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What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be human? I cannothelp but suspect that at one time in the history of thinking that peoplebelieved that it meant that we were spiritual and that we could makechoices and were capable of aspiring to higher ideals... like maybeloyalty or maybe faith... or maybe even love. But now we told by peoplewho think they know, that we vary from amoeba only in the complexity ofour makeup and not in what we essentially are. They would have us thinkas Dysart said that we are forever bound up in certain genetic reigns -that we are merely products of the way things are and not free - notfree to be the people who make them that way. They would have us seeourselves as products so that we could believe that we were something tobe made - something to be used and then something to be disposed of.
Used in their wars - used for their gains and then set aside when we getin their way. Well, who are they? They are the few who sit at the top ofthe heap - dung heap though it is - and who say it is better to reign in
Hell than to serve in Heaven. Well, I do not know that we can have a
Heaven here on earth, but I am sure we need not have a Hell either. Whatdoes it mean to be human? I cannot help but believe that it means we arespiritual - that we are responsible and that we are free - that we areresponsible to be free.
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