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Yesterday my German coworker yelled at me because she firmly believes no world religion can know anything, for sure, about God, so there’s no way to call anyone “right” or “wrong.”
And it took all my strength not to say, “so you’re saying I’m wrong”
because truth in love, truth in love
But seriously. What actually is the deal with the discourse that goes: “you can’t know anything for sure about God.”
“Wait, yes you can, like I know you well enough to know for sure that you’re from ____ Place—“
“—no no, no, that’s different. This is about God.”
“How’s it different?”
“You can’t say someone’s wrong about God.”
“…Well, can I say anything that’s wrong about you? Like, if I say, ‘_____ Person likes to kick puppies,’ can’t you say I’m wrong about you?”
“Yes but I’m not God.”
“Right, but you’re a real person who exists, so there are some things that I can know for sure about you—“
“THAT’S DIFFERENT”
No it’s not! It’s not ‘different.’ Quit acting like it’s different. Christians don’t believe in a set of ideals or the properties of rocks or some mystical vibe that nobody can be right or wrong about. We believe in a living and existing deity with an unchanging, eternally constant personality, and will, and DESIGN, outside of ourselves. So we can be wrong about Him. You can be wrong about Him. Everyone can be wrong—OR RIGHT—about Him, because He actually exists.
He’s not some imaginary friend who’s open to anybody’s interpretation. You get to claim an independent identity, character traits, and a personal history, but the God of the universe doesn’t? What is happening?
I’ll tell you what’s happening. You’re fine with me believing in an imaginary figment that’s only real to me, but as soon as He starts having an effect on the outer world, as if He actually exists and you have to start making some decisions based on that fact, THEN you’re not fine.
#Christianity#evangelism#discourse#it’s not profitable to talk about this with the person who keeps repeating themselves in person#so you all get to read about it here instead#because they’re not actually open#and nobody ever got “argued” into heaven#evangelical Christianity#organized religion#rationality#reason#reasonableness
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A man is so prone to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared to distort the truth on purpose, prepared to deny the visible and the audible just so he can justify his own logic.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
#philosophy#quotes#Fyodor Dostoyevsky#Notes from Underground#abstract#abstractions#systems#logic#reason#rationality#truth
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Susan was sensible. It was, she knew, a major character flaw. It did not make you popular, or cheerful, and--this seemed to her to be the most unfair bit--it didn't even make you right.
Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
#susan sto helit#thief of time#discworld#terry pratchett#character description#sensible#reasonable#reason#popular#cheerful#right#unfair#character flaw
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Artemis will disassemble and clean a fountain pen with the same level of intensity as Butler disassembling and cleaning one of his guns.
#artemis fowl#Artemis will just automatically include the upkeep of Butler's his mother's Juliet's and Holly's fountain pens in the upkeep of his own#Holly and Juliet tend not to use their pens often (which they have because Artemis gifted them pens) so Artemis will help whenever they vis#visit. Then with Butler it is largely due to the man not having the habit of building 'frivolous' rituals of care into his day so Artemis w#will care for the pens as Butler does (at the end of it all) adore the devices#with Angeline I feel Artemis is just so wholly dedicated to that kind of small act of care when it comes to his mother#(thinking of him composing a unique ringtone for her calls)#I think Fowl Sr is more of a ballpoint pen or a pencil fellow and Artemis will sometimes include his father in the hobby by cleaning#and repairing pens in his father's study while the man works (so he will have the experience of being included through the upkeep)#Tim does appreciate when Artemis shows off some of the special/exclusive inks he purchases#he finds the beauty of the ink a much more accessible aspect of the hobby#that diane ackerman quote about crying in a museum while looking at a piece of yellow sulfur and thinking about how lucky we are to live on#a planet of a natural yellow that is so marvelously yellow#Artemis will do ink tests (when you get a new ink and experiment with it on good quality paper) when his father is in the room for this rea#reason
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The universe itself — and the Mind behind it — is insane. Therefore someone in touch with reality is, by definition, in touch with the insane: infused by the irrational.
Philip K. Dick, VALIS
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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
-- Paul Cezanne
(Merlischachen, Switzerland)
#colors#nature#paul cezanne#travel photography#switzerland#merlischachen#reason#living#communication#quote
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Anyways its a lie that people will become greedy, ignorant, or violent if they build their life on humanity and community instead of submission to a deity
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But then of course everything always happens for a reason
Eminem
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Fire of Love (Sara Dosa, 2022)
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When some people insist on the use of "inclusive language" what they are referring to is the use of words without clear or stable definitions. "Tolerance" for them means to be liberated from the constraints of coherent meaning. They are not at war with the narrow judgmentalism of particular individuals but with rational order itself. To work without clear definitions is to abandon reason.
And as I have argued before, the ultimate political tyranny is the one that is not even constrained by principles of reason; a political tyranny that is able to shape reality itself.
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When even the dictators of today appeal to reason, they mean that they possess the most tanks. They were rational enough to build them; others should be rational enough to yield to them.
Max Horkheimer, "The End of Reason"
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"I'd better be going," said Susan. "Miss Butts always checks the dorms on the stroke of midnight."
"How many dormitories are there?" said the raven.
"About thirty, I think."
"You believe she checks them all at midnight and you don't believe in the Hogfather?"
Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
#susan sto helit#quoth the raven#miss butts#soul music#discworld#terry pratchett#logic#reason#belief#hogfather#curfew#teenagers#dormitories#boarding school#students#school#teachers#on the stroke of midnight
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“A way of life cannot be successful so long as it is a mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.”
From “New Hopes for a Changing World”, Bertrand Russell.
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"Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason."
-- James Randi
"Faith" is the antithesis of reason.
#James Randi#reason#faith vs reason#reason vs faith#faith#faith is not a virtue#faith is a vice#credulity#religion is a mental illness
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To see human beings as signifying animals — even outside the practice of verbal language — and to see that their ability to produce and to interpret signs, as well as their ability to draw inferences, is rooted in the same cognitive structures, represent a way to give form to our experience.
Umberto Eco, Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
#language#signs#signification#symbols#reason#rationality#form#quotes#Eco#Umberto Eco#Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
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