Isn't this simply putting things in their order of significance - a rock is less than a mouse; a mouse is less than a human? — Tom Storm
It’s common sense and your own experiences. — Joe Mello
It’s amazing how lazy selfish humans in love with themselves don’t see how the love of God alludes them — Joe Mello
No, your second sentence is wrong — Joe Mello
When I was 24, I was a painter with a high paying job, 5 girlfriends, a sports car, and a bodybuilder running 10 miles 3 times a week. — Joe Mello
It’s not part of your experience that your dog is greater than your kitchen counter? — Joe Mello
I’m here in service to that spirit. — Joe Mello
I’m not here for myself or for intellectual reasons.
Each one of us, no matter how much the thoughts off the top of our heads won’t shut up, has the spirit of God trying to give to us truth and love.
I’m here in service to that spirit. — Joe Mello
Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results. — Narcotics Anonymous
You’re on a philosophy forum and don’t know that all metaphysical discussions are in the realm of our imaginations? — Joe Mello
Use your special relationship with your superhero to call upon it to show me its power.I have asked priests, ministers, Jehovah witnesses, Mormons, evanhellicals, Satanists, theosophers, mystics, pagans, etc, etc, to do the same
Their gods are all as powerless as yours. — universeness
An atheism that does not engage this sense of religion will fail to transform deep-seated notions about faith. — Joshs
I don't think the number of rational theists is 'vast' amongst the number that currently exist.a vast number of religious people do not regard their faith as competing with knowledge. — Joshs
Even many people who themselves do not have religious faith believe that it would be great and beneficial to have such faith. — Joshs
This belief in the existential value of religious faith (rather than in the truth of religious claims) is the main line of defense for religion in a secular age — Joshs
Btw, I am a Daniel Dennet fan and a Sam Harris fan. — universeness
I have a degree in Philosophy, and a Graduate Degree in Professional Writing. — Joe Mello
I spent five years in a Catholic Monastery — Joe Mello
After 7 years as a mystic letting God do the talking, and acquiring a scholastic education at the same time, belief became knowledge, and the mystery became truth. — Joe Mello
I was a counselor for 12 years, so I was a therapist for 12 years. — Joe Mello
But only a scholastically trained philosopher has become philosophically advanced in learning how to think. — Joe Mello
have the philosophical clarity to think profoundly and without personal prejudices in the third degree of abstraction. — Joe Mello
All I did was spend years learning to understand it, and years seeing how every new scientific discovery only supported it and never refuted it. — Joe Mello
I sacrificed years to come to a knowledge and love of God. — Joe Mello
this baptism is a special gift God gives to those of us he desires to be close to. And close to God is where I have been ever since. — Joe Mello
I have spent decades experiencing God — Joe Mello
a scholastically trained academic — Joe Mello
To be truly philosophically adept takes talent and an openness that are both extremely rare. — Joe Mello
A truly disciplined and talented intellect — Joe Mello
disciplined and talented — Joe Mello
a great lover — Joe Mello
an amazing person who has spent a lifetime becoming skilled in something. — Joe Mello
I have been a professional painter for over 40 years and painted my first house 55 years ago. This summer, I painted a cape by myself in 6 hours. My business is more than half commercial, and I painted a long hallway in Titleist last month surrounded by people, and I organized the whole thing like a ballet, so no one got in each other's way. So, I really can't learn much from other painters. Maybe something, but not much. — Joe Mello
an academic with a Philosophy degree — Joe Mello
Oh, and I'm a vocalist. Sang Zeppelin in the 70s with a rock band called Mordor, and Prince in the 80s with a funk band called Chill Factor. And I love singing Frank Sinatra and Teddy Pendergrass today. — Joe Mello
I have a Graduate degree in Professional Writing — Joe Mello
philosophically trained mind — Joe Mello
When I was 24, I was a painter with a high paying job, 5 girlfriends, a sports car, and a bodybuilder running 10 miles 3 times a week. — Joe Mello
great adventurers — Joe Mello
I spent a decade on Sam Harris’ atheist forum and had only one personal thread that I was allowed to go on. The Administrator kept closing it down and starting a new one with derogatory titles, like The Dump and The Jar. All these threads became the most popular by hundreds and hundreds of pages. Then he shut down the forum and moved it to the old forum where it all began, and didn’t invite me, despite me having the most popular thread on that forum too. And now only about a half dozen posters go there once in a great while. — Joe Mello
I do have a Graduate degree in English and taught high school, — Joe Mello
It's the same as propagating theism, with god replaced by science. — EugeneW
Why should science legislate and organize society? — EugeneW
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