CONTRIBUTORS SOUGHT Dr. Patricia O'Grady is editing what proposes to be a very interesting book: Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece which has just been...
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Pete Stonehouse
cpwstonehouse
Dec 1, 2003 12:13 pm
Dear Dave, I am genuinely shocked, amused but shocked all the same. Regards Pete ... From: Dave Kelly [mailto:ptypes@...] Sent: 29 November 2003 16:47 ...
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Pete Stonehouse
cpwstonehouse
Dec 1, 2003 12:27 pm
Dear Jan, I really don’t have an issue with the argument itself, but when Dave actually iterates that interior design could actually be morally harmful, it ...
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Malcolm Schosha
malcolmschosha
Dec 1, 2003 5:32 pm
It is widely recognized that color, as will as general physical appearance, has great potential influence. This is why large corporations are willing to spend...
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Malcolm Schosha
malcolmschosha
Dec 1, 2003 5:46 pm
As a note to my previous post, this site is interesting: http://www.gdusa.com/feature/ColorForecast/pantone.php Malcolm Schosha ... appearance, has great...
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Grant Sterling
fccmoose
Dec 1, 2003 5:49 pm
... I am having real trouble tying down your position now. I thought that I understood it, because I thought that your repeated assertion that reason can...
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Dave Kelly
ptypes
Dec 2, 2003 2:10 am
A while back when we were talking about Musonius Rufus, Paul Ryan mentioned his difficulty in finding the Cora Lutz translation. When a correspondent asked me...
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Dave Kelly
ptypes
Dec 2, 2003 2:22 am
Sorry about the first message. My Yahoo e-mail account choked and I assented to it. A while back when we were talking about Musonius Rufus, Paul Ryan mentioned...
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Rick Bamford
reb_el
Dec 2, 2003 5:48 am
... Indeed. It seems we are talking past each other. We each seem hardened in our own viewpoints and can't understand the other's. I am growing pessimistic...
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Grant Sterling
fccmoose
Dec 3, 2003 9:17 pm
... I don't mind agreeing to disagree--I spend most of my professional life doing it. :) But I would prefer to understand exactly what your position was. let...
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myshalom777@...
celal777
Dec 4, 2003 10:05 am
Hello Grant, I don't see how morality can ENTIRELY be BASED EITHER on reason or emotion. Emotions are hardly ever a certain guide. Even criminals use reason to...
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Keith Seddon
khs10uk
Dec 4, 2003 12:27 pm
Hello Cecil, ... secondarily on REASONING FROM revelation.<<< How do you know that what is being revealed to you is true? Some people, I understand, take the...
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Malcolm Schosha
malcolmschosha
Dec 4, 2003 10:29 pm
Keith, If we were to replace the word Cecil uses, "revelation", with the (more modern) word "intuition", would you see the statement differently? The fact that...
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clovers009@...
Dec 5, 2003 1:36 am
In a message dated 11/29/2003 5:22:26 AM Pacific Standard Time, charlesbricebroadway@... writes: << I've been watching VH1's "The Fabulous Life of...
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reb_el
Dec 5, 2003 1:46 am
... professional life doing it." This makes me curious (a desire on my part, please forgive the unseemly gush of emotion) to know what your profession is, that...
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reb_el
Dec 5, 2003 2:28 am
... revelation? Worse still, how to we distinguish the fake revelation from the genuine?" Ya know, I've often wondered this myself. It sure would be helpful ...
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Tom
thomas_hedri...
Dec 7, 2003 2:55 pm
Hello all, while I have been a member of the forum for several months now my participation has been entirely obsevational to this point. One question I would...
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reb_el
Dec 7, 2003 5:55 pm
... position.., 'we are all created by God' or an evolutionary position with regards to the development of humanity?" Depends which stoic you ask, my friend....
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Malcolm Schosha
malcolmschosha
Dec 7, 2003 7:31 pm
... ........................................... Thomas, From what I have read, it is clear that a concept of God is part of the Stoic teaching of the Classic...
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Pete Stonehouse
cpwstonehouse
Dec 7, 2003 8:23 pm
Hi Tom, Stoicism is rather like Confucianism in that, although it refers to the divine, it is essentially a practical philosophy. Accordingly pantheists, ...
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Fortunatus
tlfortunatus
Dec 7, 2003 8:37 pm
... Yes. As a theistic Stoic, I agree entirely with this. ... I think Rick is closer to the mark when he counsels us to adopt an agnostic stance toward...
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myshalom777@...
celal777
Dec 7, 2003 9:12 pm
In a message dated 07/12/2003 20:24:24 GMT Standard Time, ... Pete, How is creationism an "anti-rational" belief ? How is it less rational than the supposition...
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myshalom777@...
celal777
Dec 7, 2003 9:37 pm
In a message dated 07/12/2003 20:39:05 GMT Standard Time, labienus@... ... Conrad ... . Once a person accepts the presuppositions of evolutionism it ...
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Fortunatus
tlfortunatus
Dec 7, 2003 10:11 pm
Cecil, ... The same can be said of those who accept the presuppositions of creationism--or communism, or Stoicism, etc. ... I am aware of Behe and have read...
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Malcolm Schosha
malcolmschosha
Dec 7, 2003 10:22 pm
... rational beliefs. ... amoeba + ... apes ? ... ......................................... Cecil, Evolution is, in fact, a very logical theory. Too bad that...
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Pete Stonehouse
cpwstonehouse
Dec 8, 2003 12:06 pm
Dear Conrad, I would not deny that there are intelligent creationists who attempt to find a rational basis for their beliefs. However since they begin with...
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Pete Stonehouse
cpwstonehouse
Dec 8, 2003 12:09 pm
Dear Malcolm, Single celled organisms are constantly evolving, and can be observed doing so. The mechanism is well understood and its principles are...
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Malcolm Schosha
malcolmschosha
Dec 8, 2003 3:02 pm
Dear Pete, Are there examples where a single cell animal has become more than a single cell animal? Or are you speaking of microorganisms such as diatoms, that...
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myshalom777@...
celal777
Dec 8, 2003 3:12 pm
... CECIL RESONDS : The exact same argument can be made for the "high priests" of evolutionism : However since they (i.e. evolutionists) begin with the...
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myshalom777@...
celal777
Dec 8, 2003 3:18 pm
Since Mr.Stonehouse refuses to respond to my posts would someone please ask him to provide a reference from scientific publication or a web site documenting...