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Text of Dr. Martin Luther King's Beyond Vietnam speech.
Fighting sin is the number one entertainment on this Wondered all day what sin is, result;
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many generations. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of Teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it." The Buddha on Belief Belief, any belief, is based on the sense of insecurity. Only when all belief is given up are you free to know yourself. In self-discovery what you find is the Truth - that Truth which is total, self-evident and which needs no outside support or justification. - Ramesh S. Balsekar This is, I think, much of the problem of the modern delemma: direct experience had been discounted, and in its place all kinds of belief systems have been erected. I would prefer a kind of intellectual anarchy where whatever was pragmatically applicable was brought to bear on any situation; where belief was understood as a self-limiting function. Because, you see, if you believe something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite; which means that a degree of your human freedom has been forfeited in the act of committing yourself to this belief. -Terrence McKenna On College Campuses, Students See Military With New Set of Eyes
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