Real World Philospohy

[primitive]

Stop messing with the classics, Atrocities

It's: Love hurts

[General Woundwort]

Originally posted by DavidG:
You seem to be implying that there is 'good observations and proofs' for whatever particular religion you believe. So why have so many people got it wrong?

Well, Freud got something right in that religion can be used for substantiating our desires (his mistake was reducing religion to only that). I tend to be a pretty rational and logical person (sometimes to a fault), but on many issues I'm sure we've all noticed that people aren't totally rational. One of my favorite quotes from Nietzche goes something like "If you were to prove God to me, I would believe in Him all the less." Hardly sounds like a detached observer to me. In conservative Christian circles today there is an arugment over whether God knows the future. A main proponent of the position that God does not, bases his drive for that position on his not wanting to blame God for his brother's death in a motorcycle accident. Again, hardly a detached starting point. Any number of reasons could be given for why people hold to wrong beliefs, but they do - and religion hardly has the corner on this market...

[spoon]

Originally posted by Jack Simth:

Of course, now someone is likely to make a faith statment about science, which is likely to go something like "give them time, they will answer all objections" or some such.

That's because science has a great track record at solving problems. You call it a "faith statement", I call it betting with the odds on favorite.

Of course, the statement should have a conditional in there, like, "...they will LIKELY answer all objections, or provide a new model that does."

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by primitive:
Stop messing with the classics, Atrocities

It's: Love hurts

I did not mess with it, I found it. ALong with a lot of other modified love songs that replaces one or two key words with the word GOD. I think I have stumbled along the key to how all of those religious bands make their music now.

[Fyron]

They had that on South Park 2 weeks ago... Cartman formed a christian rock band and just copied a bunch of love songs, inserting God or Jesus.

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
They had that on South Park 2 weeks ago... Cartman formed a christian rock band and just copied a bunch of love songs, inserting God or Jesus.

Really? Perhaps this site had something to do with that. I will see if I can find it again and provide a link.

[Fyron]

Well South Park is a show of political satire.