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I will admit that it has been a long time since I bothered to set foot in an actual church, let alone needed to. I suppose I only did so today out of curiosity to see what something as willless as the drones would preach on. I was unsurprised to see the focus was on the book of the law, where God is proclaimed to be jealous in one verse and then loving a few verses later.
Tell me. What is your opinion on God? Not merely if you believe in him, but do you consider his existence something to care about? And if I were to give evidence to you that it did, indeed, exist, would that change your opinion at all?
Tell me. What is your opinion on God? Not merely if you believe in him, but do you consider his existence something to care about? And if I were to give evidence to you that it did, indeed, exist, would that change your opinion at all?
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Date: 2010-08-10 01:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-10 02:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-10 02:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-10 04:59 pm (UTC)Man did well enough to concoct them on their own.
[Or, furthering that, Wilhelm also made sure to obscure the few words that actually were spoken so man wouldn't be able to understand it.]
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Date: 2010-08-11 02:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-11 03:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-11 03:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-11 03:40 am (UTC)Though the nobility of goals and their means are quite dependent on several factors. One man's nobility is another's monstrosity.
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Date: 2010-08-11 04:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-11 04:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-11 05:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-11 05:33 am (UTC)Perhaps.
And yet what if the ulterior motive was something that could benefit a greater whole then all of those gathered here. Do you assert that even if the few who are here somehow help millions for some reason that is inexplicable to us, that Kantian moral imperative is wrong and that the needs of the many do not supersede the wants and desires of the individual?
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Date: 2010-08-11 05:42 am (UTC)Fundamentally wrong. Where is the line drawn? Kill one to save ten? Perhaps. Ten to save one hundred? Less likely. How about a million to save a hundred million?
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Date: 2010-08-11 05:49 am (UTC)Well put.
It should be up to the individual to decide how their life is lived.
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Date: 2010-08-11 06:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-11 06:05 am (UTC)And yet, in order to grow as a species, it is quite common, and acceptable, I should think, for the strong to have power over the weak.
The problem comes when the strong refuse to find a way to teach the weak to be stronger.
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Date: 2010-08-11 02:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-11 06:42 pm (UTC)And no. Physical power, while respectable, should be handled with care and caution.
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Date: 2010-08-12 01:35 am (UTC)What exactly are you driving at, now?
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Date: 2010-08-12 02:08 am (UTC)I simply find it an interesting contradiction.