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Originally Posted by Timmay
hmm. That made me ponder. It was deep dude.
you remain the moster of short poems. Im still... just awed on your ability to keep it simple and complex, to use as few words as possible but create vivid stories in ones head. No antagonism, youre a great poet.
That said, im wondering how you drew conclusions. do you think god would be useless, ergo... no god? or what. Not that it isn't important, im just wondering what you think
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Hi Timmay, and thank you for these comments. And most kind they are too. In answer to your question, no, I do not think God is / would be useless. On the contrary, religion in general, has played a necessary psychological and practical part in human history up to and including, present times.
However, I believe there are good grounds now for arguing that humankind is, and for the very first time in recorded history, on the threshold of being able to take conscious control of its own social organisation. Religion is basically a way of changing the mind in circumstances in which man is as yet, unable to control his environment and social organisation in a conscious and planned manner. Essentially what I am arguing in this shortest of pieces then, is that if mankind ever secures conscious mastery of the natural environment along with that of his own social existence, then the need to believe in one or other deity would eventually vanish. There would be no psychological need to imagine an afterlife in paradise because we could make it a reality here on earth. Here, in the only world of which we have knowledge.
It is therefore, the growth of consciousness among masses of people as to the historical task that lies before them that is first and foremost required. Essentially this means the growth of a realisation for the need to abolish class antagonisms among and between human beings.
Colin