RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
September 23, 2016 at 7:34 pm
(This post was last modified: September 23, 2016 at 7:39 pm by Huggy Bear.)
(September 23, 2016 at 7:19 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:*emphasis mine*(September 23, 2016 at 7:12 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: what goal post did I move?
From essential role to important role.
Not to mention that you provided a loaded interpretation of what the authors meant by important.
An ecosystem's health refers to its ability to generate new life in a cycle. That this cycle doesn't necessarily include this or that organism doesn't mean the ecosystem isn't generating new life. Ecosystems are defined by the life they contain. It's mere semantics to say that an ecosystem is worse off for the absence of this or that species. An important consumer isn't necessarily essential to an ecosystem.
You're the one arguing semantics. I never used the term 'essential'.
(September 22, 2016 at 12:39 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: I don't think you guys get what the OP is saying. He's not talking about what you personally feel is important, I believe he's talking about your place in the overall cosmos.
We recognize that in nature all creatures / organisms are important to their environment which is why we refer to it as a system, everything has its role to play in the overall scheme of things; everything except humans.
(September 23, 2016 at 7:29 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote:(September 23, 2016 at 7:02 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Except I haven't mentioned the bible or anything religious for that matter.
Well, to be fair, Huggy, when I asked if you were going in an eschatological direction with all of this you kind of provided me with a somewhat positive answer.
That would be YOU bringing it up, not me.
1. show me where I mention the bible
2. show me where I mention religion.
