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Not my favorite book, good author but it just didn't do it for me.SandChigger wrote:I was reading more of Consider Phlebas after getting home tonight and came across the perfect quote for your ilk.
But it's not worth running upstairs to get the book at the moment, so I'll post it later when I get back up this morning.
(I do feel bad for you that Nature has not equipped you with the mental capacity to overcome the parental abuse of religious indoctrination and/or that Life has so abused you that turning off what faculties you do have seemed a viable solution.
)analytical, yes....but not quite discoSandChigger wrote:I was reading more of Consider Phlebas after getting home tonight and came across the perfect quote for your ilk.
But it's not worth running upstairs to get the book at the moment, so I'll post it later when I get back up this morning.
(I do feel bad for you that Nature has not equipped you with the mental capacity to overcome the parental abuse of religious indoctrination and/or that Life has so abused you that turning off what faculties you do have seemed a viable solution.
Your quite correct Sir. and sometimes I ask if the "Revelation" is notSandChigger wrote: My observation is that "Divine Revelation" is generally brought out whenever someone wants to validate some harebrained notion that came to them in a more profound than usual state of befuddlement.
Be a man and take credit for your own hairbrained ideas. The voices in your head are you.fantomas wrote:Your quite correct Sir. and sometimes I ask if the "Revelation" is not a "harebrained" idea placed in my thoughts by the adversary.
It is not spiritual knowledge that keeps me from killing a few possesed animals; it is my upbringing by my parents that did that.SandChigger wrote:Well, if your belief in Big Sky Daddy and "the adversary" keep you from running around raping and pillaging, who am I to naysay?
Whatever churns your exile birdbath.
Ok,Ok Your right, my brain, my ideas. According to the "faith", ideas and thoughts can be implanted. I've asked my self many times if the thoughts in my head at times are from God, adversary, or my own.Freakzilla wrote:Be a man and take credit for your own hairbrained ideas. The voices in your head are you.fantomas wrote:Your quite correct Sir. and sometimes I ask if the "Revelation" is not a "harebrained" idea placed in my thoughts by the adversary.
I Love You Too. I mean it!SandChigger wrote:
My gawd...I've acquired an imbecile as a life coach?
What does that say?
Yea, that's totally insane. I mean, c'mon, God Emperor of Earth is possible, just look at me and my glorious, godly reign.Chiggy wrote:and to take no more notice of the substance of their faith than one would take of the ramblings of somebody claiming to be Emperor of the Universe.
It's the aliens, man! Wear the goddamned tinfoil already!fantomas wrote:I've asked my self many times if the thoughts in my head at times are from God, adversary, or my own.
You think I can get better reception by wearing tinfoil on my head?orald wrote:It's the aliens, man! Wear the goddamned tinfoil already!fantomas wrote:I've asked my self many times if the thoughts in my head at times are from God, adversary, or my own.
Which involves inhaling large volumes of cannabis smoke?fantomas wrote:Well, you do not go Big Sky directly. There is a process.
fantomas wrote:How do you know you do not like it, if you have not tried it.
Ah, fantastic quote. I really want to re-read Consider Phlebas now that we've been taking about it so much, but I'm currently reading so much else. No time!SandChigger wrote:(Well, remember that I've been immersing myself in offal for so long that anyone who can write even halfway well looks brilliant. But I am quite enjoying Banks and probably would still think him brill even without the unfortunate Anderson/Herbert "whore derves".
Without further ado...
A Bit of Banks for El Bambino del Big Sky Daddy:
Horza recalled that the Culture's attitude to somebody who believed in an omnipotent God was to pity them, and to take no more notice of the substance of their faith than one would take of the ramblings of somebody claiming to be Emperor of the Universe. The nature of the belief wasn't totally irrelevant—along with the person's background and upbringing, it might tell you something about what had gone wrong with them—but you didn't take their views seriously. (Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas, p. 157)
