from the enemy meditations
Jan. 5th, 2012 08:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
foolsguineaSome imagine for themselves gods and venerate them not out of any understanding of the sacred but out of fear of a powerful person's wrath. These are those who think morality is nothing more than, "I don't like it."
Some see gods as a genie's lamp to rub. Men with no sense of morality, for whom there is only power and opportunity.
Some see a world made by impersonal forces and decide that not being made by personal gods it means nothing, & that the forces of nature deserve no respect.
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Water created you to move itself around--dumbly, not as a god. Now you hoard water behind dams. You're killing the order that supports you.
Some see gods as a genie's lamp to rub. Men with no sense of morality, for whom there is only power and opportunity.
Some see a world made by impersonal forces and decide that not being made by personal gods it means nothing, & that the forces of nature deserve no respect.
....
Water created you to move itself around--dumbly, not as a god. Now you hoard water behind dams. You're killing the order that supports you.
