tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32924329.post116312945151396367..comments2023-10-31T03:58:32.056-07:00Comments on Empathic Rationalist: Daniel Spirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09656412977046134771noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32924329.post-1163189423619625382006-11-10T12:10:00.000-08:002006-11-10T12:10:00.000-08:00Wow, FFP, that was quite a collection of comments....Wow, FFP, that was quite a collection of comments. If I wanted to get 23 comments, I'd have to start paying people (like the Benefactor in The Creed Room). I hesitate to ask how much I'd have to pay either.<BR/><BR/>I agree with the "species-centered" comments, but not because I'm a vegan (though I do feel appreciably cleaner spiritually since I adopted that diet roughly 13 years ago). <BR/><BR/>I subscribe to the Spinozist comment that we were triangles, then our God would be triangular. The point of religion should be to worship the God that is (as best as we can), rather than to create a God in the image of our own ideals. We idealize will, mercy, love, justice, etc., so we posit and then saddle "Him" with all of our ideal characteristics (will, mercy, love, justice). That all seems pretty pedestrian to me, and I believe, to an increasing number of other soul searching people.<BR/><BR/>Besides, if God were a just and merciful God, then the three teams I rooted for last weekend wouldn't have scored a combined total of 3 points. Maybe God is, in essence, cruel, and that explains why "only the good die young." Hmmm. That seems as sensible as the Fundamentalist alternative.Daniel Spirohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09656412977046134771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32924329.post-1163168102806400802006-11-10T06:15:00.000-08:002006-11-10T06:15:00.000-08:00I hate to fill your comment box with comments on m...I hate to fill your comment box with comments on my own comments, but there was yet another typo in that most recent comment -- in fact, I meant to type "typo" and I typed "type." I must go more slowly. Sorry!Mary Loishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01515655542270431289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32924329.post-1163166440887946112006-11-10T05:47:00.000-08:002006-11-10T05:47:00.000-08:00That deletion was me because of a weird type that ...That deletion was me because of a weird type that destroyed not only the profundity but also the sense of the comment I was making, which was this:<BR/><BR/>Dan -- I'm so glad you didn't discontinue blogging as I thought you said you would. <BR/><BR/>I lost my lifelong best friend about ten years ago, a "class clown" of great intelligence and huge neuroses, and have grappled with the subject of why people die before I want them to on more than one blogpost over the past few months. Like you, I don't think this is a decision made by God, as if God is some guy up there doling out rewards and punishments.<BR/><BR/>You might agree with <A HREF="http://findingafairhope.blogspot.com/2006/08/searching-our-souls.html" REL="nofollow">this post and its comments </A> among many dealing with God and the existence of a soul on my blog. <BR/><BR/>Funny how just being alive can take you down the philosophical trail, and how many people are willing to go there with you! I love what you're writing.Mary Loishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01515655542270431289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32924329.post-1163166060989427642006-11-10T05:41:00.000-08:002006-11-10T05:41:00.000-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Mary Loishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01515655542270431289noreply@blogger.com