“beauty is truth, truth beauty,” That being the case (if it is the case) you ought to establish what both 'beauty' and 'truth' are. Beauty is not a particular congeries of physical attributes. Beauty changes according to time and place and culture. In the E
Thus the malevolence of God is somewhat pointeless to argue over. I wasn't arguing. I asked a question - what's wrong with a malevolent God?
I'm answering for little_whip cuz she's too lazy to do the log in thing. Her fear of fire is something she's lived with for as long as she can remember, but there's no single traumatic experience to which she can trace it. It almost stopped her learning how to smoke as she only had matches available at the time and could hold them only at the tipmost end away from the head, since she was terrified of being burned. She isn't 'scared' o
To live in fear of every person is no way to go through life. Is stupidity contagious? Exercising proper caution is not 'living in fear'.
am not happy in the bitterness and fear you live in. I wasn't aware that I lived in bitterness and fear. But I guess I must, since you say I do. My, your insight is astounding - almost on a par with that other fantasist, Maxwell.
So what's wrong with a malevolent God? Ohhhh I remember.... God is perfect justice. But what if God's justice is so far beyond thought that it appears as either malevolence or love, depending upon the position assumed in relation to God by anyone attempting to answer the question? What if God's
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. So what's wrong with a malevolent God?
I think I said this somewhere else.... End world poverty now - kill the poor. And their whining so-called 'liberal' sympathisers. Do it today.
I agree, man. If you fuck n get caught it's your fault. And, like rape is.... no excuse. n stuff. Goddamn. It's a shame the things you see when you don't have a gun handy.
I disagree with you all. Poverty, to me, means powerlessness, the absence of choice, the inability to effect one's environment (understood in the broadest sense) in any way which accords with desire. I don't deny the existence of lives which are materially lacking in the senses made perfectly clear in other comments, just as I don't deny the existence of lives lived with access to material resources that I can barely dream of. <BR
Actually, you ought to be grateful - for the misery, the depression, the pain and the hopelessness. You have an opportunity that's given to vey few. The opportunity to decide whether or not there's anything truly meaningful in your life that can compensate for the attrition of the grey everyday. If it turns out that there is, then you'll have something that even fewer of us can say we have - a reason for living. And if it turns out that there
To Muggaz: Damn you people are dim. In the world we actually live in, rather than the cloud-cuckoo land of the kind of world some of us seem to think we ought to live in, the kind of suspicion that crossed your mind is inevitable and appropriate. Are you brainwashed if you look both ways before crossing a street? Are you brainwashed if you drive with the flow of traffic rather than against it? Are you brainwashed if, whe
It began at the ungodly hour of 4.30am - but I'd actually gotten out of bed an hour and a half earlier so that me and Sabrina could finish loading the car (I love that car - that car is a beast and a half) and then have a little time together before we had to say goodbye. In all honesty I didn't want to go. That wasn't going to stop me but - notwithstanding
To olikara: Why did they have to be embarassed about about not buying ice cream? I have no idea, but they do. And it was damned annoying. Thanks for the kind wishes.
I can remember grinning, the first time I saw the Sign, off to the left as we drove down Route 20 going east: 'Lou's Tyre Mart'. I looked over at Sabrina and said "Look. God is alive and well and working as a used tyre salesman in north-eastern Ohio." Don't worry if you don't get it. It's one of those married couple in-jokes. I'm never going to fo
To Bungy32: Now that you mention it, I've often thought that duelling was by far the more elegant way to settle such disputes between individuals, rather than resorting to the services of filthy parasites such as lawyers, whose entire livelihood depends upon the miseries suffered by others. As for cracking someone in the mouth - I stated such an act would be intemperate and possibly foolish, and would certainly carry with it regretabl
I was under the impression that war is always a political act....
Life sucks. What you gonna do? I've been homeless before (though never with a wife and kids made hostage to my misfortune). I scrabbled and scraped my way back to another life (not much of a life lol but at least my own) only to watch that disappear in flames too. Which is why I'm here in America, starting from scratch again. Life is hard. Bear with it, don't give up (no matter how bad it gets) and things will turn around. I have a new wife, a
To Gideon MacLeish: Hate - To have a great aversion to, with a strong desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; to dislike intensely; to detest; as, to hate one's enemies; to hate hypocrisy. Anger - Anger is a feeling of keen displeasure (usually with a desire to punish) for what we regard as wrong toward ourselves or others. It may be excessive or misplaced, but is not necessarily criminal. <B
To Peter Maxwell: Even your wife? surely not! See, this is what happens when you evolve too fast. You revert even more rapidly. Back to the slime, it seems in this case. And for a mollusc you were doing quite well, too.
To Bungy32: From an agonistic view of the world, it makes sense that all things are viewed as products of struggle, competition, and violence. But I submit that this is a perspective. yes it is. But its a perspective that takes into account what religions have generally done. That is, sl
To Bungy32: Words can hurt, certainly. Some words spoken in certain situations can hurt atrociously - words of final rejection from a cherished lover, words that shame and humiliate, that condemn. But so what? Pain is part of life. Learning to deal with it is part of growing up. Attempting to avoid that pain is pointless, because it's endemic to life. Attempting to legislate away the occurrence of such pain is an exercise in futility.
To Texas Wahine: It made perfect sense. Thanks for the explanation (and the insightful).
I originally posted this under a different name. As it discusses in other ways issues that are also raised in threads I'm currently involved in I thought I'd post it once more. It received little attention last time. Let's see how it does second time around. i'm stoned again. and that fine first frenzy, the one that always follows a pe
To liveletlive: Of course God takes sides. He takes the side of whoever truly believes in him, in order to promote that conflict which is of the essence of religion. If you're fool enough to believe that God is on 'your' side, that's your problem, not God's. As to the double click... I do that, too.
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