tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post6925412303781646907..comments2024-03-12T11:58:24.510+13:00Comments on Otagosh: No joshing...Gavin Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17965552923012880262noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-52699998529192439382011-03-22T14:57:32.864+13:002011-03-22T14:57:32.864+13:00Hmm, well, there is a case to be made (the Religio...Hmm, well, there is a case to be made (the Religious Society of Friends - Quakers - certainly makes it) that, regardless of what deistic, non-theistic, or even apophatic terms you assign to it, that <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Kings%2019:11-12&version=NKJV" rel="nofollow">still, small voice</a> exists in everyone, and that even those who do not believe in calling it God/the Holy Spirit/etc., can and do access it daily, through those twinges we get, when we know something is wrong.<br /><br />Listening to the still, small voice sometimes, <em>that's</em> the tricky part. Regardless of what you call it/think of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-51779753956126347362011-03-20T13:00:32.356+13:002011-03-20T13:00:32.356+13:00Objective morality? Objective morality? Did someon...Objective morality? Objective morality? Did someone mention objective morality? Forget it Tony, it's been done... more than a decade or two or three ago. It's so boring I won't even enter the revised URL for it, written by Eugene Khutoryansky.<br /><br />No, rather we shall address the issue with recycled garbage.<br /><br />Those who have been with Otagosh and its progeneration are used to recycled garbage... decades and decades of it. We used to call it <i>The Good News</i>, which, of course, it was nothing of the sort. It has always been bad news, terrible news, awful news.<br /><br />So spiff it up. Set up a different publisher. Even have a number of different authors. Plagiarism is well alive and be grateful for it too, for it has produced our best original works.<br /><br />And then, get over it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-38766378004358723462011-03-20T03:48:01.919+13:002011-03-20T03:48:01.919+13:00Some years ago I used to debate about morals. My ...Some years ago I used to debate about morals. My position was that the so called christian morals we've been taught are really a core set of values that goes across many religions / cultures. As part of my argument, I'd say "Imagine you found proof that Jesus didn't exist...", what would that change?<br /><br />Many answered understandably "it would change everything". But my come back was "Does that mean you'd go and cheat on your wife, steal your neighbours car, etc"? <br /><br />The point being that such a mental exercise helps prove that our values are core human values...<br /><br />So, in more recent times I've tried to find proof that Jesus ever existed and am amazed to find there really is such poor proof that my original statement of "Imagine you found proof Jesus didn't exist" isn't really any stretch of the imagination.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16719976089855203933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-23846048915087808422011-03-19T10:54:52.990+13:002011-03-19T10:54:52.990+13:00Briliant.
I remember the days when I took Mcdowel...Briliant.<br /><br />I remember the days when I took Mcdowell seriously, how naive I was.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com