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Agustino

['Member', 'Subscriber']Joined: October 23, 2015 at 20:46Last active: January 14, 2020 at 19:4068 discussions11129 comments

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Discussions (68)

On Meditation

February 14, 2018 at 20:23 64 comments The Lounge

Feedback

December 11, 2017 at 13:39 11 comments Feedback

Happiness

January 02, 2016 at 18:51 44 comments General Philosophy

Comments

In: Re: Kavanaugh and Ford  — view comment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOJhQuFbaNg
October 09, 2018 at 08:23
In: What are the most important moral and ethical values to teach children?  — view comment
1. Honesty 2. Loyalty 3. Chastity 4. Gratitude 5. Love/Compassion
October 02, 2018 at 20:14
In: What are the most important moral and ethical values to teach children?  — view comment
Sounds like Jordan Peterson.
October 02, 2018 at 20:12
In: Re: Kavanaugh and Ford  — view comment
Yes, so do some of the other men I've known who have many female friends. I certainly wouldn't have expected you to have been romantically involved wi...
September 28, 2018 at 13:13
In: Re: Kavanaugh and Ford  — view comment
Also, what I meant by working harder, is working harder with the accumulation of wealth as the purpose. If you just work hard with another purpose, sa...
September 28, 2018 at 12:59
In: Re: Kavanaugh and Ford  — view comment
Well certainly not all of them did gain their position that way, but it certainly requires a lot of work to keep it. And of course, some of them did g...
September 28, 2018 at 12:56
In: Re: Kavanaugh and Ford  — view comment
And have you been romantically involved with some of them? :razz:
September 28, 2018 at 12:55
In: Re: Kavanaugh and Ford  — view comment
I don't know any man who has many female friends and has not been romantically involved with at least some of them. I think it's normal to have some f...
September 28, 2018 at 12:50
In: Re: Kavanaugh and Ford  — view comment
Another thing that makes Kavanaugh suspect for me is the number of female friends he has. It seems a bit strange for a man to have that many female fr...
September 28, 2018 at 11:45
In: Re: Kavanaugh and Ford  — view comment
I think we can both agree that "doing as much as you like" (or acting according to your whims) is immoral. Do you reckon the poor & weak have a monopo...
September 28, 2018 at 11:38
In: Re: Kavanaugh and Ford  — view comment
I listened earlier today to the testimonies. So far I lean around 60% to believing Brett, and 40% for Dr. Ford. If I were the President, I probably wo...
September 28, 2018 at 10:01
In: Human Rights Are Anti-Christian  — view comment
Alright I see, I looked at the images and video you put up and I agree that it is immoral and I was wrong. I will need to look at those Scripture pass...
August 07, 2018 at 08:09
In: Human Rights Are Anti-Christian  — view comment
Why were they morally wrong - how did they become morally wrong in the first place? And how do we know that? Again, you don't seem to understand the d...
August 06, 2018 at 11:19
In: Human Rights Are Anti-Christian  — view comment
Right, and next to that definition it says "unsophisticated, primitive". Their punishments were primitive, you would expect savages to behave that way...
August 06, 2018 at 11:10
In: Human Rights Are Anti-Christian  — view comment
So the majority of people in Ancient Judea lacked a reasonable degree of human empathy? If that is so, probably the entire Ancient world lacked a reas...
August 06, 2018 at 11:08
In: Human Rights Are Anti-Christian  — view comment
Well, I hope you realise that no dialogue is possible with your approach. You're giving no reasons at all why you think you're right - you don't even ...
August 06, 2018 at 10:37
In: Human Rights Are Anti-Christian  — view comment
Oh how quaint. I thought the same about you. If you require proof that stoning adulterers is moral, then that's your moral failing since you're too we...
August 06, 2018 at 08:59
In: Human Rights Are Anti-Christian  — view comment
I just checked my dictionary and barbaric does not mean immoral.
August 06, 2018 at 08:47
In: Human Rights Are Anti-Christian  — view comment
And I think it's not. Who is right?
August 06, 2018 at 08:46
In: Human Rights Are Anti-Christian  — view comment
By whose standard? We can prove that the Earth is not flat by experiment, but we cannot prove that stoning adulterers is wrong by experiment.
August 06, 2018 at 08:45
In: Human Rights Are Anti-Christian  — view comment
Why is your decision better than mine? No, that's not what I said. Check below: I don't claim stoning would be immoral today. It wouldn't. It would ju...
August 05, 2018 at 21:33
In: Discussion on Christianity  — view comment
There is no commandment to forgive except when a brother or a sister repents. Then you shall forgive, but there is no commandment to forgive before th...
August 05, 2018 at 21:06
In: Human Rights Are Anti-Christian  — view comment
If you think there are a range of appropriate (or just) punishments, does that make you a moral relativist? Sure, I agree.
August 05, 2018 at 09:19
In: Human Rights Are Anti-Christian  — view comment
There is nothing immoral about stoning adulterers if such is the law and everyone knows that the law is such.
