Brave New World

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Roughsoul1991

Roughsoul1991

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And this quote is the core number 1 reason people deny God. Unfortunately it takes believing in a meaningless world to do it and thus denying much of reality in the process.

"I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; and consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption. The philosopher who finds no meaning in the world is not concerned exclusively with a problem in pure metaphysics. He is also concerned to prove that there is no valid reason why he personally should not do as he wants to do. For myself, as no doubt for most of my friends, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom. The supporters of this system claimed that it embodied the meaning - the Christian meaning, they insisted - of the world. There was one admirably simple method of confuting these people and justifying ourselves in our erotic revolt: we would deny that the world had any meaning whatever."

-Aldous Huxley author of "Brave New World".
 
JaumeJ

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To some of us the cliché fits well, "Been there done that."While I was at the University of Illinois, though I had never read Brave New World , most of my friends had varied but quite similar views. When I had reached dthe end of my own given rope, my heart wasw broken for the needless suffering of so many every where.

I went to "You are who you are" and He send me Hi salvation in Jesus, Yeshua by means of the Holy Spirit. The world has no meaning without God, and with Him we come to understand its true value. It is a decaying age awaiting the new age, the Living Kingdom and life everlasting………..really, it is.m m Ask Jesus...……….not some hypocrite.
 
JaumeJ

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PS: I did read"1984! though. Oh, long before the year…...……..there are many forms of the world describe that are extant now...…...… It does not effect the Word one way or another.
 
Roughsoul1991

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JaumeJ said:
PS: I did read"1984! though. Oh, long before the year…...……..there are many forms of the world describe that are extant now...…...… It does not effect the Word one way or another.
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I was made to read it in high school and remember the parallels of any secular centered government always try to push their utopian beliefs onto the people regardless of how they had to achieve it. For example Hitler.

But what struck me was Aldous Huxley's honesty.
 
JaumeJ

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His writing is still worth th read, just as is Jules Verne. Both amazing writers.
 
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" brave new world' is a blueprint for what the elites want to do to the world.

1984 is a good companion plan to it.
 
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gb9 said:
" brave new world' is a blueprint for what the elites want to do to the world.

1984 is a good companion plan to it.
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And I thought you did not believe in conspiracy theories:eek::D
 
Lanolin

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I Read Animal Farm in high school.
I think it was a better allegory than brave new world and could be introduced to younger readers in primary and they might grasp the concepts earlier.

Brave new world was actually rather boring. I just remember people worshipping Ford, which I cant relate to, the point the author was trying to get across was people would be in love with their cars and movies (which he called the feelies) basically a snapshot of drive in teen culture of america in the 50s it seemed to me projected into the future. As a dystopian novel, its quite famous, but I was never personally into reading dystopias, they are so depressing!

I do think some of it he got right though Im so bored of people who only talk about what movies they saw or are going to see, and there are now heaps of people on antidepressant drugs everyday and they can be on medication fors years and dont even want to come off their drugs....
 
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