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by jpenney
Tue Dec 11, 2007 3:04 pm
Forum: Philosophical Discussions
Topic: A quote from Friedrich Nietzsche
Replies: 19
Views: 8432

Re: A quote from Friedrich Nietzsche

"Christian morality: does it not seem that one will has dominated Europe for eighteen centuries, the will to make of man a sublime abortion? The Christian resolve to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad." Does anyone else completely disagree with this statement. You...
by jpenney
Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:57 pm
Forum: Philosophical Discussions
Topic: A morbid thought.
Replies: 6
Views: 2884

Re: A morbid thought.

You created God because your brain noticed cause and effect relationships, it is capable of self-modeling and it therefore asks the question "what caused me". If we were less arrogant, we might have taken the time to find out if there are other animals whose brains are capable of self-mode...
by jpenney
Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:50 pm
Forum: Philosophical Discussions
Topic: Who or what can I trust?
Replies: 9
Views: 4853

Re: Who or what can I trust?

Sooo.... you chose Christianity because it was comforting. I'm happy for you. But stop claiming to be more sure than the rest of us, because you're not. Christianity is a faith - which means you believe in it or you don't, period. Yes or no question. But then, can you explain to someone what you bel...
by jpenney
Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:33 pm
Forum: Philosophical Discussions
Topic: Pure mental masturbation
Replies: 5
Views: 2948

Pure mental masturbation

The idea of arguing (with logic, which always starts from an assumption that is assumed to be true, and therefore cannot be questioned) for the existence of God (the assumption from which Christians start, i.e. FAITH) using as a starting point science, with the assumption (unprovable, if useful so f...