Hey, no flirting with or seducing the philosophers allowed. It makes them unable to think.

This takes me back to debate.
I'm about to get out my flow chart and start writing topicality arguments.

So are you now suggesting that we should be worshipping the Bible as the obvious divine knowledge of God?

That book goes on to say a whole lot more ya know. Including the idea that we fell from grace and if we aren't careful we'll experience "seperation" from God for all of eternity. Do you agree with this assessment as well?

Or are you working with "Salad Bar Beauty" when you referent the bible?

I’ve never heard of “Salad Bar Beauty” before so I’m going to have to take a not-very-educated guess at it’s meaning.

Does it mean something like “The whole salad bar looks beautiful from a distance, but up close each of the individual selections is ugly in it’s own right”?

In any case, I really have to assume your post was simple irony because I refuse to believe that you don’t know me well enough to know that it was intended as a metaphor and I couldn’t possibly really mean what you said.

Good one!

No, actually it means that you just pick and choose what you like and leave what you don't like. So you like a particular phrase in Genesis, Chapter One, say, so you recognize the "beauty" in that. But maybe Genesis Chapter Two says things that you totally disagree with so you just leave that sit on the 'salad bar' for someone else.




I truly do understand that you weren't supporting the whole biblical picture. But just the same, to quote a part of that book and say "That's truly beautiful" only serves to pump up the Christains. They'll be jumping onboard screaming, "YES! YES! READ MORE!"

But truly I do agree with you. Every once in a great while there's something in the bible that actually make a bit of sense as long as you don't keep reading much beyond that.

In fact, I could share some information concerning what some historians have to say about the origins of the particular phrase in question (i.e. In the Beginning there was the word and the word was God).

That actually came from the Egyptians orginally (at least some scholars believe) and it found it's way into Hebrew mythology and stuck. So in a very real sense the Hebrews may very well have stolen their idea of God from the Egyptians. And then, of course, the gave it an ego and made it into a jealous God that was more like Zeus than any of the Egyptian gods.

Ok, thanks for clarifying.

Yeah, I can see now how that could be derived from what I said.

So let me clarify.

The “it” in “It all just works so beautifully!” was intended to refer to “It is the difference between light and dark that is created.” and all the ensuing connections I made to other relevant philosophical issues, not just the one metaphorical rephrasing of a single biblical passage.

My bad for not making that clear.

I beg your pardon, sky, but most of the WWF's -- Well Formulated Formulas (that work out so beautifully) -- really do get me excited!!!

Wow, now there's a form of foreplay I never thought would ever work. No need to talk dirty, just talk philosophy and feel the magic!

Appatently, you have been out of the circulation for too long:
-> Most of the ladies find the philosophical/intellectual BS most exciting!!!