![]() This ancient pagan way of thinking forms the basis of the materialist psychology of Sigmund Freud, Darwin’s evolutionary conception, modern evolutionary biology, secular humanism, secular trans-humanism, Marxist quasi-pantheist and animist dialectical materialism, and John Dewey, co-author of the 1933 Humanist Manifesto and father of progressive education, a leading figure in the ‘dumbing down’ of American schools and the transition of American society away from its founding Biblical heritage in favor of pagan Humanism: ![]() This way of thinking excludes everything unseen, such as the human soul, mind, angels and demons, and holds that humans are aggregates of physical matter in motion in a human form and the human consciousness an active principle of grey matter. The world and everything in it were not created but instead the accidental emergent or evolved products of a great cosmic event (exploding Cosmic Egg/Big Bang) that spontaneously generated animated physical matter pregnant with life from nothing. The principal tenet of Atomism teaches that the world was not created by any deity, or with any design, but came about by a chance movement of physical atoms of various sizes and magnitude that cemented together and so formed the world. The Greek Atomist Epicurus (341-270 BC) is the father of contemporary scientific materialism. Theirs was a humanist, animist, monist, evolutionary, and occult scientific (knowledge of the unseen) worldview predicated upon a one-dimensional universe (Oneism/monism) of animated (evolving) physical matter or divine psychic energy (spiritualized matter). The Stoics and Epicureans were the two most prominent schools of nature philosophy, nature science and nature religion of that time. And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is which you are proclaiming? “(Acts 17:18-19) ![]() ![]() Some were saying, “What would this idle babbler wish to say?” Others, “He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,” – because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection. And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. “One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.“Paul was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles, and in the market place every day with those who happened to be present. “I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.” Anaïs Nin “Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.” Tennessee Williams I didn’t stay long because I was freezing. It’s a nice place to spend an afternoon but I won’t lie. ![]() There’s are slides made of ice for the kids to play. The sculptures vary from cartoon characters to a giant nativity scene and of course Santa too. The entire Ice attraction is hand carved by a team of 40 artisans hailing from Harbin, China. I live in Florida and do not own anything near as warm as a parka. It is very cold and luckily parkas are provided. The entire exhibition area is cooled down to 9 degrees and displays hundreds of ice sculptures. This photo was taken at the Gaylord Resort and Convention Center in Orlando, Florida during the Ice! display. ![]()
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