For that reason; I'm not sure if one should make posts more personal, or more general.
I was comparing notes with my sweety when this subject came up, today. Does the modern non-conformity model allow for sub-par individuals? Non-conformists cannot all be Gallileo. Cannot all be Van Gogh. Cannot all be Albert Camus. Where does the non-conformist fit into the modern conceptuality?
There ARE new things under the sun. Think about all of your relatives who swore by the Bible that the End of Days was drawing nigh. They will all have died before 'doomsday' comes along. How much of my reasoning is based on these verysame 'doomsday' parameters?
Yikes! Listen to your elders. This will give you a solid watermark with which to judge the fallibility of human reason. Don't believe in anything, is my advice. Not that you care much for the advice of a distant voice, not your own.
The world that we navigate is a place made up of vast areas of grey. Religeous fanatics are the shit-eating legacy of ancestral self-slavery. Tradition? Fine. Have your tradition.
I am angry at these absurdist devotees. That is probably why I piggy-back from one anti-religeous soapbox to the next. The relentless brainwashing of intelligent youth that calls for years of deprogramming in order to bring those poor, misled youth to the next stages of reason makes me very sad. I had to go through it. The methodical reason that this sort of deprogrammig calls for is hard to come by and most of us that need to implement it are some of the most weary, hopeless bastards to have ever walked the Earth. Those of us brought up with religeous ideals are wholly un-prepared for the real world. Religeon is a sniper-rifle. The mark doesn't hear the bullet leave the chamber. Nevertheless, the damage is done.
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