Posted on 12/17/2012 10:02:14 AM PST by Freeport
Sunday
I learned about the massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school while we were setting up at Fox News to tape Cavuto on Business. The news was so horrible that we all felt as if we had lost our legs and could no longer stand. It was such horrible news that it simply turned the world upside down.
It still is that kind of news, and it’s incredibly depressing about the nature of humanity. And my wife and I pray all day for the souls of those dear children and for the peace, if there ever will be peace, of their families… and for the souls of the adults and the peace of those who knew and loved them.
As usual, the smartest comment about the whole subject came from John R. Coyne, Jr. “There is evil in the world. It’s beyond mental illness, beyond gun control. It is evil.”
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Yes, thank you, but it’s not just my world, it’s everyone’s world.
You did mean no ultimate right or wrong also, didn’t you?
Thanks, I’m sure it’s a good read, but I’ll just go with the real conclusion.
From whence do you derive your understanding of God? is it self-constructed?
Self-evidence, derived from God at creation.
Do you consider self-evidence the same as self-constructed?
Your opinion makes it real. I remember that from before when you decided I was self-deluded and your proof was I disagreed with you.
i consider it intellectual arrogance.
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Self-evidence is intellectual arrogance?
Thinking that your intellectual construct of God is the correct one, derived purely from your own mind, is intellectual arrogance. Your posts smack of it too.
You do realise that I never said it was correct, I merely said it’s what I believe.
To be correct, would mean I have knowledge of the construct of God and I could prove it beyond question, wouldn’t it? I don’t believe anyone has or ever had that knowledge.
So then it is YOUR world that is cushy, and not everyone’s.
By definition, if you believe it, then you think it is correct.
How many realities or worlds, do you know of?
Myself,I believe there is only one...but I certainly can’t prove it.
well then there are at least two, because YOUR reality/world bears zero resemblance to mine. Nor have i ever heard anyone else espouse belief in such a reality/world as you describe.
I don’t agree, I think beliefs on this subject, like theories, are open-ended.
The definition of belief is that you think it is true.
Your opinion/belief/thought does not affect reality, no matter how much you think it does.
what a slipping, sliding, conditional world you envision. no fixed standards— believe what you want, do what you want. just strikes me as just so... convenient.
I guess God really does make us individually...so many mysteries
Well, call it something other than a belief then, it really doesn’t matter. Of course it doesn’t affect reality, that’s why it’s not knowledge.
Yes, luckily I don’t want to do anything that gets me in trouble. I’m really quite blessed.
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