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Saturday, February 18, 2006

 

What will YOU do???

10:49 AM 2/18/2006

This following piece between the >><<>> inspired me to put to copy thoughts that have been stewing in me of late. The snippets from Gordy Slack's piece regarding Daniel Dennett's book are important in setting the flow of thinking of mine. Like always, my words are a flow of consciousness and not tormented over with and editor or researcher of facts. I do hope that this set of text finds it's way across the sphere of ether that is the internet to find and inspire those with more skill then I to grow this crystal of an idea into something big enough to be seen by many and thought carefully about enough to inspire change.


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Dissecting God
Philosopher Daniel Dennett argues that America is drowning in religion -- and that faith needs to be analyzed with the tools of science.
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By Gordy Slack [
http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/02/08/dennett/index.html] Feb. 8, 2006
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Daniel C. Dennett is a big man with a big appetite for intellectual fights. A celebrated philosophy professor and the director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, he is best known for his arguments that human consciousness and free will boil down to physical processes. When theologians, New Agers and other philosophers and scientists complain about scientific reductionism -- the effort to reduce everything, including human behavior and spirituality, to material properties -- they are complaining about Dennett.

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:: "Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon" ::
:: By Daniel C. Dennett :: Viking, 464 pages, Nonfiction ::
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religious attitudes of people are clearly interfering with the political discussion. So if we fail to understand why religions have the effects they do on people, we will screw up our efforts to solve these problems.
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We cannot let any group, however devout, blackmail us into silence by their expressions of hurt feelings whenever they feel that we are getting close to the truth. That is what con artists do when their marks begin to get suspicious, and that is what children do when they can't have their way, and it should be beneath the dignity of any religious group to play that card. The responsibility of science is to safeguard the well-being of those it studies and to tell the truth. If people insist on taking themselves out of the arena of reasonable political discourse and mutual examination, they forfeit their right to be heard. There is no excuse for deliberately insulting anybody, but people who insist on putting their sensibilities on a hair trigger demonstrate that they prefer pity to respect.
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In every culture, people are inclined to personify the forces of nature. What do the weather gods want? What does the sun god want? Out of this bias, built into our nervous systems, comes a machine of sorts for generating ghosts and phantoms and gods and goddesses and goblins and imps. That's not religion, that's superstition. But I think that's part of the biological underpinning of religion.
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By being superstitious, we tie ourselves into the natural construct that we live IN. By elevating ourselves to this 'end of days' ' God given story line, there is a dangerous schism that we are building between our humanity and our connection to our environment and world. Our world is what keeps us alive, we can not introduce things like 'kill the wolfs' out of our fear of the creature and then later realize that the animal keeps balance to populations and if we kill this entity in the wheel of balance in our world, the tilt has effects we do not yet know or understand. Look at how we build our cities and man made environment, what is this doing to the global balance? Are we painting ourselves into a corner we won't be able to get out of?
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Religion originally was a describer of the unknown. To help people from quivering in complete fear of the unknown like a herd in panic. Religion became a community unification force. Religion became a social construct that aligned the chaos of Europe and stopped the pure anarchy of the dark ages. While this was taking place, what is now the Arab world was the flourishing culture. The events that Mohammad lived during that became the second largest world faith were all about unity as well.

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Has anyone actually asked about the deep psychological issues at play for the Christ focus world to realize that their religious force is declining and the Mohammedan religious force is growing? There is a huge unknown and lack of social understanding because we western hemisphere folks have not been taught during our youth about the eastern hemisphere folks. It is as if in our consciousness, the east is like the moon or mars or some other far away impossible place. Yet it isn't. We the inhabitants of this planet are every day flattening and shrinking. An issue in a remote part of the world that we never knew about before the age of communication and digital connectivity had no effect on us because we never KNEW. Now, we know about 'stuff' we know about exotic flu's about shrinking ice, about what is happening world wide.

