On Tue 06 Apr 2004 03:18:21a, "Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> kicked back
with a beer, ruminated at length, fell asleep, woke up, lit up a joint,
then fell asleep again after thoughtfully blurting out:
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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
Translation: Put a complete and impenetrable mental block on everything
in your life that doesn't propel you towards Uncle Davey's favorite
fairy tales.
This, folks, is how one can manage to believe such things as that the
real, live Santa Claus really truly does sit in every grocery store in
the country during Christmas season.
In fact, this is how you can manage to believe as many as six impossible
things before breakfast. Uncle Davey, an acknowledged master of this
technique, manages to believe many hundreds of impossible things all
day, every day.
--
Mekkala, Atheist #2148
"Atheism is ... the bed-rock of sanity in a world of madness."
--Emmett F. Fields
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