tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post7050243295083780562..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Exiting the Circle of DoubtGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85325320927093519552011-10-13T22:56:31.415-07:002011-10-13T22:56:31.415-07:00"I am your God and You shall have no other Go..."I am your God and You shall have no other Gods before me."<br /><br />Yea. My most favorite commandment. Proof against all addictions. Apply topically as needed. :)<br /><br />"Rather, man's dignity is rooted in a kind of "disinterested passion" to know truth."<br /><br />Something forgotten by Misanthropes. We are more than our animal instincts.<br /><br />"But nor should he be proud of his knowledge, since he can have nothing to do with it aside from recognizing it. "<br /><br />Yea, the truth is out there, its just not centered on the self.Cond0011https://www.blogger.com/profile/04576204654819543273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-58523265757699878122011-10-13T10:07:03.354-07:002011-10-13T10:07:03.354-07:00Wow.
And yes, exactly.Wow.<br />And yes, exactly.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-19631796661113649842011-10-13T09:59:12.724-07:002011-10-13T09:59:12.724-07:00Willfulness over truth. Choice cannot be our end,...<a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/blog/shocking-video-planned-parenthood-reps-tell-students-to-ignore-science-abou/" rel="nofollow">Willfulness over truth</a>. <i>Choice</i> cannot be our end, anymore than doubt can be. Rather, it depends on what one chooses and what one doubts.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-10108750876682322482011-10-13T09:15:46.441-07:002011-10-13T09:15:46.441-07:00Indeed you may have noticed that this is precisely...<i>Indeed you may have noticed that this is precisely what animates many doctrinaire atheists, who are too proud and dignified to ever lower themselves to the level of religion.</i><br /><br />And to what does their dignity bring them? Apparently, it literally puts them <a href="http://lonelyconservative.com/2011/10/ows-you-can-have-sex-with-animals/" rel="nofollow">beneath the beasts</a>.<br /><br />Conversely, there is <a href="http://ragamuffinstudies.blogspot.com/2011/10/yom-kippur-worthy-of-covenant.html" rel="nofollow">this</a> very relevant observation about Yom Kippur (via Retriever):<br /><br />"Judaism teaches that the human being is born with the ability to choose between good and evil, between actions that lead to life and those that lead to death.<br /><br />...Judaism requires that every human being stand up and choose life, not just once and for all time, but in every situation and every action.<br /><br />...On Yom Kippur we stop to remember our own power as free human beings, and reflect that our sins and failings come from evasion of that reality. And we dignify other individuals with similar agency, recognizing that they, too, are human beings capable of recognizing and choosing between good and evil."<br /><br />The protestors stinking up Wall Street and other places have surrendered their human dignity; they want no hard choices to make.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com