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Topic: Is morality absolute or relative?
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Coragyps
Member (Idle past 753 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: 11-12-2002
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Message 17 of 150 (320152)
06-10-2006 7:28 PM
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Reply to: Message 11 by Rob
06-10-2006 7:15 PM
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You shall not make a graven image. Would that be only statues, or also cartoons, dollar bills with Washington on them, and photographs? An early English version said: "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth." Does this suggest that we should stone to death all artists who draw people better than my pitiful stick figures? Heck, I used to draw a pretty good horsie when I was about seven....
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Coragyps
Member (Idle past 753 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: 11-12-2002
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Message 23 of 150 (320164)
06-10-2006 7:35 PM
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Reply to: Message 16 by Rob
06-10-2006 7:28 PM
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If there wasn't a violation... But there was a violation. Societies have standards. We expect people to abide by them. Picking up firewood on Saturday is not a stoning-to-death offense in Western cultures like it was in Hebrew times. That's changed.
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Coragyps
Member (Idle past 753 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: 11-12-2002
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Message 28 of 150 (320172)
06-10-2006 7:47 PM
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Reply to: Message 25 by Rob
06-10-2006 7:39 PM
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Sorry, no of course not. Bad humor... So you don't hold that morality is absolute. I understand now. Discussion over.
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Coragyps
Member (Idle past 753 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: 11-12-2002
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Message 30 of 150 (320174)
06-10-2006 7:51 PM
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Reply to: Message 26 by Rob
06-10-2006 7:43 PM
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are you saying that it was ok for the Jews to stone people because it was their way of living? Pretty damn barbaric for a completely victimless "crime," is what I think. So, no, that's not ok with me:but I wasn't there back then. I haven't yet heard of a society that meets my ideas of a Good Society.
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Coragyps
Member (Idle past 753 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: 11-12-2002
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Message 34 of 150 (320183)
06-10-2006 7:59 PM
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Reply to: Message 31 by Rob
06-10-2006 7:53 PM
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I do hold that morality is absolute. And the wages of sin is death.
So those who work on the Sabbath or draw pictures of fish are irretrievably doomed for their heinous sin. That makes perfect sense....
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Coragyps
Member (Idle past 753 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: 11-12-2002
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Message 37 of 150 (320191)
06-10-2006 8:04 PM
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Reply to: Message 33 by Rob
06-10-2006 7:59 PM
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I'm the one judging other people? And I'm fairly aware of my shortcomings. I travelled over 240 miles today. The Sabbath. But somehow I just can't bring myself to give a red rat's ass about making atonement or seeking forgiveness for that. Hell, I'm going to go draw an animal! An easy one, though.
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Coragyps
Member (Idle past 753 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: 11-12-2002
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Message 38 of 150 (320192)
06-10-2006 8:06 PM
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Reply to: Message 36 by Rob
06-10-2006 8:02 PM
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Your missing so much my friend... we're all condemnded! I spent over forty years listening to that bullshit. I've given it up.
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Coragyps
Member (Idle past 753 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: 11-12-2002
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Message 50 of 150 (320239)
06-10-2006 8:52 PM
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Reply to: Message 47 by Rob
06-10-2006 8:25 PM
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How can morality be absolute? Because without it, life would destroy itself.
So carp and grasshoppers have absolute morality? Last I looked, they hadn't destroyed themselves.
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Coragyps
Member (Idle past 753 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: 11-12-2002
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Message 71 of 150 (320309)
06-10-2006 11:05 PM
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Reply to: Message 70 by Rob
06-10-2006 10:59 PM
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Re: don't you get it... imean c'mon!
the absolute meaning of life My considered opinion is that there ain't no such thing.
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Coragyps
Member (Idle past 753 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: 11-12-2002
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Message 134 of 150 (320528)
06-11-2006 2:11 PM
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Reply to: Message 131 by Rob
06-11-2006 1:45 PM
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Re: Topic Rob
Otherwise this exchange is meaningless. This bit seems to be close to accurate, at least. 
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