jorrizza
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2 weeks ago @ The Antichristian Phen... - Christian arguments un... · 12 replies · +2 points
I'm sorry, but I disagree with you completely. This post is largely about religions. Of course there are some people, like yourself, who say they don't recognize themselves in a major religion. Okay, right, so this isn't about you then. If you're happy with your pipe dreams and delusional world view, go right ahead. If that's the way you want to live. We choose not to. This site tries to convince people the Christian world view is wrong, and presents viable alternatives. Likewise, you're welcome to convince us we're wrong. But I do have to say this attempt wasn't that convincing. Thanks for trying though.
We know about the fairytale of the separation between good and evil in the heavenly kingdom, but what does it tell us? I personally take sides with Lucifer in the story. He lead a revolution against an obviously oppressive regime. The regime kicked him out after a failed attempt to introduce freedom in the kingdom. Afterwards, God created humans in his own image. Right on top of Lucifer's home. Let's just ignore the contradiction that hell existed before the heavens and the earth. Apparently, the introduction of freedom by Lucifer was successful on the earth. According to the scriptures, we have Lucifer to thank for freedom of choice. Personally, I value freedom and justice (which depends on the existence of freedom) over some pipe dream of glory through self sacrificial altruism.
3 weeks ago @ The Antichristian Phen... - Some answers · 0 replies · +2 points
4 weeks ago @ The Antichristian Phen... - Love as a Symbolic Car... · 1 reply · +1 points
4 weeks ago @ The Antichristian Phen... - Love as a Symbolic Car... · 3 replies · +1 points
I can't believe I'm actually defending Christians here. I guess I'm just spreading the love...
8 weeks ago @ The Antichristian Phen... - Reasonable Christians ... · 2 replies · +1 points
10 weeks ago @ The Antichristian Phen... - 10 Answers from an Ant... · 0 replies · +1 points
12 weeks ago @ The Antichristian Phen... - Power, but to whom and... · 0 replies · +1 points
Besides, the very gathering of people sharing ideas like the ACP is, is somewhat the same. There aren't that many lone cowboys left in this digital age.
19 weeks ago @ The Antichristian Phen... - Cartesian Dualism: Ath... · 1 reply · +1 points
The link between dualism and Christianity is quite obvious these days. Since the soul is purely subjective by nature, many Christians often use dualism to somehow prove the existence of the supernatural. That post attacked creationism by defeating the concept of having a soul, and thus dualism by proxy. Compared to the vast differences between scientific realism and creationism, the differences between the various dualistic philosophies in this context are minor enough to generalize in my opinion.
19 weeks ago @ The Antichristian Phen... - Cartesian Dualism: Ath... · 3 replies · +1 points
Is it evident? That in itself is both self defeating and confirming, how funny. Anyhow, I'd argue against the divide. Not a single aspect of one's existence is atomic, if I may use this term in philosophy. A personal philosophy will always lean to one or the other, but it will never entirely be either one. I'm personally convinced this playing field isn't horizontal but vertical, with objectivity at the bottom. Subjectivity is based upon purely objective information. The border between the two appears at the point where objective events are not experienced as such, but abstracted into subjectivity. I wouldn't argue that there's no subjectivity at all. An external entity, say, a neurologist, can take all of a person's subjective experiences and translate them into objective data. This data won't have the same intrinsic value though, but can in theory be used to recreate the same subjective state. I see the human being as a complex Turing machine. See my post about Turing, Moore and dualism for more information.
But if you have to have to divide the people into groups, I'd say there are three. Those who deny objectivity, those who deny subjectivity and those who support both. So the only divide possible would be the "subjective/objective/both" version. The only people not falling in the latter will be the people who have thought about the subject in an abstract way. The vast majority of the people will be unaware about the entire situation and automatically end up in the "both" section.
19 weeks ago @ The Antichristian Phen... - Cartesian Dualism: Ath... · 5 replies · +1 points