Vertago

Learning to think

    Here is the boy of seven, what do you want to
  teach him? "There is no rustic so rude, who does
  not imagine he can hear the Holy Spirit." Rev.
  Martin Luther's Diaries. How do we know God?
  Stalin mentioned God often in his speeches he called
  on the power of the people in communist party.
  God was the state in Stalin's world view. Now, I
  was raised Roman Catholic and I was sent to CCD,
  Catholic Catechism Indoctrination on my 7th birthday.
  The first thing the Sister Emeritas said was,

            "You must have faith."

  Unfortunately, I was horny as Hell and I was checking
  out her legs. The nuns were dressing less formally
  with the onset of the New Order in the Church.
  So, Sister Emeritas was showing me her legs in black
  nylons up to her knees. The black skirt rose up
  further when she sat on the edge of the desk. She
  was a young nun of twenty and had hot bod. ..
  I was not listening to her indoctrination.. and
  there were no written exams; just a manual to study.
  Yup, Catholics get a manual on how to believe.
  It's a Vulcan religion. They try to make it
  intellectual.. but faith is emotional.

      So, here we go down the shoots and ladders of
  inspired theology. What do you do in Heaven?
  The Bible describes a court with God on His throne
  in Job. Funny how Job's name is spelled the same
  as a job.. The Devil goes to God's court and asks
  if he can test Job's faith. God agrees and lets the
  Devil burn down Job's house and kill Job's children
  and strike Job with a pox. Job is left homeless and
  his wife spits on him and leaves him, because
  obviously Job has done something bad to evoke God's
  wrath.(Why is there a "w" in wrath?)

      Well, Job never rejects his faith in God.
  And his health returns and he rebuilds his life.
  Happy ending? His children are still dead and the
  wife came back after he got a house and a job.
  What is the moral of this story? Perhaps, it is
  to be self reliant and God will .. like you?
  What is the Devil doing in Heaven? We come to a
  wall of faith. Yup. This story was written over
  8 thousand years ago and the writer was not a
  free thinker. The message is whatever happens is
  God's will..

    Incidentally, I saw Sister Emeritas kissing
  the music teacher, a secular man in Cambridge Park.
  This further pushed my skepticism. Sounds a little
  simplistic, but if you believe something without
  proof your stupid. When I was a kid I like to believe
  I could control the wind. I breath in when the wind
  paused and then breath out when the wind blew..
  But, when I stopped the wind kept blowing. Ergo;
  I was not controlling the wind. Do you think?
  Does God want us to think? Maybe, thinking is a curse
  from the Devil. There is a school of thought that
  rejects logic. It's called cynicism.

    The philosopher Cynica agrued that knowledge was
  obscured by our animal lusts. We could never be free
  our prejudices. This is the slipper slope in natural
  philosophy. One advantage in blind faith is you don't
  debate the Doctrines of the faith. Therefore, if
  your a Druid you should believe in human sacrifices.
  And no matter what the authorities say; you must
  satisfy your blood lust. God told you to.

    Well, I'd sit by the box fan at night when I
  was seven and whisper into the fan. The sound was
  erie.. It felt magical. This could be Satanic ..
  possession. Who knows?

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