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- Sat Sep 18, 2010 1:11 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Transhumanism
- Replies: 54
- Views: 10689
You're not getting it, sadly. You've completely and utterly missed the point. Your comment about a blind person being filled with joy at being able to see makes no sense, quite honestly. You're working from the assumption that the person knows s/he has lost a sense. If s/he was his/her entire life a...
- Fri Sep 17, 2010 9:48 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Transhumanism
- Replies: 54
- Views: 10689
Nope, it doesn't take anything away from me. Quite frankly, if I woke up tomorrow fully hearing, I'd want it taken away from me for the same reason you'd want deafness taken away from you. Our experiences now are all that we know, and experiences that we haven't yet experienced, or never will, for t...
- Fri Sep 17, 2010 9:30 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Transhumanism
- Replies: 54
- Views: 10689
Fair point. But then I put this to you. What you're suggesting is that we strip away something that lets us each have our own identity instead of being uniform human beings with the same bodies, minds, and experiences. Personally, I'd find such a world a horribly boring place to live in. I'd rather ...
- Fri Sep 17, 2010 8:34 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Pope's Astronomer Would Baptise Aliens
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3257
Eaquae's right. It wasn't until Galileo pissed off a few cardinals and even the pope (!) that he was hauled before the Inquisition. Believe it or not, folks, but the Church actually supported Copernicus and Galileo. At least until Galileo decided to tell the pope that he was a simplistic dick by tel...
- Fri Sep 17, 2010 8:25 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Transhumanism
- Replies: 54
- Views: 10689
Right. I'm only going to say this once. It may surprise a lot of you, particularly considering that I rarely post on here (witness my post count), but I just had to post here. I'm deaf. Now, however, I am not Deaf. What this means is that I am physically deaf. I was born without any natural hearing ...
- Wed Apr 28, 2010 10:17 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Book Recommendations
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3631
The Enchantress of Florence , by Salman Rushdie Think Arabian Nights meets Machiavelli's The Prince . A storyteller appears at a Muslim court in the East and begins to tell a story, a story that draws us back to Florence under the Medici family (15th, 16th centuries) and involves Machiavelli. There...
- Mon Feb 02, 2009 12:31 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Complete Randomness
- Replies: 2889
- Views: 656195
- Sat Dec 20, 2008 5:54 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Dear Diary/Journal/Bob 3.0
- Replies: 4617
- Views: 1457597
4.55 am. -32 outside. -47 with the windchill. Would you like to take my place for the drive out to see the grandparents, Bob? Or any chance that you could convince everyone else that the sane thing to do is to say to hell with this and go back to bed and not get up until it's a practically balmy 20 ...
- Sat Dec 20, 2008 5:46 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Currently Reading / Just Read (Books/stories/whatever)
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 386951
I read Candide this weekend. I think I appreciated the humour more when I was telling the story to people afterward. Good stuff all around. I'll have to read more Voltaire. Hee. Oh, Voltaire.... Candide was quite a good read, and short as well. I have to agree - you don't really appreciate Voltaire...
- Sat Dec 20, 2008 5:34 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: How about that weather, then, eh?
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 310048
- Tue Dec 09, 2008 8:10 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Dear Diary/Journal/Bob 3.0
- Replies: 4617
- Views: 1457597
- Wed Nov 26, 2008 9:56 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Complete Randomness
- Replies: 2889
- Views: 656195
- Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:50 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Things that I love
- Replies: 2860
- Views: 590615
- Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:46 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: World Hegemony and the Free People of Earth
- Replies: 42
- Views: 15347
- Sun Nov 16, 2008 7:22 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Need comments didnt know any other plce to put this
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8775
- Fri Nov 14, 2008 1:55 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Hell (for real this time)
- Replies: 45
- Views: 19975
Like history, chemistry, or computer science, you really ought to know what you're talking about before you enter a discussion No . but people just assume that's not necessary when talking about religion. Hypothetically were I to ask you about something involving religion, it would be because I wou...
