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_Coggins7
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LifeOnaPlate wrote:I believe one reason Tal attacks the Church is because it helps provide his current existentialist positivist view with a semblance of meaning. If you lack a foundation you better make sure you either build on someone else's or rip them all down.


Interesting point...
The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance.


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Coggins7 wrote:
LifeOnaPlate wrote:I believe one reason Tal attacks the Church is because it helps provide his current existentialist positivist view with a semblance of meaning. If you lack a foundation you better make sure you either build on someone else's or rip them all down.


Interesting point...


He posits his analysis as something of a pseudo-psychological study. But man, the more I read him the more I feel like I'm reading some post-World War II study on reason and truth penned in the 50s.
One moment in annihilation's waste,
one moment, of the well of life to taste-
The stars are setting and the caravan
starts for the dawn of nothing; Oh, make haste!

-Omar Khayaam

*Be on the lookout for the forthcoming album from Jiminy Finn and the Moneydiggers.*
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I know. As a matter of fact, it reminds me as much as anything of H.G. Wells' stuff from the twenties (if not The Professor from Gilligan's Island).
The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance.


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Logical positivism is the cool.
One moment in annihilation's waste,
one moment, of the well of life to taste-
The stars are setting and the caravan
starts for the dawn of nothing; Oh, make haste!

-Omar Khayaam

*Be on the lookout for the forthcoming album from Jiminy Finn and the Moneydiggers.*
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Post by _Tal Bachman »

Still waiting for Schryver to respond to my last post here.
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