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Faldage #177451 06/16/08 02:37 PM
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 Originally Posted By: Faldage
I believe that human moral codes are a natural result of the evolution of a successful social species.


If we ever meet a successful social species, we should adopt their moral codes at once! :-)

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 Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
To posit that one out these many is the one true one and all others are deliberate perversions which were created by people who willfully go against their conscience is a bit much to take...

Which is precisely what I did not posit.

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but then people's propensity for credulity is enormous.

yeah, look at all the people who uncritically accept the gospel of Richard Dawkins...

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But perhaps we are getting off topic and wandering in the field of anthropology.

Agreed (and Theology too)... so we'd better stop.

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>so we'd better stop.

now that you've got a favorite shibboleth in...

-joe (it's always nice to claim that closing shot) friday

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 Originally Posted By: tsuwm
>so we'd better stop.

now that you've got a favorite shibboleth in...

-joe (it's always nice to claim that closing shot) friday

hee hee, that's sibboleth to you...

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>so we'd better stop.

now that you've got a favorite shibboleth in...

-joe (it's always nice to claim that closing shot) friday

hee hee, that's sibboleth to you...


not to make light of your jest (well, okay, to denigrate the heck outta your weak japery), but OED has this meager entry for 'sibboleth': rare To speak with a special pronunciation.

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Which is precisely what I did not posit.

Whew, that's a relief. So we are agreed then that it is to be the Manusmriti or the Highway (Route 66 id est).

yeah, look at all the people who uncritically accept the gospel of Richard Dawkins...

Old Man Strident? I find him at least as annoying as the intelligent designers [sic]. As a lapsed Jack Pastafarian, it's Russell's Celestial Tea Cup for me.


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 Originally Posted By: Faldage
I believe that human moral codes are a natural result of the evolution of a successful social species.


If we ever meet a successful social species, we should adopt their moral codes at once! :-)


The moral code of a succesful social species is to herd aphids by the thousands in my apple tree. A had to do something very a-moral about it.

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'Aphids in my Apple Tree'

I'd read that book.

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Old Man Strident? I find him at least as annoying as the intelligent designers [sic]. As a lapsed Jack Pastafarian, it's Russell's Celestial Tea Cup for me.

I enjoyed The God Delusion.

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I enjoyed The God Delusion.

I sympathized with most of his thesis, but I did not enjoy reading it. Like, he's always at eleven.


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