Gus Lamarch

Ok, I admit: - This is the first quote of the forum that really made me laugh...

And where nihilism would apply here? Nihilism would cause the conformity to society or the other way around?

It's like being conscious that it's all a lie, but still following it because it created the world you live in. It's like a "conscious-ignorance" if I...

No you're not. Yes, it was a better phrasing. "If the individual dies, and his concept becomes completely forgotten; can there still be human "individ...

Even though you were apologetic to Islam before, but ok.

I'll try to summarize my point in the best possible way: - Christianity is the basis of all western civilization today, and every advance, progress, f...

Life is not just made of logic and reason, if it was, we wouldn't need to be humans! And I am not here to convert you, I am here to discuss; but it se...

You forgot that I already mentioned that I believe that Jesus was a historical figure, but not that he was a divine figure. Indeed, it is difficult to...

Its that the concept of individuality doesn't make sense - to me - when applied to a completely hegemonic population, without religious, cultural or s...

Yeah. Congratulations, you are more pessimistic - or realistic - than me. :down:

Any religion is based on the belief of its followers. Obviously, if the "end of times" did not happen when Jesus predicted, it was not because of God,...

Did you read my previous answer?

It seems to me that when an absolute truth is created and strengthened by a belief - whether religious or not - the individual completely loses his ab...

Just as it was with the roman religion, and with the greek, and it will be with Islam, and it will always be with any religion. Every religion is a me...

I'm really curious now: - If we eventually achieve it, what do you think will become of humanity? That's why I think we - the west - will fall in this...

No, don't get me wrong. What I meant is that our way of life - secular - will not survive this century - while Christianity is slowly dying, Islam gro...

Let's enjoy it well, because it won't last until the 22nd century.

Christianity is a societal organism as complete as a multi-billion dollar company today. Christianity is a religion, religion is an institution throug...

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My point is that you can only question and point out the errors of Christianity thanks to Christianity.

As opposed to leaving a bait for potential inquirers where you would know very well how to argue against - without any depth on the subject - transves...

Practically what christianity did. Very well resumed. Hypocrites using hypocrisy to their advantage. It was a tendency from the 3rd to the 7th century...

Humanity - speaking here of the general masses that makes up our species - is not able to deal with the problem of existence without an eternal father...

The real problem begins with Christology. At least so far this conversation has not started.

My problem with all this questioning of the historical legitimacy of the Bible is that all this questioning is only possible, because today's society ...

Bruno Bauer was a german philosopher of the 19th century who theorized that christianity owned more to stoicism than to Judaism and that Christ did no...

I am amazed that people are making assumptions that were refuted with Bruno Bauer in the 19th century ... but in the 21st.

An innocent individual should not pay for crimes he did not commit. There is no logic in making him pay for something that was not made by his hands. ...

Thank the secular contemporary world that has all its basis and foundations in Christianity.

I made no mistake, my dear, I can assure you of this. You who made the mistake of thinking you were talking to a person who wouldn't notice your devio...

Quoting Michael Grant here: "We can no more reject Jesus's existence than we can reject the existence of a mass of pagan personages whose reality as h...

In many ways yes. The most common use of this mode of justice today is justice done by people's own hands, without all the bureaucracy of the State.

The problem with expressions like these, is that you are using them in a situation where it is not appropriate to verbally attack another individual s...

I am saying that using aggressive language will not lead to any conclusion other than some injured egos and - eventually - banishment. You may disagre...

I love to read discussions where people respect each other. :smile:

I think we answered that question more than 2.000 years ago when we abandoned the Hammurabi Code for less aggressive and more rational concepts of jus...

The individual at his maxim...

Both are extremes of the same thing - beauty -. I believe that there is no intrinsic middle ground between the extremes, because the concept of what i...

No, thank you for taking the time to read my text. Humanity has never seen so much freedom and success as in this brief period of Rome. Nerva, Trajan,...

And you should stop running from people when they quote your work. Have a good day/good night :smile:

One thing is for sure: - We can agree to disagree. :smile:

It is not just the fact that the ego wants something of it. "Intrinsic" beauty exists only if the individual - or in the case of the crowd, the indivi...

We can agree at this point.

There is no such thing as "no reference to the ego". Admiration for beauty - love for something other than yourself - is born out of the very human na...

I don't know if this was a character or someone really serious, but I just know that it was unnecessarily complex and designed to cause confusion. It'...

I'm just talking about the individual egoism of each human being. At no time did I try - or am I trying - to transform it into something that encompas...

And we can narrow it even more. If you accept that humans are not "evil" but in fact "egoists", you may realize that, in fact, "good" is just a reflec...

It's corrected now - I confused the acronyms -. Thank you for pointing that out.

I think you got the point.

For someone who says that they place their "duty" over their real interests on philosophy, and are against - and here I quote you - "intellectual resp...