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Recent content by Lifesaver

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    Is Nudity Wrong?

    The standards of clothing may change. What is perfectly modest dressing at one time may not be at another, or at another culture. But in all of them, there is a valid distinction to be made between those kinds of dressing (or lack of dressing) which are particularly lust-enticing and those which...
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    Is Nudity Wrong?

    The problem with nudity is that human beings are easily led into temptation regarding lust. One often hears how it is important to treat each other as persons, and not as objects. This is true. The often forgotten consequence of this, though, is that we ought to dress ourselves in ways which...
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    Christmas Music

    I like Christmas music. Like Knightwolflord said, it helps me keep in the Christmas spirit. Yes, they do begin too early (traditionally, tomorrow would be the day to start the display of the external signs of Christmas); but when November comes and the shops start to put on Christmas...
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    Tony Blair to convert to Catholicism this month

    Woman priests, woman bishops, gay bishops... People are finally realising that one ought to either become Catholic or leave the whole thing altogether.
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    Tony Blair to convert to Catholicism this month

    This is great news!! Too bad it hasn't been more publicized... Next step, Queen Elizabeth? :)
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    Eating Pork

    My friend, we keep only the moral teachings contained in the OT; these are valid for all people, all times. The purely disciplinary and ritualistic laws have been done with, as they were meant only for the Jews and at that time. No-one is a hypocrite for not following OT laws nowadays. In...
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    Eating Pork

    And even this prohibition was only a matter of convenience, to avoid generating scandal at that time and place.
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    Eating Pork

    If you don't like, or have problems digesting, pork and seafood, these are good reasons not to eat them. But if you are under the impression that we are somehow not to eat these foods because of OT laws, then you are completely wrong. All the dietary restrictions have been brought down, and...
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    Mind and Soul???

    I agree with Filia Mariae and Carrie. The mind, that is, our rational intelectual activity, is not the same thing as the soul. We are living beings. We eat, breathe, move, reproduce, etc. Every single act that belongs exclusively to living beings is a function of the soul, which is, in...
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    For anyone who's been posting long enough to remember that I'm bi-polar

    Charlie, you are in my prayers too. Perhaps your situation will improve and you'll come back here. But if you don't, that's no problem; there's bigger things in life than Internet forums, right? Anyway, you keep on praying for us as well. Best wishes!
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    Philosophy has no meaning for "Christians"

    But then you create a confusion. You will be left without any science which deals without reality without Divinely revealed premises. The conclusions you reach will only be acceptable to those who also accept your religious premises. Keeping philosophy "secular" is actually a great help to...
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    AI and Souls

    I don't think machines can have souls; in other words, I don't think machines can be said to be alive in the same way actual living beings are. Machines simulate the functions of living creatures. They walk around, they "feed", they "see". Someday we will have machines that simulate human...
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    Philosophy has no meaning for "Christians"

    Revelation does not exclude rational speculation based on the data of reality. The distinction between philosophy and theology is very old. It dates from the Middle Ages. Both sciences proceed in a stritctly rational way, that is, by way of arguments, demonstrations, proofs, objections, etc...
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    $500 billions profit by Oil companies!

    Profits generated in the free market are, far from being a blameworthy thing, a sign that the company has done good. It has been able to, using resources that society as a whole estimated as being able to produce a certainty quantity of value, produce a greater value. In other words, whereas...
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    Favorite philosophers?

    On Jesus and Stoicism: Christian ethics, whereas having some similarities with stoicism, is not stoic at all. Stoic morality requires that man banish his passions from his life. The virtuous life, the life of reason, is incompatible with feelings and the passions. Christian morality is...