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  • Nietzsche, the Immoralist...
    I disagree. You have a fundamental misunderstanding of what will to power is... yes Nietzsche admires strength but for Nietzsche strength is formed by overcoming oneself, not domination, and most certainly not resentful or divisive like Trump.

    The will to power is a sensation, it is that electricity that rushes down your spine, that feeling that fills you when you overcome some struggle or another... could be you discovered a new artistic technique that allows you to overcome and create your artistic vision in reality...

    We can clearly see from Nietzsche's Amor Fati that waging war with what you find ugly is of no interest to Nietzsche, not even saying No. GS 276 And we can see that Nietzsche details this Amor Fati style of life by Jesus Christ and his Glad Tidings in AC 33. Furthermore from 33 we have several ways that Jesus transvaluates values to live towards his own evaluations, rather than that of the Semites, he lists several of these psychological evaluations and they're all found within the psychology of type who emulate an Ubermensch (EH § 1 of Excellent Books[refrencing Ubermensch as a type]).

    The only time Nietzsche ever even points to the superman becoming a reality is in Ecce Homo, and he states it's when Zarathustra comes down from the mountain and treats even his adversaries with sincere kindness while suffering with them from them ..."Und mit ihnen an ihnen leidet" (EH § 6 on Thus Spoke Zarathustra)


    if God . . . has disappeared from his authoritative position in the suprasensory world, then this authoritative place itself is still always preserved, even though as that which has become empty.

    The New Idol fills that spot. The problem with saying "Christianity" as Christ in the negative sense for Nietzsche comes in at AC 39...


    —I shall go back a bit, and tell you the authentic history of Christianity.—The very word “Christianity” is a misunderstanding—at bottom there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross. The “Gospels” died on the cross. What, from that moment onward, was called the “Gospels” was the very reverse of what he had lived: “bad tidings,” a Dysangelium. It is an error amounting to nonsensicality to see in “faith,” and particularly in faith in salvation through Christ, the distinguishing mark of the Christian: only the Christian way of life, the life lived by him who died on the cross, is Christian.... To this day such a life is still possible, and for certain men even necessary: genuine, primitive Christianity will remain possible in all ages.... Not faith, but acts; above all, an avoidance of acts, a different state of being.... States of consciousness, faith of a sort, the acceptance, for example, of anything as true— — Nietzsche, AC 39

    This is in part why Foucault discusses Nietzsche as giving Christ back the image of the ultimate in life affirming grace. (Madness and Civ pg. 78-79). Because the Earthquake at Port Royal was all omg it's Sodom and Gomorrah all over again ... for the next 200 years.
  • Logical Arguments for God Show a Lack of Faith; An Actual Factual Categorical Syllogism
    I want to say "I love you all," but I'm not quite sure I believe that. But I wonder what would happen if I had faith that I could have faith in that? Inspired by @Vera Mont
  • 'This Moment is Medieval'...
    Thus Spoke Zarathustra ... § XI & XV even the philosophy forums is so divided by the new idol that we lack humanity... thanks for that gut check.
  • 'This Moment is Medieval'...
    Fair point, my father is that style of obstinate so it hits home in a way I should have already realized.

    Hehe, well to be fair I don't think OP is declaring "everything wrong in society is man's fault." But rather misogyny and the manosphere is something that's man's fault majority wise. Sure there may be some women counterparts to it but they're not the prime movers.
  • 'This Moment is Medieval'...
    The subject isn't about Katz, it's about on misogyny and the manosphere, and how to oppose Trump's projecting of it...

    on misogyny, the manosphere – and why men must oppose Trumpism.Amity

    Me bringing up points that Nietzsche discusses this in verbose style is both on topic and was to back precisely what @unenlightened said...

    That you lot want to pretend Nietzsche doesn't belong here is the side track... not me, I know he brings a lot of food for thought to this table...

    If you wanna say Nietzsche's a misogynist take it to my thread. Not cry about how he doesn't belong here.

