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Permalink Reply by Ryan_For_Reason on January 7, 2013 at 2:38pm

Wonderfully written Strega.  

Permalink Reply by David Henson on January 14, 2013 at 10:15pm

Strega,

Shut up and speak your mind.

Your post is bullshit.

Permalink Reply by Gregg R Thomas on January 14, 2013 at 10:24pm

Ah...Little D.H. Butthurt has returned, welcome back David, enjoy your stay, I know I will. :)

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on January 15, 2013 at 12:10am

That was a cheap and vulgar display.

Permalink Reply by Simon Paynton on January 15, 2013 at 4:01am

David, this is why you get banned from every forum. 

Permalink Reply by Emperor Milos on January 15, 2013 at 8:54am

Shut up and speak your mind.

Is that even possible? Shutting up would prevent her from speaking at all.

And since she is typing the response, I presume on her own volition, she is speaking her mind. So, you should instead drop the attitude and behave like a respectable human being, so the conversation can progress past this teenage anger stage.

Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on January 15, 2013 at 10:02am

Why waste your time with him, Milos? You're only giving him the attention he so desperately needs.

Permalink Reply by Emperor Milos on January 15, 2013 at 10:07am

Good point, Arch. Maybe if we ignore him he will just go away.

Permalink Reply by Heather Spoonheim on January 5, 2013 at 1:22am

Had humans never had a capacity for magical thought, then kings/leaders would have never been able to create lies to lead the masses of sheep that are theists.  This would have greatly slowed the development of civilization.  In such an instance, in order to live in the proto-civilization that I do, either another mechanism would need to have been found or I would have to be born in the future.

Given one or the other scenario, I answer your question by imagining the non-theistic society in which I would live, and my place in it.  I see a world where leaders can say, "I don't know because I do not have enough information."  I see people settling arguments by examining evidence - something of which YOU and nearly all Christians are incapable.  I see a world without racism, borders, or even much stratification between classes.  I see a world where everyone is truly born equal.  All in all, I see utopia.  I am glad that I live so much nearer that world than my ancestors and I see a bright future like this for the human race if we can keep you Bronze Age knuckle draggers from destroying the planet.

Permalink Reply by James Green on January 5, 2013 at 9:08am

Beautiful.

Permalink Reply by David Henson on January 14, 2013 at 10:17pm

Yeah, beautiful man. . .

Permalink Reply by Marc on January 5, 2013 at 12:08pm

I definately agree with the slow progress statement and I so much want to agree with what the rest of Heather says above, but as I look around at human nature, I have my doubts.

If there wasn't the absoluteness of religion to subjegate, separate, and shepherd the masses. I am sure we would have either come up with something else or simply amplify another of the existing delineations of geography, culture, military power, race, fill-in-the blank.

My suspicion is that the large percentage of humans by their nature strive on abdication. Giving the big, difficult, and analysis requiring decisions up to someone else as they pursue more satisfying animalistic goals. The drug of power and control does not necessarily get introduced to everyone, nor does everyone have the capacity to obtain and execute that power, and if your appetite hasn't been whet with it, then your ability to fall in line behind whoever is making those hard decisions for you gets easier.

I'm sure we would simply be arguing about and separated by something else. After all, what else would you expect animals to do?

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