Message from @Jeremy
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@NotDarkMagician you better tell me
It was supposed to be audio
Of a traditional Korean instrument
yeah sure
I think I fucked it up
pee pee poo poo
You're familiar with Latin, eh, @NotDarkMagician?
Hmm. Not really. My old school had a Latin society and I ment to go but I didn't really have time
It translates to "For the greater glory of God," a Latin Jesuit motto for the Society of Jesus, @NotDarkMagician.
One of many mottos I'd adopted after my dive into theology.
Oh
Isn't theology just shite
Perhaps you should take the time to find out for yourself.
I'm at the point where nothing could convince me of gods existence. It seems pointless
JBP has a decent series, if you wish to introduce yourself to the subject.
That isn't the purpose.
Yes I understand it's the study of religion but Still. I would rather study something that happened or else I might as well study Harry Potter
It has to do with metaphysics and the underpinnings of Western knowledge, our civilization.
Yes but do a master's in philosophy and you'll come out thinking we don't know anything, nothing matters and there's no good and evil
Ah, the anti-philosophy conclusion, where one ends as a normative relativist and finds no sympathy for his fellow man.
I once harbored such a perspective.
I do think that the triple nihilism conclusion is probably correct
But I don't think it's useful
The conclusion of that worldview is one I turned away from, as it is most nihilistic and excusatory of those acts which harbor no empathy for other members of our species. It's not a good framework to begin with.
Of course it's not useful.
Isn't theology the study of old Virgin men and child molsters views about fictional events
Seems like a meme to me
The ultimate conclusion is one that was with you all along, and that is to choose your path, what you value, and I believe most of us inherently wish for what we'd define as good, focusing with an empathy for your fellow man anyway.
And no, @NotDarkMagician, I already outlined the summation previously.
I used to be nihilistic.
Now I'm not.
Objectivism may draw you away from nihilism, if you find you've the time, @NotDarkMagician.
I didn't become a believer in the process though. But I see religion as a more positive force than I used to.
Indeed.
anyone here decent with reading japanese?
I agree that one does not need to be religious to be moral, but virtually every moral system has been reinforced or built by religion in a self-supporting cycle.
There are no historic atheist societies.
So those that say they don't need religion to be moral still derive their morality from something a religion also backs (or possibly counter-religious morality).
Atheism is not an affirmative belief.
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