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by Nick_A
Sun Oct 02, 2022 9:30 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Christianity
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Re: Christianity

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/questionofgod/voices/weil.html Another terrestrial manifestation of this reality lies in the absurd and insoluble contradictions which are always the terminus of human thought when it moves exclusively in this world. Yes, but since the recognition of the insoluble contradic...
by Nick_A
Sun Oct 02, 2022 6:31 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Christianity
Replies: 17085
Views: 717751

Re: Christianity

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/questionofgod/voices/weil.html Another terrestrial manifestation of this reality lies in the absurd and insoluble contradictions which are always the terminus of human thought when it moves exclusively in this world. Yes, but since the recognition of the insoluble contradic...
by Nick_A
Sun Oct 02, 2022 6:28 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Christianity
Replies: 17085
Views: 717751

Re: Christianity

Harbal and Mike That excerpt was taken from Simone Weil's "The Need for Roots" written as she was near death concerning a transcendent and universal moral law, and describes the social responsibilities that accompany it. Thanks, Nick. I've read some of it, and, in as much as I understand ...
by Nick_A
Sun Oct 02, 2022 5:16 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Christianity
Replies: 17085
Views: 717751

Re: Christianity

You can go wherever you like in your imagination, Nick, but just make sure you are back in time to haul yourself out of bed and get to work. Do you have a better explanation for the purpose of the soul? Some feel that there must be a purpose for the universe and our lives within it. Others deny it....
by Nick_A
Sun Oct 02, 2022 2:44 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Christianity
Replies: 17085
Views: 717751

Re: Christianity

Simone Weil wrote" "That reality is the unique source of all the good that can exist in this world: that is to say, all beauty, all truth, all justice, all legitimacy, all order, and all human behaviour that is mindful of obligations. Maybe it's because I don't know the context in which t...
by Nick_A
Sun Oct 02, 2022 3:50 am
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Christianity
Replies: 17085
Views: 717751

Re: Christianity

Do you have a better explanation for the purpose of the soul? If you are talking about the metaphoric soul; the part of us that appreciates beauty, love, music and the like, I suppose its purpose is to make our lives richer. If you mean soul in the literal sense, then I don't believe there is any s...
by Nick_A
Sat Oct 01, 2022 11:49 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Christianity
Replies: 17085
Views: 717751

Re: Christianity

Are we children of the earth or also children of the light? We are dual natured. Henri Nouman wrote: "To whom do we belong? This is the core question of the spiritual life. Do we belong to the world, its worries, its people and its endless chain of urgencies and emergencies, or do we belong to...
by Nick_A
Sat Oct 01, 2022 8:53 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Christianity
Replies: 17085
Views: 717751

Re: Christianity

Of course. objective Conscience always was and provides our awareness of objective value in relation to our source.. Its truth is grounded in God. Its origin is God. It is demonic to seriously challenge God or universal purpose from human pride or vanity. Fortunately all this cursing out God or the...
by Nick_A
Sat Oct 01, 2022 8:26 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Christianity
Replies: 17085
Views: 717751

Re: Christianity

When a person can experience the world as it is, with a balanced soul, he can also experience objective conscience. If that were so, what would he experience? Only the truth, which is grounded in God. Of course. objective Conscience always was and provides our awareness of objective value in relati...
by Nick_A
Sat Oct 01, 2022 6:18 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Christianity
Replies: 17085
Views: 717751

Re: Christianity

Think of how those like IC consider justice as an external quality which God or society defines. I don't just "think of it" that way, Nick. If it's NOT that, it's nothing but a feeling. Plato prove that justice does not depend upon a chance, convention or upon external force. It is the ri...
by Nick_A
Sat Oct 01, 2022 5:55 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Christianity
Replies: 17085
Views: 717751

Re: Christianity

No one has argued against "might makes right" as the ultimate definition of justice. It is a man made construct. It requires a change of mind from the usual discursive mindset to understand why. But who thinks in a new way? As usual: you've lost me, Nick. My mind just ain't supple or deep...
by Nick_A
Sat Oct 01, 2022 5:16 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Christianity
Replies: 17085
Views: 717751

Re: Christianity

So: when thy neighbor offends, beat his ass today , cuz there may be no tomorrow . Although I agree with you about living and handling life now , rather than assigning value and balancing to an afterlife, your ass-whippin' philosophy could destroy the world real fast. What difference does it make a...
by Nick_A
Sat Oct 01, 2022 4:45 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Christianity
Replies: 17085
Views: 717751

Re: Christianity

Don't you go beating up on donkeys, henry quirk. Animal abuse => ticket to Valhalla cancelled. *I'll beat that (or any ) ass if it deserves it. I ain't waitin' on God. And if He has a problem with it: He can take it up with me now cuz there doesn't seem to be a later . *This, it seems to me, is as ...
by Nick_A
Sat Oct 01, 2022 4:14 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: What music are you listening to?
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Views: 104242

Re: What music are you listening to?

Sometimes it makes one aware that there may be more to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2KvM2T ... rt_radio=1
by Nick_A
Sat Oct 01, 2022 3:50 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Christianity
Replies: 17085
Views: 717751

Re: Christianity

Justice -- redress, scale-balancin' -- seems to me, is left to us, as individuals. I think it would be keen to have an *afterlife that unerringly reflected reward or punishment. But, I think, mebbe, we don't get an afterlife or ultimate justice. We seem too precisely made for decision & action ...