That sort of pretension is how people suffer the indignity of ending up like you.
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- Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:29 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 529
- Views: 19438
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 2:11 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 529
- Views: 19438
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
Perhaps I can tempt you with the philsophisings of Hortence P Gusset who tells us that the "mass religion man" is a phenomenon of the past and we are more or less done with it now. It definitely sounds more tempting than the prospect of becoming a Catholic. 👍 "Mass consumption man&qu...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 10:38 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 529
- Views: 19438
Re: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
The “mass man” that Ortega y Gasset writes about is a phenomenon of our present, and we are all a part of it or subsumed in it. I wish I could find the words to express how little I care, and that desire makes me realise how important not caring is to me. It seems I do have a purpose, after all. 🙂 ...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:42 pm
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Why search for moral objectivity?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 352
Re: Why search for moral objectivity?
Do people really change core beliefs very often? I don't have statistics on how often people change their beliefs. I seems sufficient to say that people do change their beliefs and that people search for objective truth and objective morality. Introducing fuzzy qualifiers like "core" and ...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:32 pm
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: What is tolerance?
- Replies: 159
- Views: 1973
Re: What is tolerance?
The West is tolerant only to views that align with its own, which are in turn essentially depraved. For example, if you are a gender-fluid mostly homosexual transgender drug addict who lives off prostitution by giving sloppy blowjobs in dark back alleys, your views will not just be tolerated, they ...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:24 pm
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: What is tolerance?
- Replies: 159
- Views: 1973
Re: What is tolerance?
You said: " We're talking about the "educators," particularly in Florida, who have been grooming children in public schools with perverted books", those were your words, and all I am asking is that you take responsibility for them. In order to be able to make such a claim about ...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 3:26 pm
- Forum: About this Forum
- Topic: Slow Connection or Slow Server?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 413
Re: Slow Connection or Slow Server?
They probably came here to read about compatibilism
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 3:23 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Christian Civilization -- The Central Issue
- Replies: 529
- Views: 19438
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 1:51 pm
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Why search for moral objectivity?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 352
Re: Why search for moral objectivity?
I've also seen people pursue justice or fairness when it costs them personally, that is a commonplace thing that you see every day if you pay any attention at all. But who are these people who have searched for objective morality only to find out their own prior beliefs had been mistaken? Happen to...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:39 am
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Why search for moral objectivity?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 352
Re: Why search for moral objectivity?
Is that what I want? Or do I secretly just want for my own set of preferences to be the ones that everyone has to live by? If you're only concerned about your own preferences then you're not talking about morality, because morality is also about what other people need and want. I've certainly never...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:32 am
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
- Replies: 9451
- Views: 811517
Re: Is morality objective or subjective?
Forgive my blundering into theology, but does God already know everything that he will ever know, or is some knowledge reserved for some future, even more knowledgeable God?
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:08 am
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Why search for moral objectivity?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 352
Re: Why search for moral objectivity?
Throughout history, it never even occured to 90%+ of people that morality could be anything other than objective. Such a concept, such a possibility didn't even exist for them. Wanting it / valuing it / searching for it, didn't enter the picture for them. Those people lived in little mud villages w...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:57 am
- Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
- Topic: Dopson's Paradox
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4316
Re: Dopson's Paradox
I managed 9 minutes, roy, and then the tedium engulfed me. :( During that 9 minutes, did he happen to explain how "This statement is not being read" is a paradox rather than just being a proposition that is sometimes true and sometimes false? He spent the entire time explaining, yet nothi...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:19 am
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Why search for moral objectivity?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 352
Re: Why search for moral objectivity?
Because moral objectivity is the best behavior in any situation. It's like knowing the best move in a game. Is that what I want? Or do I secretly just want for my own set of preferences to be the ones that everyone has to live by? I've certainly never witnessed anybody who is looking for this moral...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 3:16 pm
- Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
- Topic: Dopson's Paradox
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4316
Re: Dopson's Paradox
"This statement is not being read." https://youtu.be/Dy-4zt_ebRY?si=jgSV8TRGfN-3cel3 I managed 9 minutes, roy, and then the tedium engulfed me. :( During that 9 minutes, did he happen to explain how "This statement is not being read" is a paradox rather than just being a proposi...