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Poll: "Coming to be is for the sake of being, not being for the sake of coming to be."
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I completely agree.
19.05%
4 19.05%
I sort of agree.
9.52%
2 9.52%
*shrugs*
66.67%
14 66.67%
I sort of disagree.
0%
0 0%
I completely disagree.
4.76%
1 4.76%
Total 21 vote(s) 100%
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RE: Your opinion on the following statement:
(January 13, 2015 at 12:58 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: On a mostly unrelated side note, it's pretty badass that ancient humans like some of the presocratic Greek philosophers explained motion with Love and Strife and modern physics describes such apparently symmetrical properties of positive and negative charge.
I agree. Sometimes I get kind of History-Channel crazy, and start thinking that the ancients might actually have known things that we are still trying to (re-)discover. I've even gotten a couple times to the point of "I'm not saying it was aliens, but. . . it was aliens.

I'm also keen on how Buddhist and Hindu philosophers were debating the pros and cons of ideas that were supposed to have been invented in the Enlightenment or later. So much for modern Europe as the cradle of all great thinking.
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It really does scare me that it is possible some amazing knowledge was discovered in the past, but got utterly destroyed by religion. I've read about certain concepts being discovered, suppressed, then independently discovered after a long interval.
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#23
RE: Your opinion on the following statement:
(January 12, 2015 at 11:34 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I'm thinking either something was lost in the translation, -or- Aristotle was a bit of a twat.

Option 2.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Your opinion on the following statement:
(January 13, 2015 at 5:12 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(January 12, 2015 at 11:34 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I'm thinking either something was lost in the translation, -or- Aristotle was a bit of a twat.

Option 2.

Boru

I mean, what's not to hate about Aristotle Big Grin
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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#25
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(January 12, 2015 at 11:31 pm)Losty Wrote: Most things I do are for the sake of coming Angel

Does that mean what I think it means? Big Grin
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#26
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(January 13, 2015 at 5:43 am)Grasshopper Wrote:
(January 12, 2015 at 11:31 pm)Losty Wrote: Most things I do are for the sake of coming Angel

Does that mean what I think it means? Big Grin

Hehe maybe Blush
(August 21, 2017 at 11:31 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: "I'm not a troll"
Religious Views: He gay

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Hammy Wrote:and we also have a sheep on our bed underneath as well
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The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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#28
RE: Your opinion on the following statement:
(January 12, 2015 at 11:28 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: "Coming to be is for the sake of being, not being for the sake of coming to be." - Aristotle

'Change is because of being (living, existing), being is not because of change.'

It's seems proto-existential but I totally agree.

MM
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci

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#29
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You got a *Shrug* from me.

Too sick to be philosophical at the moment.
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
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#30
RE: Your opinion on the following statement:
(January 13, 2015 at 1:46 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: Fuckin' philosophers.
It's curious to note that while modern scientific ideas about the world find rudimentary and often comically naive representation in the ancient thinkers, theistic dogmas which also possessed the imagination have remained virtually unchanged. Probably not the best indication that believers have attained any sophisticated degree of truth.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
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