Practically speaking, it hardly needs saying that a large part of the quality of one's life does indeed hinge on his material surroundings and products. More metaphysically, the Wakan Tanka provides plenty of examples of this wherever life is found. Indeed, the Inuit, for whom there was no distinction between metaphysics and physics, found himself migrating to put himself in provisions. Is it any wonder his healing stories were populated with caribou, seal, walrus and whales?jamest wrote:A more spiritual question might be "Does the significance/quality of one's life hinge upon what he/she is being paid?". I'm finding your retorts to be somewhat naive and [also] somewhat disrespectful to people who see more to life than what they can buy for themselves. Are you really this Gordan Gekko character whom you apparently portray yourself to be? I can't make out if you're just acting the goat, or not. So, please just spell it out.piscator wrote:A more practical question might be,jamest wrote:I made the mistake of trying to mimic your own grammar.piscator wrote:That's amazingly tautological, if only grammatically so.jamest wrote: Since there's not one jot of empirical evidence which suffices to shatter any metaphysical claim [devoid of arguable empirical content]... well...Practical benefits? I'm not sure. But what about 'spiritual' benefits? Does your happiness hinge upon the material quality of your life?Are there any practical benefits to the pursuit of pure referents that don't involve math??
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I wouldn't disagree, but there are plenty of happy poor people and lots of miserable rich people. In other words, there's more at stake for a perspective than the practical benefits it provides.piscator wrote:Practically speaking, it hardly needs saying that a large part of the quality of one's life does indeed hinge on his material surroundings and products.jamest wrote:
A more spiritual question might be "Does the significance/quality of one's life hinge upon what he/she is being paid?". I'm finding your retorts to be somewhat naive and [also] somewhat disrespectful to people who see more to life than what they can buy for themselves. Are you really this Gordan Gekko character whom you apparently portray yourself to be? I can't make out if you're just acting the goat, or not. So, please just spell it out.
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That's just childish. Attacking someone's opinion with naught but derogatory remarks does fuck all to undermine said opinion. All it does is wind-up the person who's being attacked. This is why it amounts to trolling. Furthermore, the arrogant refusal to engage in meaningful discourse with those harbouring a perspective contrary to one's own, is the epitome of bigoted behaviour. You are indeed a bigot and a troll of the highest order.JimC wrote:It's not bigoted, and it's not trolling.jamest wrote: I don't choose my buddies upon the basis of their allegiance to my mindset.
I asked for a sophisticated defence of your bigoted trolling, not just more bigoted trolling. Please show me that you have more in the locker than this.
It's a robust and often sarcastic attack on a position which mac and most of the rest of us consider needs to be attacked.
Tough luck, religions deserve no automatic respect any more... Well, they never really did, but christianity in its day, and islam now, could use coercive power to physically punish those with a contrary view. I know many of you would secretly want those days to return, and fling all of us pesky atheists in jail for blasphemy, but tough titty, you can't.
Suck it up, princess, religion is a fading force in advanced counties the world over, and hopefully continues to dwindle into an insignificant footnote of history.
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Zeus is gone.
Odin is gone...
Soon, farewell Jaweh and Allah...
Little by little, the delusions of the childhood of Homo sapiens will retreat into obscurity, and your security blanket, jamest will be gone...
Odin is gone...
Soon, farewell Jaweh and Allah...
Little by little, the delusions of the childhood of Homo sapiens will retreat into obscurity, and your security blanket, jamest will be gone...
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God will always be within our minds, and no amount of bigoted trolling is going to change that fact.JimC wrote:Zeus is gone.
Odin is gone...
Soon, farewell Jaweh and Allah...
Little by little, the delusions of the childhood of Homo sapiens will retreat into obscurity, and your security blanket, jamest will be gone...
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And indeed, that's the only place your imaginary friend will ever be...jamest wrote:God will always be within our minds, and no amount of bigoted trolling is going to change that fact.JimC wrote:Zeus is gone.
Odin is gone...
Soon, farewell Jaweh and Allah...
Little by little, the delusions of the childhood of Homo sapiens will retreat into obscurity, and your security blanket, jamest will be gone...
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Keeping the unicorns and tooth fairy company.....an equal opportunity affair
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What would you say is your favourite part about Catholicism?
What would you say is your favourite part about Catholicism?
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Probably the tons of evidence that it provides for the existence of its deity.
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I don't mind if that's the only 'place' god has. People can think whatever they want, as long as they don't force/expect others to act in accordance with the positions they hold as a result of their faith.JimC wrote:And indeed, that's the only place your imaginary friend will ever be...jamest wrote:God will always be within our minds, and no amount of bigoted trolling is going to change that fact.JimC wrote:Zeus is gone.
Odin is gone...
Soon, farewell Jaweh and Allah...
Little by little, the delusions of the childhood of Homo sapiens will retreat into obscurity, and your security blanket, jamest will be gone...
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Fruit of the poisoned tree.
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Problem is that in most of christianity's past and in much of islam's present, the "forcing belief on others" meme has been a powerful feature of religious faith. Unless watched by the eagle eye of secularism, it always will tend in that direction - it's a feature, not a bug...Babel wrote:
People can think whatever they want, as long as they don't force/expect others to act in accordance with the positions they hold as a result of their faith.
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jamest wrote:I wouldn't disagree, but there are plenty of happy poor people and lots of miserable rich people. In other words, there's more at stake for a perspective than the practical benefits it provides.piscator wrote:Practically speaking, it hardly needs saying that a large part of the quality of one's life does indeed hinge on his material surroundings and products.jamest wrote:
A more spiritual question might be "Does the significance/quality of one's life hinge upon what he/she is being paid?". I'm finding your retorts to be somewhat naive and [also] somewhat disrespectful to people who see more to life than what they can buy for themselves. Are you really this Gordan Gekko character whom you apparently portray yourself to be? I can't make out if you're just acting the goat, or not. So, please just spell it out.
"Man does not live by bread alone..."? I can certainly buy into that independent clause, and can see the fun in the rest of Matt 4:4 too.
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I was enormously happy for her at that moment, but a little sad too. So much stoke shunted to ground like that...
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You think homosapiens will reach adulthood?JimC wrote:Zeus is gone.
Odin is gone...
Soon, farewell Jaweh and Allah...
Little by little, the delusions of the childhood of Homo sapiens will retreat into obscurity, and your security blanket, jamest will be gone...
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If it ever does, part of that maturity will be the abandonment of primitive superstitions of all kinds...Lion IRC wrote:You think homosapiens will reach adulthood?JimC wrote:Zeus is gone.
Odin is gone...
Soon, farewell Jaweh and Allah...
Little by little, the delusions of the childhood of Homo sapiens will retreat into obscurity, and your security blanket, jamest will be gone...
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
And my gin!
And my gin!
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