Watching last night's 9/11 stuff with my wife I mentioned the firefighters on their way to the second tower which then collapsed (they never reached it) ... I said I bet they felt lucky. She said she didn't believe in god or anything but that that surely must make anyone feel spiritual, that there was a divine something (a higher power) watching over them or ... well ... just something. I said no, I would just feel lucky (albeit VERY lucky but lucky all the same) and explained that humanism was a philosophy, a way of life, a way of thinking about things and once you get to think that way you simply DO NOT entertain seriously any such ideas of higher powers, ghost, goblins, ghouls, faeries, leprechauns, Santa Claus or gods ... they are all EXACTLY the same thing and I could no more stop myself thinking like that that I could cut my own leg off (in fact I suspect the latter might be easier).
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