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  • Con_Alma
    sleeper;1152311 wrote:People feel the same way when they join a cult. The desire trespasses the logical reason of someone's mind and then the mind blindly follows the cult leader. The cult leader gives them hope, especially after the cult leader drains the entire person's intellectual and financial wealth, and then they have nothing.
    Glad they do....although it has little to do or impact on how I feel.
  • Con_Alma
    sleeper;1152316 wrote:I'm thinking of bringing out the Illiad and quoting random passages to justify my belief. What a joke.
    Why would a passage justify your belief?

    That's kind of interesting.
  • sleeper
    Con_Alma;1152342 wrote:Why would a passage justify your belief?

    That's kind of interesting.
    See Skyhook's posts.

    How useless would this debate be if I started posting quotes from Harry Potter as justification for the belief in Wizards?
  • sleeper
    Con_Alma;1152340 wrote:Glad they do....although it has little to do or impact on how I feel.
    Why would it? You've already said you don't use logic or reason to justify your belief. They've already won.
  • Con_Alma
    sleeper;1152352 wrote:Why would it? You've already said you don't use logic or reason to justify your belief. They've already won.
    It wouldn't. I was agreeing.

    I am sorry I didn't no it was a win /lose effort.
  • Con_Alma
    sleeper;1152351 wrote:See Skyhook's posts.

    How useless would this debate be if I started posting quotes from Harry Potter as justification for the belief in Wizards?
    I read skyhook's posts as reference for better explaining his belief. I didn't think it was the reason he had such belief. I would like to see your passages from Illiad ...especially if they are "random". It might tie in nicely.
  • Con_Alma
    Skyhook79;1152315 wrote:You can't earn you way to heaven, it is by Grace we are saved.

    ...
    Justified by Faith through Grace
  • sleeper
    Con_Alma;1152357 wrote:I read skyhook's posts as reference for better explaining his belief. I didn't think it was the reason he had such belief. I would like to see your passages from Illiad ...especially if they are "random". It might tie in nicely.
    [LEFT]"and its devastation, which put pains thousandfold upon the Achaians,
    hurled in their multitudes to the house of Hades strong souls
    of heroes, but gave their bodies to be the delicate feasting
    of dogs, of all birds, and the will of Zeus was accomplished"

    "Thetis answered him then letting the tears fall: 'Ah me,
    my child, your birth was bitterness. Why did I raise you?
    If only you could sit by your ships untroubled, not weeping,
    since indeed your lifetime is to be short, of no length.
    Now it has befallen that your life must be brief and bitter
    beyond all men's. To a bad destiny I bore you in my chambers.' (1.413-418)"


    [/LEFT]
  • Con_Alma
    sleeper;1152368 wrote:[LEFT]"and its devastation, which put pains thousandfold upon the Achaians,
    hurled in their multitudes to the house of Hades strong souls
    of heroes, but gave their bodies to be the delicate feasting
    of dogs, of all birds, and the will of Zeus was accomplished"

    "Thetis answered him then letting the tears fall: 'Ah me,
    my child, your birth was bitterness. Why did I raise you?
    If only you could sit by your ships untroubled, not weeping,
    since indeed your lifetime is to be short, of no length.
    Now it has befallen that your life must be brief and bitter
    beyond all men's. To a bad destiny I bore you in my chambers.' (1.413-418)"


    [/LEFT]
    I guess it's not random now since I requested one. Oh well. I'm glad you obliged.
  • sleeper
    I literally just pulled a random quote. The great thing about the Illiad, is there are people who actually believe its correct.

    Apparently beliefs are on the same level as facts in your world. Pretty delusional.
  • enigmaax
    sleeper;1152373 wrote:I literally just pulled a random quote. The great thing about the Illiad, is there are people who actually believe its correct.

    Apparently beliefs are on the same level as facts in your world. Pretty delusional.
    Well, I mean, the Trojan War did happen. So everything else in it must be true.
  • Con_Alma
    sleeper;1152373 wrote:I literally just pulled a random quote. The great thing about the Illiad, is there are people who actually believe its correct.

