Reciprocating Bill
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| Quote (Richardthughes @ Aug. 27 2007,10:59) | Sleeper Agent DaveScot REACTIVATED.
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DaveScot
08/27/2007
9:42 am
What reproductive benefit is there in the admiration of trees, stars, oceans, and sunsets?
A soothing effect. Stress reduction. Stress kills. There?s at least one reproductive benefit. You can?t reproduce if you?re dead from a stress induced heart attack or stroke.
What reproductive benefit is there in tatoos and piercings? Or in Owen Wilson attempting suicide by slashing his wrists and swallowing a toxic number of pills? Is that also explained by imago dei? Is God pierced, inked, and suicidal? It seems to me there?s some cherry picking going on here in which human activities are reflective of God and which are reflective of something else.
A peacock is driven by biological imperative to produce those tail feathers. If the peacock could use his will to create the most attractive plumage he probably would. All I?m saying is that the expression of art may also be driven by biological imperative but humans have more control over the expression than peacocks do. Barry wondered where the drive for artistic expression comes from. He speculated that it?s because God is creative by nature and we reflect that creativity. That explanation seems to be made up out of thin air. Specifics about the nature of God are invariably made by human authors. I suspect that characterizations of God are just another product of human creativity - a work of art.
Don?t get me wrong. It?s painfully obvious the universe was created but who did the creating, when, and why is in the realm of imagination.
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Oooh Dave, you were doing well until your limp finish. I know, I know. At the next trail we'll just point to UD with its "God this..... Jesus that..." and it'll be over. The cat just wont go back in the bag, Dave. |
Dave holds forth on art, because he is an autodidact with an IQ north of 150. This confers upon him expertise on subjects about which he doesn't give a rat's ass, and about which he knows essentially nothing:
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09/06/2006
7:57 am
I wouldn't give you a plugged nickel for all the music and art in the world.
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DaveScot
09/07/2006
4:48 am
Music doesn't give me feeling you describe, nor art, but sometimes natural beauty and inner reflection will cause that response. It's not at all the same pleasure response evoked by food, a bit like sex, and very similar to scalp tingling caused by amphetamines. |
I know, I know. "Dog bites man."
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Myth: Something that never was true, and always will be.
"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."
- David Foster Wallace
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- Barry Arrington
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