The Genesis : Common sense vs. Nietzsche

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Wezil
Have you heard Hicks bit on Dinosaurs?

Nope.

[Wezil]

[Nikolai]

Originally posted by Wezil
Eddie Izzard

Ah, Eddie Izzard! Great fun that guy. Just fabulous.

[Kidlicious]

Can anyone tell my how to link video? I want to post a classic, George Carlin.

Eddie Izzard has a new bit on dinosaurs, but it's not on youtube.

Anyway, anyone can look it up on youtube. Here's a sample...

"What's the use in having a divine plan when every two buck smuck with a prayer book can come along and **** up your plan?"

Also, look at my location for more George Carlin.

[Fake Boris]

Dracon - I agree with most of what you said. I think it makes a bridge with what Nietzsche said. For him (and Spinoza), knowledge = action = ethics.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Wezil




And you call me dense. You're arguing a diety that is time specific. He makes no sense wrt modern culture. Please.

No, can you read? I argued that a deity's communications with specific groups of people is time specific and tainted by cultural context. Or, alternatively, the people of the time could only record the message in a culturally-specific way. Either way, if God spoke to us now we would be able to understand it [more] clearly.

[Kidlicious]

[Kidlicious]

Stunned smiley needs the jaw hanging down for certain posts.

[Kidlicious]

George Carlin says Kuci is a reasonable person

"If there is a God most reasonable people would agree that he is either incompetent or doesn't give a ****"

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Kidicious
That might be because you're the only one who read it.

its usually the way that something isnt interesting if you dont read it.


Heres a nice little piece on Nietsche and Judaism

http://www.vbs.org/rabbi/hshulw/nap.htm

[Wezil]

Originally posted by Kidicious
Can anyone tell my how to link video? I want to post a classic, George Carlin.

Eddie Izzard has a new bit on dinosaurs, but it's not on youtube.

Anyway, anyone can look it up on youtube. Here's a sample...

"What's the use in having a divine plan when every two buck smuck with a prayer book can come along and **** up your plan?"

Also, look at my location for more George Carlin.

Copy the "embed" info from the youtube page (on right side of page) and paste it here. That simple.

[Kidlicious]

[Wezil]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


No, can you read? I argued that a deity's communications with specific groups of people is time specific and tainted by cultural context. Or, alternatively, the people of the time could only record the message in a culturally-specific way. Either way, if God spoke to us now we would be able to understand it [more] clearly.

I can but apparently god can't. If this is your line of reasoning then please tell me where did god go for the last couple thousand years and why did he, in all his wisdom, see fit to tell our ancestors all the really important stuff they need to know at a time they couldn't possibly understand it? Doesn't sound very wise to me.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Wezil

I mean whether you can justifiably kill all non-believers is a pretty serious issue don't you think?

No, I think it so obviously non-sensical that it would have been stupid to even mention it

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Wezil


I can but apparently god can't. If this is your line of reasoning then please tell me where did god go for the last couple thousand years

Hes inside us, and its our job to make the texts relevant in each generation, by studying, thinking and interpretating.


Im sorry to be brief on this, but the civilizational gulf between the Jewish POV and the view of an old man with a beard, to whose word humans should add nothing - SOLE SCRIPTURA!!!!! - is simply too vast for me to spend my time on.