You are a 25-year-old ignorant moron!
Actually, with the complexity of the universe we live in the Flying Spaghetti Monster theory has more credence than the theory of evolution that we just appeared out of some gobbly-gooked prehistoric soup; starting off as some one celled life form and eventually becoming a 25 year old idiot student who thinks that he is creative!!
Charles H. Mavrogeorge, New Hampshire
*update* Charlie responds to some of the comments on this page:
Well, well. I struck a nerve amongst the educated ones. They object to my characterization of the writer as being an ‘ignorant moron.’ So sorry lads – and lasses as well! I mean no harm. I have thought about it and my words may have been too harsh. I would not really characterize anybody in that way normally; not without it being tongue-in-cheek. So sorry lads – and lasses!
No, it doesn’t take a great education to become completely empty inside. Nor does it take a great lack of it to become a faith-healer-visiting-tongue-speaking-rolling-on-the-floor fanatic. Both of these can occur anywhere between ignorance and higher education.
All I can say is consider the universe and life more closely – if for your own benefit. I am sorry that so many young people have bought into the notion of a meaningless life of chance and no purpose. It may play out well when you are in your 20s and feeling frisky but in the end it will only lead to lonliness, sadness, and despair. There is hope demonstrated in our universe. It is ever evolving and showing its glorious beginning and PURPOSE. It shows its remarkable design and points us to a place where we can have hope – hope that there is something beyond our educated minds.
My apologies – I did not mean to come across so harsh. Ignorant, maybe. A moron? Well others will have to be the judge of that.
‘Charlie’
Well, well. I struck a nerve amongst the educated ones. They object to my characterization of the writer as being an ‘ignorant moron.’ So sorry lads – and lasses as well! I mean no harm. I have thought about it and my words may have been too harsh. I would not really characterize anybody in that way normally; not without it being tongue-in-cheek. So sorry lads – and lasses!
No, it doesn’t take a great education to become completely empty inside. Nor does it take a great lack of it to become a faith-healer-visiting-tongue-speaking-rolling-on-the-floor fanatic. Both of these can occur anywhere between ignorance and higher education.
All I can say is consider the universe and life more closely – if for your own benefit. I am sorry that so many young people have bought into the notion of a meaningless life of chance and no purpose. It may play out well when you are in your 20s and feeling frisky but in the end it will only lead to lonliness, sadness, and despair. There is hope demonstrated in our universe. It is ever evolving and showing its glorious beginning and PURPOSE. It shows its remarkable design and points us to a place where we can have hope – hope that there is something beyond our educated minds.
My apologies – I did not mean to come across so harsh. Ignorant, maybe. A moron? Well others will have to be the judge of that.
‘Charlie’
“hope that there is something beyond our educated minds.”
Something that does not have to be a god.
In fact, perhaps “something” is the universe. And that hope you’re talking about could include the hope that we can learn about it, until it is no longer beyond our minds.
FSM is a proven fact, how else did Giants win the Superbowl when it was predestined to the Pats……hahahahaha.
FSM took care of that, just read Mark 5-21, yea and it came to pass that the FSM doth twat da Pats, so and so etc. Jaysus!
Now a prayer, oh great FSM, deliver us from Barack Onigga and Hilary Dyke and lead us into the realm od de social conservatives yowsa, yea cut taxes to xero and gas all illegals. Right on!!!
U heard it here first
Is this the same Charlie Mavrogeorge that was in the Air Force?
quick question charlie. how is he ignorant for exposing the most obvious flaw in all organized major religions? religion today exists only because people believe in that particular religion’s claims without questioning it.
for example, scientology. somehow it makes sense that the evil lord Xenu captured aliens, froze them, burned them in the volcanoes of Hawaii, brainwashed their souls, and sent them to infect human beings. not only do people believe this, but they pay to have said alien souls removed from their bodies. did i mention that Ron L. Hubbard was a science fiction writer before he was blessed with this knowledge? nevermind, must be a coincidence.
Oops, sorry for the copy and paste post before, thats a link about a crazy science teacher branding his students arms with crosses. Yeah.
Anywho, your statement about age increasing level of religious or spiritual belief is simple fear; as people get older and more aware of their own mortality, they become more fearful of the fact that they are going to die. The existential/atheist view can be frightening to some – so they turn to the comfort that is religion, that death isn’t the end. This does not prove that “god” exists. It only proves that people don’t like the thought of dying.