post theism

I'm just saying....I can't dictate the labels that people use. But, if you want to be understood in life, you use the culturally accepted meanings. Otherwise, life is a constant push-pull, and it gets tiring after a while. You can call tofu a burger all you want, but you still get a ground piece of cow when you order one at McDonald's.

 

I didn't say it is. I said different. I just study the interaction of people and culture, I'm not in the business of judging.

My opinion is that it all comes down to personal satisfaction, if one is happy with his life, that's all that counts. (personal responsibility aside)

 

Step up to the times my friend,

The meaning has changed.

 

And that's not a judgment?

John wayne Gacy was happy with life.

So was Ted Bundy, Hitler, Manson -- need I go on?

is that all that counts?

I rather think your box is defective-- and much worse then the regular.
In fact, your box is why the Hippies failed.

 

To be happy one needed to be responsible. But that was required only after one fell from Grace, discovered the distrusting state of Mankind, and stopped making sense out of reconciliation.

 

Step up to a dictionary, my friend, and learn English if you want to communicate properly.

 

Get yourself a dictionary and read what I said: We were talking about living inside or outside a box, right, Something you put in your signature and [LATER] said was an inside joke that no one else would understand.

What the hell does this have to do with murderers?

Is English your second language?

My opinion is that it all comes down to personal satisfaction, if one is happy with his life, that's all that counts. (personal responsibility aside)

 

We don't need a dictionary to communicate properly, however we do need to agree to terms. Mutually acceptable terms can be agreed upon during conversation. Many times people do not so much wish to communicate with others, as they strive to express themselves, or reach a level of comfort. To many accuracy is simply not important and they would rather embellish a lie rather than discern the truth, all the while claiming and believing that they are upholding righteousness. True communication is difficult in a world that practices deception as a matter of survival. Most people project and publicly uphold those ideas that they feel increases their value in the estimation of others, and seeks to conceal those things which they feel reduces their worth is the eyes of others. It seems to me there would never be a use for the term atheist, if the idea of God had not been considered. The term atheist is not relevant simply as a lack of belief, it is a lack of belief in relation to the concept of god.

 

Eventually, there will be the Lack of Responsibility for the story we present instead of the story We enact. We make no progress that way. That's why we're Happy.


But, just the same, Jackflash, is it more important to come to your Mother or to struggle for the Cause of Liberty (which was not necessarily Just). Nobody presented that one save Plato himself.

 

What is this, the box thread? How about being outside of a box inside a bigger box?

 

I'm going to be inside the box tonight.

 

O.K. There is no infinity outside the box. The infinity which matters is the one of SOmething rather than Nothing. Are all entities finite? No. Some are of infinite concernful property. Will you be doing your taxes perhaps?

 

no I'm getting laid

 

I agree with you on all of this. But, in forums such as this one where people from many cultures, subcultures and generations come together, one should not be surprised when their slang is misinterpreted or not understood. This is the only point I was trying to make.


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