[FoRK] His Not-So-Dark Materials

[Lion Kimbro]

On Nov 30, 2007 4:59 PM, Jeff Bone <jbone at place.org> wrote:
> On Nov 30, 2007, at 5:33 PM, Lion Kimbro wrote:
> >   So, atheists, anti-sacreds, ...be gone;  Go back to telling us
> >   that we're all just monkeys hurling dung at each other.
>
> Why does it have to be this way?  This is the most infuriating bit of
> this.  I GET that you don't get it, but I don't understand why that is.

  Oh!

  Eh-heh!

  Well!

  ...

  ...you must have not observe arguments
     with Atheists often, then..!

  {:D}=

  It can be like prying teeth to get a great many of them to
  admit anything good about human nature:

    "We're just monkeys!" they recite, over and over.
    "We're not special!"

  Would you like some URLs?

  {;)}=


> Your point of view appears to be:  either life is ineffable, with
> some vast, mysterious, supernatural, mystical quality --- or its
> worthless.
>
> Why?  Why isn't it just wonderful enough --- in itself?

  It is!

  **IT IS:**

  * vast,
  * mysterious,
  * mystical.

  (I'm not sure about "supernatural."
   The word doesn't seem to make sense as a distinction,
   in a sort of "what holds the largest container" sort of way.)


> I don't get the not getting it.

  I don't get the "don't celebrate the universe" thing.


  {:D}=