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And I want to read you something that 
nature wrote.

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It's perhaps the most famous thing he 
ever said,

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although it's almost entirely taken out 
of context and misquoted,

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and if not,
ms dot quartered,

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at least misunderstood because nature 
was one of these strange people who was 

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capable of living 50 or even 100 years 
into the future,

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and although he was,
is generally regarded as an enemy of 

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Christianity and superstition and was 
certainly an unbelievably outspoken 

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opponent of Christian traditionalism,
he also knew that if you let the old 

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gods die,
the probability that blood would flood 

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the land was virtually 100 percent.
So let me read you what he wrote.

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Have you not heard of that?
Mad Man who lit a lantern in the bright 

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morning hours,
ran to the market place and cried 

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incessantly.
I seek God as many of those who do not 

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believe in God were standing around just
then he provoked.

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Must much laughter.
Why did he get lost?

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Said one.
Did he lose his way like a child said 

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another or is he hiding?
Is he afraid of us?

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Has he gone on a voyage or immigrated?
That's the yelled and laughed.

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The Madman jumped into their midst and 
pierced them with his glances.

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Where there is God,
he cried.

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I shall tell you,
we have killed him.

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You and I,
all of us are as murderers,

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but how have we done this?
How were we able to drink up the sea?

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Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the 
entire horizon?

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What did we do when we unchained this 
earth from its sun weather?

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Is it moving now with or are we moving 
now way from all sons?

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Are we not plunging continuously 
backwards,

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sideward,
forward in all directions?

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Is there any opera down left?
Are we not straying as though through an

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infinite nothing?

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Do we not feel the breath of empty 
space?

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Has it not become colder,
is not night and more night coming on 

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all the while.
Must not lanterns be lit in the morning.

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Do we not hear anything yet of the noise
of the grave diggers who are burying 

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God?
Do we not smell anything yet of God's 

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decomposition?
God's to decompose.

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God is dead.
God remains dead.

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We have killed him.
How shall we,

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the murderer of all murderers,
comfort ourselves?

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What was holiest and most powerful of 
all that the world has yet owned,

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has bled to death under our knives?
Who will wipe this blood office?

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What water is there for us to clean 
ourselves?

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What festivals of Atonement,
what sacred game show we have to invent 

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is not the greatness of this deed too 
great for us?

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Must we not ourselves become God simply 
to seem worthy of it?

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Well,
as you can tell,

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that's a much different notion from the 
casual God is dead quotation that's most

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generally associated with nature.
Well,

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what is he saying?
What he's saying?

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Something like this system like 
Christianity or any system that's Qa,

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that's oriented the society for 
thousands and thousands of years,

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can't simply be eradicated by a casual 
gesture,

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without consequences in suing and its 
aftermath.

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What consequences will need you to says,
well,

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we'll no longer know up from down.
What does he mean by that?

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Metaphorically?
Well Up.

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That's where you're headed,
right and down.

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That's what you want to stay away from,
and when you eradicate the most 

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fundamental presuppositions of your 
system,

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of values,
then there is no up and there is no down

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and then where are you?
Precisely.

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Well,
it's not so easy.

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It's not so easy to say having not 
necessarily ever been in that position.

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What is your life like when you don't 
know up from down?

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Is it merely neutral is merely no value 
left or could it possibly be the case 

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that if up and down and both being 
eradicated,

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that the place that you're left in is 
something much more akin to a permanent 

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state of suffering because maybe it's 
only the case that the constant capacity

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to thrive for up in being enough that 
you believe in.

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The constant striving for up is actually
what makes your life bearable to you,

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and if you lost the sense of up and 
down,

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the place that you would end up would be
not so much neutral as terrible.

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Now,
if you have any belief system at all,

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you do this,
so let's say you're an advocate of 

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leftwing politics.
You take a pro environmental stance or 

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an anti corporate stance,
which is a relatively common thing to do

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among undergraduates.

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What do you do when you hold that belief
system?

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You view the world as it lays itself out
and you explained the manner in which it

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manifests itself in terms of the axioms 
of that belief system and you may know 

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that you can do it right.
You can tell a credible story about why 

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the world is the way it is by adopting,
say an anti corporate perspective 

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because there are all sorts of terrible 
things about the world that are a 

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consequence say of corporate 
maneuvering,

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and you might also say that and Piaget 
would say this,

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that it's a necessary developmental 
stage to acquire allegiance to a given 

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belief system.
Why?

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Well,
any APP is better than none.

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That might be the first observation,
so even if your belief system is 

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relatively insufficient and easily 
challenged on intellectual grounds and 

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perhaps not very complete anyways,
the fact that it does lay out a moral 

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structure for you and tell you,
good for me,

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evil and right from wrong.

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That's a.
that's a plus.

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That's an advantage.
Now it's relative intellectual weakness 

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and it's incoherence.
Assuming it is incoherent to some 

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degree,
that's a flaw,

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but that mean that the effort to 
establish a system like that is 

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worthless.
It's worthwhile and need just said,

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say with regards to Christianity and 
Europe,

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he said,
well,

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the errors,
intellectual and moral of Institutional 

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Christianity are essentially beyond 
count,

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but there's one thing you have to 
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First of all,
in ordering of that sort is necessary 

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because the alternative,
which is always hidden from you in so 

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far as you're inside a moral system,
the alternative as far worse chaos 

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that's worse.