Did you not read my reply?


I meant "things" as in things that aren't necessities.
Material goods and other junk we think we need, but in
reality don't. wink

That's right. And every single person has a choice. They
can either follow his word and praise him, or reject him
and suffer the consequences. That's my belief.

and,who would be the Judge of that?
Some Headman in Rome?
Some Preacher or anyone who claims to be a Spokesman of some Supreme Being,which,in it's form usually proposed by the Religionists,is impossible to exist!

The damnation of this earth as a realm where nothing is possible to man but pain, disaster and defeat, a realm inferior to another, �higher,� reality; the damnation of all values, enjoyment, achievement and success on earth as a proof of depravity; the damnation of man�s mind as a source of pride, and the damnation of reason as a �limited,� deceptive, unreliable, impotent faculty, incapable of perceiving the �real� reality and the �true� truth; the split of man in two, setting his consciousness (his soul) against his body, and his moral values against his own interest; the damnation of man�s nature, body and self as evil; the commandment of self-sacrifice, renunciation, suffering, obedience, humility and faith, as the good; the damnation of life and the worship of death, with the promise of rewards beyond the grave�these are the necessary tenets of the [mystic�s] view of existence, as they have been in every variant of [mystical] philosophy throughout the course of mankind�s history.

There is only one state that fulfills the mystic�s longing for infinity, non-causality, non-identity: death. No matter what unintelligible causes he ascribes to his incommunicable feelings, whoever rejects reality rejects existence�and the feelings that move him from then on are hatred for all the values of man�s life, and lust for all the evils that destroy it.

For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket�by making life on earth unbearable, then charging you for consolation and relief, by forbidding all the virtues that make existence possible, then riding on the shoulders of your guilt, by declaring production and joy to be sins, then collecting blackmail from the sinners.

Ayn Rand on Mysticism.

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/mysticism.html