Mario Savio said:
“There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!”
Saturday, September 23, 2006 at 1:25 am
The idea of God is, in my opinion, a natural bolt-hole for the human condition: it is uncomfortable to think that the buck stops with us, so we conceptualise a “big boss”, a creator, a guiding light, a “buffer”.
–Don Galloway
You have no faith in God & I respect you for it. Yet you believe big-time in something; maybe just the Idea that we can Make It Right.
Or die trying?
Saturday, September 23, 2006 at 9:17 am
What people don’t easily grasp is that moral sensitivity and ethics are not dependent on belief or faith in a supernatural God.
I’ve had a lot of shit rained on me for that post, — you know, I’m the antichrist, and so on — strangely none of my accusers has chosen to berate me publicly i.e. in the comments section of this site but have instead emailed me direct.
I intend to publish some of their views soon.
Saturday, September 23, 2006 at 12:20 pm
Wise stoner once say:
we’re not here to judge what’s good from bad but to do the things that are right…
Tell ‘em Galloway that Mike E said you always done better then right — i say downright proper — by me.
Sorry you had to contend with the sh!t-rain. But in some way I’d guess there’s a spectacular Challenge in all this for you.
Best for it!
Saturday, September 23, 2006 at 4:21 pm
Thanks, E, and may Hegel bless your house.