philosophers

Fear is a helpful reaction to frightening things, like the unknown.

“If God does not exist, and if religion is an illusion that the majority of men cannot live without…let men believe in the lies of religion since they cannot do without them, and let then a handful of sages, who know the truth and can live with it, keep it among themselves.

"Down and out; it can't be helped but there's alot of it about" Roger Waters and countless artists and philosophers before him have struggled to reconcile two immutable but paradoxical phenomena: the inevitable unification of mankind, and his stubborn willingness to allow war, schism, and the corruption of religion to impede unity...

This is one of those unbelievable things that emanate from New Age-y places like San Francisco from time to time. It's completely off-the-charts wacko, but fun to read and wonder what drugs influenced the author...

Barack Obama isn't really one of us. Not in the normal way, anyway...

So what has happened to genuine Truth? Genuine Truth has been stacked somewhere on the junk heap of absolute terms once capitalized by people like the Poets, Philosophers, and Presidents. Love, Faith, Reason, all these definitive, absolute terms have now been relativized out of existence.