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Are you Earthseed?

Do you believe?

Belief will not save you.

Only actions

Guided and shaped

By belief and knowledge

Will save you.

Belief

Initiates and guides action—

Or it does nothing.

We give our dead

To the orchards

And the groves.

We give our dead

To life.

No one thought about what kind of society we were building with such stupid decisions. People who could afford to educate their children in private schools were glad to see the government finally stop wasting their tax money, educating other people’s children. They seemed to think they lived on Mars. They imagined that a country filled with poor, uneducated, unemployable people somehow wouldn’t hurt them!

We keep falling into the same ditches, you know? I mean, we learn more and more about the physical universe, more about our own bodies, more technology, but somehow, down through history, we go on building empires of one kind or another, then destroying them in one way or another. We go on having stupid wars that we justify and get passionate about, but in the end, all they do is kill huge numbers of people, maim others, impoverish still more, spread disease and hunger, and set the stage for the next war. And when we look at all of that in history, we just shrug our shoulders and say, well, that’s the way things are. That’s the way things always have been.

They can create something beautiful, useful, even something worthless. But they create. They don't destroy.

If you hear nonsense like that often enough for long enough, you begin to believe it.

Jarrett would be easier to take if he cared half as much about children’s bodies and minds as he pretends to care about their souls.

All religions are ultimately cargo cults.

Adherents perform required rituals, follow

specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally

gifted with desired rewards—long life,

honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth,

victory over opponents, immortality after

death, any desired rewards.

We were snatched away and given alone into the hands of people who believed that it was their duty to break us and remake us in the Christian American image. And, of course, breaking people is much easier than putting them together again.

So much agony caused, so much evil done in God’s name.

When vision fails

Direction is lost.

When direction is lost

Purpose may be forgotten.

When purpose if forgotten

Emotion rules alone.

When emotion rules alone,

Destruction...destruction.

He thought about that for a moment, wondered what he should say. The truth or nothing. The truth.

“I didn’t want to scare you. We don’t want to scare anyone.”

“No? Well, sometimes it’s a good thing to scare people. Sometimes fear is all that will keep them from doing stupid things.”