An Interesting Essay

[Ilion]

J0ohn C, Wright: Childhood's End and Gnosticism[^]

[soap brain]

Boring. And too long.

[Ilion]

Exactly the "summary" one expects of such an "intelligent" and "old-for-his-years" person.

[Lost User]

"For the purpose of this thought-experiment, we are assuming we can find real people with the personality characteristics described by these fictional people." With statements like this, you just know this is going to be garbage.

Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription

[soap brain]

The evidence to support my theory is the correlation of civilization and religion. Without being so bold as to say one causes the other, I note that many of the great works of antiquity from the Great Pyramid of Gaza to the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus the Cathedral at Chartres serve religious purposes. X|

[Ilion]

fat_boy wrote:

With statements like this, you just know this is going to be garbage.

Translation: critical thought it too hard

[soap brain]

Is this essay actually even about anything? Is anyone surprised that Lord Hailey would link to an incredibly long and pompous essay?

[soap brain]

Does this person actually have a brain? I note the difference between the fine arts during strongly religious eras in recent history -- I am thinking of the Great Mass of Mozart in C Minor or Bach St. John's Passion -- compared to the jingles and banging music of more popular, secular culture, such as, to take an example at random, a ditty called "Fucked with a Knife" by a band called Cannibal Corpses. The sentiment among humanists who might object to that brand of music is relatively weak compared to the sentiment of Cotton Mather or Oliver Cromwell, let us say. First of all, it's 'Cannibal Corpse', and I doubt it was chosen at random. They're not really very typical of modern music, and most people nowadays despise them. Also, I really doubt that there's any difference in quality between then and now - it's just that now has so much more of it. There's crap now and there was crap then.

[Brady Kelly]

Ravel H. Joyce wrote:

to take an example at random

Yes, haha, random indeed. :laugh: :laugh:

[Tim Craig]

Ravel H. Joyce wrote:

Is this essay actually even about anything?

Is anything that Ilion posts really about anything? He can't think, can barely read, now we find he went to school in Stan's back yard... :laugh:

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[Lost User]

Ilíon wrote:

Translation: critical thought it too hard

Translation: Nope, cant translate that since it is insensicle.

Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription