RE: The Stage is Yours.
July 30, 2012 at 9:32 am
(This post was last modified: July 30, 2012 at 9:45 am by The Grand Nudger.)
That you felt the need to respond to criticisms of your platitude with a repetition of that platitude is unsurprising. I could just copy paste my previous post at this point and it would follow your response as aptly now as it did then.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platitude
A platitude is a trite, meaningless, biased, or prosaic statement, often presented as if it were significant and original.
Repeating your belief that all leads to god does not give this statement any additional meaning, no matter how many times you repeat it. You must flesh it out, do not tell us that you did reason, or do reason, demonstrate that reason. Do not assert that nothing else fits, or that all things fit with god, demonstrate that this is so.
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repeat your platitude ad naus, as you (and honestly everyone I've seen perform this particular song and dance) have already shown a preference for this over the former.
Whether or not you, or even T Aquinas believe that there is substance to this statement is irrelevant as to whether or not it is a platitude, and, case in point, platitudes are almost always used as conversational shorthand because they are believed to be invested with meaning -even when they are not-. Again, you seem to be conflating what "works for you" with "what works". Others do not find this godless existence as troubling or confusing as you seem to find it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platitude
A platitude is a trite, meaningless, biased, or prosaic statement, often presented as if it were significant and original.
Repeating your belief that all leads to god does not give this statement any additional meaning, no matter how many times you repeat it. You must flesh it out, do not tell us that you did reason, or do reason, demonstrate that reason. Do not assert that nothing else fits, or that all things fit with god, demonstrate that this is so.
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repeat your platitude ad naus, as you (and honestly everyone I've seen perform this particular song and dance) have already shown a preference for this over the former.
Whether or not you, or even T Aquinas believe that there is substance to this statement is irrelevant as to whether or not it is a platitude, and, case in point, platitudes are almost always used as conversational shorthand because they are believed to be invested with meaning -even when they are not-. Again, you seem to be conflating what "works for you" with "what works". Others do not find this godless existence as troubling or confusing as you seem to find it.
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