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Evolution and Santa Claus/ /Commonalities of Illusions
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<blockquote data-quote="John MacNeil" data-source="post: 446291" data-attributes="member: 4929"><p>Well,...as expected.., no evolutionist could come forward and enlighten us with the information of which type of hominid female first gave birth to a Cro-Magnon baby. That eloquently says all that needs to be said about the validity of the evolution theory. So, that being resolved, we can now move the thread topic back to it's main point, and that is the detrimental effects of imposing impractical theories on society.</p><p></p><p>The Santa Claus enigma, which started out with such altruistic purpose, is now being used to incite consumers into a seasonal spending frenzy. The merchants and the producers of products seek to foster the growth of their industry and care naught for the reason that Christmas was originally celebrated. Some of them might care on a personal level, but on the corporate level and on the financial level their concern is non-existant and that is what is of concern to society.</p><p></p><p>When I speak of society, I mean a world society. I don't regard nationalistic boundaries as having any significance whatsoever when it comes to human rights and human ideals. When children, and subsequently the future adults, are indoctrinated with Santa Claus as the motivation for excessive spending on products, which in many case are not needed and are pure indulgence, necessitated by the need to buy "something" because it is the "season", they become self centered and inured to the needs of the truly needy people in society.</p><p></p><p>The virtual imposition on society of a scientific theory that has no basis in fact also has deleterious affects upon the children, and hence the future adults. Teaching the children in schools that science has the answer to the origin of our being on this planet, when in fact science does not have such answers, keeps the children from thinking deeper on subjects which require much thought for them to be understood practically. The current curriculum leaves the children with a foggy notion of what is real and what is mere, unfounded speculation. If the children are not spurred by the quest for understanding, and instead are constantly stymied in their thought exercises, then they trod through life parroting the corporate/science view without understanding what it is that they are parroting.</p><p></p><p>The Christmas season was originally intended to celebrate the birthday of our greatest humanitarian and foster goodwill toward humankind. As the enigma that is Santa Claus grows ever larger, that goodwill toward humankind is morphing away from the celebation of Jesus Christ's birthday and into selfish lust for accumulating products and pleasing a narrowing cirlce of relationships. This tendency toward introversion lessens the interaction of society as a whole and it is reflected in the uncaring attitude that is displayed every evening on the nightly news.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John MacNeil, post: 446291, member: 4929"] Well,...as expected.., no evolutionist could come forward and enlighten us with the information of which type of hominid female first gave birth to a Cro-Magnon baby. That eloquently says all that needs to be said about the validity of the evolution theory. So, that being resolved, we can now move the thread topic back to it's main point, and that is the detrimental effects of imposing impractical theories on society. The Santa Claus enigma, which started out with such altruistic purpose, is now being used to incite consumers into a seasonal spending frenzy. The merchants and the producers of products seek to foster the growth of their industry and care naught for the reason that Christmas was originally celebrated. Some of them might care on a personal level, but on the corporate level and on the financial level their concern is non-existant and that is what is of concern to society. When I speak of society, I mean a world society. I don't regard nationalistic boundaries as having any significance whatsoever when it comes to human rights and human ideals. When children, and subsequently the future adults, are indoctrinated with Santa Claus as the motivation for excessive spending on products, which in many case are not needed and are pure indulgence, necessitated by the need to buy "something" because it is the "season", they become self centered and inured to the needs of the truly needy people in society. The virtual imposition on society of a scientific theory that has no basis in fact also has deleterious affects upon the children, and hence the future adults. Teaching the children in schools that science has the answer to the origin of our being on this planet, when in fact science does not have such answers, keeps the children from thinking deeper on subjects which require much thought for them to be understood practically. The current curriculum leaves the children with a foggy notion of what is real and what is mere, unfounded speculation. If the children are not spurred by the quest for understanding, and instead are constantly stymied in their thought exercises, then they trod through life parroting the corporate/science view without understanding what it is that they are parroting. The Christmas season was originally intended to celebrate the birthday of our greatest humanitarian and foster goodwill toward humankind. As the enigma that is Santa Claus grows ever larger, that goodwill toward humankind is morphing away from the celebation of Jesus Christ's birthday and into selfish lust for accumulating products and pleasing a narrowing cirlce of relationships. This tendency toward introversion lessens the interaction of society as a whole and it is reflected in the uncaring attitude that is displayed every evening on the nightly news. [/QUOTE]
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