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What you have written here is a statement and a declaration that you have repeated many times. It's also an accusation you've repeated many times. Factually, I've been far less prolix in asserting mine than you have been with your interminable essays. Just a little insight would have helped you to ...

However, stripping Christianity of its alluring "hook",... (the promise of eternal life in Heaven) ...and of its fearsome "cudgel",... (the threat of eternal torture in Hell if one doesn't accept Christ as savior) ...would render Christianity impotent. That's certainly true. Whi...

If we need religion for moral, ethical and spiritual development which at best religion only provided on a very low level, it's time to take holy communion from Trump. This statement here contains real error. I have been reading the Baltimore Catechism and other seminal documents lately. I am struc...

If that were the case I would not have a problem admitting to it. But that is not the case. My issue resolves to this: there is either a constant, ever-existing metaphysics that originated with the manifestation of this Universe and Cosmos, and there either is or there is not a supreme divinity tha...

Wizard22 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 11:28 am Religion will always be necessary because most of humanity lag behind moral, ethical, and spiritual development.

If we need religion for moral, ethical and spiritual development which at best religion only provided on a very low level, it's time to take holy communion from Trump.

Age wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:43 am
The Universe being infinite and eternal is irrefutable because of the proof.

Do you even know what 'proof' is?

Saying "because of the proof" means nothing unless you show it. So where's the proof? Kindly present it since you say it's irrefutable.

Age wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:28 am

The Universe is infinite, and eternal, and there is One, only. Now, as there is proof for this, this means that this is irrefutable.

If your opinion is proof then you're right, it's irrefutable.

They [the mass] may have •been around• but in no sense with the power and reach “they” have now. To disregard that fact would be a mistake. That's true, good in one way; not so good in another. But much worse were the prior periods when power was concentrated in the few of whom so many were incompe...

Except for the very fact that the definition for the 'multiverse' word has already been taken by the 'Universe' word. Maybe you would like to re-consider this, again. Why delve into 'theories' when the actual irrefutable Truth is already HERE, for all to 'look at' and 'see'? Is there a difference b...

What Ortega understood is that the nineteenth century created the kind of human being who would become the dominant social force in the twentieth century—and thus that there is no way back to the aristocratic style of politics that dominated history for millennia. Mass man, fortified by an array of...

I realize that what I propose here does not seem adequate enough for many. But I say again that when I encounter people with ideas like Newman, and I realize that the issue -- of conversion and of alignment with an entire structure that is *ours* and of course with metaphysical authority -- is one ...

Since when hasn't that been true in all history that the wealthy and famous can get away with acts that individuals not so endowed would never be exculpated from. The last few decades in the US have seen a countertrend. To some degree there has been, over the longer haul, an evening out. It never g...

you are an absolute idiot if you want to continue to believe that there is such a thing as 'our universe' and/ or 'other universes'. You may want to reconsider that statement, since there is nothing in all the laws of physics nor anything in logic that would preempt a multiverse from existing. Exce...

you are an absolute idiot if you want to continue to believe that there is such a thing as 'our universe' and/ or 'other universes'. You may want to reconsider that statement, since there is nothing in all the laws of physics nor anything in logic that would preempt a multiverse from existing. In f...

The projection comes from those who negate its reality. No one could, or should, negate the projections of those who are drawn to Trump. But I think you negate the fact that •Trump• must be seen as a social and national phenomenon. He is just a man, and a strange one indeed, and yet he charged onto...