TWO

FOOLS
A STUDY IN THE
TRUTH OF

ENLIGHTENED IGNORANCE
BY FRED F. JONES
COPYRIGHT 2002
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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FRED F. JONES
13 PEDREGAL
PUEBLO, COLORADO 81005
 DEDICATED TO MY LATE BROTHER MARVIN

HE KNEW AND UNDERSTOOD

THE QUESTION HAS BEEN ANSWERED FOR HIM

THE TRUTH THAT WE

ALL KNOW BUT ARE
AFRAID TO ADMIT…

THE ENLIGHTENMENT
OF IGNORANCE AND
THE POWER BEHIND
ACCEPTING THAT
TRUTH
THIS IS THE BOOK THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN

WRITTEN LONG AGO

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 A BOOK OF TRUTH

NOT BASED ON BELIEF,

BUT THE ESSENCE OF REALITY

AND THE KNOWING BY ALL

WHO ARE HONEST, BRAVE

AND YES ENLIGHTENED

ENOUGH TO ADMIT

WHAT WE KNOW

AND WHAT WE

SIMPLY BELIEVE

DEFINITION OF A FOOL

(A PERSON LACKING JUDGMENT OR PRUDENCE)

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 THE FOUNDATION
TWO FOOLS MEET IN A ROAD

ONE FOOL SAYS (I KNOW THERE IS A GOD!)

THE OTHER FOOL SAYS (I KNOW THERE IS NOT A GOD!)

BOTH ARE LIARS

IN THEIR HEARTS THEY KNOW THAT

NEITHER IS WISE ENOUGH TO KNOW.

BOTH WISH TO

IMPOSE THEIR BELIEF ON THE OTHER -

BOTH ARE AFRAID THAT THEIR BELIEF MAY BE WRONG -

THE ARGUMENT IS AS OLD AS MANKIND

AND YET THERE ARE NO INSTITUTIONS

THAT TEACH THE OBVIOUS

AND EXAMINE THE RATIONAL FOR THE OPPOSING BELIEFS

THAT IS WHAT THIS BOOK WILL TRY TO EXAMINE

IN HOPE OF FUELING SOME DEBATE

SO THAT WE MAY LEARN

TO BE TRUTHFULL AND BRAVE - AS WE EXPERIENCE

THE 21ST CENTURY

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 1ST THE - I KNOW THERE IS A GOD - FOOL

THIS FOOL IS THE EASIEST TO UNDERSTAND.

THESE CLAIMS AND BELIEFS HAVE BEEN WITH US ALWAYS

THE BELIEF IS BASED IN FEAR AND HOPE

A HOPE THAT THERE IS SOME MEANING

TO OUR EXISTENCE

WE ARE BORN INTO A WORLD THAT WE CANNOT FULLY UNDERSTAND

WE STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE FROM THE TIME OF OUR BIRTH

WE KNOW FROM THE TIME WE ARE VERY YOUNG

THAT WE ARE MORTAL

WE SEE OTHERS DIE AND SUFFER.

IS IT ANY WONDER THAT WE WOULD HOPE

FOR A REASON OF EXISTENCE

AS SHAKESPEARE SAID

“TO BE OR NOT TO BE, THAT IS THE QUESTION?”

IN A WORLD WHERE BABIES DIE NEEDLESSLY

WHERE THE UNIVERSE IS SEEN AS AN ENEMY OF OUR EXISTENCE

IS IT ANY WONDER THAT WE WOULD CRY OUT FOR HELP FROM A

GREATER POWER

WHERE WOULD WE LOOK FOR SUCH A POWER

IN THE SKY? WE HAVE

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 IN THE WATER? WE HAVE

IN THE EARTH? WE HAVE

DOES THAT MEAN THAT WE ARE SIMPLY

COWARDLY ANIMALS THAT

COWER IN THE FACE OF REALITY?

PERHAPS;

BUT THERE MIGHT JUST BE A GOD.

WHY ELSE WOULD WE BE HERE?

WHAT OTHER PURPOSE COULD THERE BE?

IS NOT THE COSMOS UNEXPLAINABLE?

IS NOT WHAT WE SEE BEFORE US TOO GREAT,

TOO GRAND, FOR ANY OTHER EXPLANATION?

WHAT OF LIFE ITSELF?

IS THE CREATION OF LIFE NOT PROOF OF GOD?

PERHAPS.

IS NOT THE FACT THAT WE CANNOT IMAGINE

NOT BEING PROOF THAT THERE

MUST BE LIFE AFTER DEATH?

WHY NOT BELIEVE?

IS IT NOT A FOUNDATION FOR MORALITY?

IF MORALITY IS NOT BASED ON GOD,

THEN WHAT IS IT BASED ON?

DOES MAN NOT HAVE A SOUL?

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 HAVE WE NOT BEEN TAUGHT THAT THESE

BOOKS, OR SCROLLS, OR BONES, OR MOUNTAINS,

OR TREES, OR RIVERS, OR ANIMALS,

ARE SACRED?

