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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (10652)12/7/2010 8:47:31 PM
From: Giordano Bruno  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 69300
 
I hold as holy the idea that nothing is off limits.

Well said.
Have you ever taken a stab at poetry?
If so, I'd love to read some.



To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (10652)12/8/2010 2:22:30 AM
From: average joe2 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 69300
 
"I consider it my privilege, and to some extent, my duty to question everything..."

On that we're in perfect agreement.

I only consider my work and what I love sacred.

What day God created guppies is fascinating but life is a quick trip and that question is better left for the gregorees of the world to decipher. Just be careful not to give the gregorees of the world any control or authority.



To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (10652)12/8/2010 9:39:34 AM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 69300
 
"I hold as holy the idea that nothing is off limits."

Who said that? Stalin? Richard Ramirez?



To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (10652)12/8/2010 10:06:50 AM
From: one_less  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 69300
 
"...has turned up no likely or durable candidates."

How soon you forget? tsk

>>>""Show me the mountain!"

>'Regard for well being and the corruption there of.'

Message 26949042

It is not only placed in the consciousness of personhood but it is woven through the fabric of an evolving universe, where all adapting things evolve toward an improved level of well being. Those not adapting are dead, dieing, or extinct.

Discernable good/bad consists solely as the conception of moral law itself, which is only possible in a rational being embued with free will. Rational beings engagine free will then are taxed with the nagging imperative to deliberate and to act according to moral law.