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                                             May 18, 2009


  Sensible beliefs and sensible actions are often disconnected.


  Christainity is transparent nonsense, and
  yet many professed Christians live happy,
  sane, productive lives unimpeded by (and          It is a "madness
  possibly assisted by) this nonsense.              that keeps them
                                                    sane".

  Far closer to the Really Real would be a
  humanism rooted in scientific materialism--
  and yet many of it's adherents have trouble      Pitfalls abound:
  translating their knowledge into a way of
  life.                                               Drugs
                                                      Marxism
                                                      Libertarianism
        The "higher power" of the 12 steps makes
        us atheists queasy, and yet we're stuck
        with the knowledge that the AA doctrine        BOTTLE
        is the only thing that seems to work for
        alcoholics...


             The book "Get Up", by Bucky Sinister
             is entirely about dealing with that
             apparent contradiction.

                 He makes the point that the usual
                 sophistries people trot out to
                 cover the problem don't really work
                 very well, e.g. an ocean wave may
                 very well be more powerful than you
                 are, but there's no particular            His solution is
                 reason you would ask it for advice.       to think of your
                                                           "higher power"
                                                           as an idealized
                                                           vision of yourself.


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