The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #158163   Message #3738500
Posted By: Steve Shaw
20-Sep-15 - 10:48 AM
Thread Name: BS: Conservatives at Mudcat
Subject: RE: BS: Conservatives at Mudcat
When you're on your belly admiring that daisy, I can't help thinking that you will achieve a greater completeness of insight, understanding and spiritual fulfilment if you do all the intellectual heavy lifting, instead of falling back on the rather abject and inexplicable notion of a creator kicking it all off. It gets in the way by stunting your curiosity and staunching your line of enquiry. Your pat answer is complete before you've even asked all the questions. You allow your inexplicable supernatural being, ironically, to explain everything instead of making the struggle yourself. Well I quite enjoy the struggle.

The life so short,
the craft so long to learn,
Th'assay so hard,
so sharp the conquering