(August 20, 2018 at 9:21 pm)Astreja Wrote:(August 20, 2018 at 6:22 pm)negatio Wrote: Astreja No, only just when our entire American/World legal system is predicated upon the model of an exhalted [sic] high placed jurist passing judgement upon others via an ontologically nonsensical language of law.What are you on about? One does not need a god, or even a god-myth, to have a functional legal code.
(August 20, 2018 at 9:16 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: Of course, I can't help appreciate the irony of someone who claims they're too intelligent to clarify and condense what they mean in the same breath as patting themselves for how much studying they've done themselves.Godmamn, Astreja, that last was so radically beautifully written, an so right-on. Let me study it for a while, and, after I finish my Disney movie, I promise to get back to you. Thanks. Negatio
Why tart up one's language to make it smugly incomprehensible, unless the underlying ideas are pure bollocks and the author wants it to be incomprehensible to hide that fatal flaw?
(August 28, 2018 at 11:04 am)Astreja Wrote: How does one go about disproving an alleged god, anyway? At most one can point out the ludicrously inconsistent traits and behaviours of the Abrahamic deity, and reason that it's not a particularly good role model for setting up a justice system.
At that point you can discard that particular deity, whether or not it actually exists, and focus on the underlying issue: Individuals' desire for justice, grounded in our personal experiences of things that we ourselves deem unjust. Gods just serve a ceremonial role in the process, anyway; it's people who make the actual decisions and implement them.