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• Sunday, November 2, 2008 09:39 PM

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  All these attitudes these people evince in their comments prove to me is how VERY MANY people have been left behind by the educational system. The less one understands science and different cultures, the more innate fear and lack of comprehension about the world going on around them one feels. When there is lack of comprehension, the human mind and soul still searches for answers, and without an education, those answers come from superstition or the assumption of supernatural powers. Anything to hope that "someone or something" is in charge and/or conducts the happenings in life that they do not.

  While I'm all for "whatever gets you through the night", if our schools did their jobs, these people would not be ready to listen to the first person with a nice set of clothes , who looks like them, or makes them feel like they are one of them, when in fact they would not bring them home to break bread with most of them.

  I do not hold malice for these poor people, I merely feel sadness that they have to expend such energy and hope on beliefs so preposterous. Sure they made sense before science and the scientific method, but as has been discovered, we have a shut off/compartmentalization switch when it comes to religion. and the less educated you are, the bigger the empty compartment that needs to be filled with Hocus Pocus instead of counting on ourselves. There is not a power that "lets us fail to prove a point" or to make the game they are watching more interesting, we let ourselves down. And that these poor let down people can believe in the people who let them down in the first place just shows how inadequate their processes of linear thought must be. Yet that is not surprising either,..merely sad.

  It is no mistake that the left is a more open and welcoming side. Most are educated enough to not have silly fears and so little belief in their own talents and powers that they feel the need to look up to someone else to fix everything for them. If we would take intellectual, and other, responsibilities upon ourselves, we would be much better off. Perhaps, the founding fathers allowing the vote only to people who owned a bit of land, which iplied that either they had self-motivation, an education they got themselves, or an education provided by their wealthy family, made some sense. why should someone's vote, who is completely blind to the issues, and listens to what they are told to believe, instead of seeking answers for themselves, vote count as much as someone who DOES DO THE WORK, to prepare themselves to make a truly informed decision.

  And shame on those who ARE educated, who use their education as a bully pulpit to decieve and lead the sheep by their scared little noses. The whole thing is just sad.

  Education, the most worthwhile belonging that nobody can take from you. Get one.And you don't need a diploma either, ...just a library card and an empty space you feel the need to fill.

  —papabotts Read papabotts's other letters
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