We're going through a period of rapid succession, and we should expect reaction and resistance. I believe that our sexual epistemology is pretty wide of what the human organism is selected for or capable of. The Jacksonville Baptists and I are going to have to agree to dosagree.
It seems as if there are a lot of people in the world who are gullible enough to believe and do anything a charismatic person will tell them. Look at Stalin, Hitler, etc., and how many had to die as a result. Using god as your go-to support for your hatred is the biggest form of blasphemy. Lao Tzu said it best: The Tao (god) that can be named is not the Tao (god)."
We are all standing on a stepladder with different perspectives. People think that their rung is the only correct perspective. When a person steps onto the next rung, the perspective changes. Our view of metaphors also changes. As Joseph Campbell wrote: "It made me reflect that half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies." (Campbell, Joseph. Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor.) When one moves onto the mystical rung, one realizes that one can only speak about the unknown in metaphors. "That is why, to appreciate the language of religion, which is metaphorical, one must constantly distinguish the denotation, or concrete fact, from the connotation, or transcendent message." (Campbell, Joseph. Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor.)
The only non-Euclidean geometry I know anything about is Fuller's Synergetics. Now, there was one anti-Euclidean. But the ratios would stay the same in radians, or some other angular measuring scheme.
Yes. My wife has a book from the Jesus Project. In one passage, it says something like "It's as though there are people who read Aesop and are convinced that animals used to be able to talk."
Things are changing pretty quickly, and a lot of people are probably feeling whipsawed. I'm sorry for them, but I doubt that God gives a molting angel's feather about who puts what where. Anybody who's got kids or grandkids should watch Disney's Strange World. No sex, except for some heterosexual interracial smooching...But the kid, who's key to making things right, has a crush on another boy, and nobody batts an eye.
We're going through a period of rapid succession, and we should expect reaction and resistance. I believe that our sexual epistemology is pretty wide of what the human organism is selected for or capable of. The Jacksonville Baptists and I are going to have to agree to dosagree.
It seems as if there are a lot of people in the world who are gullible enough to believe and do anything a charismatic person will tell them. Look at Stalin, Hitler, etc., and how many had to die as a result. Using god as your go-to support for your hatred is the biggest form of blasphemy. Lao Tzu said it best: The Tao (god) that can be named is not the Tao (god)."
Things are changing pretty quickly, and a lot of people are probably feeling whipsawed. I'm sorry for them, but I doubt that God gives a molting angel's feather about who puts what where. Anybody who's got kids or grandkids should watch Disney's Strange World. No sex, except for some heterosexual interracial smooching...But the kid, who's key to making things right, has a crush on another boy, and nobody batts an eye.