Homosexuality no longer a sin

[Astreja]

We choose whether we are honest or not about a subject.

Not necessarily. If someone believes something they could easily be mistaken about it, but the sincerity of their belief effectively cancels out any conscious and willful dishonesty.

And the striving has to be by how much we believe it's worthy to strive for knowledge, and the heart of that, is how much we choose to love and value God.

I value knowledge but I don't think your god is real; therefore, its only value to me is as a cultural and literary curiosity.

[Mystic]

We choose whether we are honest or not about a subject.

Not necessarily. If someone believes something they could easily be mistaken about it, but the sincerity of their belief effectively cancels out any conscious and willful dishonesty.

And the striving has to be by how much we believe it's worthy to strive for knowledge, and the heart of that, is how much we choose to love and value God.

I value knowledge but I don't think your god is real; therefore, its only value to me is as a cultural and literary curiosity.

We choose to be honest or not regarding a subject.

Whether we can honestly truly believe in wrong things that are not justified, that is a different subject.  But you choose what you believe is justified and you also build or refine or recall methods out of choice, of how to justify belief.

You also choose who to listen to. When you guys listen to people who have no proof for their stance over a holy book that claims is filled with insights and proofs is a choice.


And loving evil near or equal to good, or loving falsehood as much as truth, this is all will time decisions we make.

And no you can't just go from one end to the other in a second, but where you stand in this regard, is all a choice.

[Angrboda]

Methinks you are long overdue for a good, long look in the mirror.

[Astreja]

We choose to be honest or not regarding a subject.

I think most people do think that they are choosing honesty.  That doesn't automatically make them right.

You also choose who to listen to. When you guys listen to people who have no proof for their stance over a holy book that claims is filled with insights and proofs is a choice.

Yes, there are considerable insights in the Elder Edda.  I am particularly fond of the Hávamál.  I've also spotted a few good bits in the Daodejing, the Dhammapada, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, and perhaps one or two from the Bible and the Quran.  (If nothing else, "There is no compulsion in religion" is probably the key insight from the Quran, and certainly the most palatable part that I've read.)

"Proof," though?  Um, no.  Not even evidence.

[LastPoet]

Methinks you are long overdue for a good, long look in the mirror.

Ah mirrors, They are always strangely reversed horizontally, so why we don't appear upside down on them?

[The Grand Nudger]

  I am particularly fond of the Hávamál.  

Good shit...right?  I have it on a necklace in a usb around my neck, lol.  No shit. It doesnt have pride of place, tho, the 2018 commercial vegetable production manual is on the same usb too, lol.

[Fireball]

But then again, has anyone seen the photo of Francis leering at the bosom of that well-endowed woman, at the Vatican?

Nurse me! This got buried by newer posts. Is this real or photoshopped, I wonder.

[Foxaèr]

Seems photoshopped to me.

[Angrboda]

Seems photoshopped to me.

It's spirit photography.

[SaStrike]

Those are fake. I'm talking about the two pictures.