"It's what made me go from agnostic to atheist.
We just use the concept of God whenever we reach personal limits. Time and time again we use God to explain things and we're proven wrong." (emphasis added)
I'll bite. And in response to the bolded selection of your text, I'd argue that what you felt then was your soul seeking the safety and truth of God; after you felt more stable you left that safety of your own volition because you felt silly believing in that sort of stuff.
And I'll clarify my position too, I am a Christian with creationist beliefs. Oh I like science too, God gave me a brain and the desire to understand. Fortunately he also gave me the good sense to know that both religion and science applied in tandem can serve a far greater purpose than either one applied alone.
You say that you have become an athiest as a coping mechanism, I find that incredible. To me, that is tantamount to confessing that you swam out to sea to escape the life rafts. Have you actually listened to reasonable and practical people explain the belief structure? And I mean listened, not debated, I mean tried to understand, not tried to formulate counterpoints.
I guess it just doesn't seem to add up. I have found ridiculing the belief in God to be an extremely popular activity among the "Intelligentsia." And these are the very people who decry plebians as irrational and suggest that their choices are selected after an incomplete evaluation of all possible solutions. Perhaps you can help me understand this duality of belief, this unmentioned understanding that God can be summarily dismissed, but all other decisions and actions should be subjected to great scrutiny.
So then I pose this to you, how can you rule out the possibility of God, how can you decide that He does not exist when there is precious little evidence to support your belief, and what evidence there is (on either side) hasn't been completely (or, perhaps, even slightly) reviewed by you.
Absolutely! It seems to me that the slashdot crowd would be very familiar with inferior products being pushed into the consumers hands with very expensive ad campaigns. Wonderful synopsis of "the importance of sincerity and passion in art." After all, art is only a physical extension of the passion within its originator as well as withing its audience.
"If you love making model airplanes, and just feel compelled to do it in your soul, are you going to quit your job and start making model airplanes every day? No way...In the end, it's always a matter of economics."
How I pity the would be model maker, and how bitter those tears will be on his deathbed; realizing life has passed him by, and with nary a model made.
Seek out what fulfills you in life, if you find something that you love to do, that you feel compelled to do, do it, do it well. Cling to your aspirations, dirk has no idea what he's talking about. More on topic, you'll find that in every profession, every trade, a person who loves what they do makes a superior product, provides a superior service, it is that simple.
I would rather everyone be an artist than a robot, and am not arguing against the ability of everyone to learn to do a certain task, but a person who is fulfilled in their duty, day in and day out, who sees their work as art, those are artists. It has been covered here before, in many terms, is code beautiful? -- art? Yes, to the artist that created it. And a perfectly restored porsche 356, is that art? Again, ask the artist who spent 11 years toiling on his creation, to him the answer is simple.
Forget what preconcieved notions you may have, forget chasing paychecks for fifty years, forget the big house, the luxury sedans, remember who you really are, and what really makes you happy; recover the artist you lost so long ago trying to chase other peoples dreams, start chasing your own.
Why not just put a brief disclaimer bringing attention to the nature of the song prior to airing it. Oh, I know why... it makes too much sense. Cynical Sarcasm, or Sarcastic Cynisism? You decide. -- din
> if the ownership committee for the roads (the Government) decided that you need limiters to use their roads, then by golly, why are they any less entitled to do so any more than the owners of Talledega could impose a 50 MPH limit on their course?
Because, mistaken Eccles, WE are the owners of these roads, we picked up the tab for the land, the materials, and labor, WE ARE the ownership committee. We, the majority of active voters, should not be subjected to anything which we deem innappropriate, or just plain not fun. If we don't like it, it shouldn't be.PERIOD. I would seriously recommend a little brush up on the finer points of Democratic Republics.
Unfortunately, this is what happens in a society which has become lulled into docility by their own contentment.
Slashdot Mirror
"Scientists have unraveled the DNA of another of our primate relatives..."
Yeah, right, macro-evolution is a sham. You are a child of God.
But, it appears, a very foolish child indeed.
And I'll clarify my position too, I am a Christian with creationist beliefs. Oh I like science too, God gave me a brain and the desire to understand. Fortunately he also gave me the good sense to know that both religion and science applied in tandem can serve a far greater purpose than either one applied alone.
And as an aside, yes, Einstein did say it better.
http://en.thinkexist.com/quotation/science_withou
You say that you have become an athiest as a coping mechanism, I find that incredible. To me, that is tantamount to confessing that you swam out to sea to escape the life rafts. Have you actually listened to reasonable and practical people explain the belief structure? And I mean listened, not debated, I mean tried to understand, not tried to formulate counterpoints.
I guess it just doesn't seem to add up. I have found ridiculing the belief in God to be an extremely popular activity among the "Intelligentsia." And these are the very people who decry plebians as irrational and suggest that their choices are selected after an incomplete evaluation of all possible solutions. Perhaps you can help me understand this duality of belief, this unmentioned understanding that God can be summarily dismissed, but all other decisions and actions should be subjected to great scrutiny.
So then I pose this to you, how can you rule out the possibility of God, how can you decide that He does not exist when there is precious little evidence to support your belief, and what evidence there is (on either side) hasn't been completely (or, perhaps, even slightly) reviewed by you.
Absolutely!
It seems to me that the slashdot crowd would be very familiar with inferior products being pushed into the consumers hands with very expensive ad campaigns.
Wonderful synopsis of "the importance of sincerity and passion in art." After all, art is only a physical extension of the passion within its originator as well as withing its audience.
"If you love making model airplanes, and just feel compelled to do it in your soul, are you going to quit your job and start making model airplanes every day? No way...In the end, it's always a matter of economics."
How I pity the would be model maker, and how bitter those tears will be on his deathbed; realizing life has passed him by, and with nary a model made.
Seek out what fulfills you in life, if you find something that you love to do, that you feel compelled to do, do it, do it well. Cling to your aspirations, dirk has no idea what he's talking about.
More on topic, you'll find that in every profession, every trade, a person who loves what they do makes a superior product, provides a superior service, it is that simple.
I would rather everyone be an artist than a robot, and am not arguing against the ability of everyone to learn to do a certain task, but a person who is fulfilled in their duty, day in and day out, who sees their work as art, those are artists. It has been covered here before, in many terms, is code beautiful? -- art? Yes, to the artist that created it. And a perfectly restored porsche 356, is that art? Again, ask the artist who spent 11 years toiling on his creation, to him the answer is simple.
Forget what preconcieved notions you may have, forget chasing paychecks for fifty years, forget the big house, the luxury sedans, remember who you really are, and what really makes you happy; recover the artist you lost so long ago trying to chase other peoples dreams, start chasing your own.
Why not just put a brief disclaimer bringing attention to the nature of the song prior to airing it. Oh, I know why... it makes too much sense. Cynical Sarcasm, or Sarcastic Cynisism? You decide. -- din
> if the ownership committee for the roads (the Government) decided that you need limiters to use their roads, then by golly, why are they any less entitled to do so any more than the owners of Talledega could impose a 50 MPH limit on their course?
Because, mistaken Eccles, WE are the owners of these roads, we picked up the tab for the land, the materials, and labor, WE ARE the ownership committee.
We, the majority of active voters, should not be subjected to anything which we deem innappropriate, or just plain not fun. If we don't like it, it shouldn't be. PERIOD.
I would seriously recommend a little brush up on the finer points of Democratic Republics.
Unfortunately, this is what happens in a society which has become lulled into docility by their own contentment.