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The terror of constant brainwashing indeed spells hopelessness for billions.
A static intellect is when predetermination takes the place of honest inquiry and truth is suppressed. The culprit is misguided religion which leads to fanaticism, barbarism and superstition. This form of credulity is the catalyst of existing adverse and prejudicial conditions that have plagued mankind for nearly 5,000 years.

"When the time of destruction is at hand the intellect becomes perverted." Vridha Chan. 16:17.

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Can a fool, fool God? - Feb 08, 2002
What Baseball-club owner would pay his worst ball-player the same money as his best? Since he is the owner he can do anything and even through compassion make such a reward. But let's measure the disadvantages of such a measure, his club would go bankrupt because his worst players would never strive to be better while his best players would do less since it makes no sense to be the best. Baseball will become non-competitive and the millions who would be deprived of its entertainment will no longer support it, not to mention the thousands that will be affected by employment. If there were such an owner who lacks such business sense, he would be called a fool, won't he?

 A fool has no value for time or knowledge and so he remains a fool all his life. It certainly requires no effort to be a fool and in the end he/she repents for being a fool and gains salvation. On the other hand, a wise man values his time and works diligently and strenuously daily all his life, in his efforts through austerity and abstinence to attain higher wisdom also gains salvation.

Now I ask what would we call the 'All-powerful' God of the Torah, Bible, Qur'an, Puranas, Zend Avesta, Guru Grantha, and all that other false dogmas that can do anything, who gives the same reward of heaven to both a fool and a wise man? To an intelligent soul, he is not only mortal like the Ball-club owner but even more foolish. In reality, a fool who follows a false dogma is only fooling him/herself. 
                                                                 
                         Redemption can only be a fool's passport to a fool's paradise.

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Re: Have these gullible fools no critical faculties at all?

This is rather a foolish statement. Teach the young to use the toilet and wipe the ass?

Animals survived by instinct which neither increase nor decrease. You can't teach instinct, it is natural.

Re: Have these gullible fools no critical faculties at all?

No. To care for each other, share, watch each others backs... Apes have an active social life... Ask Jane Goodall.

Instinct changes in each generation. You imply instinct is bad... why?

How about an instinct to learn, and an instinct to teach... pretty well evidenced in apes.

Re: Have these gullible fools no critical faculties at all?

Don't you get it? Humans need to do that, because they cannot rely on instinct, not animals.

It's bad when people like you think it is the cause of progress.

Instinct to learn and teach what, alphabet and how to count?

Re: Have these gullible fools no critical faculties at all?

Humans can rely on their instincts, and usually have better life chances when they do.

Bad? In what way? How is providing good parenting for infants 'bad'?

Why would the particular symbols used have any significance? Beyond being shared with other minds.

Re: Have these gullible fools no critical faculties at all?

"The knowledge given by another cannot be called instinctive. What is instinctive is natural, it can neither increase nor decrease nor can it help any one to make any progress, since the savages also possess this instinctive knowledge and yet they have not made any progress. The acquired knowledge alone is the cause of progress. All of us during our childhood did not possess accurate knowledge of right and wrong, virtue and vice, but after having studied under our learned teachers, we were enabled to distinguish between right and wrong, virtue and vice. Hence it is wrong to hold that instinctive knowledge is all-sufficient." Swami Dayanand

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