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Welcome to civilized stupidity

Wed Oct 28, 2009, 5:18 AM
I am sorry if this is hard to understand. I advise you stop reading now.

It has become ever more apparent that when I talk to people there is an assumed platform that people discuss from and it ends up meaning nothing. It is this platform that seems to be at fault. It really pisses me off the way that existential pluralism seems to be the defining thought that shapes the way I am meant to think. This is the idea that individual people are free agents to determine their own values based on their own will and that each persons values are equally valid and cannot and should not be altered by interfering moral agents with more than one ultimate principle in place simultaneously even if they are incongruous and contradict. It it this sort of convincing bullshit that leads to the accepted hypocrisy imbedded in the minds of those around me and others. It allows a person to be vilified as an intolerant racist for condemning those who have a punishment for having a private life, for being a woman, for being Jewish and for not being one of them. Yet, in the same breath people exult those who condemn the same behaviour if it happens in their surroundings. The only difference is that one set of nosey xenophobic chauvinistic anti-semites is in a thought experiment dominated by intolerance and the other set is in a place closer to home. This pluralism is nothing more than double standards sprouted from the liberal-fascism dictated by cultural sensitivity (being tolerant to intolerance through intolerance to the tolerant...). These are the people who have no respect for life, apart from their own of course which is distinctly un-left wing in my mind.
I have every right to stand up for all that I see as right. After all, isn't it this existentialism that allows for the practicing of incongruous world-views? Ahh, but now this is where it all collapses in on itself. In its 'equal' (meaning unfair and unjust) application one needs to censor the other in order for 'tolerance'. I love it when words lose all meaning when liberal-fascism gets hold of them and throttles out any use of words, but that is a different story. There is a prevailing and undoubtably un-existential thought that one cannot dictate to another. Yet, on what grounds does this become dictated and why can't I jump on the same platform as you to dictate liberation and equality? Due to the naivety of this hypocrisy, gutting all meaning out of language, it is clear that the double standards derived from existentialism and the clashes of pluralistic thought are literally a deadly combination. It leaves nihilism with no real truths to adhere to so people are left to invent their own making the only truth the one that is accepted by ignoramuses. This is the basis of existentialism. With an assumed nihilism behind the civilized stupidity why do they then think it is acceptable to say anything at all to anyone? Either one must accept tolerance along with the intolerance that is welcomed due to its foreign origin or abandon existentialism and adhere to rationality and condemn stupidity. It is internally incoherent to condemn rationality on the basis of nihilism. It would appear that if anything is to have any use people need to stop indulging in civilized stupidity and put meaning back into language and snap out of this childish hypocrisy called existential pluralism.
If people want to discuss or defend their positions please do not resort to vilifying my position with vacuous rhetoric. Engage brain and open your mind before opening your mouth.

(I don't know if this makes sense to anyone else other than me, I am not eloquent when it matters...)

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'My friend, I know Christianity is true because God's Spirit lives in me and assures me that it is true. And you can know it is true, too, because God is knocking at the door of your heart, telling you the same thing. If you are sincerely seeking God, then God will give you assurance that the gospel is true. Now, to try to show you it's true, I'll share with you some arguments and evidence that I really find convincing. But should my arguments seem weak and unconvincing to you, that's my fault, not God's. It only shows that I'm a poor apologist, not that the gospel is untrue. Whatever you think of my arguments, God still loves you and holds you accountable. I'll do my best to present good arguments to you. But ultimately you have to deal, not with arguments, but with God himself. ... Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of lack of evidence or because of intellectual difficulties: at root, he refuses to come because he willingly ignores and rejects the drawing of God's Spirit on his heart. No one in the final analysis really fails to become a Christian because of lack of arguments; he fails to become a Christian because he loves darkness rather than light and wants nothing to do with God.' ~ Dr. Craig

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Falling out with friends, or supposed friends, left and right. People are offended by the truth but what can be done? :aww:

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Hmm...are you sharing personal truths or your opinions on outside subjects? That could be the predicament. One can't call things true..if you don't know it from personal exposure. If your personal truths are offensive, however, then good riddance to them.

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