Comments | politas: This means War!

politas

This means War!

Nov 18, 2005 16:55

The Wedge StrategyWow. These people are seriously saying they want to turn science back by a hundred years and re-do it all with a Christian perspective. Their goal is the destruction of my philosophy. And people wonder why I get annoyed by this stuff ( Read more... )

woo, materialism

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gwyon_bach November 18 2005, 14:36:14 UTC

These people want inflict their world on me, they can talk to my fucking axe.

Fuck them.

arthwollipot November 29 2005, 01:40:51 UTC

That's a very apathetic attitude to take. In the US, these people are taking over the government. Australia is only a decade or so behind. Apathism may have worked in the past, but the time will come when we all have to confront these issues.

arthwollipot November 29 2005, 01:39:23 UTC

In the materialist scheme of things, everyone is a victim and no one can be held accountable for his or her actions.

I have to take exception to this. I see it the other way round. Materialists are forced to accept that they must be accountable for their actions, unless they wish to deny that they're sentient. Materialists have nothing to fall back on. Theists can always say "the devil made me do it" or "it was God's will", but non-theists have to take personal responsibility for their own life.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Religion is just a way of prolonging childhood.

politas November 29 2005, 07:14:39 UTC

Well, there are arguments both ways. A purely mechanistic view of brain function can lead to a conclusion that no one is truly responsible for their actions; that a combination of childhood trauma, brain chemistry and stimuli can acount for a person's actions to the extent that they cannot be considered responsible ( ... )