    Apparently beliefs are on the same level as facts in your world. Pretty delusional.
    I can't be more clear. It's beyond apparent. I have definitively stated for you it is by faith and faith alone. You don't have to surmise or guess the basis of me taking my position.
  • sleeper
    Con_Alma;1152377 wrote:I can't be more clear. It's beyond apparent. I have definitively stated for you it is by faith and faith alone. You don't have to surmise or guess the basis of me taking my position.
    But faith and fact are different. Beliefs are not factual, almost by definition.

    Why do you take everything personal? I'm calling out faith as being an illogical cop out and you always make it about yourself. I don't care about your beliefs, I care about beliefs in the aggregate. They aren't reality, they aren't correct, they aren't admirable, they are a crock of shit.
  • Con_Alma
    sleeper;1152385 wrote:But faith and fact are different. Beliefs are not factual, almost by definition.

    Why do you take everything personal? I'm calling out faith as being an illogical cop out and you always make it about yourself. I don't care about your beliefs, I care about beliefs in the aggregate. They aren't reality, they aren't correct, they aren't admirable, they are a crock of ****.

    Uhhhh, I thought I was agreeing that faith and fact are different.

    I don't take anything personal but can only speak from a personal perspective. I can't and don't try to speak for the aggregate.

    I disagree that faith isn't reality. Faith truly is a human element of belief, of trust, of loyalty and of allegiance. Those are very much real and do not simply exist in a religious realm.
  • sleeper
    Faith can be attached to anything. If I have faith in unicorns, that doesn't make unicorns reality.

    Simple as that.
  • Con_Alma
    sleeper;1152391 wrote:Faith can be attached to anything. If I have faith in unicorns, that doesn't make unicorns reality.

    Simple as that.
    I thought I agreed with you on that principle...over and over again. It is not faith that makes something a reality. It is the belief that it is real that creates the faith in someone.
  • sleeper
    Con_Alma;1152394 wrote:I thought I agreed with you on that principle...over and over again. It is not faith that makes something a reality. It is the belief that it is real that creates the faith in someone.
    The belief is meaningless. If its real in someone, then are experiencing some form of hallucination or dementia and should seek medical attention.
  • Con_Alma
    sleeper;1152406 wrote:The belief is meaningless. If its real in someone, then are experiencing some form of hallucination or dementia and should seek medical attention.
    Belief is meaningless to you. It is the root for others. That has been the whole point of the discussion.

    You do not rely upon it while others do.
  • sleeper
    Con_Alma;1152410 wrote:Belief is meaningless to you. It is the root for others. That has been the whole point of the discussion.

    You do not rely upon it while others do.
    If I believe that the Civil War did not happen, is that belief meaningful?
  • Con_Alma
    sleeper;1152412 wrote:If I believe that the Civil War did not happen, is that belief meaningful?
    To me, it is not. ...just as I don't expect my beliefs to be "meaningful" to you.
  • sleeper
    Con_Alma;1152414 wrote:To me, it is not. ...just as I don't expect my beliefs to be "meaningful" to you.
    But its okay for me to believe the Civil War did not exist?
  • sleeper
    This is such a silly discussion. Just because you believe something doesn't mean it happened. It doesn't mean its real. If its real to you, seek professional medical attention.
  • Con_Alma
    sleeper;1152417 wrote:But its okay for me to believe the Civil War did not exist?
    What do you mean by O.K.?

    You can believe what every it is you want. You cant restrict nor stop the human mind and spirit from things.
  • Con_Alma
    sleeper;1152418 wrote:This is such a silly discussion. Just because you believe something doesn't mean it happened. It doesn't mean its real. If its real to you, seek professional medical attention.
    Didn't we already agree that belief doesn't make things real?

    Belief is a result not the action of creating realism.
  • sleeper
    Exactly. So believing the Christ exists or that there is a Heaven, or that the Bible is real, etc. does not make these things real. Period.