- Wed Nov 12, 2008 11:49 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: the lost voice of God
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8675
- Wed Nov 12, 2008 11:47 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Hell (for real this time)
- Replies: 45
- Views: 19975
Right. Let's flip this discussion around for the sake of argument. Rei does not exist. (Sorry, Rei! :P) Because I believe that he does not exist, I don't have to respond to anyone's objections, because any objections put to the above statement will be based upon the assumption that he does exist, an...
- Tue Nov 11, 2008 11:20 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Lest we forget...
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10105
My paternal great-grandfather fought in WWI. He survived the Battle of Vimy Ridge in 1917 and eventually returned home to start a family.
- Tue Nov 11, 2008 11:12 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Disability and religion
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6875
- Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:06 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Hell (for real this time)
- Replies: 45
- Views: 19975
Why do you say that the first statement - shadow's - makes no extraordinary claims? Granted, according to Occam's Razor, it appears to be the simplest solution: that hell cannot exist. Because non-existence of something is the default belief. If you say such-and-such exists, you have to prove it do...
- Tue Nov 11, 2008 3:34 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Disability and religion
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6875
- Tue Nov 11, 2008 3:22 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Hell (for real this time)
- Replies: 45
- Views: 19975
See, the problem is, you're just repeating yourself. You haven't said anything new. This is exactly what I mean when I say it's never followed by actual dialogue. You're not interested in listening. Nothing I say will result in anything but that same statement. I've been down this road before. Not ...
- Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:18 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Confessions of a 20-something mother
- Replies: 3888
- Views: 917154
- Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:15 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Dear Diary/Journal/Bob 3.0
- Replies: 4617
- Views: 1457597
- Tue Nov 11, 2008 3:56 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Hell (for real this time)
- Replies: 45
- Views: 19975
Hell is not real it there just to scare people. Hell is a real and present danger to all humans. Now what makes your statement more valid than mine? The first statement makes no extraordinary claims. The second does, and thus the burden of proof lies with you. Why do you say that the first statemen...
- Tue Nov 11, 2008 3:32 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Hell (for real this time)
- Replies: 45
- Views: 19975
To Jebus' comment about sadism: I wonder if you were thinking of self-mortification? Granted, that's been practised in Catholicism, and still is, to an extent. In a sense, that's a form of sadism, yet it's practised in order to bring oneself closer to God. What makes this more - or less - valid than...
- Sun Nov 09, 2008 4:55 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Hell (for real this time)
- Replies: 45
- Views: 19975
Also, anyone who's into epic poetry (think Homer's Iliad and Odyssey , for instance) might also like Milton's Paradise Lost . Hell isn't discussed as much as it is in Dante, but Milton really brings the Rebellion of the Angels and the Fall (of both the rebel angels and of man) to life in this wonder...
- Sat Nov 08, 2008 10:16 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: hell the place not the word
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9080
- Sat Nov 08, 2008 10:03 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Hell (for real this time)
- Replies: 45
- Views: 19975
- Sat Nov 08, 2008 10:02 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Hell (for real this time)
- Replies: 45
- Views: 19975
I'll discuss my thoughts about hell in another post. (I suspect Rei will articulate them soon enough - he's far more capable at articulating thoughts such as these than I am.) One of the most vivid descriptions of Hell in literature is Dante's Inferno . There are nine circles in Hell itself, each co...
- Sat Nov 08, 2008 7:02 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: hell the place not the word
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9080
- Sat Nov 08, 2008 1:06 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: New President of United States
- Replies: 42
- Views: 15326
Shadow's correct. Technically speaking, Obama is unofficially the president-elect until 15 December, when the Electoral College meets to formally cast its votes for him (as per the division of votes as a result of the election). After that, he officially becomes president-elect until January. He off...
- Sat Nov 08, 2008 12:51 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: hell the place not the word
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9080
Do you have anything meaningful to bring to a discussion on heaven and hell and its role in religion, shadow? I'm sure people would be glad to discuss such a topic if you would take it seriously long enough to engage in said discussion. As for your post asking me what I'm talking about, I quote: Wow...
- Sat Nov 08, 2008 12:36 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Question for Christians
- Replies: 47
- Views: 19556