Yes, Scalia is one of the dissenting members of the minority in the Supreme Court advocating a new concept philosophically called 'legal positivism' w...
Well, after telling me the doI is not a legal document, showing that you have no interest at all in understa nding the facts I present before blurting...
As I say, Thomas Paine was the originator of this view, and he wrote something on it called 'on common sense.' You can find the original text of it on...
12.12pm, edited for grammar and spelling. I have to check spelling in Word so I save the post first, in case I stupidly press a wrong button and lose ...
If they even got as far as considering philosophy, all of them but one, President Obama, told me that Jefferson's idea of natural rights was based on ...
Strange thing. Attorneys who dont know very much often say the DoI is not a legal document, and insist it is true, which just goes to show how awful t...
You are not allowed to be taught that belief in God is required in state shcools. You are allowed to be taught it from a narrative or cultural sense, ...
Well John Adams and Franklin kind of teamed up on Jefferson on this particular change. Adams fans say Adams did it. The problem is, it is forbidden in...
Kant's answer to that would be that it had already just been answered by Locke, in Essay of Human Understanding, on Power, forrmulated as natural righ...
Maybe there's more divisions, yes, but it's the predator/prey relationship that dominates, as in nature. There's symbiotes too. Anyway, I just wanted ...
Well, the best explanation I think Ive heard is that its the best way to contain them. Its better than prison. It doesnt need to be hawks and doves. T...
Well, not necessariily, havng studied psychology at Oxford, I can say having talked with Professor Richard Dawkins, author of "the selfish gene." Ther...
Well here's how I deal with it. I think there are several species that look exactly the same and can interbreed. I dont know if its genetic, or enviro...
ok. I used to be totally against the death penalty. Well as you guess I like animals and anture and stuff. So when I read that some people broke into ...
Should we? omg! After a black gang shot my cat, and living in a very poor area at the time, the police just thought it funny. I have to say, I really ...
maybe so. on the other hand, 'protection of the herd,' when it is as large as ours is now, does not lead to definitive, rational solutions either. I t...
If you excuse me taking a step back for a moment, yesterday I was watching David Attenborough's amazing nature commentaries, this one about two musk o...
Im sorry. You got as far as reading my first sentence. Thank you very much, and please excuse me for being so lazy as to answering both your questions...
ALL of my questions cannot be answered that way, because ALL the OTHER churches that WERE EXCLUDED by the Nicene council ALSO said they were inspired ...
That’s what they say, isn’t it. Why is that necessarily true? Who said it was necessarily true? Why is John 3:16 so much more important than any other...
LOL! Well Ive only been to a 'good baptist' service, that is, 'white baptist,' once, and I was as much perplexed as you about the point of the thing, ...
Well, I appreciate your faith. I do. I think its good you stand on something good. I could quibble with the ratoinalism of believing that Christ actua...
So yoiu're saying you were listening, then stopped, then started listening again? Well that makes sense to me, sure. It was your thing about 'was I li...
Im sorry I have no idea what you are talking about here. At all. the council addressed many other issues, but the biggest problem they had with church...
As you are considering desire, and its value, perhaps you could also look to the buddhist monks who are immolating themselves to death in Tibet. After...
To resolve this diffrence of opinion, submit your change to the wikipedia and see if others agree with you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Counci...
There's a lot of pssible answers to that question, from feelings of despair, though philosophical nihilism, to psychosis causing illogical thought pro...
Well welcome aboard. As introductory advice, you may want to click 'reply' at the bottom of a comment when you write something in response, so that th...
Thank you for your reply. I take it you are rather disinterested in considering whether the Nicene creed should not contain statements of exclusive ri...
Well, that's not necessarily true, but it's certainly a fair deduction from the material. Maybe the problem you have is that you are right, and there ...
I did come back to this forum because I remembered a large number of people having problems with nihilism, solipsism, and other such depressions. I di...
I did get drawn into your thread, but on reflection, it seems rather a contrivance to me now. Why should the word 'listening' actually have meaning at...
This thing about the desire of the Nicence council to assert religious authority over the state has gone on long enough, and is almost entirely OT. I'...
Call me cynical, but the Nicene council had little to do with the power of religious authority. They were a minor set of clerks on the edge of things,...
Thank you for asking ) It took me 57 years to figure out what to say, during the last decade of which I made a fool of myself quite a bit on this and ...
But I wrote in exactly the next sentence, lol, I dont accept mandates on doctrine from other people. What exactly do you think you are doing? Had it o...
Gee lol what a brilliant idea to apply that to philosophy! I don't know who invented that triangle thing, but it's been around quite a while, at least...
Well, I am sad to hear you have so negative a view, but I do understand it has become very popular to be cynical of the history of the church, a favor...
I already am a gnostic christian. Im not particularly concerned with what others say I should believe. I spent several decades figuring out my current...
You know I thought about it, and frankly saying the first law of the Nicene canon prohibits castration really is enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
thank you fo rthe correction. Numbers and names dont stick in my mind as well as they used to, and I tend to over-rely on my memory. thank you very mu...
Well I can share my own experience, which actually has worked out fine for me in the end. I'm 60, and Ive had alot of problems with greed, vanity, and...
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