Wednesday, August 8, 2018
from the phenomenological peanut gallery
Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a lifestyle and ethical outlook verifiable by experience and the scientific method, independent of all arbitrary assumptions of authority and creeds.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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i don't know
it sounds like a recipe for chaos
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... so you would rather go with arbitrary assumptions of authority and creeds?
on what basis do you decide which creed to follow? which authority to believe?
do you use reason and experience to help you choose a creed?
or do you abandon reason and stick with the creed you were taught as a child?
do you recommend that those born into other faiths stick with the creed that they were taught as a child?
i think we need to be very open minded
truth unravels herself like a dancer
at first it looks strange an bewildering
but after awhile it all becomes very familiar
and desireable
the early christain creeds still ring true
i think if a group of people have inherited a mandate of protecting and interpretting the best of wisdom with the best intellectuals i think it's possible to make a safe bet and even capitalize on the prospect of good sense equals successful life and at least a modicum of happiness and satisfaction in the world...i think we need to be very skeptical of new creeds new dictums progressive ideas which may or may not be useful...i feel it is safe to state that anything stemming from marxism is evil....i doubt that it would be a very good idea to allow adolescents to run things albeit those who do run things often seem to be acting like adolescents
i still hold to the credal certainty of the spiritual presence of the blessed mother in much the same way i did when as a child we prayed the rosary around the bed i recall great consolation in those moments and i still do today when i acknowledge and speak to her...my new favorite moment of the catholic mass is the public recitation of the creed after the homily...i think there should be a new setting for the music rendition of it
at least i think
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very few people should "do " science
it's not for everybody even though much of it presumes to be universal
it's been highly overvalued and inflated
i never memorized the boyscout creed
i still think the hippocratic oath should be recited by every medical doctor
atheists define themselves by the confinement of their intellects
to subjective constraints
christopher hitchens believed that human beings on the whole
would figure out how to be fair and humble and peaceful and mutually respectful
on their own he believed we were hard wired to survive and
treating people fairly and justly was inherent in our DNA
i can barely help laughing at what i just wrote
humanity descends into bestiality without someone making a case for
transcendental values like GOOD TRUE BEAUTIFUL
or...maybe i'm just fooling myself
HELLOOOOOOOOO!
...anybody out there?
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that was supposed to be a face there at the end
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