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The world is for man. But.. is man for the world?

I am a christian and here's my attempt to answer the question 'what is christianity?' Mmmmh, I am not proud of the result, but it's really the first thing that came in my mind.

What is...

I think so.



But it's difficult for me to understand this one because I think it is choice that requires love. You don't choose what you don't love, what you don't like. How can we choose to...

And honesty too...

It worked..it worked..:p

A big sreaming about it? From the way you express it, it sounds to me that such attitudes towards death bother you.....

A bit off topic, those acts are not really against human natural instinct, I think. Remember the term thanatos? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanatos_%28Freud%29

It seems what Russel calls God there is a no-God. The problem to argue, then, would be on the comprehension of the term "God".

Why do I read Literature?

Things go very fast through me. I hardly know what they are, whether I know them or not, whether they are good or bad for me. I read literature because it can slow them...

I am quoting again shadowsarin's post as I've just come across this text from a book. Sorry for the length, but I think it is worth quoting here to further our discussion. This is from C.S. Lewis:
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For me, it is wrong. Coz I know death is nothing to me.

Ah, then I have misinterpreted you. Sorry for that, cuppajoe

And I agree with you. I was just using irony when I called it "an assumed generalization". :p As you and cuppajoe and I observe, fear of death has the characteristic of an objective thing.

Now,...

I see that your pragmatic reason includes, if i may say, an assumed generalization. What drives you to such generalization? Or, what makes you so ready to assume that "all members of society do not...

What are these pragmatic reasons? Why should they be reasons? I assume they possess a certain definite value.



I remember you have said it before and I also remember that there was a british...

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Sad, indeed. But, it's inevitable. At least for me, Whiff. I am always conscious of my making excuses. So that in the end I always find myself without excuse. Everytime I made an excuse, I always...

Mmm, I think so.

I have something in my mind. I am thinking about doing something. I know that the thing I'm going to do is not right. But, I really want to do that thing, and I have my reasons,...

Considering what happen around me, contemplating dostoevsky, looking at myself, I believe, I'm afraid, the above presupposition is only seemingly unquestionable.



I think, pierre, those...

Or is it vice versa (Sin gives birth to ignorance, therefore, since we are all sinners, we can't find the right answers) ?

BUt, isn't fairy tales symbolizing reality? There are the good guys, the bad guys, the consequences of bad or good deeds, the sufferings/adventures one must go through before achieving happiness,...

Exactly. And, I think I've given another example.

I really believe that there really is such an instinct, abhoration for killing ones human beings. But I also believe that instincts can be supressed for some reason (just as religious instinct), and...

Hello, I'd like to make some comment on the structure of the group of sentences you quoted from the Genesis.Here's the quote:

"The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He...

I'd say, the biggest problem with the world is the man