Do you need to try street drugs to know they're bad for you? What about infecting yourself with HIV, AIDs, etc. in order to know that that is also bad for you? Do you have to read and memorize every single word in a book you don't have to find out whether you want it or not? Do you need to be a scientologist just to proove that you are insane?These are some of the many questions that I have in mind to ask those who believe in only what they sense.I also have a story to tell. Imagine a tribe of people who stare at a cave wall with the light of dancing flames on it their whole lives. Now imagine that one person looks away, and discovers more to life, then exits the cave to discover even more. When he returns, he tells the other people what he saw. One of them points to the wall without looking away at the first person and says "No, that is all we have seen, therefore it is all there is." When the first person tries harder, the other people kill him while still looking at the wall.
2006-06-12
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