[MD] JCB tentative response

[Joseph Bromley]

Hi Marsha,


>Hi Joesph,
>
>I want you to know I'm listening, and thinking.  I'm reading your
>posts with interest and some skepticism.
>
Joe; A healthy dose of skeptism I could do with at times.

>From:  [MD] God is Dead
>
>  >With intellectual ideas such as evolution and gravity
>  >coming to the fore in mans understanding of life they
>  >ate away at the properties of God. God was no longer
>  >all, the law of nature slowly but surely became greater
>  >and more tangible to man than God. God has little place
>  >in intellectual reasoning, (there is no room for him in science, 
>mathematics, psychology, computing etc).
>
>I agree.
>
>-----
>
>From:  [MD] MOQ and language
>
>  >Question: How does the use of language fit within the
>  >MOQ frame work.
>
>Your examples seem correct.
>
>---------
>
>From:  [MD] Morality. Pin the tail on an invisible donkey.
>  >I can not help but see quality, in good and evil, in good
>  >and bad, in right and wrong. If quality is the source of
>  >all how can it be otherwise?
>
>I agree.
>
>
>But also in:  [MD] Morality. Pin the tail on an invisible donkey.
>
>  >..., I would see State become the replacement for God,
>  >as the weight behind morality.
>
>I don't buy this.  I don't understand your definition of State.  It
>needs much some explanation to even consider such an idea.

If the intelllectual patterns of evolution has left the Godhead behind then, 
then religions, which deal with the belief in God, social, (generalising 
here, but I class Buddhism more as a philosophy, and a practical path to 
emlightenment),  no longer has the higher ground, it is below the 
intellectual. As such the weight from morality, The Law, the guide rules for 
how people are to run there everyday lives, must come from above. Why else 
follow the law? In this scenario it is the intellectual level, an 
intellectually guided democratic state. I believe the process is already 
begining in Europe, France being the main example, with its policy of 
banning all religious iconography from schools. Britain is also being to go 
down the path of strengthening state power because of the "threat of 
terrorism." Man has lost the ability of lowering his head, because he does 
not concider anything to be greater than himself, state, is one of the few 
things that has the potential of altering the trend of biological freedom 
for social stability. I can forsee the states of Europe becoming more 
draconian over the next few years.

Regards Joseph Bromley.

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