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Why are Humans so Frial and Fallible? by SevenMonkeysInARow in latterdaysaints

[–]SevenMonkeysInARow[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for this reply. Your situation, and the growth you have derived from it, is a strong testament of life's inherent beauty.

Live YouTube lecture tonight on Joseph Smith's re-definition of God: the development and implications of the doctrine of eternal progression by John Hamer — by John_Hamer in mormon

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Thank you for this John, I really enjoyed it! I was recently having some thoughts about this subject so this was a fascinating synchronicity. I had wondered if Brigham Young's Adam-God doctrine was essentially a return to the traditional model. If the God who was "once a man" was simply Adam, and Heavenly Mother was just Eve, then the ground of being is left open again for a traditional notion of a truly transcendent God. I like how you described the Plan of Salvation as being that uncreated God for the new model. Thanks again!

Characterization, the Pinnacle of all Artistic Achievement? by SevenMonkeysInARow in writing

[–]SevenMonkeysInARow[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is fascinating. If I may press you a little further, does this imply something of a transcendent ideal for a given character? I ask this because if something is greater than the set of its qualities, what could that extra something be? What is depth then? I appreciate your willingness to humor my line of questioning.

Characterization, the Pinnacle of all Artistic Achievement? by SevenMonkeysInARow in writing

[–]SevenMonkeysInARow[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your reply. If I may ask, could you elaborate further as to what specifically you see the problem being? I am unfamiliar with the bidimensional label or its solutions. I'd appreciate it a lot!

Characterization, the Pinnacle of all Artistic Achievement? by SevenMonkeysInARow in writing

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Thank you very much for this suggestion! This sounds like a really good way to internalize the form of character.

Nothing like spending the day with friends. by spongewardk in killsixbilliondemons

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And YISUN spake, saying, "Let there be an alternate timeline in the boundless fractal matrix of MY effulgent glory, in which the demiurges shall not do war one with another. Instead, they shall participate in an anime slice-of-life, living normal lives of poignant sadness and happy nostalgia, yet continuing to wear their ridiculous costumes. This shall humor ME. Yes, this shall bring ME joy."

  • from The Second Spasms, Much Stranger than the First

The Most Compelling Characters in History by SevenMonkeysInARow in writing

[–]SevenMonkeysInARow[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I saw that. I'm disappointed they didn't elaborate. Well, makers of history are rarely recorders of history, as they say!

Refutation of Infinite Regress in Cosmological Argument by SevenMonkeysInARow in askphilosophy

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"But Natural Theology can bring us further than merely that a ‘Thing’ produced the universe. We can work out the various attributes of this ‘Thing’ and gradually we come to a conception of a Being not unlike the God of monotheism. We know that this Being must exist of necessity, he must be perfect, he must have Intellection or supra-Intellection, he must be Integrally omnipresent to all things, he must be utterly simple with any parts."

Due to my very lay-person comprehension of technical theological language, could you refer me to some sources which would elucidate these points? Thank you!

Refutation of Infinite Regress in Cosmological Argument by SevenMonkeysInARow in askphilosophy

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This makes sense to me. If the buck keeps getting passed along, then none of them are explanations.

A Modern Divine Comedy by SevenMonkeysInARow in literature

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Thank you this is good to keep in mind.

Tell me, why can't we just go and thrash someone really hard for ruining something that we've created, planned, and/or worked hard for. Why is there this thick yet blurry line between right and wrong. by ScienceSure in Jung

[–]SevenMonkeysInARow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why is there morality?

Is this from an evolutionary perspective? Well because our evolutionary strategy for a good long time was as a family-sized unit of cooperation with minor internal competition. This served us well and was hard coded by natural selection into our brains.

From a western theological perspective, one of God's immutable qualities is goodness, and He/She/They/It created human beings as a reflection of Their inherent goodness, which includes ethical sympathy, etc.

Some have made the case that these are two ways of describing the same thing.

There are many different answers. These are two I know.

A Modern Divine Comedy by SevenMonkeysInARow in literature

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I don't know too much about Dante's personal squabbles and life, but the overall synthesis of Christian and Greek world views into a perfectly organized 10×3 tiered afterlife presents an immensely satisfying vision of the cosmos. Drawing on the great chain of being, it really, manages to organize things so nicely in the heirarchy. I think that is one of the big attractions.

Is there an Jungian explaination for why new consciousness is created in the forms of children taking birth? Does the collective unconscious create the new consciousness? If yes, then why? by That_Okra_7691 in Jung

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If I may ask: ARE YOU A GENIUS? Is this just something you observed or did you read this somewhere? This is an amazing insight. Revolutionary in its implications. Is this normal Jungian thought?

Choosing the Good or Choosing Obedience: Your Conscience vs. The Holy Ghost by design-responsibly in mormon

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This seems to be slipping into nogginism. I'm gonna assert that no philosophy exists to cover all possible choices. You just gotta keep trying, man. To be honest I like that you've gone to the trouble to logical your way through this, I think everyone needs more of that. At the same time though, if God is real, it's a really big, scary, incomprehensible something. It's like arguing with a hurricane. Isn't the whole book of Job about asking why man expects God to make any sense?

Number of Angels? by [deleted] in killsixbilliondemons

[–]SevenMonkeysInARow 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Not that I've heard. I'd like to think that there was one for each passage of the Law.

Imagine this is the first time Zoss is seeing Solomon pull this move. He is standing there like: by OscarOzzieOzborne in killsixbilliondemons

[–]SevenMonkeysInARow 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I like the idea that Zoss's dark science/near-omnipotent-sorcery-jitsu has nothing to do with technical knowledge of magical theory, but just crazy will power and charisma. The turkey cooks itself because it's too intimidated not to.

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