RE: Open discussion of the Christian Why We're Here thread
May 25, 2018 at 10:58 am
(This post was last modified: May 25, 2018 at 11:04 am by The Grand Nudger.)
@Mathilda
I suspect that, if you ask our resident god botherers, they'll tell you that it;s possible with god and -only- possible with god...but this is because they mistakenly take a whole range of words to be synonymous with pixies...ala;
Transcendent Meaning Is Pixie Meaning.
Objective (whatever) is God (whatever).
etc, etc, etc.....ad infinitum.
Meanwhile, I;m content to classify something as objective (and objectively true) if it purports to report a fact, and gets that fact right.
Sometimes, when a mommy loves a daddy very much........
It';s a pointless diversion, don;t you think..because no matter what answer I give you, none of them will be god-answers..and you don;t accept the validity of anything sans god-hyphen. It;s not as if some of the answers I might goive haven;t already been discussed. I;m not going to give you a lazy reset...because I don;t think I exist to give you lazy resets...and didn;t you -just- offer up a list of properties, yourself? Start with those.
I suspect that, if you ask our resident god botherers, they'll tell you that it;s possible with god and -only- possible with god...but this is because they mistakenly take a whole range of words to be synonymous with pixies...ala;
Transcendent Meaning Is Pixie Meaning.
Objective (whatever) is God (whatever).
etc, etc, etc.....ad infinitum.
Meanwhile, I;m content to classify something as objective (and objectively true) if it purports to report a fact, and gets that fact right.
(May 25, 2018 at 10:58 am)SteveII Wrote:(May 25, 2018 at 10:44 am)Khemikal Wrote: I have no problem finding meaning in either category. I don;t see how we're in different positions in this regard, anyway.
Straight answer: why do humans exist?
Sometimes, when a mommy loves a daddy very much........
It';s a pointless diversion, don;t you think..because no matter what answer I give you, none of them will be god-answers..and you don;t accept the validity of anything sans god-hyphen. It;s not as if some of the answers I might goive haven;t already been discussed. I;m not going to give you a lazy reset...because I don;t think I exist to give you lazy resets...and didn;t you -just- offer up a list of properties, yourself? Start with those.
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