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Anyone read/have thoughts on Ishmael by Daniel Quinn?
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Date: September 18th, 2018 7:18 PM Author: Metal gas station obviously the premise is kinda shitlib on its face, but the Noble Savage thing has some merit. Pretty clear that what we call "civilization" is awful in a lot of ways, Industrial Revolution and its consequences, etc. Forget global warming arguments, just look at overpopulation, which is a huge issue discussed in the book. lulzy that it was published in the early 90s and he's like "you guys are at 5 billion humans now, that's nuts!" when now, barely 25 years later, it's at 7.5 billion and climbing. I think we're pretty fucked. Also the whole Genesis/Fall being a metaphor for the departure from early human life is convincing imo |
Date: September 18th, 2018 7:19 PM Author: Big blue coffee pot syn. er. gia. *clap clap clapclapclap* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4080750&forum_id=2#36835732) |
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Date: September 18th, 2018 7:20 PM Author: Metal gas station have you read the book? you should. I think it would clear a lot of your confused thoughts up for you. |
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Date: September 18th, 2018 7:23 PM Author: Big blue coffee pot hah pretty bold statement (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4080750&forum_id=2#36835755) |
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Date: September 18th, 2018 7:24 PM Author: Bateful umber forum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDaOgu2CQtI (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4080750&forum_id=2#36835766) |
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Date: September 18th, 2018 7:26 PM Author: Metal gas station exactly (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4080750&forum_id=2#36835787) |
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Date: September 19th, 2018 3:01 PM Author: Metal gas station (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4080750&forum_id=2#36841862) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 2:39 PM Author: Metal gas station finished it. I rate it 175. simplest summary is at the end: "the world belongs to man" vs. "man belongs to the world" which I think is a pretty good explanation of our problems. The whole metaphorical analysis of Genesis was very cr |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 2:40 PM Author: Big blue coffee pot *vomits* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4080750&forum_id=2#36869928) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 2:43 PM Author: Metal gas station man was chilling in the Garden, eating from the Tree of Life. One day decides he wants to be like god, eats from tree of knowledge of good and evil, is cursed forever. Cain=tribes with new mentality, Abel=tribes with old proper mentality. Cain kills Abel. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4080750&forum_id=2#36869957) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 2:51 PM Author: Big blue coffee pot lol this is somehow a more cucked version of jordan peterson (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4080750&forum_id=2#36870009) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 2:53 PM Author: Metal gas station why don't you present a rational alternative you think there was a literal Adam and a literal Eve eating a literal fruit because of a scheming literal snake? |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 2:53 PM Author: Big blue coffee pot oh boy here we go lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4080750&forum_id=2#36870016) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 2:54 PM Author: Metal gas station you think the Earth is literally 10,000 years old and God created it all in seven literal days? jfc (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4080750&forum_id=2#36870022) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 2:58 PM Author: Big blue coffee pot the best way i can describe orthodoxy in secular/impartial/publicly accessible terms is as follows.
your brain does not think simply in terms of literal correspondences, i.e. the picture theory of mind is only part of the story. That's a great way to describe external/physical things.
it thinks in other forms of correspondence, just call it internal correspondence. that's when you say certain words that may have an external correspondence but that, when strung together in certain ways it, like art, conjures certain mental/inner states.
Now during the experience of art you can't know you're experiencing art, otherwise you're not experiencing it. similarly, when protestants explicitly mythologize scripture they're not experiencing scripture. |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 3:12 PM Author: Metal gas station that was a blustering, incoherent, nonresponsive mess explain what the creation/Genesis story actually means to you, thank |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 3:13 PM Author: Big blue coffee pot lmao ur going to hell bye (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4080750&forum_id=2#36870093) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 3:16 PM Author: Cowardly Property This is how he sounds when he criticizes Joel Osteen.
Now you know how you sound when you criticize Osteen too. |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 3:17 PM Author: Big blue coffee pot i guess atheists just don't really understand christianity (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4080750&forum_id=2#36870112) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 3:34 PM Author: Cowardly Property Are you contending that the OP is an atheist? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4080750&forum_id=2#36870199) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 3:35 PM Author: Big blue coffee pot i was referring specifically to the materialist atheist philosophy of osteen, but of course all protestants, including OP, are atheists as well (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4080750&forum_id=2#36870212) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 3:58 PM Author: Cowardly Property Lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4080750&forum_id=2#36870321) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 6:00 PM Author: Metal gas station bro, you can't stick to a governing philosophy or theology like 3 weeks ago, you were basically on the "Christ is just a fuzzy feeling inside you" schtick. Now you're Orthodox all of a sudden? lol |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 6:03 PM Author: Big blue coffee pot The fuck are you taking about I've been an orthodox Christian for 29 years. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4080750&forum_id=2#36870957) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 6:04 PM Author: Metal gas station false you are mig tp right? You are all over the place with your beliefs man |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 6:05 PM Author: Big blue coffee pot Lol ok u definitely know my beliefs better than me. Typical shiftless protestant behavior. Believe in nothing so cant see the coherence in others. ding fag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4080750&forum_id=2#36870983) |