One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody—not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms—had the smallest idea what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge (as well as for comfort, reassurance and other infantile needs). Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and one would like to think—though the connection is not a fully demonstrable one—that this is why they seem so uninterested in sending fellow humans to hell.
—Christopher Hitchens
So few seers (Grutter)
Why continue stepping on the gas and going for ever more power—and friction. It's those with less power—and more vision that are in demand. So many doers still, so few seers! With my surplus of strength and time I can do better than performing some good work to improve the world, even better than building pyramids; in such a luxurious blue spring, I can dive into the science of serenity with an uncommitted mind that is all ears, and for a treat simply intoxicate myself with the goodness of life; and who knows, I might get my first taste of an unsinkable high.
Theo Grutter, Dancing With Mosquitoes
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