Sort of, but not everyone. You're oversimplifying. What? No. Life is majority suffering. But merely because this is the case does not mean I must kill...
Firstly, depressed and/or suicidal individuals often keep on living precisely because of their illness - their depression becomes what sustains them, ...
I think Christ's response is one in light of Thomas having already met and seen Jesus. And there's also emphasis on Jesus' appearance changing from be...
But in relation to the story with Thomas, the difference between Jesus and Christ is pretty huge. If Jesus were not resurrected from the dead, thus be...
I tried to bring up the distinction between Jesus and the Christ, because it's important, especially in the story with Thomas. Jesus does not "complai...
He's trying to distinguish between himself as Jesus and himself as Christ. Thomas believed in Jesus, because he had seen him, talked with him, learned...
Hegel, with Nietzsche a close second. Historiography, past and present, is rife with both of them, even though guys like Kant and Schopenhauer provide...
Note to self - every stray declaration Sappy makes must be pure, unmitigated truthiness of the highest degree. , get thee to a monastery, I'm off for ...
So, loyalty is amoral, now? Why didn't you just say that in the first place? You're not in favor of bringing children into the world, but you don't se...
https://www.amazon.com/Mystical-Thought-Meister-Eckhart-Nothing/dp/0824519965/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 This is a great introduction. McGinn has also transl...
You make this sound so easy, lol. Really, I'd love to have a piece of this revelation, Sappy, it would help me very much (Y) So, loyalty is a vice, no...
That makes loyalty too relative for my taste. An ideal like loyalty must be virtuous in and of itself, otherwise it's only moral in its application, w...
I remember writing on here recently that "bad character" is an oxymoron, and that character is fundamentally good. Similarly, I'd probably argue that ...
In my readings, utilitarianism doesn't do a very good job of explaining how happiness and human welfare fully manifests itself in the world. If the st...
What're those scores relative to? I'm about as loyal to the good as I can be, dunno how I'm failing in that category. I wouldn't consider someone loya...
"Some men have a private, all-male club and feminists take them to court, demanding that they open it up to women." >:O >:O >:O "Sarah's dog has four ...
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