    Otherwise, that you can't muster a counter to my thread, declaring Nietzsche as a misogynist, then you're letting my argument stand...
  • 'This Moment is Medieval'...
    hence

    We must educate men better," said the wise man, — Nietzsche

    But apparently it's not proper to speak about educating men on their patriarchal repression of women here in this thread. Even though this thread is seemingly about that.
  • Logical Arguments for God Show a Lack of Faith; An Actual Factual Categorical Syllogism
    Personally, I think a secure faith wouldn't even be phased by my assertion...
  • Logical Arguments for God Show a Lack of Faith; An Actual Factual Categorical Syllogism
    Sure but what I think you'll end up finding is the intuitive hunch in the unconscious providing stimulus based off knowledge and faith, which ends up falling victim to Hume's Guillotine. That last leap to close the gap in knowledge being faith.

    You could be doing something that seems sus to your wife, and because (fake example follows) she's been cheated on in the past, her intuition is that you're cheating on her...

    When you're really just planning some awesome for her.
  • 'This Moment is Medieval'...
    Fair enough, I'll make another post to show you're wrong even here. Nietzsche details the aristocracy as responsible for allowing conditions to get so bad socialism is even an option considered...(will need to find the aphorism)

    The highest and lowest are complementary to the same causes and both are required ...BGE200

    Just as the Apollonian and Dionysian incite each other to higher and higher births so too do higher men and the masses... because higher men and the masses bridge over their mutual cause. Abusing the other to the point of life denial is slave morality...

    Do you honestly think Nietzsche would be upset about the abused rising up to affirm the demands of their life? No. Literally what he details of master morality... but if the abused rose up to then make a system of life denial against those they overcame... yes.
  • 'This Moment is Medieval'...
    I mean we're talking about misogyny and the manosphere
    misogyny, the manosphereAmity

    Nietzsche brings this up time and time again when he bashes on the Semitic idea of "woman."
    Not heeding Nietzsche is just willful ignorance.

    I get it you guys don't like that you have a hard time understanding Nietzsche. But he's all over this topic in his philosophy. Remember there was a time before women were seen as Sin and Corruption... there was a time before women needed to be locked away and repressed.
  • 'This Moment is Medieval'...
    I'm certain that Nietzsche is not relevant to the topic -- he was not a misogynist in your terms -- but he is very much a masculine philosopher. His philosophy is from the male perspective, through and through.Moliere

    Is that why the highest presentment of man is through the doctrine of Athena? A woman? (According to Nietzsche)

    Odd that a masculine philosopher would state man's highest presentment is in the doctrine of a woman...when Nietzsche asks "who but I knows Ariadne?" He's asking: who but I know the feminine instinct?
  • Logical Arguments for God Show a Lack of Faith; An Actual Factual Categorical Syllogism
    Intuition is past experience and knowledge being checked by the unconscious...
  • 'This Moment is Medieval'...
    Seems like Nietzsche knew it better than Mill. *shrugs*
  • Logical Arguments for God Show a Lack of Faith; An Actual Factual Categorical Syllogism
    already detailed that it was equivocation to a degree.

    Not exactly, a quantum of force cannot actually be weaker than it is... you and T Clark have made me consider my perspective a bit more, and what I'm coming to is that ... but say St. Thomas's Quantum of Force in faith is already this grand mountain... we can say his Faith is still as strong... but say instead of St. Thomas being 100% faith-based, he's 60% Faith and 40% logic and perhaps a lack of clarifying here has caused all sorts of equivocations, perhaps of myself even... due to the quantum of force not actually being lesser... just because a persons intellect may be divided in a 60/40 split doesn't necessarily mean that because a persons thought moves to 55/45 split that the quantum of force behind faith grew less... but that the quantum of force behind reason grew more...
    there IS a nuance to it... so for some people a quantum of force of faith may not be phased by reason...
    DifferentiatingEgg

    Though once something becomes absolutely true via syllogism I believe they convert a part of the quantum of force behind faith into knowledge... necessarily lessening faith.

