RE: Prayer?
August 13, 2012 at 10:40 am
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2012 at 10:43 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 13, 2012 at 1:42 am)Undeceived Wrote: Then why innovate? Doesn’t all innovation have survival at its core? If medicine is no longer an innovation, but a necessity, wouldn’t we live forever under God’s placating hand? We'd never die. Well that's what the Garden of Eden used to be like. We messed up by sinning, and now death is our punishment. Or should people still die in this utopia of yours? Say, after a couple hundred years. What if someone wants to die earlier or later? At what point should God take these people? No matter how He does it, He will cause grief—either in the individual or in his/her family.
But let's get back to the topic. I claimed people would not innovate if all necessities were provided. If not health, what do people innovate for? Discovery? Pleasure? Both are self-serving. Unless that's your point--you want a world of all pleasure but no earning or gratitude for that pleasure. A world in which God serves you but you do not serve Him. Am I correct?
I'm sorry, did you just respond to RD with a fanciful story about utopian gardens and eternal life under the watchful eye of ghosts? If you want to have an adult conversation someday you might have to stop telling fairy tales-as-fact. We innovate because we were dealt a shitty hand. There's no other table to play at, granted, but I fail to see how your fantasies are going to better our situation. Death is not a punishment, it is not a curse placed upon us by spirits. It is a function of biology. Let me ask you this, lets imagine some far flung scenario whereby we have reached the limits of innovation. There is no need to look any further into anything because all necessities have been met (and almost miraculously human beings are no longer curious and we have abandoned our habitual tinkering for tinkering's sake). So? No, seriously..... so fucking what? Here you are insinuating that this is somehow a bad thing -and yet you would like to casually insert your imaginary friend as the sole provider of such a service nevertheless.
The avoidance of reality and abject indifference towards one's fellow man, combined with the sheer amount of hypocrisy by proxy that a response like this is likely to find at it's core is breathtaking.
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