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- Wed May 08, 2024 8:22 pm
- Forum: Political Philosophy
- Topic: TRUMP AHEAD?
- Replies: 131
- Views: 1592
Re: TRUMP AHEAD?
Yes, he does. And that's just fine: every American citizen should have that right. But to suppose that any argument against any candidate that is made by a Subjectivist means something important...that's quite a different question. All it really means is "Today, I feel icky about Biden/Trump.&...
- Wed May 08, 2024 8:10 pm
- Forum: Political Philosophy
- Topic: TRUMP AHEAD?
- Replies: 131
- Views: 1592
Re: TRUMP AHEAD?
Right. That's the Subjectivist problem. Nothing they affirm in the moral realm has any logical obligation for anybody else. He still gets to vote, though. Yes, he does. And that's just fine: every American citizen should have that right. But to suppose that any argument against any candidate that i...
- Tue May 07, 2024 6:43 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 821
- Views: 46755
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
The people who created these pictures could only work with the content of their imagination. So they had to imagine that God would seek out and assemble all the molecules of their former bodies and then rejoin them with their •soul•. Yet the entire story, for us, is absurd on a dozen levels. God co...
- Tue May 07, 2024 2:31 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 821
- Views: 46755
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
But you're not all bad, AJ. You're just not in a place in life to accept the broken. Such is life. None of us can make life (edit: or rather the world) something it is not.
- Tue May 07, 2024 2:21 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 821
- Views: 46755
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
No. Just from people like yourself. Most people on the forum seem to be more accepting.Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 2:15 pmThat idea of being tormented has been your general accusation about the forum generally, hasn’t it?Gary Childress wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 2:00 pm I'd still rather be a basket case than a tormentor of basket cases.
- Tue May 07, 2024 2:00 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 821
- Views: 46755
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
I'd still rather be a basket case than a tormentor of basket cases.Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 1:31 pmAnd your world?Gary Childress wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 12:59 pm Yes. It could always be worse. Be thankful you're not stuck in AJ's world. What an utterly depressing thought.
- Tue May 07, 2024 12:59 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 821
- Views: 46755
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
So, in order to be a proper Catholic, you have to not mind being treated like a child. Interesting. 🤔 Catholicism in that sense has to speak to everyone. The child, the woman, the adolescent, the adult. There are many levels in it. From the basic and crudely pictorial to the intellectually sophisti...
- Tue May 07, 2024 12:18 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 821
- Views: 46755
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
Theology class for Harbal! A sin is an act that •offends God•. More specifically: Here “Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant , overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I ...
- Tue May 07, 2024 11:39 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 821
- Views: 46755
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
No. I never saw millers crossing. When did they cross and did they make it OK?Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 11:05 am Don’t believe him Gary. Don’t!
Did you ever see Millers Crossing (Cohn brothers)?
“Listen to your heart!”
- Tue May 07, 2024 12:16 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 821
- Views: 46755
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
Could you present me with the passages that support that? I would like to see. 1 Corinthians 15:35-44 Most are familiar with that bit of scripture. In no sense does it support the notion of a return to a physical body in this world. Precisely the opposite. I don't see where 1 Corinthians says the &...
- Tue May 07, 2024 12:05 am
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
- Replies: 10001
- Views: 915399
Re: Is morality objective or subjective?
Unlike some here, I do not argue there is no God. How on Earth could I possibly know that? If you grew up in a household that didn't have particularly religious beliefs and grew up watching Carl Sagan on Cosmos, you might think differently. I mean, I'm agnostic. But I didn't start out that way. I m...
- Mon May 06, 2024 11:22 pm
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
- Replies: 10001
- Views: 915399
Re: Is morality objective or subjective?
Not if your own One True Path to Enlightenment revolves around dialectical materialism. And the thing about "political economy" is that Marx and Engels insisted that their own historical assessment was...scientific? They went all the way back to nomadic, slash and burn, hunter and gathere...
- Mon May 06, 2024 10:28 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 821
- Views: 46755
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
The original expectation was that the righteous people would return to the world in a physical form. The eternal life would be here. Some sort of eternal life in"heaven" was a later addition/change. Could you present me with the passages that support that? I would like to see. Bart Erhman...
- Mon May 06, 2024 10:15 pm
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: What could make morality objective?
- Replies: 9987
- Views: 1105054
Re: What could make morality objective?
Going back to the original question of what could make morality "objective", it seems to me that it would require a level of agreement and/or evidence of it being so that would make it virtually impossible for anyone to disagree. 2+2 = 4 is probably by reasonable accounts "objectively...
- Mon May 06, 2024 9:54 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 821
- Views: 46755
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
OK. Sorry. Should I call you an "ignoramus" too? I mean, just as a joke. You won't take it badly, will you? I have an idea: call me, refer to me, exactly and precisely how you think I am. Neither less nor more. Why on Earth should I take •badly• what you truly think of me (or anyone)? I r...