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  • The Moral Argument for the Existence of God
    Morality is man-made. Things are now permitted that were once not morally correct.
    It was once immoral to divorce someone. It was once immoral to have children if you were not married. It was once immoral to be homosexual.
    Who decided that these once immoral things were now acceptable? God or mankind? Has God grown more tolerant and accepting or has mankind?
  • The American Gun Control Debate
    Giving people the right to own lethal weapons was always going to be a great idea. Who thought of that?
  • What pisses you off?
    Small talk
    People who speak but don't listen
    Feminism
    Liberalism
    Conservatism
    Racism
    Stupidity.
  • Currently Reading
    Nearly finished The Antichrist by Nietzsche.
  • What are you listening to right now?
    The Clash - Combat Rock
  • Why do we like dreaming?
    I often have dreams that involve doing normal activities like working, driving, going to the gym but usually something strange that would never happen in real life happens.
    Those kind of dreams are amusing because they are like a caricature of reality.
  • The Definition of the Devil
    I personally do not believe in God or the Devil, but for the purposes of this thread I shall pretend.
    In theory, God is all-powerful and can create or destroy anything in the universe at will. God knows everything that has happened in the past, is happening in the present and what will happen in the future because he is responsible for everything.
    God created the Devil and could destroy him easily if he chooses to do so, but he does not. Why would a "good and just" God not destroy the Devil, if the Devil is the sole perpetrator of all evil in the world? For an all-powerful and omnipotent God it would be no difficulty at all to destroy the devil, but perhaps to destroy the Devil would be to destroy himself? Maybe God is cruel, and poor Lucifer has become a scapegoat.
  • Do you love someone?
    I do not love anyone, and I do not need to. I have thought that I loved someone and that she loved me, but we were merely attracted to each other's appearances while our personalities clashed. I have no wish to put myself through anything like that again.
  • Recommend me some books please?
    , I agree. While I was reading Beyond Good And Evil, I felt as if Nietzsche was speaking to me and I was speaking to him although obviously he cannot hear or answer me directly.
    I am finding these "internal conversations" occurring a lot more frequently since I started reading philosophy. I have always been a thinker and an internal conversationalist, but before I discovered philosophy these "conversations" were mundane.
    I have started Nausea and I am finding the themes within interesting. Over the past day or so, I have been unable to devote as much time as I would have liked to reading it due to being unwell with headaches and dizziness so therefore unable to concentrate fully on the text, but I am starting to feel better.
  • Recommend me some books please?
    Thank you for all the suggestions. I have downloaded more books by Neitszche, Dostoevsky, Schopenhauer, David Hume, Kirkegaard and Camus for my Kindle.
    Nishitani, Heidigger, Stirner, Plato, McCulloch and Austin are all writers I will check out next once I have read the books I have already.
    In addition to these, Nausea arrived this morning and I am looking forward to reading it. I just have to finish Beyond Good And Evil first, but I am nearing the end.

    I think it's great that you can enjoy Nietzsche without agreeing with everything he writes. As I see it, reading philosophy is exposing one's self to vivid, eloquent personalities. They are sometimes a little "crazy" or "obsessive," but their beauty lies in this excess. As we keep reading, we learn to take from them what we can fit into our own, unique lives. We are ourselves become philosophers by trying to fit all the incompatible pieces together.

    What I enjoy about philosophy thus far, as a newcomer, is that the ideas expressed in philisophical texts provoke thought. Even if I do not necessarily agree with certain points, I can at least understand the reasoning behind them. It is an enriching experience to have your ideas and perceptions challenged in such an eloquent fashion.