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  1. Gjallarhorn

    How can it be that so few of us humans are genuinely stupid when human stupidity is nearly infinite?

    The farther you are from Earth, the stupider things appear. Given an infinite (or, finite but unbounded) universe, we're big fat idiots.
  2. Gjallarhorn

    Red pill Or Blue pill?

    "The Method of Science, the Aim of Religion"
  3. Gjallarhorn

    Can science make God ?

    You are using an undefined term and then claiming to have won a battle against another who cannot understand you. Ever heard the one about pigeons playing chess?
  4. Gjallarhorn

    Can science make God ?

    I haven't done anything yet except ask you to define your terms.
  5. Gjallarhorn

    Can science make God ?

    Define God in a way that isn't worthless.
  6. Gjallarhorn

    Thomas Merton said

    It's Niezsche's life-denying Last Men.
  7. Gjallarhorn

    The "Self"

    The self exists as a gestalt of bodily factors. It exists in the same way a computer or car exists but, without all the necessary pieces, it ceases to be. "Cogito, ergo sum" is circular reasoning and assumes that thought is controlled.
  8. Gjallarhorn

    Albert Einstein and the occult

    "If one conceives of religion and science according to these definitions then a conflict between them appears impossible. For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary. Religion, on the other hand, deals...
  9. Gjallarhorn

    Albert Einstein and the occult

    It's a fake quote. Debunking Fake Albert Einstein Quotes | Skeptica Esoterica
  10. Gjallarhorn

    What Does Revelation Mean to You?

    All truth is revealed truth. We just tend to be better sometimes at tracing it back to an understandable source.
  11. Gjallarhorn

    hedonism vs stoicism

    "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them." A Treatise of Human Nature, by David Hume : Sect. iii. Of the Influencing Motives of the Will
  12. Gjallarhorn

    hedonism vs stoicism

    Is balance necessary?
  13. Gjallarhorn

    What was your favorite class in high school?

    The Psych was thankfully AP so it actually had interesting stuff. The Philosophy class was only offered as an Intro so...we watched the Matrix and talked about Jehovah.
  14. Gjallarhorn

    Is it OK to make fun of religions?

    The bartender restrains himself from asking why the UU leader is talking to himself. :rolleyes:
  15. Gjallarhorn

    To What Extent, if ever, are Religions Escapes from Reality?

    Depends if you believe the meaning in life is to return to Zen or not. If not it's probably less of a religion and more of a hobby.
  16. Gjallarhorn

    To What Extent, if ever, are Religions Escapes from Reality?

    “Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual demands that reality cannot fulfill. We have expectations of a just and moral world. Man requires meaning in a meaningless world.” ―Peter Wessel Zapffe To...
  17. Gjallarhorn

    Actors or Actresses you cant stand

    Adam Sandler, Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Ben Stiller, The Rock, John Travolta (something about his face bothers me)...
  18. Gjallarhorn

    I am Seriously at a Lost about a New Religion!

    Cavemen with barbaric rituals are just sufficiently unadvanced "quasi-religious" individuals.
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