jstrodel Wrote:What do you base your ethics on? Do you base them on a complicated argument or do you base them on intuition?Your every day interactions with people are usually based on instincts. The pressing issues of today's society require more thought as they are usually complex issues (abortion, euthanasia etc).
Quote:The con man is not the one who receives truth, the con man is the one that invents truth and says that he receives it.Hence why the con man has won. You've swallowed the sales pitch hook, line & sinker.
Quote:To be a little child is to stop creating and start receiving.The little child and the con man are two different people... the con man tells everyone they need to have the faith of a child in order to "understand" spiritual truths. This malicious attempt to corrupt the mind is right up there with the backwards thinking of Paul, such as "the wisdom of the world is foolishness" because, you know, obviously the feats of science are pure foolishness and not intertwined with the truths of reality at all.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle