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From: clelau@wateng.UUCP (Eric C.L. Lau)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: rely on a higher power? give me a #$('& break!
Message-ID: <2826@wateng.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 11:23:14 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  2 11:23:14 1985
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Reply-To: clelau@wateng.UUCP (Eric C.L. Lau)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <873@lll-crg.UUCP> bandy@lll-crg.UUCP (Andrew Scott Beals) writes:
>
>If there was a being that managed somehow to create this whole mess,
>what do you think it would care about a smelly little planet out on the
>edge of one of millions of galaxies? If anything, if it knew what
>monumental fools most of its inhabitants were, it would be "laughing
>its head off".
>
>"MUST RELY on a HIGHER POWER", pooh sir, I say "pooh". You must rely on
>yourself and if you can't rely on yourself then you might as well go
>jump off of the Golden Gate bridge and end it all right now. IF YOU
>CAN'T RELY ON YOURSELF THEN HOW CAN OTHERS RELY ON YOU?

Hold it...  In the first paragraph you admit the world is in a mess and that
most of us are fools.  Then you tell us we have to rely on ourselves or
jump off a bridge, i.e. you're telling a lot of us to jump off a bridge.
If we and the world are in a mess, and as I believe, getting worse as time
goes by, I wouldn't rely on us to "fix it all up".  You say in the first
paragraph that maybe a "being" created this mess called the world.  A bunch
of beings did that, namely us, good ol' Homo Sapiens.  It probably was a
pretty nice and sane place before we messed it up.

I don't read net.religion so mail comments, flames et al.

		Eric Lau
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