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"When I became convinced that the Universe is natural that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood, the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell, the dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts, and bars, and manacles became dust. I was no longer a servant, a serf, or a slave. There was for me no master in all the wide world, not even in infinite space. I was free.
free to think, to express my thoughts
free to live to my own ideal
free to live for myself and those I loved
free to use all my faculties, all my senses
free to spread imagination's wings
free to investigate, to guess and dream and hope
free to judge and determine for myself
free to reject all ignorant and cruel creeds, all the "inspired" books that savages have produced, and all the barbarous legends of the past
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free from the fear of eternal pain
free from the winged monsters of night
free from devils, ghosts, and gods
For the first time I was free. There were no prohibited places in all the realms of my thought, no air, no space, where fancy could not spread her painted wings
no chains for my limbs
no lashes for my back
no fires for my flesh
no master's frown or threat
no following another's steps
no need to bow, or cringe, or crawl, or utter lying words.
I was free. I stood erect and fearlessly, joyously, faced all worlds. And then my heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their lives for the liberty of hand and brain for the freedom of labor and thought
to those who fell on the fierce fields of war
to those who died in dungeons bound with chains
to those who proudly mounted scaffold's stairs
to those whose bones were crushed, whose flesh was scarred and torn
to those by fire consumed
to all the wise, the good, the brave of every land, whose thoughts and deeds have given freedom to the sons of men.
And I vowed to grasp the torch that they had held, and hold it high, that light might conquer darkness still."
-Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899), "Why Am I An Agnostic?", 1896
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We are part of the universe. Our earth was created from the universe and will one day be reabsorbed into the universe. We are made of the same matter as the universe. We are not in exile here: we are at home. It is here and nowhere else that we can see the divine face to face. If we erect barriers in our imagination - if we believe our real home is not here but in a land that lies beyond death - if we believe that the divine is found only in old books, or old buildings, or inside our head - then we will see this real, vibrant, luminous world as if through a glass darkly. The universe creates us, preserves us, destroys us. We are part of nature. Nature made us and at our death we will be reabsorbed into nature. We are at home in nature and in our bodies. This is where we belong; this is where we must find and make our paradise, not in some spirit world on the other side of the grave. If nature is the only paradise, then separation from nature is the only hell. When we destroy nature, we create hell on earth for other species and for ourselves. Nature is our mother, our home, our security, our peace, our past and our future. Science is inherently materialist. It always seek material explanations. It never accepts as an explanation that some spiritual force was at work - if it did, then science and technology would come to an end. Disease was once thought to be caused by witchcraft. Science gave it a material explanation which allowed us to control it. Magnetism at one time seemed like a spiritual force - Thales of Miletus thought that magnets were full of spirits. But then science provided a material explanation. In the same way scientific pantheism believes that everything that exists is matter or energy in one form or another. Nothing can exist, be perceived, or act on other things if it is not matter or energy. That does not mean that spiritual phenomena or forces cannot exist. It means that, if they do, they must in fact be material. In scientific pantheism, science becomes a part of the religious quest: the pursuit of deeper understanding of the Reality of which we are all part, deeper knowledge about the awe-inspiring cosmos in which we live, deeper knowledge of nature and the environment, so that we can better preserve the earth's wealth of natural diversity. In scientific pantheism, cognitive openness - listening to reality, to new evidence, to all the evidence, to other people's needs and feelings - becomes a sacred duty in all aspects of life from science to politics to domestic life. Of course, we cannot say that science endorses pantheism. Many religions today state their beliefs in ways that no-one can disprove, so they can and do co-exist with science. But scientific pantheism positively thrives on science. scientific discoveries continually underline the wonder and the mystery of Being, the immensity of the universe, and the complexity of nature. World Pantheist Movement



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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

there is no emotion; there is peace.

you know what...
but nevermind.

we should all strive to be happy; because ultimately, that's all that we're made for.
but what makes us happy? how do we be happy?
many things make me happy, some more than others.
right now, the thing that i think would make me happiest of all, in time to come, would be complete understanding.

but why? in truth, i do not know. all i know is that it is the answers that i seek, it is the answers that drive me, it is the answers that can provide me with any measure of true and lasting happiness, regardless of what kind of answers they are. and why is that so? because answers make me happy. but why? because the greater understanding i have, the greater power i have, and thus, the greater control i will have? perhaps. but why would control make me happy? because, with ultimate control, i'll even be able to control my own happiness? by controlling all the factors that could possible contribute to my happiness, be they minor or major, i'd be able to make myself completely and perfectly happy? but is ultimate control ever possible? is perfect happiness ever possible? no. then hey, what's the point? why not let's all be totally submissive and let us gain happiness from the total lack of control? sorry, i'm just not made that way. no other way to explain it. so i'm just a control freak, then? well, if you think about it in abstract terms, perhaps so. ultimately, the only reason for my continued existence is happiness. the only way to increase my happiness is through controlling of many factors that determine happiness. the most efficient way of increasing control is through understanding. and i should always pick the most efficient way, because my lifespan is limited and i want to achieve the maximum possible happiness in the minimum possible time. why do i want to achieve the maximum possible happiness? because i am just made to want to achieve the maximum possible happiness, period. it would be, i guess, a rather selfish way of what many would choose to define as a "fulfilling life". but then again, who isn't selfish? everybody is, for selfishness is the only means through which happiness can be obtained. the only difference that matters is your personal definition of "sense of self". hm.. i guess if it were possible for someone to expand his sense of self to encompass the entire universe, then he would be in effect controlling everything, and he would be ultimately happy. oh, and as an added bonus, he could be considered as "selfless" at the same time, because if his "self" is everything.. it doesn't really make much sense to even define his "self" as something that is seperated from the external world, is there? nope, there isn't. which kinda explains why the jedi think that selflessness is the way to go. because ultimate selflesness would result in ultimate happiness which would result in one becoming one with the Force. but that's kinda paradoxical, cos if the Force is everything (ok i know that according to star wars canon it isn't supposed to be everything, but i choose to redefine it as energy, which is everything so don't argue), then once he expands his sense of self to encompass everything, he would already be one with the Force and be completely happy at the same time. yeah, so no real causal link there... once you are one with the Force, you will be completely happy. cool, so now i've discovered the secret to being completely happy.

but then again, that is indeed rather hard to do. and i am just some stupid nubcake. so i think, for all practical reasons, i should just concentrate on increasing my understanding first before i even start on expanding my notion of the self. yeah... there is no ignorance; there is knowledge. there is no death; there is the Force.

but sometimes, one just feels like giving up. oh well. at least you'll succeed in a parallel universe, eh?


spacetime rip! by agent quantum , quite possibly at 3/15/2006 01:43:00 am :)



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