OT rant. Was: Re: *Friend, I am sending you some Worship Songs... *

Cybe R. Wizard cyber_wizard at mindspring.com
Fri Jun 19 00:39:08 UTC 2009


On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:43:43 -0500
Chris Mohler <cr33dog at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 5:19 PM, adebayo<ade4krist at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hello Friend,
> 
> Hiya there my BFF!
> 
> "Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving
> its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the
> non-existence of Zeus or Thor — but they have few followers now. "
> 
> --Arthur C. Clarke
> 
> "Finally, I would like to assure my many Buddhist, Christian, Hindu,
> Jewish, and Muslim friends that I am sincerely happy that the religion
> which Chance has given you has contributed to your peace of mind (and
> often, as Western medical science now reluctantly admits, to your
> physical well-being). Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy,
> than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and
> happy. Whether our descendants can achieve that goal will be the
> greatest challenge of the future. Indeed, it may well decide whether
> we have any future."
> 
> --Arthur C. Clarke
> 
> Sane and fairly happy,
> Chris
> 
I'd just like to add:
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we
can solve them.
   Isaac Asimov

and:
Faith:  not *wanting* to know what is true.
   Friedrich Nietzsche

<hoping I won't get 'moderated'>

Cybe R. Wizard -at least I marked this, "off-topic."
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