[MD] What all is about.

[Heather Perella]

     [Ham]
> I always find it incredulous when a self-professed
> atheist denies being a 
> nihilist.  If you are truly an atheist you are not
> only opposed to theism, 
> you reject God or any concept of a supra-natural or
> transcendent source of 
> sensibility and value.  To me, that's nihilism, pure
> and simple.


     Yeap, that's right, 'to you', but to Peter your a
nihilist.  And since you haven't excepted the
definition of nihilist except the version according to
Ham (remember the discussion with Marsha), well, since
you profess this is all subjective to the propriety
awareness of a human being how do you really know if
Peter is not correct?


    [Ham]
> To answer your question, I do not believe that
> 'being' can be divine, but I 
> do believe in the absolute Essence of reality which
> is beyond human 
> description.   That could conceivably make me an
> atheist too, except that 
> I'm not opposed to theism.  I see belief in God as
> an expression of man's 
> innate spirituality.

     So are you an atheist or not Ham?  Do your
beliefs actually fit your own thesis?  So, if essence
is NOT God, then who is this God that is less than
your essence that Christains, Muslims, Jews,
Amerindians, Siberians, Africans, and others say
exists? 


woods, snow, 
SA

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