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Henry Recasted, to suit my heathen deism: The Creator included the possibility of suffering as obstacle to be overcome, not as malignancy to be avoided. My argument with this is that it gives the impression of a personal God seeming to be a sadist. My interest is learning more about the complimentar...

A poem from Simone Weil

There Comes

If you do not fight it---if you look, just
look, steadily,
upon it,

there comes
a moment when you cannot do it,
if it is evil;

if good, a moment
when you cannot
not.

Of course the problem is becoming able to see.

We appreciate Christianity differently. Umm...yes. You seem primarily concerned with the outer man or what we DO. The Christianity I know is concerned with what we ARE or the inner man. Umm...no. Behavior or what we do is a product of the outer man. It is important in the world. Christianity is not...

I find it sad when I see how many young girls have been taught to abandon what they feel at the depths of their heart and what it means to be a woman in favor of being as foolish as men. It's not foolish to be a man, Nick. Nor to be a woman. But it is foolish for a woman to behave like a man, or a ...

Henry N. What the experts call evolution I see as cyclical adaptation. Animal man has evolved as much as it can and now just follows cycles of life which includes Man appearing to devolve into a lower part of the cycle of adaptation. Free will is only possible for conscious evolution which transcend...

There are many stories in which a princess through her love transforms a frog into a prince. Meghan Markle is the first feminist I know of who has transformed a prince into a frog. Progress? Castration is never progress. I predict princess will dump eunuch within the year. You may be right but the ...

There are many stories in which a princess through her love transforms a frog into a prince. Meghan Markle is the first feminist I know of who has transformed a prince into a frog. Progress? Both of them are 'feminists' of the same form if he agrees to something she proposed. How do you intepret th...

Henry Man, literally a man, one man, realizes this. It's a singular, idiosyncratic threshold. Groups can't cross that threshold, cuz, literally groups are the friggin' problem. And: Humanity is a teaming mass with only base purpose. A man, on the other hand, is a solitary bird. You seem to one of t...

There are many stories in which a princess through her love transforms a frog into a prince. Meghan Markle is the first feminist I know of who has transformed a prince into a frog. Progress?

Henry Man, literally a man, one man, realizes this. It's a singular, idiosyncratic threshold. Groups can't cross that threshold, cuz, literally groups are the friggin' problem. And: Humanity is a teaming mass with only base purpose. A man, on the other hand, is a solitary bird. You seem to one of th...

I find Nicks method of presenting his thoughts original, inspiring, elegant to some degree. The need for a humanitarian approach for understanding philosophy, science and religion in seeing ourselves as the living beings who reflect and use concepts for matters of everyday kinds of faith in the ful...

“Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion — and who, therefore, in the next instant...

Henry The problem: allowin' the entirety of ourselves to become mechanized or automated or habitualized. For example: the driver who takes the same route everyday, at the same time, could find his attention to the road becomin' habitual too, which is to say he's not really payin' attention but just ...

Has anyone questioned if there is difference between willful conscious actions and mechanical reactions? Is daily life in the jungle the result of willful conscious actions or mechanical reactions to universal laws.?

Skepdick How does a man determine that the values they hold (remember?) at any given moment aren't the "objective values" you are claiming exist? How does a man determine that their "objective conscience" is (or is not) sufficiently developed at any given point? At this very poin...