lpetrich

I've never found Panglossianism very convincing.

Albert Cipriani

Win says:
Has no one told him that reality is not cold. Heat death, if that eventuality should come to pass, is billions of years away. And reality is not hard. Even the heaviest atoms occupy an area that can best be described as mostly nothing, and that’s not to mention all the space between all atoms.

Ergo, “cold hard reality” is no reality at all. It is the useless mental halter that keeps atheists plodding along on the straight and narrow path of the fiction known as empirical evidence.

Because you guys have no grounding in metaphysics, you really do think that there is a difference between reality and fantasy. You haven’t yet realized that this distinction is doomed to dissolve as have all our other arbitrary over-intellectualized distinctions, such as that of Descartes’ mind-body dichotomy, and the distinction between animals and humans, matter and energy, up and down, wave and particle, and (coming soon to a cryogenics lab near you!) life and death.

Oh when will you learn? Hopefully before you enter into that “magical heavenly candy land.” Sincerely Worried About Ya’ll, Albert the Traditional Catholic

ApostateAbe

Albert: "you really do think that there is a difference between reality and fantasy"

I guess that is what would distinguish Albert from the rest of us. Albert thinks there is no difference between reality and fantasy. Yep, those two ideas are separated by a blur, the flourishing dwellingplace of Mr. Cipriani.

'Tween truth and dreams there is a bog
Shrouded with uncertain fog.
The misty breeze will sing a song,
"You are right and they are wrong."

Abe

Roma

ApostateAbe:

I really hate to interupt the flow of this conversation, but I am curious as to where that passage comes from. I tried googling it but to no avail. Thanks, and again, sorry.

-Roma

ApostateAbe

That rare gem originates from the American poet only known to his aquaintances as "ApostateAbe."

WinAce