Don’t be an irrational person…think! Develop habits of thinking well, and engaging the world with everything you have: mind and body, body and soul, ideas with action, thinking with gratitude… Continue reading
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Originally posted 2011-10-24 12:39:17. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Some people talk like you can be too reasonable because your intellect can get in the way of your heart, or your faith. But is this true? I don’t think so. Rather, I think it is more reasonable to say that a person can be ignorant or unskilled in proper reasoning. But don’t take my word for it. Continue reading
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Originally posted 2011-10-15 11:06:16. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
If you want to successfully become a hypocrite for life, here is part I of a hypocrite guide with some useful hints. It takes a lot of hard work and focus to become a hypocrite because lacking integrity doesn’t happen on accident, it requires persistent opposition to personal integrity.
Here are four introductory requirements to successfully become a durable and evolving hypocrite. How to begin?
1 Be Flexible-
Whenever possible, try to emphasize feelings over actual intent or probable consequences that stem from your decisions (which mature adults should anticipate). If you do something obviously contradictory with your convictions try to point out that you could not have known the consequences. Continue reading
Originally posted 2011-12-15 19:26:24. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Religious conversation is often complicated because we use terms without clear ideas behind them. Lack of clarity in the beginning leads to frustration soon after. Belief and truth are different things, and should not be confused. Continue reading
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Originally posted 2011-10-28 14:12:05. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Rationality is a part of the healthy human condition, as the result of being an Image-bearer of God. So, as God designed the universe purposely and from principles, so also His creations that bear His image can reflect on the principled nature of the universe. Continue reading
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Originally posted 2011-11-28 13:35:56. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.” Bertrand Russell
Ideas control the world. They guide human decisions. They tell us what decisions are available and which ones are worth choosing; what is laudable and what is despicable. Ideas are the paradigms of our lives. Has there ever been a stirring in human history without the impulsion of ideas? Deception is the sale of one idea wrapped in the appearance of another. Successful deceits, the ones that make impressions on history, are invariably couched in the banners of light, goodness, and righteousness; in some form at least. Is anyone so confident that Continue reading
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Originally posted 2011-12-13 07:26:30. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
1.1 What Is Meant By Saying That Humans Have A Telos
1.2 Introduce Three Ways of Talking About Teleology Continue reading
Originally posted 2011-12-26 07:42:33. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
ALONE at some distance from the wasting walls of a disused abbey I found half sunken in the grass the grey and goggle-eyed visage of one of those graven monsters that made the ornamental water-spouts in the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. Continue reading
Originally posted 2011-11-16 14:15:49. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
7. State the Teleological Argument.
Teleology from telov, end, and logov [greek], discourse, is the science of final causes, or of purposes or design as exhibited in the adjustments of parts to wholes, of means to ends, of organs to uses in nature. It is also familiarly called the Argument from Design, and is ultimately based upon the recognition of the operations of an intelligent cause in nature. It may be profitably stated in two forms based respectively on the more general and the more special manifestations of that intelligence. Continue reading
Originally posted 2011-12-23 07:31:03. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Originally posted 2011-12-03 16:34:58. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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