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The Dangerous Question by Marcel Votlucka http://www.strike-the-root.com/82/votlucka/votlucka2.html Why?...Do most individuals need/want Mommy/Daddy Government? Unquestioning adults as much less mature than children Kids are naturally predisposed to active-mindedness Ayn Rand's take on "Open Mind" and "Closed Mind" http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/openmindandclosedmind.html Listening to what your mind is telling you... Deism and Freedom by Robert L. Johnson http://www.strike-the-root.com/82/johnson/johnson1.html America is based on fear...What is fear? Punished for disobedience--the ties between Parents and Governments If we lived with our governmental oppressors... Which is worse: tyrannical parents or tyrannical employees of government? All political punishment is local Attila and the Witch Doctor...softening the bones and brain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_New_Intellectual by Ayn Rand For the New Intellectual by Ayn Rand http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=objectivism_nonfiction_for_the_new_intellectual Review by Edward Tanguay http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~tanguay/70.htm The meme of government has jailed our minds (and thus limited our choices) a long time ago A prison for your mind http://tinyurl.com/yp4hdv Valid definition of God is impossible because it has no referents in reality Feelings about God aren't irreducible primaries The triad of supernatural consciousness: omnipotence, omniscience, and infallibility Will a post-technological singularity consciousness be Godlike? "God" as the Universe makes the notion superfluous Former atheist Antony Flew's and Peter Murphy's Deistic thinking... http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/atheist_philosopher_041210.html http://www.deism.com/dogmaticatheism.htm Scientist Stuart Kauffman's thoughts on catalytic closure of molecular species http://www.logicallearning.net/libevolution.html Kauffman's At Home in the Universe http://books.google.com/books?id=o-Owb5IDkSQC&dq=stuart+Kauffman+catalytic+closure&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 The secret of life is auto-catalysis review by Gert Korthof http://home.planet.nl/~gkorthof/kortho32.htm Beyond Reductionism: Reinventing The Sacred by Stuart A. Kauffman http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/kauffman06/kauffman06_index.html Consciousness is inextricably tied to material reality http://www.logicallearning.net/libanissueofmort.html To postulate supernatural consciousness is the ultimate metaphysical question-begging The laws of identity, causality, and non-contradiction must determine our beliefs http://www.logicallearning.net/libidentitycausa.html How belief in a "Creater" relates to fear... The mental sacrifice of taking the leap of faith http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/faith.html Faith and Force as corollaries... Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern