Hi Zeitman, Thanks for your comments - my apologies if you found me patronising! It is exactly because I find it patronising to have a religious structure...
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Mandy Bright
abright@...
Jul 27, 2000 11:36 am
... Date: Tuesday, 25 July 2000 11:12 Subject: Re: [existlist] Digest Number 162 ... be ... purposes ... or ... is ... angst ... Everything's ... know. ... ...
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Adam Woodward
Maad_D@...
Jul 26, 2000 4:26 pm
Hello everyone I'm new to this group, however, I can say that I am glad to be part of a group that discusses matters at an intelligent level, and seem to be ...
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Randy Zeitman
randzman@...
Jul 26, 2000 2:09 pm
... Philosophy... It affronts my sense of self determinism to have an some academic try to figure out my thinking. I find it patronising. People make is sound...
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Yana Youhana
yana_youhana@...
Jul 25, 2000 6:24 pm
Dear Amber (lovely name), If you "beleived"; in what you wrote, then you shouldn't have forgoten what you wrote and asked people to send what you wrote to...
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Amber Leigh Griffioen
griffioe@...
Jul 25, 2000 3:16 pm
I just realized I sent REPLIES to a few posts to the individuals who wrote them, rather than to the whole list. And I didn't even save them to my sent-box!...
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Mandy Bright
abright@...
Jul 25, 2000 12:45 pm
Religion.... It affronts my sense of self determinism to have an institutionalised religion impose a structure on my thinking. I find it patronising. My ...
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Tom J
tom@...
Jul 24, 2000 9:34 pm
I haven't really got time to say much. However, since when did faith in god automatically equate to weakness? I know some very strong Christians. People die...
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Macduff Hicks
theminorcanon@...
Jul 24, 2000 8:00 pm
I feel it is time I contributed to this discussion, and I have many things to say, so here goes: First of all, the poll in, I beleive, Digest #159. I think...
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T Brooks
thom_brooks@...
Jul 24, 2000 11:00 am
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T Brooks
thom_brooks@...
Jul 24, 2000 11:00 am
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C. S. Wyatt
cswyatt@...
Jul 22, 2000 8:28 am
Faith. I must agree with Amber (who apparently has enough faith in mankind to post her phone number in messages) that faith in its various forms is an action. ...
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Randy Zeitman
randzman@...
Jul 21, 2000 2:02 pm
... I agree and the reason exposes an important argument point..rational thought. Deciding is a rational act, not a reaction. And when one starts to think...
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Jared Frailey
lostmaia@...
Jul 20, 2000 9:30 pm
As long as you are not harming another person's freedom, you should be free to act on or think what you wish. I wouldn't be allowed to lock someone in a cage...
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Amber Leigh Griffioen
griffioe@...
Jul 20, 2000 3:19 pm
... So if I go through an exhaustive mental process and decide that, to me personally, it would be OK to hit another person in the head with a baseball bat,...
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Amber Leigh Griffioen
griffioe@...
Jul 20, 2000 3:13 pm
... *grin* Contradictions galore! But no matter... ... You make faith sound like an easy thing, and perhaps these days it's made out to be just so: EASY....
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Jared Frailey
lostmaia@...
Jul 19, 2000 10:16 pm
... Some people need religion because it provides answers to unanswerable questions, and it provides a formula for life. I know one person (actually, a good...
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Jared Frailey
lostmaia@...
Jul 19, 2000 10:00 pm
... This is a very interesting thought. I would advocate everyone to build their own system of opinions and follow it, as long as they are able to abolish or ...
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Jared Frailey
lostmaia@...
Jul 19, 2000 9:27 pm
... What good is a personal morality? Whatever good the individual can get out of it. I tend to enjoy producing my own morals (opinions, ideals, etc.) ... I...
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Jared Frailey
lostmaia@...
Jul 19, 2000 9:06 pm
... I believe everyone has the prejudice that they are right, and everyone else is wrong. :-) What I was trying to say is that if your opinion is that ...
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Ray Zur
cyberg0th@...
Jul 19, 2000 8:51 pm
What part of rural east Tennessee? I live in Maryville, right outside of Knoxville. Anyways, my point is that if certain people believe they are strong...
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Susan Silver
nasusr@...
Jul 19, 2000 6:35 pm
This all depends on what you mean by "religion." If you are speaking of religion as the agent of morality and idealism, then my opinion is that religion is so...
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jonsonben@...
Jul 19, 2000 1:58 pm
Hello all, I find it interesting that many people have pushed the issue of a God and morality/ethics when posed the question on the necessity of Religion....
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existlist@egroups.com
Jul 19, 2000 1:39 pm
Enter your vote today! Check out the new poll for the existlist group: Despite your current beliefs would you find a bit more security in knowing/believing...
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Randy Zeitman
randzman@...
Jul 19, 2000 12:41 pm
... Nothing has meaning in-of-itself...it's meaning is given through agreement (Language). That's what Existentialism is...things don't have meaning or...
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Tom J
tjajones@...
Jul 18, 2000 7:39 pm
Doesn't morality almost entirely begin and end with other people? What good is a "personal morality". What is often termed as "brainwashing" is inevitable,...
... But isn't that really the POINT of morality and ethics? We speak often of a moral or ethical "duty", but what is that except an idea of what we feel we...
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Randy Zeitman
randzman@...
Jul 18, 2000 12:14 pm
Someone wrote... ... Survival. I don't kill because I don't want to be killed. I don't steal because I don't want to be stolen from. Part of my need to survive...
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Jared Frailey
lostmaia@...
Jul 18, 2000 7:52 am
I'm not sure I could handle others thinking I am a "looser." :-) That is part of the problem: people should not worry about what other people are doing, or ...
