(June 17, 2011 at 3:15 pm)Nick_A Wrote: "...It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in God. He has only to refuse to believe in everything that is not God. This refusal does not presuppose belief. It is enough to recognize, what is obvious to any mind, that all the goods of this world, past, present, or future, real or imaginary, are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire which burns perpetually with in us for an infinite and perfect good... It is not a matter of self-questioning or searching. A man has only to persist in his refusal, and one day or another God will come to him."
-- Weil, Simone, ON SCIENCE, NECESSITY, AND THE LOVE OF GOD, edited by Richard Rees, London, Oxford University Press, 1968.- © [/b]
Stop quoting things like this as fact to back up your position. It's an opinion, nothing more and no good in any case.
" the desire which burns perpetually with in us for an infinite and perfect good"; does it now? Really?
"It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in God. He has only to refuse to believe in everything that is not God." Well this is just linguistic fun and games.
"A man has only to persist in his refusal, and one day or another God will come to him." In other words, look for patterns in the clouds, and you'll find them.
Nonsense.
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"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
Einstein
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy. They told me I didn't understand the assignment. I told them they didn't understand life.
- John Lennon
