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Maybe Luke got it from Burroughs...
"You need your dreams, they are a biologic necessity and your lifeline to space, that is, to the state of a God. To be one of the Shining Ones. The inference is that Gods are a biologic necessity. They are an integral part of Man.
Consider the Pharaohs: their presence was Godlike. They performed superhuman feats of strength and dexterity. They could read the minds and hearts of others and foretell future events. They became Gods, and to be a God means meting out at times terrible sanctions: cutting the hand off a thief or the lips off a perjurer.
Now imagine some academic, humanistic, bad-Catholic intellectual as God. He simply can't bear to cause any suffering at all. So what happens? Nothing. There are no horrible accidents. Not even an elderly woman killed in a rooming house fire. No hurricanes, no tornados, no opposition, no pain, no decay. No death. So the decent Godless people, who could neither accept any God nor assume the prerogatives of a God, simply crumbled away like a cookie dunked in Postum many years ago . . . the last tremulous Ovaltine. A long pause did not refresh."
Might be one for 'what does dialectical mean?' too, given that final paragraph.what does dialectical mean?
explain what you mean when you use the word. dont quote a wikipedia entry. i want peoples personal and idiosyncratic interpretations. its the most commonly used word on twitter but what do people really mean by it?
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