On 5 Apr 2008 00:40:02 -0500, bob young <alaspectrum@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Antares 531 wrote:
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>> On 31 Mar 2008 06:46:02 -0500, bob young <alaspectrum@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible
fooleries of
>> >magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It
is the
>> >price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite
intelligent
>> >enough.
>> >[Aldous Leonard Huxley]
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>> As I've posted before, on other threads, I have a computer that thinks
>> there is no Internet. The truth of the matter is that this computer
>> simply does not have an Internet connection, and therefore can not
>> discern the Internet at all. Antares 531
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>To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is
the height
>of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With
our own
>eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is
intended
>that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or
herself.
>[Sophy Burnham]
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The first step is to do an open-minded, unbiased, sincere search for a
"subliminal connection" to God. If a person refuses to do this, there
is no way for that person to ever KNOW that God does or does not
exist. Antares 531
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