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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19099 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
What makes people think that psychopaths don't know right from wrong. Surely the question ought to be "why do psychopaths stray from the straight and narrow?" |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Do we need one to know right from wrong - definitely not! :) Yes but not a god:) Religion seems very off topic to me... There are plenty of personality disorders where you dont know right from wrong. DSM-IV, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association) defines a personality disorder as: |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34054 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
Do we need one to know right from wrong - definitely not! :) You're asking a trick question in the eyes of Science as we humans don't have an answer for that (already, or never) Don't we have to 'Teach' our children Right from Wrong? Of course! Obligé! Different Culture's/Religions/Ideology's may have a different concepts of Right and Wrong. They Have different concepts of right and wrong. rOZZ Music Pictures |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Do we need one to know right from wrong - definitely not! :) I Think it's called sociopaths what you are describing. They do know the difference between right and wrong and use that to manipulate others. |
Мишель Send message Joined: 26 Nov 13 Posts: 3073 Credit: 87,868 RAC: 0 |
But yes... I sense you don't like the man :) nor his followers :) does that include those that defend him? :) I hope not :) I like hearing diverse views to mine - gives me much more to think about than what I might otherwise do. What I don't like are people who mindlessly parrot everything the man says, every rhetorical argument ripped straight from his book to the point where I can literally find the page where they took it from. If they put it in a paper for uni I would have to fail them for blatant plagiarism. If you think he has good points though, by all means, defend him. Perhaps you can help me better understand his motives, and make me dislike him a little less :) |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30692 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Don't we have to 'Teach' our children Right from Wrong? Who taught the first child? Have we just arrived at the unmoved mover again? Morals and ethics are entirely self discoverable. It does help to have a push however. |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34054 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30692 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Don't we have to 'Teach' our children Right from Wrong? Teaching is the push. |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
One for you all to think about . In a multiverse the act of a being , thinking there is a god that made everything is enough to create god . so which came first the mutiverse or did god make the multiverse . All possibility's are true in a multiverse as the hadron collider has shown you can make something out of nothing so if man can do it god must be able to. There are limits to what he can do as even the good book tells us that . There is a clue in the Bible about this . When Mary Magdalene talk'd to Jesus the day he rose up from the grave he said he could not take her with him to heaven and there are some thing that god can not do and that is one of them . Take a living person to heaven . You have to die first A multiverse is the answer to why we are here god does not reside in our verse and seeing as there is anything up to 19 dimensions , i would say he lives in the 9th one as Newton figured out . For every action there is a opposite reaction . 9 good verses and 9 bad one's with 1 that would fit the description of the Black lake the place where nothing exist not even your sole . As for psychopath's the church does harbor them after all they don't think there is such thing as psychopath's there all taken over buy DEMON's and need to be excised Do what the book tells you to do read it , and listen to no body else but your own mind not the priests . |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24881 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Chicken & Egg Syndrome again... Which came 1st? God or the Universe? |
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
It's not easy being green! |
Мишель Send message Joined: 26 Nov 13 Posts: 3073 Credit: 87,868 RAC: 0 |
Chicken & Egg Syndrome again... That assumes a rather linear concept of time :) |
Мишель Send message Joined: 26 Nov 13 Posts: 3073 Credit: 87,868 RAC: 0 |
Even, with your implied non-linearity of time, God might be a bit That assumes a God based on the Abrahamic monotheistic omnipotent version. Perhaps its a pantheon of Gods who are perhaps limited in their abilities. You are of course right that our conceptualization of God is limited to our own limited understanding of reality. |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
That assumes a rather linear concept of time :) You mite whant to raed the whole post and not selected parts . 19 dimensions so if god lives in the 9th then time may not be what we think it is in that dimention . |
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
You are of course right that our conceptualization of God is limited to our own limited understanding of reality. So let me get this correct. The horizon is the place where the earth curves away from my ability to see it, right? Sounds like the top of a hill to me. |
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
Does believing, or not believing in a God, makes a person good or bad? Yes! |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
I say no the beleif in god doesn't make a bad man good your either good or bad and god doesn't make a differance |
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
I say no the beleif in god doesn't make a bad man good your either good or bad and god doesn't make a difference Yes! |
Мишель Send message Joined: 26 Nov 13 Posts: 3073 Credit: 87,868 RAC: 0 |
If you wish to believe in a God, and are a good person: Who cares about your Belief? Once again we agree :) |
Raistmer Send message Joined: 16 Jun 01 Posts: 6325 Credit: 106,370,077 RAC: 121 |
Does believing, or not believing in a God, makes a person good or bad? ROFL, I wouldn't rely on judging of such person who defines good and evil via non-comprehensible(at best) entity :D |
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