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November 29, 2012 at 2:55 pm (This post was last modified: November 29, 2012 at 2:59 pm by phi5100.)
It's not a trap, as two of you have mentioned. I'm doing this honestly and for an assignment for class. Just asking questions and having discussion. Please don't accuse me of things that are not true. If you don't want to be a part of this, that's ok. I'm not forcing anyone to do anything. I'm not trying to debate you or anyone else. I was never dishonest. This IS for a class assignment. Just as you're free to share what you believe, so am I. And my follow-up to your answers were merely to gain more understanding of what you said.
(November 29, 2012 at 2:55 pm)The_Germans_are_coming Wrote:
(November 29, 2012 at 2:48 pm)phi5100 Wrote:
Thanks so much for answering these questions!
Are you saying that the universe doesn't have a beginning? Or that the beginning that it does have, doesn't require a cause?
So based on your society, what are those values, as you best understand them? As per the example, how would you 'rank' the value of a human child? Going along with this, for another example, (when) do you believe a child is a human and has human rights, in the womb?
So you don't believe that we have free will? Don't you make choices daily? If not, then everything in our lives must be pre-determined. But who or what determines them? The only person I could even begin to perceive as pre-determining all of life, would be someone who is, always was, and always will be in existence, and created & controls it all...which would be God. If there's no free will, as you've stated, then should we even have discipline & punishment, because no one would actually be responsible for their actions.
You're saying that each individual society sets the grounds for what is morally right, what has value, and what people's moral duties are? What determines each of these societies or cultures?
What might some of those circumstances be in which you think it'd be rational to risk your life for a stranger? And to not? ...regardless of whether or not it's rational, is it morally right to risk your life for a stranger's?
Were those divides between Catholic and Anglican, or within one of them? Have you had interactions with other Christians that hasn't been, as you would say, " disgraceful"? If you've not, regardless of their specific denomination within Christianity, I'm sorry. Those people are obviously not living out their beliefs...and/or possibly don't understand the truth (or Truth) to it.
dude. You stated that you needed this for university.
