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Thoughts on the necessity and frailty of the state of debate on religion.

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[AnsharDark]

I don't see the state of affairs you present with religious debate as being any different with debate about any subject. There is a ridiculous amount of attachment inherent to 'typical' positions, regardless of the subject matter. Innovation and new cognitive development on topics have become so rare. It's not that we've said all that we can say, it's that the effort to say what hasn't been said and to defend it is almost completely lacking in our modern world, which is so very very sad.

[TheCarruths]

@AnsharDark Precisely so. Religious debate is but one example of a far more widespread problem.

[tbgx1]

btw I like you and your videos. The videos would be incredibly provocative and engaging were you ever to make a clear decision regarding "what is", but that would have to happen organically. Honesty is all one can ask of a person

Right now I see you as a form of post modern taoist. Taoism is an easy way out, for the intellectually minded. To take a reasonably clear position and argue it is much more difficult.

The question is simple. Do we go on after death, and what does that entail?

[TheCarruths]

@tbgx1 Taoist? In so far as a "third way", yes. In the balance of opposites, walking the narrow spectrum band of monopolar metaphysics, all to embrace serenity? Feh.

The questions most frequently asked because they do not interest me, have been settled to my satisfaction long before my birth, or are irrelevant to why I ask or address questions. Is it easier to select a meal off the menu or to cook for oneself? Is it inherently moral to pursue what is difficult and reject what is easy?

[tbgx1]

@TheCarruths Feh= "not so much"? How is ur 3rd way different?

Wy do u ask/address questions; entertainment? Do lifes stakes seem high to u?

We're just mixing around the discovered ingredients, not inventing any of them. Stories are impressive. But "ring of truth" is not the same as actual truth.

2me yes. Does "Inherent morality" exist outside our subjective tastes? Ones "evil" is another's pleasure. Morality needs to be grounded in an objective source to have any power or significance.

[TheCarruths]

@tbgx1 "Third way" only makes sense if we're talking about movement on a line, not a plane, not in space. Strange and tragic that "graduation" from black and white would stop at grey (what about blue? green?). Qualia rather than quantity.

I ask questions because I want answers, and the stakes are too high to muck about with convenient cliche. The available positions have rendered the solutions that they'll render. If we want different results, we need novel ideas.

[YourBrotherByGrace]

Thanks for the video. Please define conversion, as in conversion for atheism to? Thanks.

[randyhelzerman]

I was a teenaged scum-sucking atheist!!!!!!!!!!!

[PiratGeneralen]

lul wut naoz

[threeofwands]

Yes, I must learn how to navigate the infuriation, thank you.

I must say that over all this time on youtube your videos have lost nothing of their original spectacular luster. Something no one else connected thereby could claim.

[Monolith1618]

Yeah. Lets make it real by being real, and recording it. Please? No. No cultural mannerisms. Just fucking do it! I'm moving to Reso Nation. Again! :D

[tbgx1]

@TheCarruths What convinces u the stakes are high?

Qualia? I hear people are getting their minds blown by DMT. ;)

Already blew mine, now putting it together. I want to know the source of mind and movement. Looking for an original paradigm is romantic and even rebellious. Robert Persig made a great effort to bring new understanding of "quality, the good, and morality", came up with high tech taoism.

Different results to what end, regarding what? Example of a novel idea from the past?