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They don’t understand that religion and science are there to serve different purposes. We need science to understand how everything on this planet and beyond works – us, nature, everything we see around us. That’s fact – no one with a working brain can question that. But we also need religion. Not for ridiculous counter-theories about things that science can prove. We need it for something else, to fill a different kind of need. The need for meaning. It’s a basic need we have, as humans. And it’s a need that’s beyond the realm of science. Your scientists don’t understand that it’s a need they can’t fulfill no matter how many Hadron colliders and Hubble telescopes they build- and your preachers don’[t understand that their job is to help you discover a personal, inner sense of meaning and not behave like a bunch of zealots intent on converting the rest of the planet to their rigid, literalist view of how everyone should live their lives. ↗
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In following your inclinations and moving toward mastery, you make a great contribution to society, enriching it with discoveries and insights, and making the most of the diversity in nature and among human society. ↗
Because of the very nature of the world as it is today, our children receive in school a heavy load of scientific and analytic subjects, so it is in their reading for fun, for pleasure, that they must be guided into creativity. ↗
For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations, as in ancient Greece in the time of Homer, where there were gods of the sky and the Earth, the thunderstorm, the oceans and the underworld, fire and time and love and war; where every tree and meadow had its dryad and maenad. ↗
Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the way…Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, ‘there is joy is self-forgetfulness.’ So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others; ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness. ↗
O du unermesslicher Schatz in deiner Fülle! […] Wie weh mir dann nach dir ist, wenn du mich schonen willst, das könnten dir alle Kreaturen nicht wirklich sagen, wenn sie meine Klage vorbringen würden, denn ich leide unmenschliche Not; Der leibliche Tod wäre mir weit willkommener […] Deswegen muss ich eine schwere Krankheit erdulden, denn du hältst mich gebunden, dies Band ist stärker, als ich es bin, Daher kann ich nicht von der Liebe frei werden. Ich rufe nach dir mit gewaltiger Sehnsucht Und kläglicher Stimme, ich warte auf dich, schweren Herzens, ich kann nicht ruhen, ich brenne Unauslöschlich in deiner heißen Liebe […] Ach, Herr, da du mir alles entzogen hast, was ich von dir habe, so laß mir doch aus Gnade jene Gabe, die du jedem Hund von Natur aus verliehen hast, nämlich, daß ich dir getreu bleibe in meiner Not Ohne jedes Aufbegehren. ↗
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No matter what I attempt, even if it’s the most simple of tasks, it always ends in failure. Unfortunately, I find that my life is one big regret after another. Yet, after all these years, I still don’t know when to give up. Is it my fault to keep trying when the results are always the same? Is it impossible for me to make things right? Even if I’d try to give up, I don’t think I could. It’s not in my nature to sumbit in the face of disappointment. In the end, I guess I’m just a glutton for punishment. I really am an idiot… ↗
