RE: The Doctrine of the Holy Trinity?
September 11, 2009 at 5:51 pm
(This post was last modified: September 11, 2009 at 5:55 pm by Violet.)
(September 11, 2009 at 2:25 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Beautifully written Sae
(September 11, 2009 at 1:45 pm)Saerules Wrote: Exactly, and the human condition is irrationality, therefore Christianity has absolutely nothing to do with logicCare to elaborate on the human condition? (and what about NOMA - u never did answer that??)
(September 11, 2009 at 1:45 pm)Saerules Wrote: The absolute 'reasoning' is really just an absolute conviction in the assertion of an assumption. That is faith... and faith is to have absolute confidence in something. To have absolute confidence, you are committing a logical fallacy of circular logic, which has no logical basis.I'd like to move on... I don't think faith is absolute confidence, if only that were possible!
Faith is certainly the conviction in the assertion of an assumption. "absolute reasoning" I think is a gross exaggeration (I hope I didn't say that! ).
(September 11, 2009 at 1:45 pm)Saerules Wrote: So while it comes off as reasoning: "I do it because i do it, why? because i do it.", it is not reasoning. Try to avoid mistaking faith for reasoningI never make blind statements like that. Faith is almost the opposite of reasoning, but behind faith... now there's a different matter.
faith |fāθ|
noun
1 complete trust or confidence in someone or something
(2 strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof.)<--Is a complete confidence in something, therefore an unnecessary definition.
The human condition is a joke, really really It implies that we are all similar in many ways, and that certain parts of our life are inevitable (Eg. death and taxes). As far as I know, these conditions are not just human conditions, therefore calling it a human condition is to
Good to see that you recognize that you cannot use pseudo-wannabe-reason to rationalize that which cannot be rationalized
As for NOMA: i feel sorry for people with Noma http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noma_(disease) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-overlapping_magisteria I disagree with Non-overlapping magisteria.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day