Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

Poll

What's your opinion on free will?

I am religious and believe in free will
- 70 (27.6%)
I am religious and do not believe in free will
- 10 (3.9%)
I am not religious and believe in free will
- 113 (44.5%)
I am not religious and do not believe in free will
- 61 (24%)

Total Members Voted: 249


Pages: 1 ... 54 55 [56] 57 58 ... 521

Author Topic: Railgun and Spirituality Discussion  (Read 562594 times)

penguinofhonor

  • Bay Watcher
  • Minister of Love
    • View Profile
Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Yet Another Thread
« Reply #825 on: February 14, 2015, 01:00:37 am »

.
« Last Edit: October 24, 2015, 12:31:53 am by penguinofhonor »
Logged

Orange Wizard

  • Bay Watcher
  • mou ii yo
    • View Profile
    • S M U G
Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Yet Another Thread
« Reply #826 on: February 14, 2015, 03:22:01 am »

I don't think we need to dredge up that drama.
This.

Though thanks for the reference, Bohandas.
Logged
Please don't shitpost, it lowers the quality of discourse
Hard science is like a sword, and soft science is like fear. You can use both to equally powerful results, but even if your opponent disbelieve your stabs, they will still die.

Askot Bokbondeler

  • Bay Watcher
  • please line up orderly
    • View Profile
Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Yet Another Thread
« Reply #827 on: February 15, 2015, 08:51:58 am »

ptw

TD1

  • Bay Watcher
  • Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
    • View Profile
Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Yet Another Thread
« Reply #828 on: February 15, 2015, 02:15:59 pm »

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/stephen.fry.says.god.is.capricious.mean.minded.stupid.but.lets.not.get.angry/47174.htm

So, what do y'all think about 1) the video and 2) the article's response.

I, for one, think that the face of the interviewer is a picture, and that the article downplays the issue into something personal with Stephen Fry, and misses the actual points he's raising.
Logged
Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination
  TD1 has claimed the title of Penblessed the Endless Fountain of Epics!
Sigtext!
Poetry Thread

Arx

  • Bay Watcher
  • Iron within, iron without.
    • View Profile
    • Art!
Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Yet Another Thread
« Reply #829 on: February 15, 2015, 02:25:40 pm »

Dammit Dwarfy, you posted that about a minute after I shut down my PC. :P

I don't know if I'll have time to look at it tomorrow. Hopefully I will, but if not I won't until Friday at the soonest.
Logged

I am on Discord as Arx#2415.
Hail to the mind of man! / Fire in the sky
I've been waiting for you / On this day we die.

Descan

  • Bay Watcher
  • [HEADING INTENSIFIES]
    • View Profile
Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Yet Another Thread
« Reply #830 on: February 15, 2015, 02:31:21 pm »

1) "Only broken people turn to atheism."

2) "You're secretly a Christian because we have a monopoly on morality (and having an ideal world!)"

3) "That's not REALLY Christianity!"

Not worth the electrons it took to print that trite.

I'm also curious on how the Fall of Man creates flesh-eating bacteria and bone cancer. >_>
Logged
Quote from: SalmonGod
Your innocent viking escapades for canadian social justice and immortality make my flagellum wiggle, too.
Quote from: Myroc
Descan confirmed for antichrist.
Quote from: LeoLeonardoIII
I wonder if any of us don't love Descan.

TD1

  • Bay Watcher
  • Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
    • View Profile
Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Yet Another Thread
« Reply #831 on: February 15, 2015, 02:36:03 pm »

Also of note is that he keeps calling it "Fry's outburst" and such other descriptions which, perhaps unintentionally, try to suggest that Fry was giving an uncontrolled argument from anger. I saw a rather calm and collected person giving a view which quite accurately reflects my own. If God is real, evidence from the world around us would suggest he's not the best deity. He has killed more than the devil could ever dream of doing (he's wiped out cities, and even the entire population bar one family.)
Logged
Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination
  TD1 has claimed the title of Penblessed the Endless Fountain of Epics!
Sigtext!
Poetry Thread

Rolan7

  • Bay Watcher
  • [GUE'VESA][BONECARN]
    • View Profile
Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Yet Another Thread
« Reply #832 on: February 15, 2015, 03:21:46 pm »

Morals obviously existed for tens of thousands of years before Christ did or didn't make his universal worse-than-death threat.  And even since then, no matter your religion, over 68% of the world gets by without it.  Humans are social creatures who naturally congregate and form moral codes... everywhere.  I don't mind admitting that I hate item 2 and feel personally offended whenever someone states it.

Also, Arx and someone else made some very compelling replies to one of my posts about Jesus (based on the Bible), and I mean to address some of those points and admit defeat on others.  I've just been busy, sorry.
Logged
She/they
No justice: no peace.
Quote from: Fallen London, one Unthinkable Hope
This one didn't want to be who they was. On the Surface – it was a dull, unconsidered sadness. But everything changed. Which implied everything could change.

