tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post7593001699388599039..comments2024-03-29T03:30:25.637-07:00Comments on Metacrock's Blog: Argument from the Sublime: Good is Sublmie and Evil is a FallJoseph Hinman (Metacrock)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-88317627540408715782015-10-29T00:40:53.664-07:002015-10-29T00:40:53.664-07:00"Evolution involves a lot more than "hor..."Evolution involves a lot more than "horniness". This is creationist level argument. You can do better."<br /><br />so typical of this hermit guy. He's echoing what I said. It's the reductionist who reduce it being horny.Joseph Hinman (Metacrock)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-86237982379140682722010-10-19T18:39:15.653-07:002010-10-19T18:39:15.653-07:00Interesting stuff here, but this bit is terrible:
...Interesting stuff here, but this bit is terrible:<br /><br /><i>"One of the major arguments is that we appreciate beauty as an evolutionary function so that we will seek out the better mates and have good genes. But this is super reductionism that ignores all kinds of phenomena. I do not get horny looking at sunset s or studying set theory, I do sense the sublime on those occassions. The sublime is a value added proposition and there is basically no reason for it in evolution."</i><br /><br />Evolution involves a lot more than "horniness". This is creationist level argument. You can do better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-28558465195517790832010-10-19T12:56:50.962-07:002010-10-19T12:56:50.962-07:00This is very interesting. I like what you say abo...This is very interesting. I like what you say about evil being ultimately destructive; but the form it usually takes is one being or group of beings making THEIR being ultimate, and the being of others subordinate. Evil is to destroy other forms of being while magnifying one's own; whether it be by control or indifference. Other-being is either absorbed or destroyed, for the sake of the aggrandizement of the one being.<br /><br />There are those who look at God as One who considers His own being paramount and seeks to control, absorb or destroy all others; but this is actually attributing to God the attributes of the devil, and then calling it a confusing name (such as "Sovereignty.") <br /><br />This is why I am so attracted to the revelation of God as "gentle and humble in heart" where we may "find rest for our souls." When thinking of God as "being itself," the force of that is to cause others to be, and to be <i>themselves,</i> without being controlled, absorbed or destroyed. <br /><br />Any view of God which focuses on "Sovereignty" to the exclusion of humility, cannot be a view of God as God must be, to be "being itself."Kristenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08252374623355509404noreply@blogger.com