Meanings can be learnt via inferences from observations on the real world and how others use the words in social situations. — Corvus

One cannot use words without knowing the meanings. — Corvus

It's not all that odd. If someone tells you how things are, it is up to you to decide whether to believe them. — Ludwig V

...means... — J

Popper draws a clear distinction between the logic of falsifiability and its applied methodology. The logic of his theory is utterly simple: a universal statement is falsified by a single genuine counter-instance. Methodologically, however, the situation is complex: decisions about whether to accept an apparently falsifying observation as an actual falsification can be problematic, as observational bias and measurement error, for example, can yield results which are only apparently incompatible with the theory under scrutiny. — Popper, from SEP, (my bolding)

My point is, one can always blame the God character and think how things should have gone, but in doing so one simply takes on the role of God. It's very natural to do this. — BitconnectCarlos

It's not between man and man. It's between man and God. — BitconnectCarlos

After reading it, summarily reject all it says and tell me how horrified you are at the binding of Isaac. That's the process we've followed going on a couple of years here. — Hanover

I actually have it all figured out, understand the meaning of life and the nature of what exists, I'm just not telling anyone so you can all discover it for yourselves.

All we need is to trust God and no one gets hurt. — Fire Ologist

That was the sacrifice - not the act of a madman; not someone blindly obedient - it was a fully informed decision to, despite all else, trust God. — Fire Ologist

It can't be stated often enough that if perspicuity is rejected (which I do), then a 4 corners literalist interpretation is irrelevant — Hanover

Remember then: there is only one time that is important – now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary person is the one with whom you are, for no man knows whether he will ever have dealings with anyone else: and the most important affair is to do that person good, because for that purpose alone was man sent into this life.” — Tolstoy, The Three Questions

As humans our perspectives are limited and biased and to draw such broad and universal judgments such as which suffering is ultimately "justified" and which is "unjustified" is beyond us. The book stands against man's hubrism and his tendency of all encompassing judgment. — BitconnectCarlos

I'm European. — ChatteringMonkey

A garage, by its very nature, tends toward disorder, for it is in its essence a space of storage and utility, where various objects accumulate over time. No matter how much one may strive to impose order upon it, the garage will inevitably revert to this state, as it is proper to its function. This tendency is not accidental but arises from its very purpose, much like how all things move toward their natural ends. — Aristotle

You insist that all align to your judgment. — BitconnectCarlos

I have intuitions. I make judgments, for sure. — BitconnectCarlos

I get it. You, like many others, have very strong intuitions about how things should be. — BitconnectCarlos

Kierkegaard saw something profound in it. You see nothing. — frank

You, like many others, — BitconnectCarlos

What do you make of this? — Hanover

I don't think nationalism is functionally all that different from religion. — ChatteringMonkey

Well religion is the institutionalisation of these values, how they get propagated in a given society, how and who can change them over time. — ChatteringMonkey

Faith then is the believe in a set of common values — ChatteringMonkey

ENRON CAPITALISM
You have two cows. You sell three of them to your public-listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt / equity swap with associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax deduction for keeping five cows. The milk rights of six cows are transferred via a Panamanian intermediary to a Cayman Islands company secretly owned by the majority shareholder, who sells the rights to all seven cows' milk back to the listed company. The annual report says that the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more.

Anyone who thinks abandoning your own reason is ever right or good, is a fool, or not a functioning person. Faith is not opposed to reason. — Fire Ologist

They arrived at the place God had described to him. Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He tied up his son Isaac and laid him on the altar on top of the wood. Then Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to kill his son as a sacrifice.

If a person performs some ritual, to praise God and bring blessings, they are using reason throughout, as necessary to complete any task successfully. — Fire Ologist

Biblical interpretation is a field unto itself — Hanover