For a moment, she thought it natural in a way seeing a plane fall from the sky can seem natural, too. The horror comes later.
Who says we don__ want to be inspired? We fucking want to be inspired! What the fuck is wrong with us wanting to be inspired? Everyone acts like it__ some crazy idea, some outrageous ungrantable request. Don__ we deserve grand human projects that give us meaning?
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
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Who says we don__ want to be inspired? We fucking want to be inspired! What the fuck is wrong with us wanting to be inspired? Everyone acts like it__ some crazy idea, some outrageous ungrantable request. Don__ we deserve grand human projects that give us meaning?
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As a scientist, I can not help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired.The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to do with such a God.
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.
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