    However if the syllogism is fallacious then it's not really absolute truth... and we can show Thomas and Aquinas are both fallacious arguments for God... and thus they don't actually convert faith to absolute knowledge.

    But the fact remains that some part of them yearns to take God from the realm of faith to knowledge... thus something inside of them in unsatisfied with their faith...
  • 'This Moment is Medieval'...
    Thanks! I'll be a bit more verbose then.unenlightened

    I think N might be able to help you with that...

    Human All Too Human § 415 on the Idolatry of Love... which was originally a device of the female intellect that over centuries women forgot the origin of love, and became ensnared and more deceived by it than men... basically the sophisticated slavery you're speaking about...

    Love.—The love idolatry which women practise is fundamentally and originally an intelligent device, inasmuch as they increase their power by all the idealisings of love and exhibit themselves as so much the more desirable in the eyes of men. But by being accustomed for centuries to this exaggerated appreciation of love, it has come to pass that they have been caught in their own net and have forgotten the origin of the device. They themselves are now still more deceived than the men, and on that account also suffer more from the disillusionment which, almost necessarily, enters into the life of every woman—so far, at any rate, as she has sufficient imagination and intelligence to be able to be deceived and undeceived. — Nietzsche

    Gay Science 68 on women molding themselves to mans ideal out of that need for love. Your quote
    and enforced by the threat of rape. Uppity women are "asking for it".unenlightened
    reminds me of that last bit from 68 where some guy from the crowd says they need to educate women better (so they don't corrupt men)...

    Will and Willingness.—Some one brought a youth to a wise man, and said, "See, this is one who is being corrupted by women!" The wise man shook his head and smiled. "It is men," he called out, "who corrupt women; and everything that women lack should be atoned for and improved in men—for man creates for himself the ideal of woman, and woman moulds herself according to this ideal."—"You are too tender-hearted towards women," said one of the bystanders, "you do not know them!" The wise man answered: "Man's attribute is will, woman's attribute is willingness—such is the law of the sexes, verily! a hard law for woman! All human beings are innocent of their existence, women, however, are doubly innocent; who could have enough of salve and gentleness for them!"—"What about salve! What about gentleness!" called out another person in the crowd, "we must educate women better!"—"We must educate men better," said the wise man, and made a sign to the youth to follow him.—The youth, however, did not follow him. — Nietzsche
  • Logical Arguments for God Show a Lack of Faith; An Actual Factual Categorical Syllogism
    But articles of faith are more like a premise. They aren’t something we conclude. We just know. Like the fact that my wife loves me. I just know it. I could never create a syllogism that shows “therefore wifey’s love for FireO exists.”Fire Ologist

    Pretty easily... define love then move to make the syllogism, if you need to make a syllogism to define love then do that also...

    Something like:

    P1: All people who consistently act with maximally positive interests, deep care, loyalty, and affection towards another person loves that person.

    P2: FireO's wife acts with maximally positive interests, deep care, loyalty, and afrection towards FireOlogist

    C: Therefore FireO's wife loves him.

    is it possible to you for someone to know Nietzsche deeply (as you do, and I mean that) and also disagree with him? I think, if you are honest, you would say noFire Ologist

    You mean like N did with Z?
    Just because I don't detail my differences with Nietzsche doesn't mean we don't have them. I am Dionysian at my core. My first philosophy teacher noticed this and with a mild prophetic vision said that I would love him. And I do. That aside, Nietzsche is, but, one band of intensity within me.



    What you said touches on something I read earlier about diaquotation and how it brings truth to something much simpler of a notion to what the sentence actually states vs all the mumbojumbo. Like my OP is kinda poorly written in the disquotational aspect. BUT what I mean, is a bit more nuanced mumbojumbo... to me, at first, I believed the OP directly states my deeper understanding but it did a pretty shitty job.
  • Autonomous Government + Voluntary Taxation
    Veteran discounts pretty much cover sales tax and then a little extra.

