tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7734846.post111085323326911637..comments2023-10-02T06:06:38.784-05:00Comments on Fires Along the Tallgrass: Almost Persuaded - The Christian and the Evolving Ethics of the TimesPhil Dillon, Prairie Apologisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00933117233625601141noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7734846.post-1111000947977086552005-03-16T13:22:00.000-06:002005-03-16T13:22:00.000-06:00One of the reasons most philosophers don't like th...One of the reasons most philosophers don't like the kind of thing Joe said is that we know of examples when people have thought something to be obvious because of something seeming disgusting that we now think are morally disgusting to oppose. One of those would be racial intermarriage. I'm sure the average person 50 years ago thought that was morally disgusting and shameful, yet we find such attitudes themselves disgusting now. If you take Joe's criterion absolutely, that everything we find disgusting must be wrong, then you get bad results. Joe obviously doesn't mean it like that, but he needs to say more to show why he doesn't. I myself haven't seen him do that, and I also haven't seen his hero on this issue Leon Kass do so either.Jeremy Piercehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03441308872350317672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7734846.post-1110861909289531082005-03-14T22:45:00.000-06:002005-03-14T22:45:00.000-06:00Almost persuaded. The World tries to persuade ever...Almost persuaded.<BR/> The World tries to persuade every day, on the most mundane things, that drives its collective of logical life views.<BR/> Doesn't matter if Ads, or a Doctor getting backup from the AMA, and a second opinion. What I mean, we are the sum total of all we have experienced, and are pressured by the collective of all the other selves, it's called a civilized society.<BR/>( I remember Solient Green too )<BR/> An altering of the basic way we see ourselves, has happened since the 60's (It's always there normally, but not in concentrate ) This means our pressure-ers have altered their stance, based of a multitude of many things, but one primarily met it's time in the 60's and super concentrated it, that being the one Baby Psych Doctor, who wrote a book, and that book was aimed at satisfying self above all, and made super good consumers as well, a super "Me First" 2 year old mentality trait, enforced on all levels of a persons development.<BR/><BR/> So now we come to the "Now" , and all logic in this country is a majority of self seekers, who think all others should be "Normal" like they are. They embrace logic that satisfies self first, that gleans admiration from peers who are like them.<BR/> It has happened under our noses, and we are to blame for not putting a stop to this horror, but were too busy making a living, so it's too late, as they are the mean of the population , not us. We are considered the fringe element, nearly insane, and the end product is, the inmates are running the hospital now. Life as we know it, will become more and more bizarre, count on it.<BR/> For Christians, it is a view that makes man the one in charge, and our Maker his servant, this view is what is wrong in organized religion now, do what you can to teach rightness.<BR/><BR/>It is in the prophecies, so there is some satisfaction there .<BR/> Be a good watcher, and stop what you can ( the majority of wrongness is unstoppable ). I am one who loves children, as I have four Grown children, as well as 10 Grandchildren, it hurts me in ways I cannot describe, to know they must live in this world now, and never to know ours.<BR/> Our only hope is the Lord, trust in him to set it right in the end.<BR/> The Orwellian future was a cakewalk compared to what we and our Children will see, I long for the old times, but understand, my perception was in a loving home, with loving parents, sadly it was happening even then.<BR/> The world logic strips the virginity of childhood, like a surgeons knife, cutting down to the moral base, and contaminating it, making it of no use, till some sort of self healing happens, or the festering of the worlds way destroys it.<BR/> I leave you with a sobering thought, try and adopt a baby that's not wanted, and the same organizations that want to euthanize them, screams you need big money, and their kind of morality, and the government allows it. <BR/>Sigh,,,,, we are the fringe element after all.<BR/><BR/>Kyle GosnellAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7734846.post-1110859617263029882005-03-14T22:06:00.000-06:002005-03-14T22:06:00.000-06:00Am I surprized by what Peter Singer said, no, I am...Am I surprized by what Peter Singer said, no, I am not surprized, revolted, but not surprized. The ability of secular humanists to develop ethics such as the reasoning behind the killing of a "defective" baby, reveals what man is without God. Without God, man is nothing but a base animal with the ability for higher reasoning and speech. God created us in his image, and with the ability to know right from wrong, good from evil, but when man relies upon himself and his own ethics, as humanist do, he overides that ability to justify his own decisions. Look at the horrors that man have done without God, the Holocaust, Joseph Mengle, Stalin and on and on. Without God as a guide, man self justifies his actions, and Singer is a prime example of that.<BR/><BR/>Mr MinorityMr Minorityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10252861599278874863noreply@blogger.com