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Perhaps the NEXT social unification construct, religion, needs to address the reality that we have to get back to a place were we are intimately aware and worried and doing something about our effect on the balance of the planet. If we tout that there is a force that will swoop in and rescue us so we therefore do not need to worry about what we do to the planet because we will be saved. Will we be rescued by something other then ourselves?
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We MUST realize that we are the only savior that will ensure our children and grandchildren's' grandchildren will survive. We, humanity can easily go the way of the Dodo. Why not? The masses tipping the scale outweigh the few who are aware and trying to restore or to find balance.
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What we have today is a bunch of juvenile whining and tantrum throwing masses of humanity. This brouhaha over that cartoon of Mohammad. One, do we make and publish cartoons anymore like the way we (American's) used to portray people of African race? No we don't and the reason is that it is not free speech to knowingly or because 'we' are idiots and moron's and pour gasoline on puppies and light a match and toss it in with out regard to the result. That is not art or a valid form of free speech. In the same token, to not comprehend the sacred cow, to be with out regard or care to understand the result of making and publishing such a cartoon is completely unacceptable.

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JUST as unacceptable is the reaction, the juvenile reaction that large groups across the planet are doing as a result of the moron's that created then printed the cartoon. Gandhi was an enlighten being, his reaction to moron's was in the end a vastly more powerful and positive force of change. I call upon the reactionaries to take a breath, deepen on the meaning of Truth from what ever your source of Truth. Find in your future behavior the decision to act out in a way that will INSPIRE compassion where there is no compassion, to inspire a DESIRE for understanding where there is no understanding, to show by example that while what was done by moron's is UNACCEPTABLE that revenge is not in destruction but revenge is to be played out over time by being points of light of TRUTH. That for the world et all to strive to understand with out prejudice all that is our past and our future, that individuals are more capable of learning and being each responsible to the social entirety of humanity.

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When Nietczhe said post world war that 'God is dead' he meant that the people were not connected to the positive force of what we call god that people in his environment were instead holding onto icons and false hope about what it meant to be 'religious' that in doing so they were individually allowing the horrors to occur that were part of the construct of Europe at that time. To be truly spiritual and to be focused on the positive energy of 'God' was dead in Europe.

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We, the people of East and West are heading to the same place that Nietczhe experienced. God is dead if we allow the darkness of hate and lack of understanding to rule our actions. We the people of the third planet from the sun need to as a social entirety focus on every action being filled with Light, being filled with positivness in the midst of the storm. If we do not resurrect what it means to live in the light of God, we et all will pass like the Dodo. The tidal wave of occurrence will at some point become greater then our collective 'smartness' and trickiness that we build our belief that we of the humane species are outside of the natural reality that we really do live in.

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What would Jesus do?

What would Mohammad do?
What will YOU do?

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Comments:
What would Jesus do?
What would Mohammad do?
What will YOU do?

My answer is that Jesus did. Mohammad did. I will probably go fishing as I am neither a Jesus or Mohammad.
 
a single grain of rice can tip the scales and change the outcome, everyone is important and significant.

like a butterfly's wings fluttering over the steps of mongolia effecting the weather in nebraska.... every action counts in the scheme of everything, no one person is 'needed' like a jesus or mohammad but these days, do you really think the 'next' messiah will survive the wrath of neo-con's pulpit or fanatic jihhad?

these days, more like the buddah, we should not seek the path of another as sacrosanct or blindly let others worry, we each must be pillars of strength truth and light and like a single grain of rice, we matter while at the same time, we are not to be pretentiously selfimportant. we are after all, just a grain of rice. ;-)
 
Well I have gone fishing and have returned. Now, I am doing - in my own way as one grain of rice in a pot of boiling water. The heat of the water will convert myself and all the other rice into a useable mass that can feed the world, or at least the people in this cabin in Vermont. Likewise, the turmoil in the world of humanity will like the hot water bring us all to the realization that individually we are sources of positive energy.
 
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