    The disability rating is from combined injuries and trauma from the military, I get paid quite a pretty penny from that alone also. Free healthcare, waiving of the first $40,000 in property taxes, pay yourself marginally from your business, and keep the rest in house and write off everything else.
  • Autonomous Government + Voluntary Taxation
    If you were a 100% disabled military veteran, you'd not have to pay taxes either.
  • Autonomous Government + Voluntary Taxation
    Pragmatic... you see, in high-school, all my Marxist friends made compelling critiques for me to do precisely what they said I shouldn't be doing... if capitalism and democracy are such exploitative systems then why shouldn't I position myself in a way that minimizes my exploitation? Plan ahead...
  • Autonomous Government + Voluntary Taxation
    So you’re stealing from me.T Clark

    Whatever, so has every politician you've ever voted for... so too does your God... 0 fucks given. There are those who follow the rules and those who bend them to their will.

    Just as obtaining knowledge comes as a crime against God. The highest presentment of man is always seemingly through some crime or another... blah blah blah... well it's only a crime to those who adhere to a model. And I don't adhere to your model of evaluations. Democracy has stolen enough in its name... just as all States have...

    I can't go claim untamed land for my own? I gotta ask a state? Fuck off... just because it's a model doesn't mean I ever agreed to be born into American slavery...

    Who did you vote for this time around? Me I don't cause politics is beneath me.

    I'm kinda doubting you voted for Harris... and Trump's already stolen more from you than I ever will.

    From just his time in office since January...

    And if you voted Trump... that means you gave that imbecile the okay to steal from you, knowing how much he did the first time... and to steal from me.
  • Logical Arguments for God Show a Lack of Faith; An Actual Factual Categorical Syllogism
    Oh no a little language... what a Sin... :roll:

    Im sitting here chilling to Quine, if Fire Ologist was here he'd be in another chair chilling legs up, kicked back. We're not here with guns to guts and swords to throats...
  • Logical Arguments for God Show a Lack of Faith; An Actual Factual Categorical Syllogism
    I mean, what greater criticism could I leverage at myself other than saying the words I used in my syllogism were too broad to allow for clarity? Such that it even caused me to equivocate that a shifting in percentage a person relies on faith to believe in something diminished their faith in something... literally an overturning of the original syllogism for something more nuanced...

    The fuck more do you want?

    Evaluations come through faith and knowledge. Just because you gain knowledge doesn't diminish the quantum of force behind your faith. Just means the evaluation has less reliance on faith. But how much faith do you need to know that in decimal based math 1+1=2? None.

    But if I say 1+1=? And you say 2... you're taking it on faith that I'm in decimal based math not binary. Because you believe, rather than know, I'm talking about decimal based math.

    If I said no it equals 0 then you wouldn't have faith that it equals 2... you know it doesn't because I'm using binary to equal 0.

    Because I've established a necessary truth about my outlook...

    Conclusions from valid and sound arguments do precisely the same, establish a necessary about an outlook.

    Thus it takes some aspect of faith and converts it to knowledge... if it's logically valid and sound... all arguments for God aren't...so it's the case no conversion is actually achieved...

    The attempt however points to a desire to convert belief to knowledge because the person feels knowledge is more substantial than faith, at least in the regards of the argument...

    Aquinas and Thomas both show us that they had more of a desire to move God to a realm of absolute truth, rather than a belief...regardless of the quantum of force behind their faith is. They're really just proselytizing with fallacious arguments. Trying to make God something more concrete...
  • Logical Arguments for God Show a Lack of Faith; An Actual Factual Categorical Syllogism
    Even though I have no faithFire Ologist

    I highly doubt you have 0 faith. That's just your clumsy handling.

