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on In the berth by INTRANSIT
11 Oct 2005, 4:05 AM
I just posted a poem with the same title (guess I shoulda checked first). This one's better in some ways but also much easier to write.
And to think this all started with a Tadpole.
Your thinking religion. Your thinking too big. Faith is trust.
Trust starts in the psychy. It may need something outside to effect it but like all other human perceptions it starts in the brain and is effected by your own psychological preferences.
Actually God made us through the process of evolution.
(and by God I mean Vin Diesel)
Your right. People who say they have blind faith are full of shit.
I quoted the Summa because their idea is so simular to mine and they wrote it down first. I also was able to expand my idea a little based on their idea. So I thought I'd give credit were credit is due. I have gained some credibility by not lying and saying it was all my idea. I know it's a bit Beaver Cleaver of me.
ADDENDUM:
This is a philosopher: "I believe only because it makes common sense"
This is religious: "I believe because it feels right"
The idea is that a philosopher bases what he believes on common sense, scientific knowledge and plain old logic. Yes it probably feels right but feelings aren't the basis for his belief.
Religion sometimes makes sense and sometimes doesn't but it is always based on the feelings of its believers.
I don't think I ever disagreed with that third comment.
Yeah, but you can't learn much about the devil reading the bible.
Enough but not much.
Verse 2 is especially nice.
Nice, but do you really hear a cat's purr from under the hood?
The key words are "religion should be found by . . ." Most people bet their souls on the word of a Cardinal Stinkyfingers as written in some ancient text. Even then they take the word of some interpretor of Cardinal Stinkyfingers' writings, of which there are many. Thus Christianity is not a single religion, but an array of denominations and interpretations.
You are wise, my child, in heeding the Gospel of Dovina, for she has the one and only true message.
Affectionately,
Dovina,
General Manager of the Universe
You began by saying, "This is a philosopher: 'I believe X.'" But belief is not philosophy, and there you go astray. Add and retract addendums all day, it won't help.
The point is, (and it should be obvious) that you're argueing about nonsense while I'm trying to make a serious point. You argue with a statements like "Evolution made dogs" because you can't understand the wording. It's the same as saying "chance made dogs," dogs were made by chance" or "by chance, dogs were made." These statements all mean the same thing. Can we leave this trivial aside at that?
Really?
Beatiful... I wish I was you under the chestnut, bonin that girl.
I'm researching. back in a minute.
whoda thunk just friendly needling could make a poem, ha!
If I only knw gambling jargon.....
PS-It may be possible to say instead "phenomena made us, but to no purpose". But what's the point?
I've gotta run, so I'll sum up.
DOVINA: Evolution isn't sentient. It made us.
ZODIAC: Evolution isn't a thing capable of making. It's a theory, a way of rationalizing phenomena. You're like saying the metric system made centimeters (or, better, it made distance).
DOVINA: Evolution isn't sentient. It made us.
ZODIAC: Urggh.