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Existentialism is less interesting than what I ate for dinner. Discuss.
Ender:
have ub een getting my late-night instant messages?
Chavo:
Haha, yes! I've been incredibly busy though. I'll get around to leaving you a poorly thought out, extremely long reply one of these nights.
Oh, and
--- Quote ---(05:49:21) ender: only God Euler can tell
(05:49:32) ender: wow that was so atheistic of me
(05:49:38) ender: though I didn't say God couldn't tell
--- End quote ---
You excluded God with the word only, unless you want to indicate that God and God Euler are the same entity. Pascal would be ashamed of you.
d&q:
--- Quote ---(2:29:05 AM) Ender: fukin' a'
(2:29:08 AM) Ender: u there?!!?!?!?!?afdads
(4:00:46 AM) Me: ?
(4:00:56 AM) Ender: fukin' a'
(4:00:57 AM) Ender: AADSASDADFS
(4:01:10 AM) Me: what?
(4:03:07 AM) Ender: iono
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Ender:
--- Quote from: Chavo on February 26, 2008, 09:38:28 am ---Haha, yes! I've been incredibly busy though. I'll get around to leaving you a poorly thought out, extremely long reply one of these nights.
Oh, and
--- Quote ---(05:49:21) ender: only God Euler can tell
(05:49:32) ender: wow that was so atheistic of me
(05:49:38) ender: though I didn't say God couldn't tell
--- End quote ---
You excluded God with the word only, unless you want to indicate that God and God Euler are the same entity. Pascal would be ashamed of you.
--- End quote ---
iono. 5am yo.
edit:Actually, now that sleep has illuminated my thoughts, I realize that I was criticizing the arrogance of reason, as well as the limits of reason. That which you pointed out is a false contradiction, as Pascal would say, since we cannot through reason understand the nature of God, or even prove that God exists. In fact, if God doesn't exist, the statement is vacuously true. And since you can't prove that God exists, you can't prove me wrong. You can't use Pascal's Wager, because even though that says it is best to believe in God, it does not prove that God does exist for a fact, hence not proving the contradiction. Even if God did exist, we still cannot assume that contradictions apply to his decisions. Though I think Spinoza would firmly disagree, with the God-nature equivalence submitting God to certain laws. Cartesian thought also disagrees, as it hypothesizes that deceit is an imperfection and thus God cannot be deceitful, so he would not allow his decisions to be contradictions. But we're talking about Pascal, not Spinoza or Descartes.
FURTHERMORE, this serves to highlight the obscurity of the one true religion, Christianity, and thus support it. One may think that showing a religion to be oscure would be to its discredit, but in fact it is only the combination of obscurity and light (e.g. redemption) that make it sound; for if there were too much obscurity there would be no hope, and if there were no obscurity and everything was illuminated then we would not realize our inherent corruption.
Need I go into what Hume would say...?
Ender:
--- Quote from: Deuce on February 27, 2008, 09:40:57 pm ---
--- Quote ---(2:29:05 AM) Ender: fukin' a'
(2:29:08 AM) Ender: u there?!!?!?!?!?afdads
(4:00:46 AM) Me: ?
(4:00:56 AM) Ender: fukin' a'
(4:00:57 AM) Ender: AADSASDADFS
(4:01:10 AM) Me: what?
(4:03:07 AM) Ender: iono
--- End quote ---
--- End quote ---
lies. i never wrote that. nvm, i did. but you left out the part where you called me a dysfunctional 5cm chode. i was simply responding to the hurt i felt.
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