tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post1514650452574237279..comments2024-03-29T10:24:20.171+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Paradigm shiftsBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-15014509624318177472011-12-04T11:32:10.256+00:002011-12-04T11:32:10.256+00:00@pg - Recommendation noted, but I have wasted, nay...@pg - Recommendation noted, but I have wasted, nay *damaged*, too much of my life already reading supposedly-original philosophers post-Aquinas and I don't intend to waste/ damage any more!Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-70164290863322202762011-12-04T08:50:39.134+00:002011-12-04T08:50:39.134+00:00Whenever anyone mentions anything that hints at ph...Whenever anyone mentions anything that hints at philosophical relativism, I am obligated to mention Quine's "Two Dogmas of Empiricism."<br /><br />http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html<br /><br />Quine was far from perfect, but he was a famous philosopher because he was very, very good at logic.<br /><br />It's an important text, and I don't know how willing everyone is to read it. For the moment I will say it's worth reading.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-13428490649617452372011-12-04T08:27:37.516+00:002011-12-04T08:27:37.516+00:00Christianity can be thought of as a Platonic form ...Christianity can be thought of as a Platonic form - eternal - and cannot be destroyed. However it can be damaged, distorted, or partially instantiated - and that is what we have seen. <br /><br />However, this process of destruction must be continuous or else the true form will reassert itself (like a 'strange attractor') - therefore this must be done by purposive evil and its servants.<br /><br />The decline of Christianity in numbers, power, devoutness is a consequence of the highly successful recruitment campaign on behalf of purposive evil.<br /><br />In particular, the mass media has provided the most perfect and potent propaganda weapon for evil - not so much in its content, although this is bad, but in terms of its capacity to induce a pervasive condition of distraction and indifference.Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-73835282928281275532011-12-03T22:30:08.987+00:002011-12-03T22:30:08.987+00:00Hi!
What do you think of the Christian paradigm? ...Hi!<br /><br />What do you think of the Christian paradigm? Was it destroyed or replaced with a more lenient (and I use that term loosely) paradigm?<br /><br />PatrickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com