    You didn't even attempt to understand my perspective. You're grounded in your own.
  • Logical Arguments for God Show a Lack of Faith; An Actual Factual Categorical Syllogism
    boil it down, or do you think the Nazi were spewing knowledge? Rather than proselytizing with belief through logical fallacies...When you make a rational argument for something you're attempting to convert faith/belief into objective truth... Necessarily Objective Truth requires 0 faith. Thus making an argument for something as absolutely objectively true means you're taking faith and converting it to knowledge. If I had 10 dollars in bills and convert it to coins ... I no longer have 10 dollars of bills. I have LESS BILLS MORE COINS.

    Thus converting faith into knowledge via trying to rationalize it means you're trying to rely less on faith for your outlook...

    Not exactly a bad thing... overcoming oneself in their opposite and all.

    I knew the dialecticians would get butthurt though.
  • Logical Arguments for God Show a Lack of Faith; An Actual Factual Categorical Syllogism
    I thought logical fallacies, identified only by using reason, had nothing to do with faith.Fire Ologist

    Pretending FAITH IS KNOWLEDGE IS A LOGICAL FALLACY DUMBASS...

    Using knowledge to show faith is a fallacy or your argument relies on a leap in logic has nothing to do with the identity of faith...

    Dialecticians... :roll:

    When a person continually defends fallacy and reasserting leaps in logic... IE FAITH... They're proselytizing... because they're asserting Faith as Absolute Objective Truth...

    Something like energy is never created nor destroyed is, I think, is an absolute truth, (unless someone has recently discovered a way to overturn that law, dunno dont really give a shit about the law to keep up with the lore surrounding it.)

    I’m not going to get into the weeds with someone who says they know what I think already and supports that observation “FireOlogist is nothing but this” with “my opinion”.Fire Ologist

    That's all you can do. Even your shit interpretation about Nietzsche...

    You know what such a statement does allow for though? You to prove me wrong. Faith motivates beyond despair... and that's a beautiful thing.DifferentiatingEgg

    You're too much of a bonehead to prove me wrong is all.

    Hence you detatch...

    T Clark and Count Timothy were cunning enough to force a reevaluation.
  • Logical Arguments for God Show a Lack of Faith; An Actual Factual Categorical Syllogism
    That contradicts your whole “opinion”.Fire Ologist

    No it doesn't we can see your bonehead understanding of my opinion is nothing even close...
  • Logical Arguments for God Show a Lack of Faith; An Actual Factual Categorical Syllogism
    No I asserted my opinion in a few ways... that doesn't make it objective truth.

    What I said is faith is not knowledge, it's not reasoned based thought. Unless you consider bad reasoning reasonable. Faith is belief not knowledge. You just can't accept that faith is little more than that...

    Spewing logical fallacies for the existence of God is just faith based preaching... aka proselytizing. And it shows an attempt to rationalize faith into knowledge. You're too much of a bonehead to realize that your faith counts for little in a discussion on knowledge...

    So you have faith a Unicorn is real... cool. Now you try to rationalize the Unicorn and project it as objective truth... well Objective Truth is absolute knowledge dumbass not may be this...

    An argument to prove the absolute truth of God means you're no longer interested in faith but proving the actual factual...

    You're too dense to understand that though... because you think faith is knowing... your relationship with God is 100% faith. Unless you yourself are God, but then we're changing the definition I'm using, that is consequently, we aren't God...

    This is how faith works...
    JUNG (from Nietzsche's Zarathustra pg 38&39):
    But we must well understand when we make that formulation or any other, that it is always our formula, it is what we say or know, it is our impression, the picture which we paint. If you paint a picture of a landscape, say, you would never believe that it was the landscape; it is only what you make of the landscape. You paint a picture as well as you can, but it is probably never as beautiful as the landscape itself. Either you put something in that is not there, or you leave out something; at all events, you never make the mistake of confusing the one with the other. But when we make a formulation about God, everybody assumes that that is God. If I say, for instance, that god is an image, or a complex with a very great emotional intensity, or a supreme guiding principle, a psychological principle, then everybody asserts: Dr. Jung says God is nothing but this.. A theologian does exactly the same thing when he says God can only be good. And he has no idea of the blasphemy he is uttering. How does he know that God can only be good? He takes half of the world away from him. How can God he everything if he is denied the faculty of being evil too? — Dr. Jung

    Faith is always a formula but it's not knowing... Christians happen to like to lie to themselves that it is knowing... it's literally simply what they say about faith... thus its faith in faith.

