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Permalink Reply by Angela Evangelia on March 18, 2013 at 6:58pm

 

Unseen - The way you were able to play out that scenario in your mind and then work backwards with it and then write about it in a clear way, is very impressive.  I dont think the average person can do that. 

My son is really good at coming up with analogies like that.

I love it

 

Edit: Why did this post all the way down here?

 

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on March 19, 2013 at 8:05pm

If you look at the indentations of the responses you'll see that you're right after Professor Robert's post right after mine. All the other ones are indented more meaning they are conversations related to the aforementioned post by Professor Robert. You need to keep track of how far posts are indented. If you respond to this post, for example, your post will be indented so that it's about 1/4" narrower than this one.

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on March 19, 2013 at 8:12pm

One of the few practical benefits of majoring in philosophy should be learning to write clearly, because the ideas themselves are often hard enough to understand. Someone who can't write clearly can't express his/her ideas well enough for them to be evaluated and is unlikely to succeed.

Of course, now and then here we get the show-off types who work hard on dazzling lesser people with complex sentences, vocabulary that has people going to dictionary.com, and unnecessarily obscure explanations of their views. 

Most ideas can be explained clearly in words that are the common coin of everyday life. For example, Einstein was able to explain relativity clearly such that people understood what he was saying even if they found his the concept impossible to believe.

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Permalink Reply by Suzanne Olson-Hyde on March 19, 2013 at 6:30pm

Everything is forgiven at confession, if at the time, the perpetrator of sin is contrite, and the priest tells the perpetrator not to do it again. It depends on the the level of sin, one may have to pray The Act of Contrition, a number of Hail Mary's and a few Our Fathers.

In the end, It is just a procedure. The sinner is not supposed to do it again, but of course, he does. Back to confession, all is forgiven. I did wonder if pedophile priests actually believe in god, at their recidivst rate of sinning. As far as I know Pedophilia is not mentioned in the bible as a sin, that is the get out of hell card, and why it was ignored.

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