August 05, 2018 at 08:33
In: Human Rights Are Anti-Christian  — view comment
Exactly. And so is yours from my perspective. Where do we go from here? I can say the same thing about you, where does that leave us? Sure, you can't....
August 05, 2018 at 08:31
In: Human Rights Are Anti-Christian  — view comment
No, it's not besides the point. If your answer is "no", then it shows that there is nothing intrinsically immoral with having stoning as the punishmen...
August 04, 2018 at 21:52
In: Human Rights Are Anti-Christian  — view comment
If you were born and lived in Ancient Judea, you reckon you would have found stoning as punishment for adultery to be unjust?
August 04, 2018 at 21:47
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
Not buying it. I've been on college campuses, and I have my own pair of eyes, certainly don't need no "stats".
August 04, 2018 at 21:46
In: Human Rights Are Anti-Christian  — view comment
I have no problems with such laws. If they happen to be the laws of my society, then I will follow them. I wouldn't personally advocate for such laws ...
August 04, 2018 at 21:36
In: Human Rights Are Anti-Christian  — view comment
Moral person by what standard? God is the very standard of morality... By your standard of morality I may not be a good person, but why should I be wo...
August 04, 2018 at 21:26
In: Social Conservatism  — view comment
Well this is precisely the problem. The moment you allow happiness to be interpreted as subjective, something defined by the subject, from that moment...
August 03, 2018 at 22:26
In: Human Rights Are Anti-Christian  — view comment
Because humanity used its free will in order to build a corrupt society, where abomination reigned in the social, moral, and religious spheres. The ch...
August 03, 2018 at 13:30
In: The Brothers Karamazov Discussion  — view comment
I disagree with your interpretation of Dimitri. I view Dimitri as the "most successful" of the 3 brothers, the one who ultimately rights his wrongs an...
August 03, 2018 at 09:50
In: Social Conservatism  — view comment
Yes. I disagree that such a union can ever be considered a marriage, in any sense of the term. The harm comes from failing to achieve the intimacy tha...
August 03, 2018 at 09:26
In: Human Rights Are Anti-Christian  — view comment
How are they "His errors" if human beings have free will? Yeah, the problem of evil has been dealt with so many times already. You can head to the sou...
August 03, 2018 at 09:10
In: Social Conservatism  — view comment
Well yes, so you are going against the words of Jesus. What's the opposite? He said He came to fulfil the Law. Furthermore, that:
August 03, 2018 at 08:43
In: Social Conservatism  — view comment
I find your interpretation completely un-Christian. Please show me some evidence or some reasons as to why Jesus would abolish the Law when he claimed...
August 03, 2018 at 04:40
In: Social Conservatism  — view comment
Sure. Have YOU read the Gospels? http://unamsanctamcatholicam.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-woman-caught-in-adultery.html
August 03, 2018 at 04:39
In: Social Conservatism  — view comment
You are both thoroughly mistaken when you think that love does not include hatred, or that to love someone means to act as they want you to act. Kierk...
August 02, 2018 at 21:44
In: Social Conservatism  — view comment
That is the worst deception, to think you love someone, while in truth you only love yourself.
August 02, 2018 at 12:33
In: Social Conservatism  — view comment
Yes, that is true. But, as I said, to truly and deeply love someone is to care for their OBJECTIVE well-being. It is not to let them do whatever they ...
August 02, 2018 at 12:27
In: Social Conservatism  — view comment
That is quite false, Lewis is one of the best in the last 100 years.
August 02, 2018 at 12:25
In: Social Conservatism  — view comment
http://www.newadvent.org/summa/3040.htm
August 02, 2018 at 12:24
In: Social Conservatism  — view comment
Love is guiding the other towards God. You should read, for example Kierkegaard's Works of Love. If you permit your beloved to rest in sin, you are no...
August 02, 2018 at 12:22
In: Social Conservatism  — view comment
No, you demonstrate you have no clue what love is. Love isn't allowing the other to do what they want. If you want to inject drugs in your veins, it i...
August 02, 2018 at 12:21
In: Social Conservatism  — view comment
Love doesn't demand forgiveness in the case of willful sinning. That is a complete misinterpretation of Christianity. If you love someone, you want th...
August 02, 2018 at 12:18
In: Social Conservatism  — view comment
This is wrong. Vengeance in the case of injustice is the right thing. "I am a vengeful God"
August 02, 2018 at 12:17
In: Social Conservatism  — view comment
Ah, that's good then, I have a great passport for Heaven - don't be jealous!
August 02, 2018 at 12:16
In: Social Conservatism  — view comment
I did. You just didn't read them. For example:
August 02, 2018 at 12:15
In: Social Conservatism  — view comment
The parents of homosexuals don't have a RIGHT to demand that their children have children, or marry a woman, etc. They have a desire in that regard. B...
August 02, 2018 at 12:12
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