What tragedy that few humans realize that we create our own reality. Humans spend so much energy denying this simple truth, placing most of the blame for the bad stuff on Satan and the praise for the good stuff on God.

That our world is created by us is good otherwise we’re just slaves to reality, which is no fun. God did not create morality, as Don Moore claims (letter to the editor, Dec. 11). Humans created morality to make our lives in a more perfect image, and we used God to sponsor our morality to make it legitimate to the dummies who needed that authority to back it up. How else do you explain how God has sponsored nuptial rights on demand for most of Christian history? We have used God’s name on our own moral creations.

Young Soo Shim sees golfers as elitist punks who dis their caddies (letter to the editor, Dec. 9), while to Dawn Norris golfers are decent people who pay [caddies] for service jobs (letter to the editor, Dec. 11). They can’t both be right, but somehow they are. It’s because their values are created out of themselves, not from the outside.

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I do not like the idea that some abstract creature is in control of human reality because I see that it does more harm than good. When people are able to abstract their words and actions, they are capable of some pretty horrible things. Fear will also promote the horror, and the ultimate fear of God can turn men into animals. The Crusades wasn’t the only [event] in history where the chosen-to-be-God’s-chosen have rampaged through the world to appease the wrath of God. It is the wrath of humans that topples civilizations, and God is not there.

Humans are responsible for our own destiny. Whether we go [to] apocalypse or Utopia in the future depends on us, not God. If humans do not place the center of reality firmly upon ourselves, we shall someday awake to find that we have no center.

graduate student, health education