Noble Dust

Ok. I guess we can wait for the oncoming barrage.

No, it does. It's not only simple grammar, but simple use of language and sentence structure. You can't say "puts blame" when it suits you, and then d...

Is this actually the gist of his argument? Clearly, even within this actual sentence, information is distinctly demarcated from physical transmission....

But you just said:

But man puts that blame, not God?

So man is purely and solely to blame?

Ok, I'm on board. But where does sin stem from? (I'm only on board, by the way, because you appear to have rescinded your claim that "God puts the bla...

So who "puts" the blame here?

Creation as an act of love vs. God as love seem different to me, which is why I asked for clarification. I guess you can make the argument for God bei...

Figures of speech communicate just as powerfully as logic, so you need to enunciate just exactly what you mean here. How exactly are God and blame con...

Can you elaborate?

So God doesn't "put the blame on us"?

What? I quoted a post from a day ago. Specifically, the quote upon which my response to you was based. Now you quote something you said a few minutes ...

Ok. I can agree with the basic premise, at least in principle; at least for the sake of discussion. So how does my response to you saying that God lay...

Can you restate the premise, then? I looked back through some posts, but I'm not clear what you mean by your basic premise.

Are you kidding? :-O NYC is literally the wine capital of the world. In terms of imports to shops/restraunts, anyway. It's an objective fact, as stuck...

What can I say, I have a savior complex. (Wait, what?)

So are you now at risk of being banned? :-O

The very stuff of a philosophy forum member/admin...

>:O I work in the wine industry, so I have a few recs: possibly a 2010 Barolo; Conterno or DeForville are a few good producers. Or, if you're more on ...

More attention, please!

Dammit. I got sucked into inane debates about psuedo-Christian bullshit, knowing full-well I'll change nobody's mind. Same thing every time.

What do you mean created out of love? Literally made of the stuff of love, or inspired by a metaphysical love of some sort? Or something else?

If we're solely responsible for evil, how does that even affect God? Why does God have such a stake in the whole thing? Why would he create this soap ...

Where should I leave my 1,000th post? Something pointless in here, or some annoying OP thread on one of the topics I usually post on?

Just finished a collection of Lovecraft stories. Chipping away at The Gay Science as well. I've been extremely lazy lately.

It's helpful to remember that this is a scripture where the Hebrew poetic device of intensification is being used; if he sins once, rebuke and forgive...

Cat's are philosophers; they play by their own rules. A natural ally.

Does a bird know it's beautiful?

No? How so? It was groundbreaking within my own experience, regardless of the historical context of the concept. Yeah, like where? Can I find cheap au...

Actually, come to think of it, it was a useful concept. The idea of our conception of God being just a representation of the real God; the "God above ...

The ground of being is the main gist; God is above God; beyond God. The ground of being. I do that on the regular as well. I don't run though, I'm too...

Prayer was actually an additional determinant to my emotional health at that time; it was the time at which I "fell away". I came to the realization t...

At that period of my life, no, as far as I can remember. But I'm still in the relative depression now that I was in then. So as far as books that have...

Also, the problem of evil being a psuedo-problem might obtain within a scientistic view of the world, but it doesn't obtain within actual experience. ...

But I don't understand your reasoning here; why would a "real" (assuming it's not a psuedo) problem of evil be simply because of our limited understan...

But yes, I agree here; both/and is better than either/or. But not by the metrics of modern Western culture.

Did you read that book? I bought it on a whim in a state of severe depression, and then left it on the park bench where I began reading it after it's ...

If the world were not created out of love, what would it be created out of? Evil? Indifference? But I see what you mean, and it looks similar to some ...

Ok, thanks. But I don't think that those absolutes are beyond our ken; rather, they poke through the fog of our perception as moments of clarity.

Entropy is increasing in the physical world, but that doesn't mean it's increasing in a moral sphere (or system). If so, this, then, doesn't follow:

Another way to view that would be that the concept of "jerk" only obtains within a moral environment where being mean to other people is not good. So,...

I'm having trouble parsing through this sentence; can you rephrase? Aside from your response to my above request, are you saying that evil is beyond o...

Yeah, I actually want to take it a step further and say that the past only exists in the present. I am an amalgamation of my past; my body is the food...

I'm not saying it's a footprint; it sounds like we're mostly on the same page. To expand on what I was saying, and to sort of go along with what you'r...

The past exists in the present. Your post, made an hour ago, exists for me now as I respond. The deed you did, posting the topic, exists in the presen...

Isn't "the absolute" also a projection? I realize I've made similar arguments before, but ultimately arguments against projection break down unless we...

I largely agree with you. Glad to see another proponent of the all or nothing approach to nihilism/meaning.

It doesn't necessarily need it's own thread; as mentioned, the question is fundamental to your question about suffering.