From: Ryan Hebert (dpaladin110@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed May 22 2002 - 19:42:24 MDT
Well...enemy have you none here, however, I do not share your compassion for
concepts of truth, justice, love, and liberty. I welcome you nonetheless.
-Mr. Hebert
>From: "James Thompson" <veridicus@outgun.com>
>Reply-To: virus@lucifer.com
>To: virus@lucifer.com
>Subject: virus: hello
>Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 07:01:17 +0800
>
> >
>I have been silently absorbing the various threads posted by this "Church
>of Virus" over the past 5 months in an attempt to understand the collective
>mindset that underlies many of the members' reasons for ascribing to their
>particular beliefs. I have found, as I have with many similarily oriented
>belief systems, that the composing members tend to be extremely intelligent
>(sometimes so much so, to be to their own disservice) and very concerned
>with the current social, political, technological, and economical issues
>facing the modern world. I believe that many of the individuals in this
>church and other like organizations are truly the most important people in
>society in that they hold the intellectual power and perspective to bring
>the greatest amount of change in this world of insidious decay. Yet, what
>I always seem to find within these collective mindsets is a dismaying
>progression towards spirtual abandonment in exchange for intellectual
>self-reliance. I often see th!
>at many very intellectual people tend to form counter-beliefs rather than
>beliefs and embrace the power of science with a certain level of
>over-reliance and arrogance. Shouldn't all the knowledge we have
>discovered through scientific inquiry serve to show us how truly ignorant
>we as a species are; Especially, seeing that it surely has not improved
>our quality of spiritual existence which is really the most important
>aspect of life. As Henry David Thoreau once related "With all your
>science, can you tell me how it is that light comes to inhabit the soul?"
>If you take a trip to the wilderness, to NATURE, to TRUTH away from all our
>technology, away from your fabricated, material, distracted life, do you
>not see the true emptiness of all we have accomplished in our preciously
>fateful quest for knowledge? Do you not see why our overreliance on
>ourselves and the elevation of Knowledge over Spirit will be the end of
>mankind? Would you not see the true beauty of Life? Would !
>you not see and feel and know with every part of your being the undeniable
>face of God? What good is all our intelligence if it only serves to make
>us cynical and push us farther from the true essence of who we are. Yet,
>we persist. We persist down a road we thrust ourselves onto long ago, a
>road that leads us farther from peace, farther from love, farther from
>truth....a road that once began, was simultaneously predicted to destroy
>us. As we blindly accelerate down this road moving toward our own
>destruction, I sadly ask... Why do we call it knowledge? Knowledge of God
>(whatever this may be understood to be) is knowledge of Truth.....This is
>the only true knowledge.
>Anyway, my name is JT, I've long enjoyed your intelligent, rational
>discourse and look forward to future discussions as I have finally decided
>to participate as long as I have not made too many enemies already (or
>perhaps BECAUSE I may have).
> >
> >
>
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