Not to turn this into a religious discussion...chuckle chuckle
chuckle, but my quick spin is this. Take any religion, change the
label to one that either pleases you or one which angers you. Next,
shuffle the language around to include those terms that please or
disgust you. Finally, you will notice that all religions are built
upon a basic formula. In brief, you must have the infallible
Omnipotent One; next you must have His Eternal Truths; next are the
Laws based upon the Eternal Truths; and finally, in order to prevent
too many from escaping, you must have in place the Fear of Eternal
Punishment.
Incidentally, this formula has many applications. When we began house
hunting, the realtor showed us a house, proclaiming that it was the
finest property she could offer, the perfect home. Each room was
presented with the great comfort that we would derive. And of course
we had the conditions, the rules we must abide by in order to immerse
ourselves in this perfect home. She followed the same pattern right
on through to the final threat that there were others who were about
to steal this property away if we did not commit ourselves...and our
money, to secure the deal.
Think it's not the same formula as religion?
Carl Jarvis, looking forward to selling another bridge.
On 3/26/20, Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
First let me say that you ask a number of questions in this message that
I would like to answer because they are of philosophical interest.
However, you do the same thing that Jason did. You ask too many
questions. I simply do not have the time to address all of them. So let
me stick with the first one even though I have gone through it with you
before. It is harassment when you harvest email addresses from email
lists and bombard these people with religious preaching that they are
not interested in. It is harassment when they ask you to stop doing that
and you refuse. It is harassment when people block you and you just keep
opening new email addresses to continue to bombard them any way. It is
harassment when you have no answer to a logical argument and instead
start throwing tantrums in which you call names and throw insults. All
of this is harassment and because you engage in all of it you make
yourself a despicable person. Everywhere you go on the Internet you
elicit hostility because of this behavior. You also increase
anti-Islamic prejudice by making it clear that you are doing this for
Islam. You are a religious bully. And the pity is that if you would just
let people know that you are a Muslim and drop it to engage in normal
discussion you just might turn out to be a decent person. Instead you
make sure that no one can see you as decent at all.
___
Neil deGrasse Tyson
“God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.”
― Neil DeGrasse Tyson
On 3/26/2020 4:48 PM, Mustafa Muhammad wrote:
Well Roger, how am I harassing? I have the right to express my belief,
thoughts and convictions freely. That’s not based on any constitution
anywhere in the world. That’s based on my independent character. Now,
you, dislike to hear even the word religion. Well, it isn’t my prob.
The latter is part of my tradition, heritage, upbringing and cultural
development. As you, are raised on incredulity, bigotry, irreverence
and fanaticism. The last term, however simply means, enormous
intolerance of opposing views. No Roger, I have been intently despised
and disrespectfully denigrated by your friend, Mariam, because I come
from a developing country. For her, I must only criticise the
government of Egypt and I shouldn’t even consider myself somewhat
eligible to criticise the United States government or western
philosophical standards as of Atheism and other thoughts of mental
rejection. Well, I asked you a question and simply you’ve evaded it.
As empirical science stands utterly futile in the face of this
furiously mass epidemic, what does Atheism offer? Isn’t it your
espoused doctrine? Why couldn’t you ask Neil Tyson about it? He seems
to be a funnily empiricist, an alleged competent astrophysicist. He
relies on pseudoscience to deceive his victimised audience, and you’re
just one of them. What could the field of Astronomy do regarding the
spread of coronavirus? I am fully rated to critically reassess and
criticise the actual stance of empiricism. What has the latter brought
to human development? Is religion held accountable for the spread of
that fatal disease? Now, is asking a question an act of harassment?
Can Science Determine Moral Values? Do we need morals to cope with
life difficulties? Where does conscience come from? Is life absolutely
purposeless? I currently see signs of major superpower shifting.
Physical science began to gradually collapse. Could we possibly attain
effective medical solution for that calamitous eruption without
adhering excellence? Basically, I see world major powers taking
advantage of the crisis to simply wage a political combat, in which
each and every contestant attempts to subdue his rival. Providing the
best solution to the currently global outbreak became an unethical
competition among world superpowers to specify, who is going to
influence and dominate others by manipulating the proper cure, to
thence enjoin terms and rule over others.
On 3/26/20, Dave Carlson <dgcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What the heck is this? This is not a political or religious platform.
Take
it somewhere else.
Dave Carlson
Pioneer, Farfar, Oregonian, Woodworker, Engineer, and Musician
