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The gentleman is completely correct.
We are like boats in a sea and the only way to guard being drifted way off course is to take bearings and have the humility to acknowledge that without absolutes (of which we truly have none without the absolute) we can indeed be persuaded of anything.
Indeed, Laird. It would seem there is room for doubt.
However.
If one can make sense of anything I suppose it comes down to an individual’s experience. Which could be considered no more valid than hunger or cold or any other survival consideration as a basis for logical thought.
But seeing as you wondered I can only say that I know the difference that Jesus has made in my life – And I did not come to that lightly.
JohnB, I’m glad that Jesus has made a (presumably positive) difference in your life. We all do what we can to ease the burdens of life. But just because a certain belief set gives you comfort doesn’t make it reality, or make it necessary for others to share those beliefs in order for them to be happy.
Whatever there, very real, faults and failings – better, better by far, to believe in the things that Adam W. opposed (the Roman Catholic Church, the Bavarian monarchy and so on) than in the things he supported – the destruction of the family, the collectivisation of large scale private property, the control of everything by a hidden elite manipulating (“Nudging”?) ordinary folk – by lies and pretense.
For example Adam W. and his followers basically invented a form of radical “feminism” – but as a way of controlling (and having access to) women. The key trick (they believed) was to have a movement (with rituals, doctrines and so on) entirely (it would seem) controlled by women – indeed deeply hostile to men.
However, this movement would just happen to teach that the marriage and the family (and private property) were wrong (slavery for women) and instead would spread their legs for any “Progressive” man……the very men who had (behind the scenes) invented the very doctrines that this new female movement would be tricked into thinking they had invented.
Of course this was all a fantasy of Adam W. – it could never happen in real life….
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Well, I don’t believe a baby is born every time a fairy blows its wee nose…but then again…I could be wrong….
Adam Weishaupt? Hell, I could have sworn it was John Maynard Keynes! 😛
How about, there are only 100 cod left in the North Sea?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19755695
The article in HuffPo, linked by the BBC, is interesting. Only one person claimed it was hard to believe, and everyone attacked him.
So then my household alone has eaten 3% of the North Sea’s entire stock of cod in the last month! Who knew?
I can NOT be made to believe that Brawndo is what plants crave.
The gentleman is completely correct.
We are like boats in a sea and the only way to guard being drifted way off course is to take bearings and have the humility to acknowledge that without absolutes (of which we truly have none without the absolute) we can indeed be persuaded of anything.
Including that there is an absolute.
You certainly would not address that to an intelligent woman.
(Without standing back 20 feet out of firing range)
Quoting the founder of the Illuminati?
Wow, my conspiracy theorist friends will have their tinfoil hats all a-flutter over this!
I will believe anything if there’s a politician behind it.
Indeed, Laird. It would seem there is room for doubt.
However.
If one can make sense of anything I suppose it comes down to an individual’s experience. Which could be considered no more valid than hunger or cold or any other survival consideration as a basis for logical thought.
But seeing as you wondered I can only say that I know the difference that Jesus has made in my life – And I did not come to that lightly.
JohnB, I’m glad that Jesus has made a (presumably positive) difference in your life. We all do what we can to ease the burdens of life. But just because a certain belief set gives you comfort doesn’t make it reality, or make it necessary for others to share those beliefs in order for them to be happy.
If history is any indication, the answer is clearly no.
My fantasy dinner party includes Adam Weishaupt, L. Ron Hubbard, and Michael Mann.
Whatever there, very real, faults and failings – better, better by far, to believe in the things that Adam W. opposed (the Roman Catholic Church, the Bavarian monarchy and so on) than in the things he supported – the destruction of the family, the collectivisation of large scale private property, the control of everything by a hidden elite manipulating (“Nudging”?) ordinary folk – by lies and pretense.
For example Adam W. and his followers basically invented a form of radical “feminism” – but as a way of controlling (and having access to) women. The key trick (they believed) was to have a movement (with rituals, doctrines and so on) entirely (it would seem) controlled by women – indeed deeply hostile to men.
However, this movement would just happen to teach that the marriage and the family (and private property) were wrong (slavery for women) and instead would spread their legs for any “Progressive” man……the very men who had (behind the scenes) invented the very doctrines that this new female movement would be tricked into thinking they had invented.
Of course this was all a fantasy of Adam W. – it could never happen in real life….
“My fantasy dinner party includes Adam Weishaupt, L. Ron Hubbard, and Michael Mann.”
Wow. I don’t think “fantasy” is the word I’d apply to that group. “Nightmare”, perhaps.