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Daniel Pearlman <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 21 Mar 2002 14:04:45 -0500
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Doesn't it frighten you that about 99% of this planet's denizens
are (generally) mindless adherents of one formal religious sect
or another?  If only the community of self-professed "atheists"
represented a bulwark of some sort against hateful fanaticisms,
but Hitler too was an atheist.
==Dan

At 11:21 AM 3/21/02 -0500, you wrote:
>I think its about time that people have the courage to revile their own
>religions and cultures. "The triumph of the inferior race, a race of one
>and the many in the one" as Delueze says. Generate..., repeat what is
>yours. This defense and bickering presumes a method of evaluating and
>ranking cultures which should everywhere be desolidified in favor of a
>constantly revised notion of social organization and individuality. All
>cultures are culpable for the responsibility and boredom they
>superstitiously petition from us. MAKE IT NEW inaugurates and experiment
>in life, not a doctrine. Experiments of necessity risk failure.
>
>-- Justin Hellswine.

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