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What do you believe? Here's what I believe?
Neil Gaiman said it perfectly: (quote to come)
Neil Gaiman
“I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.
I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the Beatles and Marilyn Monroe and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen - I believe that people are perfectable, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkled lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women.
I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone's ***. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state.
I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are
better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste.
I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold like martians in War of the Worlds.
I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman.
I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead)
at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.
I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck.
I believe that anyone who says sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too.
I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implic
itly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system.
I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Wayne- American Gods, no pathos? Wuuuut? Also, to be fair to Gaiman, I don't know if he footnoted a reference to an earlier author of that part of the speech. It's possible he did.
9 Answers
- Uncle WayneLv 79 years ago
Excellent indeed, but it will never make a good novel because it has no pathos.
btw: The following was taught by Liberty University when I was getting my masters degree in comparative religions.
I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck.
- ?Lv 59 years ago
you're free to believe what you like, your mind should be your own, but not always is and few people seem to notice or care much.
mythical people are simply stories to motivate you, whether they're for children or on the radio or tv. what matters is how good you are, your self change, your level of ease and respect of others basic choice of lifestyle. so what if the rich rule the world, its their right as they have the funds -- its your life that you need to control, your choices, your agreements. aliens? sure why not? cattle are just animals but women, well they should choose the alien men as husbands. or else his alien charm is just not working out right.
in reality though, why not save it for marriage? then you can have all the freedom you and your spouse like with each other and each other only.
you can think about all these issues with sanity or imagination or whatever crazy or unreal ideas you like, but please try to respect people with "sensitive ears" or who might turn ill at the mention of said ideas. you know what we means, don't be so pretentious and puffed up you let yourself not care about the rest of the world besides yourself, unless you're just kidding or don't know any better. then, you must learn.
impersonal God? brilliant. people rarely remember that God is a part of the God who cares and thinks and knows all and cares about everyone.
remember, there are a few people out there who want to be Celibate. at least until marriage. those who haven't thought this through haven't started being truly spiritual yet. its the only major idea mankind has avoiding getting right and we need it now more than ever. Holy people, that is.
thanks to you and your little author guy there for letting us have this mind bender we're going to have to read again later and also the chance to let our little psychic commentary attempt out. peace
- Anonymous9 years ago
I'm too busy sitting on a fence to comment
- Anonymous9 years ago
i believe that that is hilarious but it is wrong because GOd said so...you can't make up your your own rules you will be following the snake...listen God made the world the way he wanted but lucifer mess it up and now the whole planet is is infected. they need to get out the world to understand while God said let there be light...we are made in Gods image and likeness:body,soul(we are a soul),and spirit(GOd is spirit,the father,WOrd Jesus and Jesus was crucified for our sins so that we will see God's light...listen i personally believe that something else went wrong in that garden...how can a fruit make you feel ashamed you are naked...listen SIN is the cause and we all are going to pay for our sins if we dont present our case to Jesus our judge and confess our sins to Jesus our defender and get right with his father amen.
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- 9 years ago
"I believe that people are perfectable"
He's got to have some Jewish background. Brb.
Source(s): Yep. "Polish and other eastern European Jewish origins". :-) - ?Lv 79 years ago
Any one who wishes to know what I "believe" may read it at this page
Source(s): God's Word... and His promise to me in the instant of my salvation - Anonymous9 years ago
Yes, yes, YES!!
Perfection :)
and he's got a doggie!!
what a cute white dog :)
