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When I use the word "coercion," all I'm signifying is the belief that an external force (we could say it's God, or material causality, or even quantum mechanics) is supposed to be the real, ultimate, final explanation for what human beings do. In fact, anything other than the explanation ...

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.

Hairball and Dpants being prime examples.

Shut up, you idiot.

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. 🙂 ...

Wizard22 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:20 am

Harbal wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 1:20 amI wish I could find the words to express how little I care,

Try zero words then.

No can do.

Wizard22 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:35 am
I think

It's just that you're not very good at it.

Wizard22 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:32 am If AJ feels my positions are problematic,

Why not just ask him what position he prefers?

I don't doubt he'd press me on them.

Would you like to be pressed by AJ?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 3:13 pm The world is in a difficult place right now. What can each of us do to keep it from teetering off its axis?

Thoughts? Suggestions?

I try to stay indoors as much as possible, so as not to make things any worse.

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. 🙂

You can find meaning in anything if you are determined to find it. All the grandeur, ceremony and ritual of the Catholic Church is a massive con trick that's meant to give the impression of substance to what should never have been thought of as more than the superstitions of primitive tribe folk. T...

In which case, if we are indeed "created in God's image," then where do you see the presence of a "trinity" within the makeup of the human form or soul? If I am not mistaken theologians have various ways that they describe the trinity, and I think you would agree with me that th...

In Afghanistan no problem would arise because the cheating wife would be stoned to death. Hurrah for those noble Afghanis! How courageous of them! After all, the Holy Quran approves, and, more important, so does godelian. Look, you've obviously tried many different men, but they have all walked out...

Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 4:32 pm
Ok, Ok its a Glockenspiel … but the idea still holds.

And it's about as desirable as all your other ideas.

Walker wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:58 pm

I heard that Buddha almost quit trying before becoming a lifetime teacher.

He obviously didn't quit junk food.

What sort of idiot is going to sign up for that? :? The wunnerful think about you, dear Harbal, is that you present us with the type of man who is constitutionally incapable of understanding, much less giving assent to, any notion of relationship to or service to higher being, metaphysics, higher t...

I still have no idea what is actually being suggested. As a starting point the transformation and restoration presented as possible involves reforging a life-line with and a connection to divinity (metaphysical being), both as a concept and as a realness that one — what is the word? — submits to or...