From: Steele, Kirk A (SteeleKA@nafm.misawa.af.mil)
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 16:02:16 MST
Philosopy and God are third order reductions.
What is the origin of the both of these constructs? The nature of these
constructs is that they ONLY exist in the mind of H.Sapiens. In the
mind............hm...........
Call me silly, call me reductionist, hell you could even call me Cartesian,
just don't call me Calvinist.
Of the mind by the mind, for the mind, of H.Sapiens. Philosophy becomes
distranctionary at this level, and not pertinant. The nature of the
Dysfunction of Relgious Behavior becomes the purvue of the study of behavior
and of the mind.
Yes, I said that. Religion is a mental dysfunction, a maladptive behavior.
But I over specialize. Belief is a dysfunction, a maladaptive behavior.
All philosophy does is enable this maladpative behavior. Philospohy is an
attempt to buttress the purpoted ineffible quality of belief.
Pathos
Ethos
Logos
...kirk
Got Logos
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