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05-16-2006, 01:36 AM
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Re: What\'s the most revealing revelation from this forum?
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] So basically what your saying is that everybody here has been blowing smoke with no answers over the past 3 years? [/ QUOTE ] Or that no matter how well you clearly lay out the flaws in one's thinking and provide them a map to reason, they can still choose to drive aimlessly about SMP and believe things like Jesus Christ is in heaven watching them loving them and looking forward to seeing them. [/ QUOTE ] I have a more positive experience from reading the posts here - I think many people have amended their beliefs based on the arguments presented on this forum. I have disagreed with your conclusions HLMencken but that doesnt mean I have ignored your criticisms of my arguments, nor that I am "driving aimlessly". Perhaps I am in the process of changing my worldview (and it is taking some time), or perhaps I am in the process of presenting a rebuttal which will cause you to modify your beliefs. I think there is a lot of "smoke blowing" but there is also a high level of well informed and well argued thought presented here from time to time. I dont know that a goal of philosophy should be to find "an answer" so I dont see it as a failing if we havent provided one. [/ QUOTE ] Finding an answer isn't a goal of philosophy? What is? 
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05-16-2006, 03:08 AM
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Re: What\'s the most revealing revelation from this forum?
Searching?
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05-16-2006, 07:53 AM
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Re: What\'s the most revealing revelation from this forum?
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Why Jesus Christ? Why not Ganesha or Buddah or Confucius or Zeus or ... [/ QUOTE ] Because none of these other guys had thousands of witnesses of them performing miracles in the streets, which were written down on paper at the time, for starters. Guys like Muhammad/Buddha go out into the woods and think they might have sort of maybe seen something. Then they come back and get further convinced by their overly emotional families that they should start a religion rather than get jobs and be productive. Very different . Sample size 1 or 1000? You need to decide that. I wouldn't even waste my time with Buddism. Indy
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05-16-2006, 08:08 AM
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Re: What\'s the most revealing revelation from this forum?
Strange that given the supposedly miracles etc.. there are less historical footprints about your guru than about Buddha, Mohammad, Confucious etc...
By that I mean other historical evidence, besides your sect own writings (which is npt first hand either). Seems really like religious marketing hype to me. Interesting that you choose the very weakness of your own religion to try to valorise it.
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05-16-2006, 09:10 AM
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Re: What\'s the most revealing revelation from this forum?
I wish for a better world for me and for the people who matter to me. I do not wish harm to the rest. As a matter of fact, I value justice in the world and have a neutral to slighly benevolent attitude towards strangers.
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05-16-2006, 10:11 AM
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Re: What\'s the most revealing revelation from this forum?
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David Blaine has millions of witnesses. Sample size 1000 or 1000000, you need to decide. [/ QUOTE ] LOL. That is a good point. Indy
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05-16-2006, 01:10 PM
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Re: What\'s the most revealing revelation from this forum?
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[ QUOTE ] Searching? [/ QUOTE ] For what? Answers? Hidden treasure? [/ QUOTE ] Searching to make the right decision so I can stop feeling guilty as [censored] all the time about my useless lifestyle. Searching to do the right thing so that I don't have to burn for eternity in a fiery pit. Just your everyday concerns. Indy
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