    Hence St. Timmy says truth never contradicts truth because God is good. That not knowledge, that's him spewing fallacies wishing his faith was knowledge... thus something in him desires his faith to be more real...
  • Autonomous Government + Voluntary Taxation
    I am so displeased with democracy as it exists in the USABrendan Golledge

    I'm not, because I use it towards MY benefit. I don't pay taxes and I work for myself. In a capitalist system, if you want to get ahead, buy the rights to the surpluss of a company's value. Or create something of consumer value.
  • Logical Arguments for God Show a Lack of Faith; An Actual Factual Categorical Syllogism
    I thought you were trying to say something for Christians who are just people lying,Fire Ologist

    We weren't having a conversation, as I never said this once nor implied it... and it's the foundation of all your chatting here.

    “Not for me”. Conversation ended.Fire Ologist

    Read Genealogy of Morals 10, you'll learn the difference between you, and I, and even Nietzsche, it's why you gravitate to the objective...and also why you'll never be able to really love Nietzsche, you love your bad interpretation of Nietzsche. Though...perhaps I'm wrong and am only exaggerating. I don't know absolutely, so I require a certain faith to say that...doesn't mean Im any less adamant...

    You know what such a statement does allow for though? You to prove me wrong. Faith motivates beyond despair... and that's a beautiful thing. Absolute knowledge is objective... Wasn't there an amateur physicist lately who remodel classic physics? Just cause a model works, doesn't make it the only one.

    If you want to change my evaluation, then offer something more.

    Not less...

    Like T Clark and Count Timothy offered me enough thought provoking material that did alter my evaluation.

    I did admit there was some ambiguity due to the simplicity of my syllogism, such that it's easily equivocated.

    The more nuanced understanding is the quantum of force behind faith isn't necessarily diminished just because the % between faith/knowledge about a particular topic shifts in percent towards the gradiant of knowledge. It means the percentage of reliance on faith decreases, but not necessarily the quantum of force behind faith decreases.
  • 'This Moment is Medieval'...
    Those In Power have no ability to stop women from working, I believe.fdrake

    What happened after women joined the work force? The people in power raised prices to match a double income.

    Now a family is expected to have high double incomes to be fairly stable... now both the parents are absent the child's life... and the childreb have to be watched by people who really don't give a fuck cause they're watching 20 other screaming shitting lasses and lads...

    My sister found her child face down and unconscious at a daycare when she went to pick him up. Kid has a brain injury now.

    Jobs were practically made for men to become more complete... because ancient man looked at women and evaluated they have menstruation to show they've reached adulthood. Jobs and all that shit were for men to become more complete, to become adults...and serve their society. Women were intrinsically complete...

    That women want to find a purpose other than baby machine is one thing... but Nietzsche warned about the masculinization of the feminine instincts further... and now Transgenderism is popping off (vast majority of which is mtf) because the feminine instinct of humanity is so repressed...that it's having a spasmodic release of built up tension...

    Slave morality idolizes the masculine in this way.
  • Logical Arguments for God Show a Lack of Faith; An Actual Factual Categorical Syllogism
    I think if anyone takes faith and converts it as "a known truth" then they're guilty of Hume's Guillotine.

    This sounds like knowledge (science/reason) has to be on a different scale than a faith wouldFire Ologist
    Perhaps for some, but not me. I can understand why the religious type lie to themselves about faith. It's a prominent feature of their thought so they want it to count for something more. Faith in faith.

