“Do you believe in God?
No? Neither do I.
But that’s a favorite question of mine. If I asked people if they believed in life, they would never understand what I meant. It’s a bad question. It can mean so much that it really means nothing. So I ask them if they believe in God. And if they say they do – then I know that they don’t believe in life.
Because, you see, God – whatever anyone chooses to call God- is one’s highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little of himself and his life. It’s a rare gift to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. To imagine a heaven and then not to dream of it, but to demand it.”
From the book “We the living” by Ayn Rand
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That's two Rand posts and counting. That's it, I'm blogrolling you.
“Do you believe in God?
The question, I will ask the questioner is to define GOD. Any one who say THERE IS NO GOD has to define God first.
God is defined as NAMELESS & FORMLESS [nama-roopa] and as such no definition fit God and people believe what ever they want to believe.
Ultimately, whether there is a God or not, people who believe in God us that as a MECHANISM TO RELIVE STRESS AND DEAL WITH DAY TO DAY PROBLEMS.
Those who does not believe in God, use other ways to cope with mental problems.
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