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Pastimes : The Philosophical Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LLCF who wrote (183)	8/10/2005 9:43:29 AM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 26251

You sound like a high priest most of the time. Now there is nothing wrong with that per se, except for the fact that this thread is a philosophical porch, not a religious pulpit. There is such a thing as philosophy of religion. That is why I was open to all this discussion concerning the Ontological Argument and Cosmological Argument for the existence of God. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made sure that young children didn't die of cancer. My view is that if there is no evidence for it and if you are unsure, then forget about it, don't do it. What I see as "everlasting" is Human Progress. Omniscience is stagnation and leads to Death. The Continuous Search for Truth is Truth. I was once asked whether I feared death. I said that I did not, in view of the fact that I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. In regard to religion (and politics), people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth much. Let's try to keep the religious God crappola to a minimum. If you sincerely think that God is at the foundation and root of everything, you probably don't belong on a philosophical thread like this unless you have decided to question (which could, in turn, strengthen) your beliefs.