IN PHILOSOPHY THERE ARE NO SOLUTIONS

A philosophical problem never has a
philosophical solution, not necessarily
because philosophy does not manage to
solve anything, but because if it does,
the problem moves from philosophy to
science or common sense and the solution
becomes a scientific one or the problem
a non-issue.

                                  53.EQU


            TRUE FRIENDSHIP

Perhaps,
blood is thicker than water,
but true friendship
(is so pure that it)
needs no blood.

                                b.51.NML


          A POWDER KEG SOCIETY

Obscene, that is, great or extreme
differences between rich and poor create
a 'powder keg society'.
Especially when there is no real or
imaginary foreign enemy, and especially
if the line that separates the rich from
the poor is also a racial, religious or
other such divide.

                                b.51.NML


         WHERE TRUTH IS WOUNDED
-- proverbs of a new era

Supernatural solutions never heal
where truth is wounded.
                   *
One supernaturalist claim makes many.
(A supernaturalist claim is like a lie:
to maintain it and to prevent it from
being refuted, it needs the support of
yet more lies, yet more supernaturalist
claims.)
                   *
Scientific truth is stranger than
religious fiction.
                   *
Speak the truth and shame the
theodemonist.

                                b.51.NML


WITH SO MANY PEOPLE CLUTCHING THEIR GOD

With so many people clutching their god,
We should be glad of an inclusive Norm.

                                b.51.NML


           UNITED WE ADVANCE

United we advance the neutral,
divided the exclusivistic.

                                  48.SEM


   'AND THE UNCIRCUMCISED MAN CHILD'

'And the uncircumcised man child
whose flesh of his foreskin
is not circumcised,
that soul is naturally cut off
from the child molesters.'

                                  48.SEL


              CREATIONISTS

All creationists are created unnatural.

All male creationists are created equal.

                                  47.SMY


 BE YE NOT UNEQUALLY YOKED TOGETHER (1)

'Be ye not unequally yoked together with
exclusivists, for what fellowship hath
righteousness with unrighteousness?'


 BE YE NOT UNEQUALLY YOKED TOGETHER (2)

'Be ye not unequally yoked together with
theodemonists, for what communion hath
enlightenment with obscurantism?
And what concord hath a normist with a
theocentrist? Or what part hath the
person that believeth in the primacy of
norms and values with him that believeth
in the authority of a god or demon?'

                                  47.NML


               PLURALISM
-- a fashion of singular superficiality

                                  47.NLY


         NOT TO BE RETROFITTED

Many religious people attempt to adapt
their ideology to the times by
reinterpreting the supernaturalist and
exclusivist passages in their sacred
writings.
But truth and inclusiveness are not
things to be added on later.
They have to be there from the beginning
and cannot be retrofitted.

                                  47.NLY


              A SQUARETOE

You can't twist a squaretoe round your
little finger.

                                  46.SLL


           UPRIGHT BIPEDALISM

It's all very well for sociobiologists
to discover, describe, explain and favor
upright bipedalism.
But how does one explain that bipeds,
especially unfeathered ones, should be
upright when it is to their personal
disadvantage, and unusual too?

                                 46.SEM


               TWO TENETS

A theocentrist tenet is
"To hear is to obey".
(This is the way one may treat non-
persons that do not speak the language;
that, like dogs, only react properly to
certain sounds, harsh or less harsh.)
Its normistic counterpart is
"To be convincing is to be obeyed".
(This is the way one treats fellow-
persons.)

                                  46.EQU


 THE RIGHT QUESTION PRECEDES ANY ANSWER

Creatures believing in a god before
anything else ask themselves "Who
created life?" (a matter of authority).
Evolutioners believing in a norm before
anything else ask themselves "How should
life be lived?" (a matter of value).