    The real friction between reason and faith manifests later with Protestantism, where salvation by faith aloneWayfarer

    Could be the case a few influenced my decision, but I never care to ask someone their religion because it's something that matters 0 to me. But I feel like a lot of people think because they have faith in faith they think it's knowledge. They find it some form of reasoned knowledge... the more knowledge you have of something the less faith you have in it because the more you know...

    A scientist doesn't need to have faith in his model after showing it works...he knows it does.

    Bet most the religious here serve themselves not their God...

    Brcause their knowledge of themselves is greater than their faith in their God.

    "God thinks and I obey?" More like "I think and it obeys," after the death of God...
  • Logical Arguments for God Show a Lack of Faith; An Actual Factual Categorical Syllogism
    Yes. Even in science, man places much faith.

    Though, to be fair, the mischievousness in me wanted to say "No" to create absurdity...
  • Logical Arguments for God Show a Lack of Faith; An Actual Factual Categorical Syllogism


    Basically I'm saying you either have absolute faith in something everything less than absolute faith brings some knowledge with it.

    Having absolute faith in God requires nothing more than belief. Having faith doesn't even require routine or doctrine...
  • Logical Arguments for God Show a Lack of Faith; An Actual Factual Categorical Syllogism
    The more knowledge I have the less faith I have in the statement yet.

    Know how counting cards works?

    Even a 5% margin of error is requires great faith in a machine that RPMS 10000 times a minute...
  • Logical Arguments for God Show a Lack of Faith; An Actual Factual Categorical Syllogism
    "NO I KNOW MY WIFE WOULD NEVER CHEAT!" *He shrieked in despair after hearing the news that she did just that* Well obviously there was a gap in the knowledge... that gap was faith... that the man lied to himself about there being a gap in knowledge...

    A large dose of knowledge makes the certainty of faith FEEL and APPEAR like knowledge...Hence St. Thomas thinks "nor can truth ever contradict truth." His gap in knowledge (faith) appears to him as knowledge... sadly the truth of Paradox were far before his time, and something he willingly ignored, probably to maintain his faith that truth never contradicts itself... I don't know, I can't ask him, so I suppose I will just have to have faith in my opinion that he willingly ignored the truth of paradox so he could say "truth never contradicts truth"

    [But if I say I knew for sure ... that's] Hume's Guillotine
    DifferentiatingEgg

    So basically we end up with knowledge on Paradoxes and Knowledge on St. Thomas, to make an "educated guess."

    But if I got to ask him, and fill that gap... well, I would know then wouldn't I?
  • Logical Arguments for God Show a Lack of Faith; An Actual Factual Categorical Syllogism
    Faith is not opposite reasonFire Ologist

    Yall in that Dialectical thought of antithesis of values...

    Also

    The more I know/understand that my wife won't cheat on me the less faith I have in her? This seems bizarre to me.Count Timothy von Icarus

    It seems Bizarre to you that the more you know your wife won't cheat on you the less faith you have in believing that she wont? You don't even comprehend what I'm saying with that example.

    So everything you believe in is a known fact? If I know my wife won't cheat on me then it's no longer a question about faith... because it's known.

    It's bizarre to me that you equivocate beliefs with knowing...

    Just because I believe I have the biggest penis in the world doesn't mean plenty of others don't dwarf me in reality.

    Knowing I have the biggest penis in the world entails something completely different than just believing I do...

    I can make shit up about you right here on the fly and believe it...

    Just because you fall into the trap that Christians are like "your belief is your personal relationship with God" doesn't mean you know God...

    Do you collect Faith or Intelligence in war? For the purpose of knowing the plans of your adversary?

    After a scientist has faith in his work and makes a discovery... and can recreate said experiment...sorry but... it's no longer faith but repeatable knowledge...

    He no longer needs faith it will work... he knows it does work...

