(November 26, 2013 at 8:00 pm)FiniteImmortal Wrote: How could suggesting love exists absolutely as well as beauty, as a phenomenon we can interact with based on it having existed before we got here more pretentious than saying love and beauty are an artificial construct arrived at as a byproduct of the over-braining of humans?
Oh dear, I'll try again. It's not the views that you're expressing, it's the manner in which you express them. As it happens, I do consider platonic realism to be retarded, but that's not what we're talking about here.
Quote:To me, the definition of SELF-AGRANDIZEMENT is seating your self at the throne of the universe.
That's cute.
Self-aggrandising (adj)
1. of or relating to or characteristic of self-aggrandizement
2. exhibiting self-importance
Quote:We have been given this life by no merits of our own, understanding that is humility, the opposite of self-aggrandizement or self-worship (humanism).
Again, I wasn't referring to your views, I was referring to your prose.