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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (25724)	9/1/2001 8:08:27 PM
From: gao seng	Respond to of 82486

So who said life necessarily has to be purposeless? Scientists, specifically evolutionists. But not limited to that congregation of men without chests. We humans assign it purpose. That is the goal of scientism. So who said life necessarily has to be purposeless? We humans assign it purpose. That's really what you are doing- -performing an act of faith. Whatever it is, I will defend the Constitution of the United States of America to the death. Do not trivialize faith. Faith moves mountains, literally. You have no real evidence that what you believe is correct. I would say that the Locke passage I posted, along with Christopher's follow up, constitute a body of evidence that is insurmountable and irrefutable. That purpose can be religiously following the dictates of some imaginary god or advancing the human species or something else. Or it could be another decree of nihilism. Nihilism (from Latin nihil,"nothing"), designation applied to various radical philosophies, usually by their opponents, the implication being that adherents of these philosophies reject all positive values and believe in nothing. The term was first used to describe Christian heretics during the Middle Ages. In Russia it was applied in the 1850s and 1860s to young intellectuals who, influenced by Western ideas, repudiated Christianity, considered Russian society backward and oppressive, and advocated revolutionary change. The best-known fictional nihilist was Bazarov in Ivan Turgenev's novel Fathers and Sons (1862). Conservatives claimed that nihilism would destroy all possibility of orderly and purposeful existence and was directly contrary to real human needs and desires, but the novelist N. G. Chernyshevsky and other radicals called it a necessary phase in the transformation of Russia. The Narodniks (Populists), who worked for a peasant uprising in the 1870s, and the Narodnaya Volya (People's Will) movement, members of which assassinated Tsar Alexander II in 1881, were also considered manifestations of nihilism. Main Entry: ni·hil·ism Pronunciation: 'nI-(h)&-"li-z&m, 'nE- Function: noun Etymology: German Nihilismus, from Latin nihil nothing -- more at NIL Date: circa 1817 1 a : a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless b : a doctrine that denies any objective ground of truth and especially of moral truths 2 a (1) : a doctrine or belief that conditions in the social organization are so bad as to make destruction desirable for its own sake independent of any constructive program or possibility (2) capitalized : the program of a 19th century Russian party advocating revolutionary reform and using terrorism and assassination b : TERRORISM - ni·hil·ist /-list/ noun or adjective - ni·hil·is·tic /"nI-(h)&-'lis-tik, "nE-/ adjective