22-01-2022, 10:51 AM
"We have been thwarted at every turn by God. Not the real God. A false one which has been set up by man to expedite his destruction of the earth. He is the gobblegod who bids fair to swallow everything in the name of a totally selfish humanity. His ten commandments are me first (let me live as I please) , humans first (let all other living things die for my benefit) , sperm first ( no birth control), birth first (no abortions), males first (no women’s rights), my culture/tribe/language/ religion first, (separatism/terrorism), my race first (no human rights), my politics first (lousy liberals/rotten reactionaries), my country first (wave the flag, the flag, the flag, the flag), and, above all, profit first.
We worship the gobblegod. We burn forests in his name. We kill whales & dolphins in his name. We pave prairies in his name. We have retarded babies in his name. We sell drugs in his name.
We set bombs in his name. We worship him everywhere. We call him by different titles & commit blasphemies in the name of worship."
Sheri S Tepper
Terry Pratchett's Men at arms :
"The Librarian considered matters for a while. So...a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither of them were great readers. The Librarian was, of course, very much in favour of reading in general, but readers in particular got on his nerves. There was something, well, sacrilegious about the way they kept taking books off the shelves and wearing out the words by reading them. He liked people who loved and
respected books, and the best way to do that, in the Librarian's opinion, was to leave them on the shelves where Nature intended them to be."
"Its like any orthodoxy, let it run for a few centuries & what started as something that came from deep inside the human spirit turns into a set of holy texts that stultify thinking. Then people who yearn after the real experience as you do get palmed off with a set of rigid theological propositions - & all that's left to do is read it."
Marion Molteno, If you can walk, you can dance.
"My heart holds within it every form
It contains a pasture for gazelles
A monastery for Christian monks
There is a temple for idol worshippers
A holy shrine for pilgrims
There is a a table for the Torah
And the book of the Koran
I follow the religion of love
And go whichever way his camel leads me
This is the true faith
This is the true religion "
Ibn Arabi (Sufi mystic, d 1240)
From A blonde in the bazaar, Jill Worrall
We worship the gobblegod. We burn forests in his name. We kill whales & dolphins in his name. We pave prairies in his name. We have retarded babies in his name. We sell drugs in his name.
We set bombs in his name. We worship him everywhere. We call him by different titles & commit blasphemies in the name of worship."
Sheri S Tepper
Terry Pratchett's Men at arms :
"The Librarian considered matters for a while. So...a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither of them were great readers. The Librarian was, of course, very much in favour of reading in general, but readers in particular got on his nerves. There was something, well, sacrilegious about the way they kept taking books off the shelves and wearing out the words by reading them. He liked people who loved and
respected books, and the best way to do that, in the Librarian's opinion, was to leave them on the shelves where Nature intended them to be."
"Its like any orthodoxy, let it run for a few centuries & what started as something that came from deep inside the human spirit turns into a set of holy texts that stultify thinking. Then people who yearn after the real experience as you do get palmed off with a set of rigid theological propositions - & all that's left to do is read it."
Marion Molteno, If you can walk, you can dance.
"My heart holds within it every form
It contains a pasture for gazelles
A monastery for Christian monks
There is a temple for idol worshippers
A holy shrine for pilgrims
There is a a table for the Torah
And the book of the Koran
I follow the religion of love
And go whichever way his camel leads me
This is the true faith
This is the true religion "
Ibn Arabi (Sufi mystic, d 1240)
From A blonde in the bazaar, Jill Worrall
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)