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But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' i said. on the contrary - we are found!' said aesop. but when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' ourselves. we turn to ourselves anyway. we only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. it is a comforting falsehood.

-Erica Jong

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But If The Gods Do Not Exist

Erica Jong

But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' i said. on the contrary - we are found!' said aesop. but when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' ourselves. we turn to ourselves anyway. we only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. it is a comforting falsehood.

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Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds. violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence. any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

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Generally people are afraid. they pretend they aren’t; it’s part of the denial. we’re all part of it. as much as we pretend otherwise, we want what’s comfortable, and we’re afraid of the different. we’re afraid of change. it happened in los angeles, too, when the first models of disney hall were shown. you should have heard the outcry from the public, critics and press. it was called “broken crockery,” “outlandish” and blah blah blah. of course now the feeling is different.

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