[split] Are Questions About God Important?

[The Grand Nudger]

No, not ayn rands objectivism. Moral objectivism. The notion that moral statements purport to report facts and insomuch as they accurately report those facts they should be treated like any other statement that purports to report a fact and accurately reports it. The way I use moral statements or language, "the sun came up" and "it's bad to curbstomp infants" are true in exactly the same way and should be treated as such. So you can see how the other question "but what if there's a/no god" is just nonoperative.

I'm also..generally, drinking beer, and a fair amount of my style is just that, just the way I learned to speak around the people I've spent most my life with. It's when I'm super nice and polite that I've got -really- shitty things in mind. For me, "Fuck you guy!" is a tender greeting to a friend you haven't seen in awhile. We might shake hands I might grab his dick, you never know, but whatever happens it will happen with love.