Letters to the Editor
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I think these articles just get repetative and tiring
It's just the same old, same old conversations.
You can't prove it, neither can you, my way is better, no my way is better becuase I don't believe in nonsense and fairy tales, you believe in nothing, I do too, with the calm down agnostics chiming in. Sounds like a bunch of 6 year olds on a playground with better vocabularies.
Just eh, I think I'd like if Salon just stopped with the religious articles, no theist is going to become an atheist and no atheist is going to become a theist because of these articles about some god dude or some non god believing dude says so and why. It's one of the most tiring circular arguments to happen in these letter sections besides the ones calling everything Camille Paglia writes crap.
I'd prefer it if it just were articles relating to how different religious movements are trying to get laws passed that are based on their religious texts and how we who don't want religious laws foisted upon us can try to stop it, similar to how the FISA bill was put on hold.
those who believe will believe and those who don't wont. Yippee and Happy freaking Holidays.
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kenkapkk
I now realize that what I supposed was encased in a form was actually my own infinte self within as the true guide.
Whatever that means. If anything.
I had a Guru. He came to me in my dreams. I awoke in ecstatic trance from his presence. I had hundreds of them, about 100 that were unusually powerful, like Jacob in the Bible. I still have them, even though he died 17 years ago. They were/are prophetic,directive, guided, and creative and amazingly powerful
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P.S.
I almost forgot to pose this question: "Can 'meat' THINK?!"
(Reference Subjective Idealism of George Berkeley).
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Nietzschean Social Critic
Haught has presented his arguments in a concise and logical dialectic
Really? Maybe we're not reading the same article. Care to cite something?
By definition of all the used terms required for such argumentations Dr. Haught is, actually correct on many points.
Really? Maybe we're not reading the same article. Care to cite something?
Waiting!
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Nietzschean Social Critic
"Can 'meat' THINK?!"
Apparently not very well, Tenderloin.
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One Way the Dark Ages Were Better Than the 21st Century
Most of those dark folks knew darn well that they did not know everything. Versus our smart-ass up-to-date friends, who believe they pretty-much have everything figured out.
Wisdom is the paradox of knowing you really do not know so much. Socrates and others have said this. Knowing that you cannot know very much, because you are human.
The part you can't know is God. And the inkling of the infinite is God's revelation.
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I could not care less
What one's beliefs in magical beings is or is not. All I care about is: Do you believe a woman controls, absolutely, her own body and what happens to it and in it? Do men? Are you concerned about what other people are doing in the privacy of their own bedrooms? If you cannot answer the affirmative to the first two questions and answer affirmatively to the third, then you are merely a dictator wannabe, or a dictator supporter. Any high sounding religious mumbo jumbo or philosophy that issues forth after-the-fact is hogwash. Self-justification for attempting to control every aspect of other people's lives.
The answer to those simple questions tells you all you need to know about a person. What their politics are, what their fears and hatreds are. How closely you need to watch them to protect yourself. All attacks on science, reason, pluralism, issue from those who answer those questions improperly: in a manner intended to control the private lives of others.
Beyond that, the philosophical arguments about epistemology, etc, are fun when you are smoking pot at a party (or drinking) but amount to Jack Squat, Esq. otherwise. It holds no bearing on whether you are alive or dying right now, whether you can be happy, feel pleasure, understand the outcome of an experiment, play sports, exercise, eat, etc. It is mental masturbation that amounts to arguing over how many angels can dance on the tip of a ball-point pen. By all means DO IT and have fun but don't make the mistake that it actually matters in the bigger scheme of things. The earth will continue to revolve around the mutual gravitational center of the solar system, the moon will continue to orbit the earth (for billions of years yet, barring a truly astronomical catastrophe), species will die out (including ours) while others evolve into existence until the sun heats up too much as its ready supply of hydrogen craps out and the earth and all on it at that epoch, fade into absolute exitinction. The clock is ticking and things are running quite happily with or without your religious beliefs or arguments with we non-believers. Enjoy the ride you are on because it is the only shot you have at it. And it is a truly awsome and grand ride to oblivion!
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@Styrofoam blocks
I am very much in your position. Honesty undermines belief in a hereafter, no matter how much we might want it. Fear of death is a consequence. I don't think there's any way of erasing that fear, short of giving up our integrity and becoming a believer in a religious story that has no empirical support. However, it is possible to live a meaningful life even with that fear. We can construct world stories that give us purpose but still do not conflict with scientific facts. Yes, we may only have living awareness for a pitifully short time, but our imaginations and biologically-given capacity for empathy can help us view our individual lives in a context far beyond ourselves. Living a life in support of other human beings--people living now and in the future--is a heroic path, especially for those of us who can't believe in life after death. A life well lived doesn't eliminate the fear of death, but can be a real consolation. Despite being born into a universe in which we must die and in which there is no evident purpose, we can choose to create our own meaning.