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Post subject: Yet another philosophical/religious discussion/rant
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Comments about a God-inspired Moral Law, mostly by C. S. Lewis.
This was e-mailed to me by my youth ministries counselor. I added my own views on it and sent it back. However, I think that the members of this board could provide better, broader, and much faster discussion of this. Any thoughts?
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 Sat May 17, 2003 7:58 pm |
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Yes, it's quite feasible to give a 4 page file with small black and red text to a message board of people with (more or less) ADD as soon as they get on their computers, and to then expect them to make philosophical comments and inquiries on said document.
In any case, I'm just shocked that a "youth ministries" organization is openly sending the works of 1 (one) C. S. Lewis to youths. Maybe they just don't know about the books he wrote while he was in cahootz with the Devil.
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| Sun May 18, 2003 10:19 am |
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The Paradox has a headache. He had one last night when he first saw this thread, too. Don't expect anything interesting from the Paradox for at least a day.
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| Sun May 18, 2003 10:37 am |
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Meh. I've got time. It took me two months to get around to doing anything.
ST, I know that most members won't read the whole thing. I don't care. A few might, and they might have something interesting to say. I'm just fishing. About the C.S. Lewis thing, they're really only speaking about the pro-God stuff, of course. Also, I'm not in any danger of being corrupted by some guy who didn't always in the favor of Chrisitanity. I don't even believe it makes sense for God to exist, nor do I think I should believe in and follow any Almighty Thing, just because it claims to exist and be powerful. I'm the only person in my youth group who openly refuses to believe in God. Yes, it's hypocritical, but it's not my fault.
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Krogoth uses Berserk.
Attacks are enhanced but defense weakens.
"Wait, that's not the cure button ... " |
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| Sun May 18, 2003 11:23 am |
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Take it to the system!
...Yeah.
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| Sun May 18, 2003 10:16 pm |
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whazt if the "almighty thing" was a 40 foot tall giant man-eating spider who dripped poison from its fangs and could create flowers with its mighty farts?
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| Sun May 18, 2003 10:49 pm |
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and here we were expecting something philisophical, oh my giddy aunt
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| Mon May 19, 2003 12:33 am |
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that'll come onceI get time to read the article. Where the hell is dougisdill?
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| Mon May 19, 2003 12:08 pm |
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Still have that headache. And now, both of my nostrils are stuffed, as opposed to yesterday, when it was just the left one. :::sigh:::
And hte funny part about the 2 posts before me is that only 5 people will get the jokes.
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| Mon May 19, 2003 4:31 pm |
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| Spookmonkey wrote: |
| whazt if the "almighty thing" was a 40 foot tall giant man-eating spider who dripped poison from its fangs and could create flowers with its mighty farts? |
Don't be talkin' smack about my mama.
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| Mon May 19, 2003 10:48 pm |
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| Spookmonkey wrote: |
| whazt if the "almighty thing" was a 40 foot tall giant man-eating spider who dripped poison from its fangs and could create flowers with its mighty farts? |
It's a mecha! God is a mecha!
Let us pray to the mecha! Let us write fanfictions about this mecha and its pilots! We can call it the mecha bible...
...wait a minute...
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| Tue May 20, 2003 8:21 pm |
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Hmm...
"None who lay eyes on God shall live to tell about it."
That could work. 
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"When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."- C.S. Lewis
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| Tue May 20, 2003 8:47 pm |
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so are we praying to Mecca? or Mecha?
 so confused...
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| Tue May 20, 2003 10:38 pm |
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*Reads the longest and most boring essay ever*
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| Wed May 21, 2003 12:00 am |
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| Spookmonkey wrote: |
| whazt if the "almighty thing" was a 40 foot tall giant man-eating spider who dripped poison from its fangs and could create flowers with its mighty farts? |
That depends - does this Spider eat people and create flowers in ways that are distinguishable from non-Spider-caused incidents? If so, then it can be shown that the Spider exists in a capacity other than killing people and farting. This is infinitely preferable to the Almighty Thing of the Christians, who says that he creates everything and does everything, and there's nothing he doesn't do, and thus no way to show that it is in fact him, and not, say, chemical interactions, that do stuff. There really isn't any way to determine whether an Almighty Thing does everything, or nothing.
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Krogoth uses Berserk.
Attacks are enhanced but defense weakens.
"Wait, that's not the cure button ... " |
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| Wed May 21, 2003 11:03 am |
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