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- Wed May 08, 2024 2:02 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
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Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
But when we come to the Christian revelation — the Hebrew revelation — and if we start from Hosea (I think one of the older Bible books) God takes a very different form. Is understood very differently. And then the vision or revelation is focused even more. Extraordinarily so in my opinion. It woul...
- Tue May 07, 2024 2:18 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
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Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
Exactly in that sense I refer to the meta-natural. It is no part of the natural systems of the Earth, and only enters the world through and with man. Yes! But who, pray, isn't aware of this trite little fact? Nature created us through a long period of evolution and once we became aware and scared e...
- Mon May 06, 2024 6:14 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
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Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
Not in the least. It only proves that nature doesn't have a plan.Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2024 11:03 pm Nature has the plan that you and everyone observes. We call that •nature• and •the natural world•. Man’s impositions — those of Christianity more specifically — are anti-natural. They contradict natural predicates.
- Sat May 04, 2024 6:49 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: Deleted 500
- Replies: 53
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- Sat May 04, 2024 6:41 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 813
- Views: 45420
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
I see! Too many delinquents who finally realized what they weren't getting??? Aren't you aware that the same problem exists here and won't make up for the deficit?Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2024 3:38 pm I am trying to round up some funds for a very fine bicycle I have my eyes on. Would any of you deadbeats consider a PayPal donation?
- Sat May 04, 2024 6:39 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 813
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Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
Causality. Substance monism. These a priori facts exist regardless of the physical state of a universe, which is always changing, and so could be called absolute, metaphysical truths, facts about the nature of the physical world and how it operates. Those are not metaphysical facts. That's because ...
- Sat May 04, 2024 2:28 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
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Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
The current and interminable Trump saga, I believe, will go down in American history as one of its greatest farces, especially where any interpretation of justice is concerned.
- Sat May 04, 2024 1:36 am
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: Deleted 500
- Replies: 53
- Views: 7531
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/will-the-universe-ever-stop-expanding1/ From your link, which by the way provides absolutely nothing that could remotely be used as actual prove of an expanding Universe, what is first noticed is that the 'presumption' that the Universe is expanding is bel...
- Sat May 04, 2024 1:29 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 813
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Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
...perfectly understandable, ebonically or not. For us , perhaps. But I think there might be subtleties that could well be brought out through a translation, when it often happens that things are lost in translation. Not in the case of a trite four-liner so clearly expressed. It stands precisely as...
- Fri May 03, 2024 11:15 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
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Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
It is possible, though also improbable, that some here know of Matthew Arnold’s poem Dover Beach : The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full; But now we only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar … Promethean, would you kindly translate this stanza into Ebonics? ...perfectly understandable,...
- Fri May 03, 2024 9:04 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
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- Views: 45420
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
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- Fri May 03, 2024 8:01 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 813
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Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
Beethoven can hardly be considered a musician. Some of his *music* sounds to me like a garbage truck rumbling over a pot-holed back alley -- and then those caterwauling felines! And all of it ALL OF IT is just noise. I am surprised people don't see through it. All those sentiments, feelings indeed ...
- Fri May 03, 2024 7:35 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 813
- Views: 45420
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
Beethoven can hardly be considered a musician. Some of his *music* sounds to me like a garbage truck rumbling over a pot-holed back alley -- and then those caterwauling felines! And all of it ALL OF IT is just noise. I am surprised people don't see through it. All those sentiments, feelings indeed ...
- Fri May 03, 2024 6:28 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: Deleted 500
- Replies: 53
- Views: 7531
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But, the existing eternal Universe does not expand, and could not ever expand. How do you know that? For a few reasons, at least: 1. The definition for the word 'Universe' includes, everything; totality; all-there-is; all existing matter and space considered as a whole. 2. Every action causes a rea...
- Fri May 03, 2024 6:11 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 813
- Views: 45420
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
Yes! Music is never simply a description but the pure effect of what it describes whose influx can only be equal to the capacity of the hearer to blend with it; in certain works music is beyond any philosphy words can convey. Let me translate that into duck .... Well, that was Beethoven's view as w...