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a non-believer in the great fictions, the ridiculous notions of the organized religions of the world does not walk around without the ability to experience the wonder of this world this only world in which we exist for an extremely brief moment--- the ability to be rational & to appreciate the wonder does not come in some kind of perverted package deal with a belief in something outside yourself which will back you up when you are all set to murder someone (always ready to forgive you if you swear allegiance to it) or when the choices that you’ve made in your life just don’t pan out (no matter how much you get down on your knees and squint your eyes tight, mumbling to yourself). in fact, to use the word “wonder,” without having to pay some kind of homage to a deity whose very existence (totalitarian 24hr surveillance of all actions within & outside said human) depends upon the instilled fears the outright child abuse which stems from days & nights of caretakers pounding absurdity after absurdity into the mind of a a defenseless child during the most formative years of their lives--- we who do not wallow in the excrement with the rest of you faithful, need not ask your permission to use the word, or to have to do so only when accompanied by a “spiritual reason.” rational people still fall in love & they do not need to attribute it to anything else but a mutual feeling between two people rational people are still flabbergasted by the vast menagerie of beauty which our world displays--- one can see three flowing waterfalls & NOT feel that they reveal some kind of secrets of jesus--- one can climb a mountain, standing atop, looking down on everything, breathing in the air & letting all the grandiose details of the surrounding environment swallow one up, leaving us with a greater respect for the non-human characteristics of this place--- in fact, this realization can make one go back down the mountain determined to want to improve the world for the very sake of the world and its people, without the want for gold stars or a better seat in some kind of afterlife. how amazing it is to feel a genuine interest in the art, the music, the science, the philosophy & the literature of us humans! to realize that this world is so rich with intrigue whose evidence is here already & that no matter how long you have to live, you may never actually consume all that you want to because more enthralling products of our rational hearts & minds are being pumped out every single day!
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