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01-07-2007, 01:33 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Austin, TX
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The 10 Commandments, Teen Movie style... (Samuel L Jackson makes a pretty convincing burning bush...)
http://volokh.com/posts/1148332730.shtml
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Alice: "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
Cheshire Cat: "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
Alice: "I don't much care where."
Cheshire Cat: "Then it doesn't much matter which way you go."
Alice: "…so long as I get somewhere."
Cheshire Cat: "Oh, you're sure to do that, if only you walk long enough."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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01-07-2007, 06:14 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2003
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What does Friedrich Nietzsche say about it.
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01-07-2007, 06:51 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: LAX/340/8
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Originally Posted by xjetsig
What does Friedrich Nietzsche say about it.
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Neitzsche said "God is dead."
Here's one explanation of what that means LINK and here's a second LINK
as you can see if you read both, his writing can be interpreted to mean whatever you think it means, as these two pages are conflicting. One thing is clear - he thought the idea of a god and the belief in god is idiotic, but helpful to mankind. |
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01-07-2007, 08:11 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2003
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From Yariv's first link:
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New possibilities
Nietzsche believed there could be positive possibilities for humans without God. Relinquishing the belief in God opens the way for human's creative abilities to fully develop. The Christian God, with his arbitrary commands and prohibitions, would no longer stand in the way, so human beings might stop turning their eyes toward a supernatural realm and begin to acknowledge the value of this world. The recognition that "God is dead" would be like a blank canvas. It is a freedom to become something new, different, creative — a freedom to be something without being forced to accept the baggage of the past.
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Good stuff. |
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01-08-2007, 02:56 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Originally Posted by Stephan Dupourque
From Yariv's first link:
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New possibilities
Nietzsche believed there could be positive possibilities for humans without God. Relinquishing the belief in God opens the way for human's creative abilities to fully develop. The Christian God, with his arbitrary commands and prohibitions, would no longer stand in the way, so human beings might stop turning their eyes toward a supernatural realm and begin to acknowledge the value of this world. The recognition that "God is dead" would be like a blank canvas. It is a freedom to become something new, different, creative — a freedom to be something without being forced to accept the baggage of the past.
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Yariv,
I don't know you, however, next time I see you in Houston I'm going to introduce myself. You always seem to say profound things. |
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01-10-2007, 05:58 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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As an Atheist, a Dislexic, and an Insomniac...
I often lie awake at night wondering in there really is a dog....
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01-14-2007, 10:35 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Oxford, UK
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THE END
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01-14-2007, 11:32 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: LAX/340/8
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Originally Posted by RDawkins
THE END
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before we end, what was our conclusion? is there a god or not? |
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01-14-2007, 11:34 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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Who knows for sure.....
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01-14-2007, 03:07 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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There is ABSOLUTELY A GOD and we will all see that when this life is over, I can promise you this with all that I am. Those of you who don't believe, there will come a time when you have a life changing experience (I hope a good one and not a bad one) and you will know that God is real. I truely believe that even a person on the other side of the world sitting under a tree whom may have never heard of Christianity will have an opportunity to come to know God. I would lay my life on this, God Is Real.
Rick Childers
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