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  1. lovemuffin

    Was Jesus' Mother ever called Mary Christ?

    Mestemia is making the point that, speaking historically, the title "Messiah" or "Christ" has become so closely associated with one particular individual, "Jesus of Nazareth", that it has become de facto a proper name. I don't disagree with that observation. Although it might be fair to note...
  2. lovemuffin

    Have you ever seen Batman and Jesus in the same room?

    I think it's "cowled be thy mane"
  3. lovemuffin

    Was Jesus' Mother ever called Mary Christ?

    Well, someone has to disagree with everything :P I'm not finding great external references that explain the meaning of "Christ" over against the idea of a surname. Although basically any reference you check will give the definition of "anointed", reference that it is used in the Septuagint to...
  4. lovemuffin

    Would you **** on Well Named if he was on fire?

    that doesn't sound very nice
  5. lovemuffin

    Would you **** on Well Named if he was on fire?

    If I could pee on my own hair, I would. I don't mean if it was on fire, I just mean on general principle. If it was on fire I'd probably dunk my head in the toilet instead.
  6. lovemuffin

    Was Jesus' Mother ever called Mary Christ?

    "Christ" isn't a surname, it is a title. "the anointed one". It refers first of all to the Messiah of 2nd temple period Judaism's expectation, although arguably it came to mean something a little more than that under Greek influence. But it is never a surname. When the gospels want to give Jesus...
  7. lovemuffin

    Once again, I say Tampa....

    Man!
  8. lovemuffin

    Once again, I say Tampa....

    A+ thread, would read again
  9. lovemuffin

    My journey to the Roman Catholic Church

    I see I got tagged but I don't want to tell anyone to check out the eastern orthodox churches in the Catholic DIR. It might be like the great schism all over again :p I do think if you dig around, you'll find that it's a a bit of an oversimplification (both for the Roman church as well as the...
  10. lovemuffin

    No one speaks less than God, without time or place. From all eternity he utters only a single word.

    No one speaks less than God, without time or place. From all eternity he utters only a single word.
  11. lovemuffin

    how egotistical would it be if I clicked the like button on that? pretty egotistical right? :P...

    how egotistical would it be if I clicked the like button on that? pretty egotistical right? :P You're not so bad yourself adra
  12. lovemuffin

    For Atheist Mystics

    I apologize in advance for not really contributing to this discussion, but instead just being led away by symbolism, but: Silence. Logos. Spirit. It is the Trinity. In these symbols which are hard to reduce to a set of fixed concepts for me, is the entire human life. To add to your point, we...
  13. lovemuffin

    Adherents as a measure for a religion's merit

    Jesus is supposed to have said "By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." I often think that this might be the single most damning thing of Christians in the Bible. I think the argument you make for measuring the value of a religion in this way...
  14. lovemuffin

    Radio RF - 5 minute philosophy - segment notes and discussion

    Episode 5 - Panpsychism Continues the discussion from episode 3. If we accept the Mary's Room argument, so what? What is an alternative metaphysics to materialism? Lots of good papers on this topic can be found here: David Chalmers' Papers Specifically on pan-psychism...
  15. lovemuffin

    Radio RF - 5 minute philosophy - segment notes and discussion

    Episode 4 - Meta-ethics Discusses meta-ethics and the meaning of the terms "subjective", "objective", "absolute", and "relative" with regard to normative ethics. I threw this together pretty fast. I'm not sure it needs notes. I think the main point of interest is that it's better to talk...
  16. lovemuffin

    The Idea of 'Race'

    Kirran: I like your OP. I think what I would say that might quell possible confusion is that talking about race as a social construct isn't to deny genetic or phenotypical differences between populations, it's more to point out that historically the way we have delineated race, the way race...
  17. lovemuffin

    The Idea of 'Race'

    a helpful article, at least from a US perspective: What We Mean When We Say 'Race Is a Social Construct' - The Atlantic
  18. lovemuffin

    Black people, stop embarrassing yourselves!

    Let me see if I can say something that might be useful. The reason why I agree both that this thread title, and much of the content, is 'racist', has little to do with thinking that individual posters hold an explicit belief in racial superiority. Rather, it's that the presuppositions of the...
  19. lovemuffin

    Dismantling the "Seven Deadly Sins"

    One more quote from Evagrius, which I think captures the perspective of the entire ancient eastern Christian monastic perspective on this: "When the soul has been purified through the keeping of all the commandments, it makes the intellect steadfast and able to receive the state needed for...
  20. lovemuffin

    Dismantling the "Seven Deadly Sins"

    A few thoughts: Re: "the Christian view of sin" It's already been pointed out that the formulation of the seven deadly sins doesn't really represent a Christian universal, but just to add a few notes. After Evagrius, the formulation never became as important to eastern Christian thought as it...
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