RE: Good theists...
August 28, 2016 at 8:45 pm
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2016 at 8:47 pm by Arkilogue.)
(August 28, 2016 at 8:26 pm)Brian37 Wrote: No, I value my species ability to be compassionate. The fact that they falsely attribute that "conviction" based on old myths, I am under no obligation to value as a claim. I am only saying I see good in my species, not what they falsely attribute that good to.The question you have to ask yourself is- "Would they have been as compassionate without their beliefs?" I am not asking you to believe their claims.
Our species is much older than any written religion or boarders. Our planet since the start of evolution has had 5 mass extinctions of which only 1% of life you see now remains, while 99% has gone extinct. Our sun is only 1 star of billions in our Milky Way Galaxy. A a galaxy so big it takes 1 ray of light 100,000 years at the speed of light to cross. And that is in a universe containing 100s of billions of galaxies in a 13.8 billion year old universe.
I value human rights, not claims. Humans have rights, but claims as ideas do not deserve blind value.
If I told you my perspective goes back before the beginning of the metaverse, and that our observable universe is a tiny dot of spherical space inside an enormous torus which is only 1 of 6 bends-of space time inside each universe and there are infinite universes in the metaverse.....you wouldn't believe me either.
Till I show you the evidence of what it predicts. Even then, many people simple won't give up or augment their preconceive notions, what ever they may turn out to be.
(August 28, 2016 at 8:30 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(August 28, 2016 at 8:21 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: If the "posting freak" is saying this, we might have a problem...
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Look under your handle.
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Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder