One day in alt.atheism, Also Sprach Uncle Davey:
>A lot of the things which concern us are of no eternal significance,
>they are just distractors. We need to gain discernment as to which
>things are worth concentrating on, and which can be blocked out. For
>example, I don't like cricket, so whenever cricket has been on the TV or
>radio, it has just washed over me without me retaining any of it. When I
>was a kid and my dad listened to the cricket on the radio, the first I
>noticed the radio was on was when he turned it off.
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>I never suffered for my lack of interest in cricket, but how many other
>things as useless to me as cricket have been the object of fascination
>and the driver of wasted time.
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>We need to hold our attention to things that build us up, and be kind of
>oblivious to things which really do nothing for us, and actively shun
>things that harm us.
>
>We need to look at our objectives and prioritise things which help us
>achieve them, not allowing ourselves to be tempted by little mental
>trinkets that glitter by the wayside.
>
>If you've read this far, that especially applies to you.
>
>Uncle Davey
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Feel free to wallow in ignorance, Davey. We thinkers will be the blurs you
might notice passing you by, leaving you for dead.
--
Vic Sagerquist
aa#2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department.
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Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day.
Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.
--Timothy Jones
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