I said it was important. I didn't say it was easy or always comfortable.

 

It's much less scary not to see the train barreling down the tracks at you, but it also robs you of the opportunity to get out of the way.

The problem with Muslims in India is that they want social benefits without social integration. In India Muslim Laws are followed in letter and not in spirit. This seems to be the case world over. In the madness to have single interpretation of their spiritual texts, they are losing sight of aim of the texts, which is non-physical. According to Zakir Naik, Islam is meant to deliver justice, to its proponents

So again, Phi...

An alcoholic strikes a family member while driving drunk.

Is he an addict or a criminal ?

 

 

He's an addict that made a criminal mistake, he deserves to be punished and part of that punishment should be enforced help; justice is for the guilty as much as for the innocent, (only a psychopath intends harm) an alcoholic just wants a drink.

 

 

What tool do you want to use ?

 

 

 

Depends, if you consider a screw as a crinkle cut nail, what tool would you use?

 

 

 

To be honest, I regret the moment I started pursuing knowledge and understanding. I feel like my life has only been more miserable for these past 5 or 6 years since I started this intellectual journey of seeking more education and understanding. Being ignorant is great. Life felt much funner, reassuring, and enjoyable when I was ignorant, religious, and carefree. Though, I'm not sure if I'm any wiser now than then, I at least have an understanding of how epistemology, skepticism, and evidence works, and my understanding of the universe is much closer to reality than it was back then. I look at all of my religious friends on facebook (which is 99% of them), and it is obvious that most of them have never once pondered anything deep for more than a few seconds in their life. They live in total rapturous, blissful ignorance, and I remember what that was like. It was great when reality was what you make it. Life was fun when you could walk into your church, have a hell of a good time, never think about the truth of anything you believed, and go about your life with your comforting delusions providing everything your simple, troglodydic brain needs. I'm not joking at all, I really do miss that. I would trade everything I've learned in the past 5 or 6 years to have that back.

 

 

Well you did open Pandora's box, once you have, all you can do is accept what emerges...

Edited October 31, 20169 yr by dimreepr

To be honest, I regret the moment I started pursuing knowledge and understanding. I feel like my life has only been more miserable for these past 5 or 6 years since I started this intellectual journey of seeking more education and understanding. Being ignorant is great. Life felt much funner, reassuring, and enjoyable when I was ignorant, religious, and carefree. Though, I'm not sure if I'm any wiser now than then, I at least have an understanding of how epistemology, skepticism, and evidence works, and my understanding of the universe is much closer to reality than it was back then. I look at all of my religious friends on facebook (which is 99% of them), and it is obvious that most of them have never once pondered anything deep for more than a few seconds in their life. They live in total rapturous, blissful ignorance, and I remember what that was like. It was great when reality was what you make it. Life was fun when you could walk into your church, have a hell of a good time, never think about the truth of anything you believed, and go about your life with your comforting delusions providing everything your simple, troglodydic brain needs. I'm not joking at all, I really do miss that. I would trade everything I've learned in the past 5 or 6 years to have that back.

 

Lamenting your eviction from Eden by having ate the fruit of knowledge...Adam? Is that you?

Edited October 31, 20169 yr by DrmDoc