(November 6, 2016 at 2:28 pm)abaris Wrote:(November 6, 2016 at 2:15 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: Concepts that exist purely in the mind are real, to the extent that the individual can conceptualize the existence of something in the mind that clearly does not exist in reality outside of the mind.
But it can get them through the nights. That's why I always keep saying, believe what you want if it rocks your boat. I only get upset if someone tries to shove their individual believes on the population at large.
There’s the rub. When the belief that rocks their boat and gets them through the night tells them anyone who doesn’t share their belief is going to hell, how do we separate the subjective belief from its application? Of course, I don’t appreciate being proselytized, at the same time, xtians who tell me they don’t care what I believe make me wonder: this person believes I’m going to hell and doesn’t care? Eclectic hermeneutics is no better than strict fundamentalism.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
