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We humans are born egocentric. the sky thunders and children believe that god is mad at them for something they've done - parents divorce and children believe it's their fault for not being good enough. growing up means putting aside our egocentricity for truth. still, some people cling to this childish mind-set. as painful as their self-flagellation may be, they'd rather believe their crises are their fault so they can believe they have control. in doing so they make fools and false gods of themselves.

-Richard Paul Evans

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We Humans Are Born Egocentric. The Sky

Richard Paul Evans

We humans are born egocentric. the sky thunders and children believe that god is mad at them for something they've done - parents divorce and children believe it's their fault for not being good enough. growing up means putting aside our egocentricity for truth. still, some people cling to this childish mind-set. as painful as their self-flagellation may be, they'd rather believe their crises are their fault so they can believe they have control. in doing so they make fools and false gods of themselves.

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The gods have fled, i know. my sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. i do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. if anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. i believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.

For me, i never knew what addiction was. i just knew my heroes, like [new york dolls guitarist] johnny thunders, did heroin. i didn't have a father, it looked good to me. if i had read johnny thunders' book the heroin diaries, i don't think i would have done heroin.

It is not given to man to know the whole truth. his duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and in doing so, to resort to the purest means, i.e., to non-violence. god alone knows absolute truth. therefore, i have often said, truth is god. it follows that man, a finite being, cannot know absolute truth. nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. this is god's attribute alone. relative truth is all we know. therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.

We cannot choose how many years we will live, but we can choose how much life those years will have. we cannot control the beauty of our face, but we can control the expression on it. we cannot control life's difficult moments but we can choose to make life less difficult. we cannot control the negative atmosphere of the world, but we can control the atmosphere of our minds. too often we try to choose and control things we cannot. too seldom we choose to control what we can ... our attitude.

Where are the gods the gods hate us the gods have run away the gods have hidden in holes the gods are dead of the plague they rot and stink too there never were any gods there’s only death

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