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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: making the connection
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Date: Tue, 3-Jan-84 18:17:35 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  3 18:17:35 1984
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re: Tom Harris' article on primitive peoples understanding that sex
	in animals is intended for procreation, but not recognizing
	that fact in human beings

Sounds very much like the root of anthropocentric thinking---Man (usually
the people who speak this way refer to 'man', so please excuse the sexist
connotations of the word) is different from all the animals; Man is
destined to rule the earth;  Man is superior to all the pitiable small
things in the universe because god created him [sic] to...

It gets even more boring after a while.  I suppose it's sort of natural
to think that one is different (superior???) from everything around one's
self.  But if we were that superior to everything around us why have we
still not realized that we are a part of the universe and not some
magnificent force of light destined to conquer the very heart of the
universe with...  (Sorry)

On one side of me, I see the fundamentalist religionists clamoring for
my head because I say "Who the hell is God?"  and on the other side
are the objectivist/Thelemist/pseudohumanist/new romantic individualists
who shout me down for saying that members of the species Homo sapiens are
not glorious seekers on a quest for purpose on the road to becoming gods,
but simply just another collection of animals, albeit with more elaborate
brains.  (I don't *really* see this; it's just a vision I had. Maybe if I duck,
all the arrows will float past me to land in antipodal targets.)
-- 
					Rich Rosen    pyuxn!rlr