Beebert

"I wouldn't claim that Christian evangelization has had a spotless record. But it has achieved something that Hinduism has failed to achieve and is ap...

It doesnt matter. We talk about different things and you are always biased. Here is simply what I mean, to quote CS Lewis: “Even more disturbing as yo...

"The authors of the New Testament, while literate and fairly well read, were not in anything near the same status as the Brahmins or, in their context...

"??" ?

"paying virtually no attention to proselytization, whereas Christianity has embraced innumerable different peoples and cultures across the globe." Pay...

are you a Christian?

It is wrong of you to call it false. Wrong and ignorant. I never said there werent Christians who thought like you apparently think. I know the Cathol...

I also want to mention another thing though, which IMO is to the advantage of the upanishads over the bible (the wisdom of India over judaism and chri...

"I'm not sure about that, why do you say so?" But you havent read her. But the reason is that I simply can't come up with one. She was brilliantly hon...

Well, Kierkegaard had studied a LOT of Socrates at university and he was quite familiar with greek language and so on. Nietzsche even more; he was a v...

Gravity and Grace is wonderful, even though Perhaps Waiting on God proves her great moral sense even more. Because Gravity and Grace is basically her ...

I know Kierkegaard admired Socrates and tried to imitate him. So? He also had some reflections regarding his possible defects from a Christian perspec...

We only know Socrates from a text. The rest we can only fantasize about. But for some thoughts and opinions about what might have been some of Socrate...

Thanks I Will take a look!

Who is Pierre Hadot?

I dont remember if you have answered to this before but: Are you Christian? Then you wouldnt like much of my conversations with Agustino, since I have...

Yes, I know. I find it troubling... I understand Luther's reaction against the Church in his times. I also understand how one can criticize the idea o...

Well, Chesterton is another one (I expect objection here from Agustino) who not only hoped for universal salvation, but thought it to perhaps even be ...

I will soon reply to your last posts, but may I first say: You MUST read Simone Weil. She should be the number one priority on your list. And you shou...

That is my point. So, should the pharisees despise the woman because she was an adulterer?

"Because a man cannot know if he will be in Heaven? :s And because by "are you saved?" they really mean to ask if I'm a Christian?" I see. Agree. (If ...

"I'm not sure. That's what you read into the Bible due to your modern sensibilities. What Jesus actually meant was relating to the Old Testament Law. ...

That is the typically American obsession. "When were you saved? Ser you saved?" Etc. Despicable questions often. Why would you avoid the question thou...

Yes Jesus said so to the pharisees mainly to demonstrate a universal point: We have no right to condemn others because we are not morally perfect, etc

Have you heard the typically evangelical question "Are you saved?"? Have you been asked that? What would you, as an orthodox answer them? "What if he ...

"Flourishing may involve some element of pain too." It does indeed. And that is good.

No I would not congratulate this friend, nor would I agree. And having robbed the lady I would Tell him to give her the Money back. But Hate him? No. ...

I see, my bad then. In Swedish eudamonia has always been translated as what in English would mean happiness... Anyway; if you want People to florish, ...

I see. I just find the word moral/immoral to be Hard to use here, because Everything is about the human heart, and we cant judge others heart. The bes...

So happiness is the purpose? What kind of happiness? Dont you run the risk now though of turning in to some sort of heavenly utilitarian or hedonist o...

Much worse in what way? As in worthy of hatred? Or what?

"I agree with both those versions - they are in fact one and the same." Perhaps I didnt formulate myself good enough, but I meant that it seems to me ...

You did understand that I said that fornication is bad NOT because you break a rule, but because you injure your soul and potentially therefore other ...

"Wait. So is she a prostitute, or is she someone who has been sexually abused by her father? The latter wouldn't be her sin. The fact she is a prostit...

First of all: I understand that you feel intellectually inferior here, but please try to come up with something of your own instead of constantly quot...

"As I said, it's easy to love mankind from a distance. It's unbelievable that you can't even look at yourself." Do you literally pretend that I AM Iva...

That it is a sick belief that has destroyed the life of many. As I said, now for the third time: This preaching has been used to mentally oppressing a...

"yet you hate people like me (by for example calling me stupid)" I do Believe you are stupid, but I neither hate nor love you. I despise some of your ...

I dont preach encompassing love. I dont stand for anything particular but try to experiment. My problem is with People like you who preach justice and...

"No he wasn't that far actually. He lived quite an ascetic life considering the fact he was born as one of the richest people of his day." Like when h...

"In the afterlife for sure, but why would that be so in this life? It's such a crock of nonsense." In this life too, stupid. It is the soul that suffe...

"The fact that you may suffer in the afterlife in hell pales in terms of the suffering it causes in this life to the suffering of being raped, beaten,...

I Said AMONG the greatest suffering imaginable. You seem to be without a history? I mean your soul. Dont you see that the sufferings of the soul can b...

"In certain regards, sure. However I have found his ideas to be significantly better than most other philosophers." But you should be consequent here....

"It is, however - it does show that Nietzsche was a hypocrite who didn't really believe what he wrote. Either that, or that he rejected his writings."...

"What belongs to greatness. Who will attain anything great if he does not find in himself the strength and the will to inflict great suffering? Being ...

"I can't say the same about Bertrand Russell or Nietzsche for that matter." You dont know their hearts. And if you value christian ethics, then Nietzs...

"Oh, don't pander to who you think I like. I don't give a rat's ass about Berdy's morality. His ideas changed my life. That's all I need." Finally som...

You are a modern pharisee I believe. As Berdyaev used to day; The cruelest people arent the immoral sinners, but the moral monsters, who are moral but...

"Even Berdyaev, for that matter, was like that from what I know. Loyal to his thoughts." You must really dislike and have no respect for Scopenhauer t...