                                  46.EQU


            THE LIAR'S LYRE

What is not true need not be false but
may be hypothetical or fictional
-- lyrical, for instance --
dependent on the way it is presented,
and on its source.
When we listen to the lyre we hear
lyrics, but when we listen to the liar
we hear falsehoods.
No wonder, a lie or supernaturalist
belief often deceives people by being
much more lyrical than the truth,
unfabricated and unadorned.

                                  46.EQU


         THE COIN HAS TWO SIDES

Money
makes people independent --
of others as almgivers,
of the pecuniary worries of daily life.
When getting it it satisfies.

However,
the _lust_ for money
makes people dependent --
on others as victims,
on the worries
of enlarging their wealth,
of safeguarding their acquisitions.
When having it it no longer satisfies.

                                  46.NLY


      THE SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF

The 'willing suspension of disbelief'
makes readers in fiction;
it makes liars in faith.

                                  46.NLY


                STRAIGHT

The man in the street thinks straight
he thinks.

                                  46.NMY


               COMMUNITY

Community unites and community divides.
There is only one community that unites
human beings without dividing them:
the community of all humankind.

                                  46.NEY


             EVEN MIGHTIER

Mighty is someone with money.
Even mightier is someone
who does not have 'er life ruled
by money.

                                  45.SEL


               CAPITALISM

The fundamental tenet of capitalism is:
"The capital for the rich,
 the ism for the rest".

                                  44.SLL


     CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN AGAPISTS

Conversation between two flower-power
agapists:
  She: "Do you love me?"
  He:  "I love everybody."
Conversation between two god-power
agapists:
  She: "God, doest Thou love me?"
  He:  "I love everybody."

                                  44.NEY


          AN ETERNAL STRUGGLE

Should there necessarily be such a thing
as an eternal struggle in the world,
then not between good and evil but
between evil and evil, between the
wrongs that straddle the right.

                                  43.EQU


         A PITIFUL SIGHT INDEED

It is a pitiful sight indeed to see how
a few conscientious present-day
monotheists are desparately trying to
eke out the life of their religious
ideology with a number of modern, quasi-
scientific and quasi-inclusive additives
that are essentially foreign to their
supernaturalist, exclusivist culture.

                                  42.SLL


         FERTILIZED HUMAN EGGS

For religious antiabortionists human
persons are no more valuable than
fertilized human eggs. In questions of
war it is not only the cruelest
soldiers, and in questions of capital
punishment it is not only the vilest
murderers, who are the victims of this
type of moral thinking -- or should we
say "non-thinking"?

                                  42.SEY


    WHEN WE CANNOT AGREE TO DISAGREE

For some things the following holds:
If we agree, we agree on something
trivial;
if we disagree, we disagree on something
crucial.
We cannot agree to disagree.

                          38 ASWW-39.SLL


              RELIGIOUSLY

Thou shalt not lie, but only tell
falsehoods religiously.
Thou shalt not steal, but only take
things away religiously.
Thou shalt not murder, but only kill
living beings religiously.

                                  39.NLL


THE HOLY, WHOLLY CONCEPTUAL, ETERNAL
SENTENCE IN F-MAJOR

"Faithful, Fundamentalist Family Fathers
 Forever Fuck Faithful, Full-blown Flock
 Females For Further Faithful,
 Full-blooded, Filial Fold Folk,
   Forever Faithfully Full-heartedly
   Foolishly Following Fuddy-duddy,
   Fulminating, Faceless Forefathers,
     Formally Forgoing Facts, Foresight,
     Forethought, Forbidden Fruit,
     Frisky Feelings, Future Felicity,
     Firmly Forbearing From Fighting For
     Fairness, Finely Faking Fondness
     For Freedom,
   Frightfully Foolhardily Feverishly
   Fucking Fatigued Fertile Females,
   Frequently Found Frigid, For Further
   Fettered, Fanatic Fresh Flesh,

     Forever Faithfully Full-heartedly
     Foolishly Following Fuddy-duddy,
     Fulminating, Faceless Forefathers,
       Formally Forgoing Facts ... ...

       [and so on and so forth]"

                           37.NLY-53.SEM