(September 26, 2013 at 4:08 am)JoeSzymborski27 Wrote: What I'm getting at is a desire for... A new type of thinking. A type of rational discourse with which to create a sense of hope, love, morality, charity, education and peace WITHOUT the requisite of a mutually exclusive deity or set of beliefs. Something which any open mind can adopt to help make the world a more equal planet.
All good stuff you wrote, Joe. Unfortunately, when we think about improving humanity we always fail to take into account exactly what it means to be human (meaning that we cannot change what we are). The following is not negative or pessimistic; it just is what it is.
From the very first time man picked up a rock and used it as a weapon, please name for me a weapon that we've created where we've said, "This weapon is too dangerous, so we will never use it."
From spears to chemical and biological weapons, and the atom bomb, we have used everything in our arsenal. There is absolutely NO reason to believe that we WON'T kill ourselves off.
Mankind is greedy, lustful, warlike, selfish, ignorant, hateful, and intolerant. We want what we want and we don't care who or what we destroy as long as our needs are met. Sure, we make an effort to make it sound as though we care, but we don't.
If we cared we wouldn't be creating and burying nuclear waste that renders the ground unusable for 100,000 years. If we cared we wouldn't be sucking the earth dry of all its natural resources. If we cared we wouldn't be raping the forests to put up more houses. If we cared we'd stop fishing out the oceans for five years before we eat everything in them.
There is an ALLLL-knowing, ALLLL-powerful, inVISible being who is everywhere, who created the WHOLE universe, who lives in another dimension called heaven, who is perfect in every way, who was never born and will never die, and who watches you every minute of every day (even when you're squeezing one out on the toilet). There are also unicorns, leprechauns, Santa Claus, an Easter Bunny, and a giant purple people eater.
JUST BELIEVE IT!
JUST BELIEVE IT!
