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I wonder if the twin Of a missing sock ever felt sad?

La verite est la conformite de nos idees avec la
nature des choses. Elle n'interesse les hommes que
parce qu'elle leur fait connaitre ce qui est,
c'est-a-dire la Nature, les qualites reelles, les
rapports des cause et des effets. Cette connaissance
qui, de meme que la raison, ne peut s'acquerir que par
l'experience, nous met a portee de distinguer l'utile
du nuisible, la realite de l'apparence, le bien-etre
solide et durable, du plaisir fugitif et passager. La
verite est necessaire a l'homme parce que l'homme a
besoin pour etre heuruex de demeler la route qui peut
l'y conduire. Il aime la verite parce qu'il aime le
bonheur; il craint la verite parce que souvent on lui
persuade qu'elle peut nuire a sa felicite. En effet,
une foule de voix nous crie de toutes parts: << La
verite est dangereuse; il est des erreurs utiles au
genre humain ; le monde veut etre trompe.>> La verite
ne parait dangereuse qu'a ceux qui se croient
faussement interesses a tromper le genre humain.

as their own thoughts with hardly any understanding of implications and repercussions. They oft believe that reenforcement of generally accepted ideas is substitutable for verifiable knowledge.

If you wish to begin Forth programming, Starting Forth is a very cool book.

Please refer to the link below.

http://badiane.supersized.org/archives/21-What-you-might-need-to-know..html

We are born atheist and through ignorance lead to religion.

Atheism is a state not a faith or a belief system.  It's like being free. It is being free.  Many of those who have belief systems don't seem to be able to grasp the fact that others do not necessarily conceive of the world the way they do. 

I read a testimony on http://iam.comingoutgodless.com/ in which for the first time I have read someone's echo of my basic thought about atheism.

This is my comment to an article claiming the offensiveness of black faces to people of African ascendence.  Well not being raised in America I didn't know about black faces in the same way that most people who are unaware of American culture may not take black faces as being offensive.  

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength, each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

• The Second Sex (1949), bk. 2, pt. 5, ch. 2: The Mother (p. 522)

On ne naît pas femme: on le devient.

• Translation: One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
• The Second Sex (1953), bk. 2, pt. 4, ch. 1: Childhood (p. 267)

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me.

• All Said and Done (1972) [ISBN 1569249814] (p. 16)

I once sang James Blunt's beautiful to him.

His eyes were shiny.
He watched intently
With unceasing fascination
Then he began to sing along
repeating the refrain.

He is beautiful
He is my son