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- Fri Apr 26, 2024 2:00 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 601
- Views: 30149
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
Regarding Trump, it seems the qualifications required for dictatorship are immeasurably less in the U.S. than they ever were in Germany or any of the Axis powers, for that matter. The greatest victory Putin can hope for in his war with Ukraine is to have Trump on his side.
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 10:20 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: has philosophy lost its way?
- Replies: 124
- Views: 10981
Re: has philosophy lost its way?
A central, if not the main, purpose of the Tractatus was to investigate the limits of language. What can and cannot be said? And when considering things which cannot be said, what is their nature? Wittgenstein argues that philosophy essentially makes attempts to speak about things that are impossib...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 2:08 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 601
- Views: 30149
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
...which you typically have been a dismal failure at.Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 12:43 amSorry to have neglected you! I have time to mercilessly beat on you should your masochism kick in again. I am here to serve.
No tips for you!
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 1:17 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 601
- Views: 30149
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
I have no perspective other than what science and nature imply. You're almost laughable in your desperate attempt to become personal and denigrate whatever I say. And I will point out that right there is your problem with understanding revelation. You seem to me to be one so committed to a set of p...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:10 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 601
- Views: 30149
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
Well, my Trump Derangement Syndrome causes me to imagine that the central character in AJ's picture,... (the locus of focus; the veritable Antichrist in the flesh) ...at the very moment that picture was taken, was thinking to himself how much he would love to reach down and grab the blond chick by ...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 9:54 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 601
- Views: 30149
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
"but you’re a grumpy embittered nihilist who seeks to impose a pretty dreary perspective" Harbal may be a nihilist and a grumpy old cynic, but his cynicism is not the expression of nihilistic complaining, or caused by his nihilism. In fact he's a rather well mannered nihilist if a nihilis...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 9:49 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 601
- Views: 30149
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
The world at large cares not in the least. No one knows how any revaluation in progress will manifest itself and all the influences which will determine it. Our collective writings and opinions here have zero effect on any of it. It means less than zilch, mine, yours and everyone else. Debate, with...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:33 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 601
- Views: 30149
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
Those themes and topics brought up and discussed transcend any individual. The world at large cares not in the least. No one knows how any revaluation in progress will manifest itself and all the influences which will determine it. Our collective writings and opinions here have zero effect on any o...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:44 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 601
- Views: 30149
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
Your statement The real issue has to do I think with the purity of the person doing the imagining , historically has had some of the most inimical side-effects by enforcing a sense of infallibility on oneself or worse projecting such a near stainless persona on someone and following it as a infalli...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:06 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 601
- Views: 30149
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
You accuse me of "TDS" because I recoil in disgust at you (and millions of other cult members) treating the most brazen pathological liar in human history as if he were some kind of "Christ-like" figure. For my part (your comment was directed to Wizard) I cannot accuse you of an...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 5:35 pm
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: What is tolerance?
- Replies: 196
- Views: 2879
Re: What is tolerance?
Tolerance is submission to necessity. Weaker you are the more tolerant you must become. Stoicism converted it into a way of life - tolerance in relation to existence. Well put. It extends the inference from the individual where it commences to the philosophical as a way of coping with human existen...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:30 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 601
- Views: 30149
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
My apologies! I never meant for you to feel that way. My mention of you was meant to be sincere.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 11:27 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 601
- Views: 30149
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
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 ...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 11:12 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 601
- Views: 30149
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
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...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:52 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 601
- Views: 30149
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
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...