Orange Wizard

  • Bay Watcher
  • mou ii yo
    • View Profile
    • S M U G
Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Yet Another Thread
« Reply #833 on: February 15, 2015, 03:57:14 pm »

It's worth noting that the laws in the Bible claim to be objective morality, as opposed to the subjective morals created by various civilisations over millennia.
There's a lot of overlap because some things are simply necessary for a functioning society, as opposed to those things being based on the Bible. Which, incidentally, is why I want to laugh when people say "oh but you see, laws today are from the Bible!"
Logged
Please don't shitpost, it lowers the quality of discourse
Hard science is like a sword, and soft science is like fear. You can use both to equally powerful results, but even if your opponent disbelieve your stabs, they will still die.

MonkeyHead

  • Bay Watcher
  • Yma o hyd...
    • View Profile
Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Yet Another Thread
« Reply #834 on: February 15, 2015, 04:03:29 pm »

It's worth noting that the laws in the Bible claim to be objective morality, as opposed to the subjective morals created by various civilisations over millennia.
There's a lot of overlap because some things are simply necessary for a functioning society, as opposed to those things being based on the Bible. Which, incidentally, is why I want to laugh when people say "oh but you see, laws today are from the Bible!"

Well, to be fair, in a large way, most Christian heritage or post-Christian nations did base their legal systems on what it said in the bible - the fact that what is in the bible appears elsewhere is kind of irrelevant in that context.
Logged
This is a blank sig.

Orange Wizard

  • Bay Watcher
  • mou ii yo
    • View Profile
    • S M U G
Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Yet Another Thread
« Reply #835 on: February 15, 2015, 04:18:00 pm »

Yeah, that's certainly true. But the overwhelming majority of countries make things like murder or theft illegal, and this douchebag had never even heard of the Bible.
Logged
Please don't shitpost, it lowers the quality of discourse
Hard science is like a sword, and soft science is like fear. You can use both to equally powerful results, but even if your opponent disbelieve your stabs, they will still die.

Arx

  • Bay Watcher
  • Iron within, iron without.
    • View Profile
    • Art!
Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Yet Another Thread
« Reply #836 on: February 16, 2015, 12:19:03 pm »

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/stephen.fry.says.god.is.capricious.mean.minded.stupid.but.lets.not.get.angry/47174.htm

So, what do y'all think about 1) the video and 2) the article's response.

I, for one, think that the face of the interviewer is a picture, and that the article downplays the issue into something personal with Stephen Fry, and misses the actual points he's raising.

It is definitely something he cares quite a lot about. He's definitely passionate on the topic, although to say he's speaking from anger is definitely a long stretch. I think the journalist is... not doing as well as they could. Trying to reduce his points to 'Oh the poor guy must have had a bad experience' is, as has been observed, not effective.

The second two points don't seem to have much to do with the video, to be honest. Descan has them pretty nailed, although more bluntly than I would have.
Logged

I am on Discord as Arx#2415.
Hail to the mind of man! / Fire in the sky
I've been waiting for you / On this day we die.

chaoticag

  • Bay Watcher
  • All Natural Pengbean
    • View Profile
Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Yet Another Thread
« Reply #837 on: February 16, 2015, 12:45:12 pm »

Well, to be fair, in a large way, most Christian heritage or post-Christian nations did base their legal systems on what it said in the bible - the fact that what is in the bible appears elsewhere is kind of irrelevant in that context.
Well, it depends. Napoleonic Code really wasn't based on the bible, and the ten commandments aren't enshrined in any nation-state I know of. Modern nation states have law codes more in common with ancient roman law compared to biblical law it seems. Even then, if murder was illegal before Christianity, would it make sense to claim that now that a nation went through a period where Christianity was dominant, that law was based on biblical ideals? It just doesn't seem to follow.

Are there some examples of this around though? I'm interested in knowing more at least.
Logged

Sheb

  • Bay Watcher
  • You Are An Avatar
    • View Profile
Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Yet Another Thread
« Reply #838 on: February 16, 2015, 01:02:57 pm »

Not entirely, the bit of Roman law that really inspired the western continental legal tradition is the Justinian Code, which date from after the conversion of the Empire to Christianity.
Logged

Quote from: Paul-Henry Spaak
Europe consists only of small countries, some of which know it and some of which don’t yet.

chaoticag

  • Bay Watcher
  • All Natural Pengbean
    • View Profile
Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Yet Another Thread
« Reply #839 on: February 16, 2015, 01:16:59 pm »

Oh huh. Well, shows what I know about Roman laws. Guess I was wrong on my point to an extent then. Still, not sure if I'd say Justinian was biblical in its roots, or what even being biblical in roots would look like.
Logged
Pages: 1 ... 54 55 [56] 57 58 ... 521