My Weekly Devotional

[Luce NDs]

If a dull, brute man consumes a smarter identity (alternate persona) would he intern the genes of smartness ... or would the genes sloe to a halt?

Imagine humans consuming trees ... in a w' Eire 'd garden ... go fig Ur ...

Perhaps it was just a mental swampland ... bi ow as a pain ... where Billy resides ...

 

[BetteTheRed]

Well, I'd rather eat the fruit off them than consume them in the form of paper. That is one of the saddest things we do, IMHO.

 

[chansen]

when morality is ultimately subjective , we have a problem

You want it both ways. You want objective morality, based on your subjective views about your God. You're actually fine with subjective opinions as long as they match your own.

I think where we need to be objective is in the rules of evidence and gathering information to make decisions. But morality isn't black and white. There are issues that call for balance and thought, and it's in this arena you want to get all rigid. Based, again, on your subjective opinions about who you think sets the rules.

I think you have it completely backward.

 

[Ritafee]

chansen said: ↑
"The only way to break this cycle is to get better at teaching critical thinking skills in school " ...
While I do support that statement ... given chansen's predisposition for closed mindedness when presented with critical thinking around his own BS ... I have reservations that he actually supports it himself.

 

[chansen]

Sorry, I can't tell which unreferenced exchange or series of exchanges you're complaining about now.

 

[blackbelt1961]

chansen said: ↑
"The only way to break this cycle is to get better at teaching critical thinking skills in school " ...
While I do support that statement ... given chansen's predisposition for closed mindedness when presented with critical thinking around his own BS ... I have reservations that he actually supports it himself.

 

[chansen]

The wonderful thing about an all-emoji response from you is that I don't involuntarily wince at your writing.

 

[blackbelt1961]

The wonderful thing about an all-emoji response from you is that I don't involuntarily wince at your writing.

its not all about you

 

[chansen]

To be fair, nobody else has to wince at it, either.

 

[BetteTheRed]

I don't understand that, monk? I'd say chansen had a pretty well articulated agnostic atheist modern humanist world view?

 

[blackbelt1961]

To be fair, nobody else has to wince at it, either.

hahahah, you usually speak for everyone else "as If", this time you were slow to act upon it , your losing it

 

[Mendalla]

I don't understand that, monk? I'd say chansen had a pretty well articulated agnostic atheist modern humanist world view?

I don't think monk is referring to chansen's own worldview so much as his penchant for ridiculing and make light of others' worldviews rather than thoughtfully engaging with them, hence closed-minded.

 

[BetteTheRed]

Well, aye, then, I'm similarly close-minded, myself, when "belief" requires a mindless adherence to a cult led by an anthropomorphized Angry Sky Daddy and His Equally Rigid Demi-Gods (the Holy Spirit, Jesus, and Satan, the latter two constantly bickering).

 

[Luce NDs]

Well, aye, then, I'm similarly close-minded, myself, when "belief" requires a mindless adherence to a cult led by an anthropomorphized Angry Sky Daddy and His Equally Rigid Demi-Gods (the Holy Spirit, Jesus, and Satan, the latter two constantly bickering).

Tis mentally Tae boggin for those that believe in free thought interfering with de wiles ... back sliding to observe past errs?

 

[GeoFee]

Hi,

...not all the church...

Indeed. Scripture also speaks of a faithful remnant uncompromised by the intrusion of politics and economics. These are likely to suffer at the hands of the emerging authoritarian state blessed by the institutional church. The way of Caesar and the way of Christ are wholly incompatible. Where those calling on the name of Christ enter into collusion with the state they invert the gospel and become agents of anti-Christ.

George

 

[chansen]

I don't think monk is referring to chansen's own worldview so much as his penchant for ridiculing and make light of others' worldviews rather than thoughtfully engaging with them, hence closed-minded.

There is the opposite end of the spectrum where your mind is so open your brain falls out.

We will never achieve an agreed-upon middle ground, but I have always mocked those who make up their own facts. You are entitled to your own opinions, etc. That's my line, and if people think that makes me "closed-minded", I like my chances.

 

[Mendalla]

There is the opposite end of the spectrum where your mind is so open your brain falls out.

We will never achieve an agreed-upon middle ground, but I have always mocked those who make up their own facts. You are entitled to your own opinions, etc. That's my line, and if people think that makes me "closed-minded", I like my chances.

See, I don't actually think of you as closed-minded. Perhaps moreso than me, but hardly the poster child for it.

And I don't know anyone who is "so open-minded their brain falls out". The extremes of every philosophy, theistic or not, tend to be closed-minded in that they don't see beyond their own comfort zone and ideology. That applies to fundamentalists of various religions but also extreme followers of other philosophies (certain Marxists I know come to mind). The middle ground tends to be open-minded, but moderate in being so. I guess there are the ones who wishy-washily get yanked from trendy philosophy to trendy philosophy (the ones who claim to be Buddhist this week but turn up at a Hari Krishna event next week while reading copious amounts of Anthony Robbins or some other guru du jour) without really thinking deeply or clearly about any of them. Maybe those are the ones that phrase refers to.

 

[Ritafee]

but I have always mocked those who make up their own facts.

Against the positivist claim that there are only facts, Nietzsche replies:

• “No, facts is precisely what there is not, only interpretations”

The doctrine that there are no facts, only interpretations, Nietzsche sometimes calls 'perspectivism'.

 

[Luce NDs]

F (acts) are imaginary ... like the Dead Po' ETs Society?

 

[chansen]

hahahah, you usually speak for everyone else "as If", this time you were slow to act upon it , your losing it

It's so cute how you always strut around and claim victory, no matter what.