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In the quest to define manliness, and to practice it in one's own personal life and community, I believe that acting with dignity and integrity is of importance, to avoid being a hypocrite... How one…Continue
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Summer is a time for road trips and festivals that take us far from our hometown...This entails the need for basic maintenance (like oil changes) along the way, and occasionally involves emergency…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Elliott Jason Ridgway May 26, 2012. 19 Replies 0 Likes
Howdy folks...Now that I seem to have offended just about everyone in this community in one way or another... I'd like to introduce myself :)My name is Elliott, and I leave in the Seattle area of…Continue
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Will replied to Elliott Jason Ridgway's discussion The Elliott Argument in the group The Great DebateReligion, (organized GroupThink), is often confused with Spirituality, which is a personal thing between you & God/No God... & the most heinous thuggery & buggery is committed in the Name of delirious illusionary projections of deity by various factions in order to manipulate & control their own people or justify the wholesale plunder of the resources of another...
In discussing the existence of a Transcendental Omniscience, I have found Atheists & Theists to both employ the same logical fallacies in order to reinforce their chosen paradigm, it usually can be distilled down to the unprovable Assumptions, conscious or otherwise, as the starting point for the premises upon which one constructs their own perceptions of reality... Just like Partisan Political ideologues, both "camps" delight in taking pot-shots at the "Straw-men" guarding the other's nakedness, without recognizing the fuzzy logic they unwittingly utilize to bolster their own unexamined "belief" system, like the proverbial emperor's clothes... This rings true for secular humanists & scientific materialists (Marxists & Eugenicists) as much as it does for the religious zealots (Crusades & Inquisitions)... each faction have killed untold millions...
"God" can neither be proven or disproven with Logic, nor can it be measured with empirical science, so it boils down to a matter of choice for the individual who then predicates their world-view on that Axiom... but that is no reason to abandon Critical Thinking or civility in discussing such a thing... in the end, all of the philosophy in the world without the basis of a Divine creator, the Uncaused Cause, is just intellectual vanity, an exercise in glorified mental manipulation...
Jonathan Hansen said… Nice to have you back!
Elliott Jason Ridgway said… Just got word from concluded spring council, this year's annual Rainbow gathering to be held in Cherokee National Forest. The site is East of South Holston Lake between the lake and Holston Mountain in the NE corner of Tennessee.
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Will said… Yeah, you got it, welcome!
Jonathan Hansen said… Howdy Elliott. Thank you for that generous offer of the sourdough starter. I would love to get some of that. Love the pictures by the way.
Vytautas said… Hi Elliott! Welcome to the fastest-growing group on AoM, the Philhellenists! Glad to have you aboard, and looking forward to your thoughts and discussions--from food to art to travel--on all thing Greek!
Herb Munson said… Why, the Lone Star State is all of the above and more, of course. ha
Herb Munson said… :-) Good to see you.
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