http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley#The_Doors_of_Perception_.281954.29
'...and yet he hopes that, taken as a whole, his work may prove suggestive as well as amusing, to those Spacelanders of moderate and modest minds who - speaking of that which is of the highest importance, but lies beyond experience - decline to say on the one hand, "This can never be," and on the other hand, "It must needs be precisely thus, and we know all about it."'
Taken from the preface (by the Editor) to the Second and Revised Edition of 'Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions' by Edwin A. Abbott.
So, I hope that the juxtaposition I put here gives atheists something to think about and believers something to think about - RW : )
'...and yet he hopes that, taken as a whole, his work may prove suggestive as well as amusing, to those Spacelanders of moderate and modest minds who - speaking of that which is of the highest importance, but lies beyond experience - decline to say on the one hand, "This can never be," and on the other hand, "It must needs be precisely thus, and we know all about it."'
Taken from the preface (by the Editor) to the Second and Revised Edition of 'Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions' by Edwin A. Abbott.
So, I hope that the juxtaposition I put here gives atheists something to think about and believers something to think about - RW : )
I'm just gonna avoid commenting on the Can o' Worms posts. Don't feel blue, I do read 'em.
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