LOL - he certainly chose one which makes it quite difficult to get to the "motions of procreation"... there are much easier alternatives, you know :) ...
The parable has a very specific meaning which is about the importance of faith. As outlined by Kierkegaard, Abraham trusted, even if he could not see ...
This is very strange because you know that virtue ethics existed before deontological ethics, and they are accepted as Christian ethics by many theolo...
The problem with such arguments are that they are founded on something that is inherently unstable and subject to change - namely the current scientif...
Yeah, it's the guy who has about three times the percentage of Jill Stein in the polls :P But you seem to have some keen interest in the fair sex. Let...
Yes! Especially this one... :D (this must be who @"Sapientia" is voting for, him being the cool libertarian, sans-culotte, 'everyone is free' - 'liber...
Oh I forgot to mention the GREAT Norman Vincent Peale... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9lm2y_4cAE This is where Donald J. Trump learned the art of ...
From the current US candidates Trump is the only one who has the capacity to be a leader. Not saying anything about his morality and his character - j...
Okay, I agree that it's the right message, but what does that mean? What counts as homophobic? In common discourse in todays world, many things are as...
Yes very good points! I thought much the same. Furthermore, the racist/homophobic/sexist distinction looks potentially dangerous, as these terms are n...
Thank you, but I must say your agreement puzzles me :D Buddhism emphasises annata - which seems to be very contrary to what I say. More like what I de...
Clearly if there is a sense of lack it can be resolved only by fulfilling that lack. Any other solution (for example getting rid of the person/self wh...
No you actually can't. You can make a claim though, but that wouldn't mean it's "valid", if by that you mean true. Second of all the existence of sin ...
I have difficulty in understanding what you mean by not believing in God - what does it mean not to believe in God? How do you act and go around diffe...
Let's see - to sin or not to sin - that's the vulgar understanding of free will. If that is so, then you must admit the possibility of sin for free wi...
I knew you'd say this :) - of course, if you are right, then I'm the gnostic, only that I don't think you have your facts (which ground your understan...
No - they thought slavery was an evil, but a necessary one (hence the some are slaves by nature from Aristotle), and therefore supported it, because e...
LOL! :-* Maybe you meant that the ruling class was no better off than slaves in their subjection to the citizens... The guardians (ruling class) were ...
Yes, I am especially surprised as most conservatives nowadays tend to be religious and yet, I can find nothing in religion which supports rampant capi...
First I think it is good to have an introduction of Voegelin's thought for this discussion. On the internet there are quite a few sources. Here. Here ...
They did, only that it was transcendent. You would never be immanently free (or you would never immanently achieve spiritual liberation, in this life)...
What do you think (both of you) about Eric Voegelin's account which actually points to Gnosticism as the cause behind both the totalitarian and progre...
We both know this is laughably false, no intellectual would take your assertions seriously. Cite, for example, where Plato encourages barbarity, murde...
Motive. It depends from culture to culture and from person to person. Do you want the motive in today's world? Or 100 years ago, or when? If today, th...
The criminal is either mistaken about his purpose, or he thinks that robbing a bank is a means to achieve it. Purpose in my framework, which is Aristo...
I think the more important point that TWG was trying to make is whether or not humanism (whether of a religious or secular kind) is destructive. The w...
Leo Strauss is loved by neo-conservatives, not really by traditional conservatives. Eric Voegelin or Russell Kirk would be examples that are more frie...
Very well, I largely agree with this, although I have never thought of it that way, and always thought of myself as a humanist. What would you say abo...
Depends - conservatism generally and historically refers to social policy. Someone can be a conservative with a socialist view of economics, nothing c...
:-! That is your opinion, personally I think statistics give us insight into what is happening in society, especially when we look at how they're chan...
Divorce rate: 50%+ Out of wedlock birth rate: 40% (in some populations even higher 70% in blacks) Infidelity rate: 50% Family is becoming increasingly...
It is the purpose, whether someone is actually fulfilling it (or is aware it is the purpose, or wants to fulfil it) is a different story. Such as? Yes...
Probably you also found the local atmosphere to be more decent and welcoming than a large metropolitan college would have been Why do you think this h...
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