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| David Bazan – Curse Your Branches Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Mason - questions about the origin of life can be answered directly, without the use of magical explanations. questions about supernatural things only come up because of other people. if you've explained the difference between science and magic to your kids, it's not hard to tell them god is magic and make believe, but it's not nice to upset other kids by telling them that. same thing my parents taught me about Santa. |
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| David Bazan – Curse Your Branches Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Cory - what suggests to you that Bazan is raising his children to believe there isn't a god? he doesn't say that anywhere. even so, I reject the idea that raising your children to believe there is no god is the same as raising your children to believe there is a god. All you have to do to raise your children believing there is no god is to never tell them anything about religion or "god." If they've never heard of god, they won't believe in one. I'd like to see Christian parents raise Christian kids without telling them anything about religion at all. |
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| David Bazan – Hard To Be Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Cory - Seriously? You say that as if you think the Garden of Eden narrative is super reasonable, and that any other explanation would be totally ridiculous. Since you asked, though, I have one...
Creatures which do not have instincts toward self preservation do not survive. Since well before the evolution of Homo Sapiens, virtually every living creature has had natural instincts for self preservation. Beyond that, the perspective of an individual creature is always its own. Cats don't know what it's like to be dogs, or even what it's like to be other cats. People don't know what it's like to be other people. Men don't know what it's like to be women, or different men from themselves. Thinking of yourself takes zero effort because you ARE yourself. Your own existence and condition are some of the first things anybody ever thinks about. Thinking of others is hard, because others are necessarily a mystery. You can't know how they feel or what they think except through deduction and study. Acting selfishly is natural, instinctive, and easy. Acting selflessly takes thought, consideration, and effort. Being a decent human being is acting against one's own urges to be self-centered, and thinking carefully about the way your actions will effect other people. Thinking is harder than not thinking. Doing something is harder than laying down. It's as simple as that. |
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| David Bazan – In Stitches Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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breanne - if the "maker of all" is so petty and small as to be offended by the honest feelings of a man who is only trying to do right, then screw him. |
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