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Well, anyway. I haven't read what everyone else has written. But I will say that I think there's a general lack of appreciation of what time is.
Heidegger started Being and Time with the assumption that time preceded being. Anyway, he quit the book before it was finished (what we have now is like a third of his planned opus). He quit because he realized being comes before time, not time before being (ontologically, of course). Don't assume that human knowledge is ultimate knowledge, that everything must also be restricted to the linear space/time.
I would recommend studying Aristotle and Plotinus in particular to everyone who wishes to have such debates. And I think, while it may sound elitist, that people should have more of a background in philosophy before going around "disproving God." Really. I mean, Russell, Frege, Wittgenstein (who I'm a fan of), they basically chucked all of philosophy and started with their own thing. They were scientists. What a joke. I'm not a scientist, so I'm not going to jump into that field and start all over, throwing out, oh, I don't know, Galileo, Newton, Copernicus. That'd be laughable, wouldn't it?
Please. If you're going to take on issues such as existence and time and God, do some research into it. People much smarter than you are have spent a lot of time on these ultimate questions. It's pretty arrogant to have such discussions without acknowledging first that you're minnows swimming with sharks. You're boys playing a man's game.
Feb 7, 2011, 6:24:47 PM
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