    The reason a Christian feels faith is knowing is because they attempt to relay every perspective through the "womb of being"... "faith in God is knowing cause God is everything."

    "NO I KNOW MY WIFE WOULD NEVER CHEAT!" *He shrieked in despair after hearing the news that she did just that* Well obviously there was a gap in the knowledge... that gap was faith... that the man lied to himself about there being a gap in knowledge...

    A large dose of knowledge makes the certainty of faith FEEL and APPEAR like knowledge...Hence St. Thomas thinks "nor can truth ever contradict truth." His gap in knowledge (faith) appears to him as knowledge... sadly the truth of Paradox were far before his time, and something he willingly ignored, probably to maintain his faith that truth never contradicts itself... I don't know, I can't ask him, so I suppose I will just have to have faith in my opinion that he willingly ignored the truth of paradox so he could say "truth never contradicts truth"

    Hume's Guillotine
  • Logical Arguments for God Show a Lack of Faith; An Actual Factual Categorical Syllogism
    So, St. Thomas's Five Ways demonstrate a lack of faith and are contrary to Church doctrine?Count Timothy von Icarus

    Not exactly, a quantum of force cannot actually be weaker than it is... you and T Clark have made me consider my perspective a bit more, and what I'm coming to is that ... but say St. Thomas's Quantum of Force in faith is already this grand mountain... we can say his Faith is still as strong... but say instead of St. Thomas being 100% faith-based, he's 60% Faith and 40% logic and perhaps a lack of clarifying here has caused all sorts of equivocations, perhaps of myself even... due to the quantum of force not actually being lesser... just because a persons intellect may be divided in a 60/40 split doesn't necessarily mean that because a persons thought moves to 55/45 split that the quantum of force behind faith grew less... but that the quantum of force behind reason grew more...
    there IS a nuance to it... so for some people a quantum of force of faith may not be phased by reason...

    Not a blanket quality for all or even most though...
  • Logical Arguments for God Show a Lack of Faith; An Actual Factual Categorical Syllogism
    And knowing is not an act of the intellect?Count Timothy von Icarus

    Just because two things are an act of another doesn't mean you can equivocate them... unless you do so under the umbrella term, which is a hybrid of a multiplicity...

    Like Pooping and Thinking... both an act of the body.
  • Logical Arguments for God Show a Lack of Faith; An Actual Factual Categorical Syllogism
    faith is not achieved through reason." However, it involves the intellect and understandingCount Timothy von Icarus

    Believing is an act of the intellectCount Timothy von Icarus

    Believing, not knowing...

    that the submission of our faith might nevertheless be in accordance with reasonCount Timothy von Icarus

    Submission to faith... a faith that happens to run parallel to reason, just as male and female are parallel antagonist...

    Faith is certain. It is more certain than all human knowledge

    You realize all your quotes are about the difference between Faith and Knowledge/Reason...

    Faith seeks understanding
    No it doesn't.

    Faith and science: "Though faith is above reason, there can never be any real discrepancy between faith and reason. Since the same God who reveals mysteries and infuses faith has bestowed the light of reason on the human mind, God cannot deny himself, nor can truth ever contradict truth.

    The above sentence is great because the author obviously forgot that paradox "this sentence is a lie." Because his faith was stronger than his knowledge about Truth and its paradoxes... Also a showing that Faith doesn't seek understanding... otherwise author would understand Truth is Enmeshed in Deception... via Paradox.
  • Logical Arguments for God Show a Lack of Faith; An Actual Factual Categorical Syllogism
    The OP has a view of faith that is only consistent with an austere sort of fideismCount Timothy von Icarus

    Faith is relaint on faith alone... Faith = Faith. When was Faith equated to Knowing? I don't know of any meaning of the word that suggests knowing.

    Just because people here are used to their two to three quarters faith acting as absolute faith doesn't mean they're correct about Faith... Most "Christians" today aren't even 3/4ths Christian...

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