RE: Isn’t pantheism the same thing as atheism?
March 21, 2021 at 11:31 pm
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2021 at 11:39 pm by Belacqua.)
(March 21, 2021 at 7:45 pm)Ferrocyanide Wrote: What’s the name of that Augustine of Hippo book?On the Literal Interpretation of Genesis. The name kind of gives it away.
Quote:Apparently, according to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo
“Augustine led many clergy under his authority at Hippo to free their slaves "as an act of piety".[197] He boldly wrote a letter urging the emperor to set up a new law against slave traders and was very much concerned about the sale of children.”
Did Augustine of Hippo read the tanakh? There is nothing wrong with slavery according to that book.
Wildly off topic.
Quote:==If you have harmed yourself, then you are in fact measuring something.
If you are saying that some is obese or anorexic, then you are measuring body type and body weight. You are aiming for a certain weight range.
So if Aristotle, George, Mario or Bobo is telling is not to eat too much, he needs to provide us with a chart. If he doesn’t provide his chart, that means that he didn’t complete his work and someone else has to pick up the slack.
Who is suppose to decide what their ideal body weight should be? Should the obese person decide for himself or should Dr Aristotle, Dr George, Dr Mario and Dr Bobo do it?
Yes, expert advice is welcome. Then for the other sins which consist of misdirected love, like envy, greed, pride, and sloth, you can make up quantifiable charts for those too. It would be interesting to see how we could quantify pride.
Quote:About getting angry at little things. We are going to need a list of these little things. Again, who should prepare the list? The doctors? Yes, probably the doctors, or a group of doctors.
It’s not an impossible task if they set their minds to it.
No book can list every instance in every life of what we should or shouldn't get angry at, and in what degree. The best we can do are general guidelines, and then using our own heads to do our best.
Quote:“We have no absolute way of knowing what's best in each case. You just have to work on it.”
==Those 2 sentences sounded lazy.
As soon as you work out the catalog of how we should behave in every possible instance, in every possible life, let me know. It's going to be a very thick book.
