by dan Mon Aug 26, 2019 8:08 am
There is something I have not been clear about with regard to personalism, even or especially, in my own mind......
What is the value of a person?
Various federal agencies have placed this value at between $6 and $9 million....... for calculating the benefits of risk abatement, etc.....
Personalists often put the value as priceless.
I would tend to agree..... with the following caveat......
To be more accurate, we might speak in terms of human potential.
Right to lifers certainly exploit this potential for political advantage.
In the pagan/pantheist cultures, one of the strongest indictments against them is the low value often placed upon human life.
Unless you have a robust notion of Creation and cosmic intelligence, nothing has any intrinsic value. Everything is redundant and/or accidental....... meaningless. We are a cancer upon the Earth.
Do the pagan/pantheists really accept this view?
I’m sure that some do. But let’s look more carefully.......
The concepts of Brahman and atman are fundamental to Hindu cosmology.
Many claim that the Buddha rejected both.
The Buddhist concept of Nirvana gives lie to this rejection.
The Buddhist reverence for all life gives lie to this rejection.
The Buddhist reverence for the inner life gives lie to this rejection.
In other words, Siddhartha was one confused muppet.
Not to worry, the Alpha and Omega will straighten out our Siddy.
Love without Truth tends toward the aimless.
Truth without Love tends toward the vacuous.
However, when you put together nitrogen and glycerin...... better watch out.....!
It has been very tricky to keep the two separate, for the past 6,000 years.
We had to walk as if on eggshells....... not anymore, sports fans.
Get ready for the big omelet in the sky.
False doctrines will be swept aside in a flash..... from one end of the Earth to the other.
12:30.........
I’m of a mind that the Princess or her twin sister has it within her grasp to set the Eschaton in motion.
She hesitates...... on the brink......
Yes, I’d want to make sure I was getting a clear signal, before I pulled the cosmic trigger. 3.5 must figure into this equation.
Me.......? I keep my ear to the rail. Something this way comes.
And where are Kevin and Joe, in all of this? All is quiet on the western front.
Last I heard was that Joe had forgotten all about Brazil...... he found it a bit embarrassing.
Gary and smelly,
Can’t you see that Smolin is a jerk? He’s no rebel. He’s another physics nerd, with his head thoroughly wedged...... pardon my French.
He’s right in the same boat with Sarfatti...... he just has less humor.
Look, any time you jokers want to jump off the glory train...... just be my guest.
Both of you as*holes, pardon my French, again, along with Smolin and Sarfatti, place zero value on human life. Get out of my sight. Get thee behind me, idiots.
And then we have, hobbit...... another hanger on......
What value do you place on human life, hobbit?
(cont........)
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