The problem may be that your perception of is/is not has been colored by empiricism, which is a religion in and of itself.
I'd recommend going to church
and reading scripture, plus
looking into Kierkegaard.
"SCRIPTURE"http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2002/WhyCantIOwnACanadian_10-02.html
What are you getting at?
Quote from: Eliab on February 28, 2016, 08:58:46 PMWhat are you getting at?Christianity is a joke. Door's leading you down a bad path. You will ignore this.
Quote from: Verbatim on February 28, 2016, 08:59:55 PMQuote from: Eliab on February 28, 2016, 08:58:46 PMWhat are you getting at?Christianity is a joke. Door's leading you down a bad path. You will ignore this.Don't tell him what to fucking do.
Quote from: Korra on February 28, 2016, 09:01:23 PMQuote from: Verbatim on February 28, 2016, 08:59:55 PMQuote from: Eliab on February 28, 2016, 08:58:46 PMWhat are you getting at?Christianity is a joke. Door's leading you down a bad path. You will ignore this.Don't tell him what to fucking do.Where EXACTLY did I tell him what to do?Show me the EXACT spot where I did that.
"Christianity is a joke."Declarative statement, not an imperative statement."Door's leading you down a bad path."Declarative statement."You will ignore this."Declarative statement.Shut the fuck up.
Korra, it's okay. I value Verbatim's words.
Empiricism is simply slavery of the mind to sense-experience. Tied to modern materialism and skepticism, it traps one behind a door of arbitrary garbage. Evidence, proofs, these are of no intrinsic value outside of the context of an empiricist-skepticist worldview. A worldview that fails to justify itself.
Practice in Christianity is the most important, even Kierkegaard recognized it as such. You probably should read The Sickness Unto Death first or after, though.
Because they are on "our" level, or below it.
We choose what we bow to, and those things we bow to should empower us. Christianity is ideal BECAUSE to practice it allows empowerment of the self in two ways- A) closeness to God and escape from eternal torment or nothingness and B) transcendence of servitude to the Self through loyalty to a higher Other, which allows for an orderly life and worldview resistant to the tugging whims of instinct.
>paying money for philosophyhere you gohttp://www.naturalthinker.net/trl/texts/Kierkegaard,Soren/TheSicknessUntoDeath.pdf
Quote from: DemonicChronic on February 28, 2016, 07:21:09 PMI believe in "I am." The one truth that supersedes all others in my life. "I" being the most basic form of awareness, that is, the awareness that I 'am.' Not "I" as in some white kid named Zach who lives in the USA, smokes pot, and is a deadbeat.Get to work on that sensus divinitatis
I believe in "I am." The one truth that supersedes all others in my life. "I" being the most basic form of awareness, that is, the awareness that I 'am.' Not "I" as in some white kid named Zach who lives in the USA, smokes pot, and is a deadbeat.
MAx Stirner wrote that atheists were pious people. This is true. Most, if not all, Atheists formulate their own arbitrary religions based on abstract, socially imposed gods, rather than personal ones. They may lack a belief in afterlife or things which are beyond their senses, but this is the only distinction. There is still the veneration of saints (thinkers, scientists, leaders, reformers), places of worship (various- the university is a popular one), and a myriad of value systems.
Quote from: Verbatim on February 28, 2016, 09:04:00 PMTo clarify, I do not think you lead me down a bad path. Depressing, esoteric and pessimistic, sure. But I'd rather know an unfortunate truth than a comforting lie, and that is what philosophical pessimism is: the unfortunate truth of reality.