... don't, but ... Either way, it's a good answer, Diana, because it indicates that you are not really an atheist. An Atheist is someone who denies the ...
... Commission, ... Endorse? Who am I to endorse? I'm not Caroline Kennedy. I haven't even read the Dutch Commission's report, only articles about it, like the...
... F: The meaning is that there *is* a meaning - although the fancy soup of words has been simmering for a very long time. ... F: I like Soren Kierkegard's...
... D: I always wonder that, too, and wonder whether if we somehow convinced these ... I don't ... Kierkegaard referred to "the thinking person". Maybe you...
... there is such a thing as *the* meaning of life. It seems to me that lots of religious believers -- and sometimes especially the ones who bristle at being...
... WC, I ... F: C'mon Tom, you should know by now that my dance is the Lindy Hop; that's why I don't fit in very well with the square-dancers here. ... T:> I...
... Frank, the whole business of posing challenges to atheists to "define the meaning of life" etc is what interests me. "Agnostic" is fine with me; I've sort...
... Except that that clearly isn't true. Zooey and I have both just informed you that we would not only not "sink into despair" at this prospect, we have a ...
... F: By Zeus Tom, you've hit the nail on the head. Prohibition was tried and the booze flowed even more prodigiously than theretofore. Everyone was having...
... which case all the real world ... be nothing more than >another way of saying "I think you're a moron" or something like that. And yet these things sort of...
... believing would be ... but what do I know... I agree, I think "belief to unbelief" transitions are more often experienced positively. Then again, "unbelief...
... You could be right, Frank. It could be that you're talking to someone here who doesn't really think much about such things <rolls eyes> [Non-text portions...
Dear List: I share the following with you. The subject: "Waldorf Critics" does not begin to suggest how deep the dysfunction in anthroposophical theory goes,...
Stephen, maybe I am missing something, but I don't understand - if they offered to publish your book, why are you accusing them of lack of interest? And please...
... In what way would an intelligent creative force behind "it all" equal a meaning? Would it be meaningful, and would it make any difference? What I'm getting...
... You have to understand whence comes the fun in the sport of badgering atheists. He posed me what he viewed as a trick question. If I said there was a ...
... informed you ... have a ... Exactly. A thinking person, who previously believed in "the meaning of life" might rethink and decide he's just as happy (or...
... I can sort of sympathize with that... it is very funny when atheists trick godly people. Although I think tricks as the above hardly qualifies as tricks......
... declaring a ... atheists can ... generous ... pity are ... Just for the record, Diana, I did not pose a trick question and I was not badgering you and I...
... itself to ... circle. You ... person ... person ... believe ... real world ... Stephen ... That does seem likely, although the power of it depends on the ...
A letter to The Scotsman: http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/State-school-dilemma.4933047.jp ... Note the confusion of "popular" with "well-tested." ... -Dan...
... power. ... Doesn't even have to be *only* a metaphor; if you combine this http://www.eliant.eu/new/lang/en/?p=9 (scroll down to news item second from...
Peter S "It sounds like Frank means to endorse the findings of the Dutch Commission, a group of Dutch anthroposophists who decided a decade ago that Rudolf...
... race-lies-and-stereotypes-in-steiner%e2%80%99s-anthroposophy/#comment- 11272 ... Wow! With a dialogue like that going on, maybe I can just retire to my ...
... Tom, the problem I have with your metaphor is the all-or-nothing, digital on-off nature of a thermostat. It's really a very crude form of negative...
... An online variety of the waldorf school child study (or whatever it's called, I forgot)! I think I can probably agree with some of the things to like. Not...
... Where is the waldorf fan club, asleep? (maybe Sune already drifted off into space, thinking about Tom's balloon-theory about lying and all the powers and...
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