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  1. PuerAzaelis

    Theosophy

    Nicholas I'd be interested to get your opinion on Steiner at some point when convenient.
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    Stoic resignation versus passionate happiness

    It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accept the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints. The difference is as great as that between passivity and activity, as that between...
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    Why There Can be an Objective Morality Even Without a God

    The controversy is still going on as to whether good conduct can long survive the faith that originally inspired it. But the problem, when so phrased, is based upon a misconception: the real question is the extent of the damage caused by our unconsciousness of the suprahuman nature of all...
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    Why There Can be an Objective Morality Even Without a God

    But to describe the good Whole as the emergent product of imperfect lower units is to misstate the case. The perfect goodness of the Whole is prior (in every sense) to such goodness as is realized in the parts, and this priority is reflected in history. Precisely as knowledge of the suprahuman...
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    What Does It Mean to Say "God is Infinite"?

    Since there are multiple infinities, God can be infinite in one sense and infinitesimal in another sense. If the absolute did not also include the relative, how could it be the absolute?
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    Why There Can be an Objective Morality Even Without a God

    The idea of being is neutral from the point of view of the moral life. There is no need to have the experience of the good and the beautiful in order to arrive at it. The experience solely of the mineral realm already suffices to arrive at the morally neutral idea of being. For the mineral is...
  7. PuerAzaelis

    A Christian ,a Muslim,and an Atheist. Not a joke...really.

    Mat 21:31 And Jesus said to them, Believe me, the publicans and the harlots are further on the road to God’s kingdom than you. Newadvent.org. (2018). HOLY BIBLE: Matthew 21. [online] Available at: HOLY BIBLE: Matthew 21 [Accessed 22 Oct. 2018].
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    Hawking still making news.. haunting creationism.

    It's a definition of "eternity". The real term for an infinite duration within time is "sempiternity". By definition an omniscient being is beyond time, the same way that a person in an art gallery is beyond the time of the painting he is observing.
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    What Does It Mean to Say "God is Infinite"?

    I don't know about God but George Cantor is the reason that I can cross a room and reach the opposite wall while at the same time traversing half the distance, then half of half the distance, then half of half of half of half the distance, then, etc. Perhaps the real number of Gods is an...
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    Thought and Voidness

    I like that a lot.
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    How an Agnostic Might Come to Believe the Universe Cannot Possibly have been Created by a God

    Karl Popper dealt with the problem of first principles by saying that they could not be demonstrated, but they could be falsified. That is, we do not have demonstrable knowledge of what they are, but we do have demonstrated knowledge of what they are not.
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    Thought and Voidness

    When you draw a thought in (for interrogation) or when a thought disappears, it is not that it has gone into a clear Voidness (or one has been left in its place). Rather, the thought that arises all of a sudden is itself a clear Voidness. When you realise or gain this insight, then you have...
  13. PuerAzaelis

    Wave and Water

    Take the metaphor of a wave on water. The wave is nothing other than the water, and yet it is seen as a wave. Although it appears as a wave, it has never changed from being of the nature of water. In the same way, with the various types of thoughts, from the very moment they appear, they are...
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    Does God laugh?

    Psalm 2:1 What means this turmoil among the nations? Why do the peoples cherish vain dreams? 2 See how the kings of the earth stand in array, how its rulers make common cause, against the Lord, and against the King he has anointed, 3 crying, Let us break away from their bondage, rid ourselves of...
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    The illegitimacy of the concept of a “sacred marriage.”

    No one can know when the husband and the wife have intercourse with one another, except the two of them. Indeed, marriage in the world is a mystery for those who have taken a wife. If there is a hidden quality to the marriage of defilement, how much more is the undefiled marriage a true mystery...
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    God's motives to torture

    The one who says that his strength is "made perfect in weakness". The reed is compatible with any old breeze that blows through it. It does not need the presence or absence of a particular theory to prove or disprove anything.
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    If man's power is nothing, why worship Allah?

    God governs the world by authority, and not by force. If this were not so, there would be neither freedom nor law in the world; and the first three petitions of the Lord's Prayer (Pater Noster): "Sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua sicut in caelo et in terra", would...
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    Evidences Supporting the Biblical Flood

    I suppose it would be clever to ask what the evidence is for the validity of Hitchens' Razor, so I will refrain.
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    idolatry

    Can you give an example? I have no agenda in asking this I'm genuinely curious.
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    Free Will as Nonsense.

    Who can say indeed. It may be true that a very quiet pink hippopotamus is currently sleeping in my attic. I know this is possible because I'm not in my attic at the moment, so I can't verify. It's quite a odd world, all kinds of things are possible.
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