HAVE WE NOT BEEN TOLD OF THE MIRACLES?

WAS THE SICK NOT HEALED?

DID THE DEAD NOT RISE?

DID THE WATERS NOT PART?

WOULD WE RISK BEING THROWN INTO

THE DARKNESS

OR FIRE

OR WHATEVER

THE PLEASURE OF THE

GOD

OR GODDESS

WILL BE?

NO! NO!

A THOUSAND TIMES NO!

I WILL BELIEVE!

I KNOW THERE IS A GOD!!

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 AND NOW FOR THE 2ND FOOL
THE - I KNOW THERE IS NOT A GOD - FOOL.

THIS IS THE HARDEST FOOL TO CONVINCE.

ALL OF THE BELIEF HERE IS BASED IN SCIENCE

EVERYTHING IS LOGICAL, BUILT ON EMPIRICAL DATA

GATHERED OVER MANY YEARS BY GREAT SCIENTIFIC MINDS.

PLATO – SOCRATES – FREUD – SAGAN – EINSTEIN - UCLID - ETC.

THE REASONING SAYS

WHERE IS THIS GOD?

WHAT PROOF IS THERE THAT HE, OR SHE, OR IT

EXISTS?

THIS FOOL DOES NOT UNDERSTAND HIS LIMITATIONS;

WHILE WE FIND NO SCIENTIFIC PROOF OF GOD;

WE KNOW THIS BY DATA.

WE CANNOT IMAGINE INFINITY.

WE ARE ON A VERY SMALL THING,

IN A VERY LARGE PLACE

THE FORCES AND PHENOMENON THAT

WE ENCOUNTER RAISE

QUESTIONS THAT DWARF OUR MEAGER

EFFORTS OF UNDERSTANDING.

FOR EVERY ANSWER, WE REALIZE

WE UNCOVER GREATER QUESTIONS

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 THAT WE HAVE NO ANSWERS TOO.

IS IT NOT AS LOGICAL THAT THERE IS PURPOSE

IN LIFE AS NOT?

WHAT ELSE EXISTS WITHOUT PURPOSE?

THERE MAY NOT BE A GOD OR GODDESS

BUT DOES THAT MEAN THERE IS NOT?

THE ANSWER IS IN THE SEEKING

WE SEEK FOR THE TRUTH

TRUTH IS - WITHOUT US

AND IN SEEKING

IS OUR ADMISSION OF IGNORANCE

(NO!!!), SAYS THE FOOL.

WE WERE BEGUN BY THE BIG BANG;

EVERYTHING IS UNDERSTANDABLE.

THERE IS NO PROOF OF A HIGHER BEING, GOD OR GODDESS;

AND WITHOUT PROOF

IT CANNOT BE;

THEREFORE

I KNOW THERE IS NOT A GOD!

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 NOW LET US EXAMINE THE

ENLIGHTENMENT OF IGNORANCE
IF WE ADMIT THAT WE ARE IGNORANT OF THE REALITY

OF GOD, DOES THAT PRECLUDE US FROM BELIEVING?

IF WE ADMIT THAT WE ARE IGNORANT OF THE REALITY OF HIGHER

BEINGS,

DOES THAT FORCE US TO BELIEVE IN THEIR EXISTENCE?

THE ANSWER TO BOTH IS A RESOUNDING NO

IF WE ACCEPT THE IGNORANCE AS FACT,

WHAT DOES THAT DO TO OUR WORLD?

FIRST, IT ALLOWS ALL OF US TO BELIEVE AS WE WISH

WHILE ACCEPTING THE FACT THAT THERE IS

A GREAT MYSTERY CALLED EXISTENCE

AND THAT WE ARE TRYING TO UNDERSTAND IT.

MOST WARS ON THE PLANET

HAVE BEEN FOUGHT OVER RELIGION - OR THE LACK OF IT

IF WE AGREE THAT WE ARE IGNORANT - THAT WE DO NOT KNOW

WE CAN THEN COME TOGETHER AS

!!! ONE WORLD!!!

UNDERSTANDING THAT WE ARE

ALL SHARING A VERY LIMITED

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 AMOUNT OF TIME.

THAT WE SHOULD USE THAT TIME

TO SEEK - TO LOVE - TO ADMIRE - TO HELP -

AND TO EDUCATE WITH HONESTY.

WE CAN SET ASIDE ALL THE HATE;

BASED ON THE FEARS AND DISHONESTY OF THE TWO FOOLS

AND MOVE FORWARD;

LOOKING FORWARD TO THE FUTURE.

A FUTURE THAT WILL BRING

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING TO ALL OF US.

BUT TO ACHIEVE THIS WE MUST

UNDERSTAND THE NECESSITY OF THE ACCEPTANCE OF

ENLIGHTENED IGNORANCE

BE BRAVE!! BE HONEST!!

AND SMILE!!

!!! YOU ARE

ENLIGHTENED!!!
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