A LIST OF MY GREAT FRIENDS

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.                                                       

                                                                     Japanese Proverb 

                                                                     

Oh Yes, may I say if I continue to be an unclear character on 

these pages, please look at the friends that I  gradually developed 

down through the years after I got expelled out of La Salle high 

school at the age of 13: Bertrand Russell, Will Durant, Robert G. Ingersoll, Carl Sagan, George H. Smith, Jean Meslier, Jose Rizal, 
Richard Dawkins,  Mark Twain,  Voltaire, George Bernard Shaw, 
Thomas Paine, Madlyn Murray O'Hair, H.L. Mencken, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Joseph McCabe, Karl Marx, Ellen Johnson, Carl Jung,

 friedrich Nietzche, Albert Camus, Thomas Jefferson, Ernest Hemmingway, Stephen Hawking, Clarence Darrow, Charlie Chaplin, Noam Chomsky, George Carlin, Isaac Asimov, Walt Whitman, Lee Carter, John Shelby Spong, Socrates, Hypatia, and more, many 

many many more. The great men and great women in world history

who have had the intellectual courage to put more beauty into this world where frightened little men and frightened little women have 

put only horrors of childish beliefs and silly values such as the pursuit not of veracity, but only of money if not more mendacity! 

If there were life after death, these are the great men and great women I'd like to meet first and foremost to thank them for having written books for me to read and to study.  - - - Poch Suzara

Faith Means We Should Live a Life of Fear

Faith is fear.

Religion is the systematic marketing of fear.

Blessed are the poor (donate heavily).

Blessed are the meek (obey).

Blessed are the humble (don’t question authority).

Blessed are the hungry (make us rich while you starve).

Blessed are the merciful (if you catch us doing something

wrong, let it go).

Blessed are the pure of heart (switch off your brain).

Blessed are the timid, the cowardly, the fearful. Blessed

are those who give us their power to become slaves.

That’s the kind of nonsense religion pushes on people. They

train you to turn your back on courage, strength, and conscious

living. This is stupidity, not divinity.

Religion will teach you to fear being different, to fear standing

up for yourself, and to fear being an independent thinker. It will

erode your self-trust by explaining why you’re unable to successfully manage life on your own terms: You are unworthy. You’re a sinner.

You’re unclean. You belong to a lesser caste. You are not enlightened.

Of course the solution is always the same — submit to the will of an

external authority. Believe that you’re inadequate. Give away your

power. Follow their rules and procedures. Live in fear for the rest

of your life, and hope it will all turn out okay in the end.

When you practice faith instead of conscious living, you live under

a cloak of fear. Eventually that cloak becomes so habitual you forget

it’s even there. It’s very sad when you reach the point where you

can’t even remember what it feels like to wield creative freedom over

your own life, independent of what you’ve been conditioned to believe.

Faith is the coward’s substitute for courage. It’s also really good marketing if you’re the one who controls the faith. If you’re afraid or unwilling to assume total responsibility for your life, you’re a perfect match for religion.

Fear in one part of your life invariably spreads to all other parts — you can’t compartmentalize it. If you find yourself frustrated because you’re too afraid to follow your dreams, to talk to members of the opposite sex, to speak up for yourself, etc., then a good place to start is to rid your life of all religious nonsense. Don’t let fear get a foothold in your consciousness.

Stop trying to comfort yourself by swallowing religious rubbish. If you really need something to believe in, then believe in your own potential. Put your trust in your own intellect. Stop giving away your power.

Dump the safety-in-numbers silliness. Just because a lot of people believe stupid stuff doesn’t mean it isn’t stupid. It just means that stupidity is popular on this planet. When people are in a state of fear, they’ll swallow just about anything to comfort themselves, including the bastion of stupidity known as religion.

Religion is spiritual immaturity. It’s entirely possible to enjoy your life without spending so much of it bent over in submission. Pull your head out of your rear, and look around with your own two eyes. If you need something to worship, then feel grateful for your own conscious mind. Pull it out of the cobwebs, and boot it up.

Besides… if some popular religious version of God does exist, there’s a good chance he’s a complete and total idiot. He made us in his image, right? So perhaps we shouldn’t be so quick to worship an entity so lacking in intelligence. We’re better off on our own.

God isn’t going to smite you for not formally worshipping him. If he didn’t smite me by now, it’s a safe bet you’ll slide beneath the radar as well. And if that doesn’t work, you can borrow my fake ID. I’ve been baptized and confirmed, and I’m the son of an altar boy and the nephew of a priest, so I’m sure I’ll be fine. - - - Steve Pavlina

                                                                                    

COMMENT:

Thanks to schools, colleges, and universities established with the financial support of the church in the Philippines, the majority of Filipinos are born not to be educated to be the intelligent masters of health, hygiene, and sanitation. Filipinos are born to be the sick victims of religion in cahoots with corruption. Indeed, for the greater glory of God up there, we Filipinos are born to enjoy a corrupt and a sick society as the Sick Man of Asia down 

here. - - - Poch Suzara

                                                                        

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