(February 15, 2018 at 12:29 pm)Khemikal Wrote: You;re not accurately conveying neo-platonism. You're saddling it with christianity. The one is unknowable, and so unrecognizable. It is beyond our ability to "choose" it, as all choices reduce to it. I always found it ironic that some subset of early christians were so completely unsatisfied with the philosophic underpinnings of their god that they directly lifted the philosophy of the group of pagans that presented the greatest and last opposition to their god in the classical world. Two thousand years later, it appears as though this is still true..at least for some christians.
I guess the trick, for neo-platonists (of the pagan or christian variety) would be to convince all the christians that they have been completely wrong about god since the beginning.
I still can't understand how an honestly intelligent person can genuinely believe in anything as absurd as a god.
At least in the year 2018.....
DIVINE HIDDENNESS MOTHERFUCKER!
PERSON IN THE SKY MOTHERFUCKER!
"Oh wait he doesn't look like a person don't cartoonize my beliefs! He is still a He though and not a she and we are 'made in his image' only only metaphorically. I AM SO SMART DOIIIIIII DERPA DERPA DERP. I don't even know what I mean DERPADERPADIDDILY DUM."
Not all theists are retarded (some of them are liars!)... no but seriously SOMEHOW smart honest people believe in that nonsense.
But despite theists may not be retarded... theism absolutely is.
