therefore, since man is the observer, he must be at the center of the universe. Man is therefore God. What could be simpler?! And Occam's Razor proves it.