Brent, please acknowledge that aside from the divine right of kings, the
Atheist-Marxists did exactly the identical badness under the leaderships of
Stalin,Mao, Pol Pot, the Kim Dynasty in North Korean, slaughtered tens of
millions, tortured, deprived women of rights, slave labor, and specialized, in
torture. All these scientific socialsts, all athesists. Just a way of putting
things into perspective.
Mitch
"Peasent: Hey! That's a good idea!
God: Of course it's a good idea, you idiot!"
----Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Of course this ethic requiredness supported slavery, ethnic cleansing, divine
ight of
ings, faith over inquiry, ignorance over knowledge, oppression of women, and
nfinite
orture for unbelievers.
Brent
Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of
is Reason."
--- Martin Luther
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From: meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net>
To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thu, Jul 4, 2013 8:19 pm
Subject: Re: John Leslie's 'Infinite Minds: A Philosophical Cosmology'
On 7/4/2013 5:02 PM, freqflyer07281972 wrote:
Hey List! (and in particular Bruno)
I have started re-reading the book I mention in the subject line -- after
anguishing in
my bookshelf for a number of years, I pulled it out and began noticing the
ncanny
parallels it had with Bruno's UDA, although it reaches the same conclusions by
ome
rather different means, notably; it postulates God as the thinker of all
houghts,
envisioning god in a Spinozistic/Platonic light, and (something that from what
have
read seems absent from the UDA) postulates the 'ethical requiredness' of God
s being of
enough force to bring him into being, thus short-circuiting the old " If God
xists,
what caused him to exist?" type of argument.
Yeah, "postulating" is a good way to short circuit arguments (and burn out
ational wiring).
> I guess my general question is if any of you are familiar with Leslie's work
nd if so,
to what degree, and also if so, to what degree do you find it plausible?
Myself, I seem to be going through a kind of metaphysical conversion of sorts,
ne
where, despite the multiplicity of minds/universes, there nevertheless seems
o be an
unspeakable and seemingly permanent unity to all things. I'm almost leaning
owards
Christianity, for the simple reason that it seems peculiar and particular
nough to just
be right and suitable to reality. (Reading CS Lewis' 'Mere Christianity' has
wayed me
in this way -- check it out, it's online).
Of course this ethic requiredness supported slavery, ethnic cleansing, divine
ight of
ings, faith over inquiry, ignorance over knowledge, oppression of women, and
nfinite
orture for unbelievers.
Brent
Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of
is Reason."
--- Martin Luther
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