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Alexis Jacobi

This speech has relevance to the topic of this thread — if it is the protection and restoration of Europe.

Alexis Jacobi

For what reason, and in consequence of what untold original sin, is man as a free citizen of the intelligible world condemned to live in the strictly determined world of matter?

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Alexis Jacobi

Promethean : Anyway the point is that christianity may be true by virtue of the impossibility of a child that age reacting as he did to being 'saved' unless he is a soul born again into the world (a do-over) or already possessed by a muhfuckin demon. For a point of comparison in the Krishna worship...

Alexis Jacobi

It's like you said: And all of this in man’s imagination. In the confrontation with your thought, which is I think an entrenched ideology, I am clear that I have an object. My a priori is, fairly obviously one could say, not so much to prove the *existence* of metaphysics and the realness I refer t...

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The people who created these pictures could only work with the content of their imagination. So they had to imagine that God would seek out and assemble all the molecules of their former bodies and then rejoin them with their •soul•. Yet the entire story, for us, is absurd on a dozen levels. God co...

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Gary Childress wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 2:00 pm I'd still rather be a basket case than a tormentor of basket cases.

That idea of being tormented has been your general accusation about the forum generally, hasn’t it?

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Gary Childress wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 12:59 pm Yes. It could always be worse. Be thankful you're not stuck in AJ's world. What an utterly depressing thought.

And your world?

Alexis Jacobi

Nice attempt Flash. You are quite mistaken, naturally. I am aware of many different descriptions of the promised afterworld and, as I say, I regard them as •pictures•. St Paul expressed it as seeing through cloudy glass. The people who created these pictures could only work with the content of their...

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So, in order to be a proper Catholic, you have to not mind being treated like a child. Interesting. 🤔 Catholicism in that sense has to speak to everyone. The child, the woman, the adolescent, the adult. There are many levels in it. From the basic and crudely pictorial to the intellectually sophisti...

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And that's it, is it, that is all we are allowed to know? You seek a fuller theological description? Christianity deplores sensuality and is based in a transmutation of the lower into what is understood to be higher. Very Greco-Platonic. The concept is expressed here: Thus, a good man, though a sla...

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Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 11:45 am Theology class for Harbal!

A sin is an act that •offends God•.

More specifically:

Here

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Theology class for Harbal!

A sin is an act that •offends God•.

Alexis Jacobi

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 11:39 am
No. I never saw millers crossing. When did they cross and did they make it OK?

Here

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Added note:

FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 8:56 am…

Note: I was reminded of this Ultimate Condemnatory Sixties song when reading your post.

Here

Alexis Jacobi

and once we became aware and scared enough we created the gods whom we could pray to and implore. Metaphysics, which includes the entire realm of gods, has long operated as a sanitarium to keep the psyche in balance by placing itself within the precincts of a higher power. The modern sociological t...

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