Best city in the world to live in? (12 Viewers)

Seven

In bocca al lupo, Fabio.
Jun 25, 2003
39,325
Are you sure that the people in Siberia are free?

So YOU are the idiot!

God, I hate it when I have to explain such easy reasonings, but here I go:

You said any place in which you'd be free would be just fine. So I said: go and be free in Siberia. Let's analyse this phrase. I think I'm saying that, even if you would be free in Siberia, it would be a pretty hostile environment. I think I'm saying that, even if you would be free, life there might not be all that perfect.

Did you get it the second time?
 

Zé Tahir

JhoolayLaaaal!
Moderator
Dec 10, 2004
29,281
I was taking the piss. Socrates as a prophet for a religion is not very apt IMO.
If by apt you meant 'convenient', then yes I can see why you think that. Just read what it has to say though. I know you're an intelligent person and that you can read things even if you disagree with it.
 

rounder

Blindman
Jun 13, 2007
7,233
Oh and just for the fun of it:

NOT TRUE.

Who do you think tried to incorporate Socrates into their religion? Furthermore philosophy and christianity have always gone hand in hand in the Middle Ages. Seriously, don't talk about subjects you don't know anything about. I'm not the biggest defender of christianity, but that's just a load of crap.


P.S.: you might want to explain to my obviously incredibily stupid brain just how christianity fought against Greek philosophers as there were no christians around the time most of those philosophers delivered their speeches. I'd agree that the worldly powers of some medieval popes went a bit too far, but to say they altered the past..

When philosophers have talked about polytheism they would obviously be critisized by Christianity. The ideology of there being more than one god is refuted by Christians, I don't see how they can go hand in hand, at least not now.
 

Azzurri7

Pinturicchio
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Dec 16, 2003
72,692
No matter where you are, as long as you're with a group of people is fun...specially if they were funny, crazy at times etc is always good....So I wouldn't want to imagine with 5,000 how it is.
 

Seven

In bocca al lupo, Fabio.
Jun 25, 2003
39,325
When philosophers have talked about polytheism they would obviously be critisized by Christianity. The ideology of there being more than one god is refuted by Christians, I don't see how they can go hand in hand, at least not now.
I don't want to provide an indepth analysis as it's a complex process and it would take me ages, but basically that is indeed where the problem lies. Nonetheless christians have tried to implement Greek philosophy instead of thinking of it as blasphemous.
 

Red

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Nov 26, 2006
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No matter where you are, as long as you're with a group of people is fun...specially if they were funny, crazy at times etc is always good....So I wouldn't want to imagine with 5,000 how it is.
Indeed.

It means I have fond memories of Madrid and Dnipro too. :burke:
 

Seven

In bocca al lupo, Fabio.
Jun 25, 2003
39,325
How's that? If you mean they were condescending, yes they were, but then again they were talking to a bunch of sheepfuckers.
 
Jul 5, 2005
2,653
P.S.: you might want to explain to my obviously incredibily stupid brain just how christianity fought against Greek philosophers as there were no christians around the time most of those philosophers delivered their speeches. I'd agree that the worldly powers of some medieval popes went a bit too far, but to say they altered the past..
Maybe i am Cristian but this doesn't that i will never judge my religion. How did Greek and Italians became Christians? Did this happened from one day to another? Do you know that the people who brought the Christianity in Greece (The Byzantines) were destroying the ancient Greek monuments (like Delphi), they were burning books and they were killing philosophers and scientists and any thinking man. Is this the love and peace of which Christianity speaks?


God, I hate it when I have to explain such easy reasonings, but here I go:

You said any place in which you'd be free would be just fine. So I said: go and be free in Siberia. Let's analyse this phrase. I think I'm saying that, even if you would be free in Siberia, it would be a pretty hostile environment. I think I'm saying that, even if you would be free, life there might not be all that perfect.

Did you get it the second time?
For me FREEDOM is the freedom of ideas, the freedom of speech and the freedom of expression and to have all the people the same freedom wherever in the world. You may believe in laws and orders, and it is your right to do, but these are not equal for all the people.
 

Seven

In bocca al lupo, Fabio.
Jun 25, 2003
39,325
Maybe i am Cristian but this doesn't that i will never judge my religion. How did Greek and Italians became Christians? Did this happened from one day to another? Do you know that the people who brought the Christianity in Greece (The Byzantines) were destroying the ancient Greek monuments (like Delphi), they were burning books and they were killing philosophers and scientists and any thinking man. Is this the love and peace of which Christianity speaks?




For me FREEDOM is the freedom of ideas, the freedom of speech and the freedom of expression and to have all the people the same freedom wherever in the world. You may believe in laws and orders, and it is your right to do, but these are not equal for all the people.
Oh, for the love of God, did you STILL miss the point? I mean, I was explaining it as if I was talking to a three year old FFS. It's not about no fucking freedom. Being in Siberia sucks, whether you're free or not. And I never even said anything about law and order. You freak.

The Byzantines didn't bring christianity in Greece. The Romans did. Want to know the difference? Grab a book for once.
 
Jul 5, 2005
2,653
Oh, for the love of God, did you STILL miss the point? I mean, I was explaining it as if I was talking to a three year old FFS. It's not about no fucking freedom. Being in Siberia sucks, whether you're free or not. And I never even said anything about law and order. You freak.
If you talk for Siberia, then yes the whether and the life there is not worth living. When i spoke for freedom i wanted to explain my first post here.



The Byzantines didn't bring Christianity in Greece. The Romans did. Want to know the difference? Grab a book for once.

Now you are the one who don't get the point, and wants to disorientate the discussion. My point is not the variance of Eastern and western Roman Empire that in fact were the same think, but the effects that this empire had to the Ancient Greek civilization. Sure and Greeks had great role in the Roman empire but before that one great recivilization had destroyed that for me was greater than the Roman.
 

Seven

In bocca al lupo, Fabio.
Jun 25, 2003
39,325
If you talk for Siberia, then yes the whether and the life there is not worth living. When i spoke for freedom i wanted to explain my first post here.


Now you are the one who don't get the point, and wants to disorientate the discussion. My point is not the variance of Eastern and western Roman Empire that in fact were the same think, but the effects that this empire had to the Ancient Greek civilization. Sure and Greeks had great role in the Roman empire but before that one great recivilization had destroyed that for me was greater than the Roman.
So it's not just freedom that counts. Look, we know you're not bright, but I'll try to explain anyway. Religions tend to burn stuff. Romans burnt christians and then turned christians themselves. Religion also tends to evolve you see. One of these evolutions in christian religion was the fact many tried to find a healthy relationship between the wisdom of philosophers and the dogma of the Bible. Quite clearly medieval christianity did not prosecute philosophers. And for what it's worth, they even sponsored scientists in many cases.

I don't know what you're blabbing about with Greek and recivilisation and stuff.
 
Jul 5, 2005
2,653
Religions tend to burn stuff.
I know that very well. And Muslims made crimes against the Persian civilization and they destroyed many monuments In Egypt and Iraq. This is for what i am against.

Quite clearly medieval christianity did not prosecute philosophers. And for what it's worth, they even sponsored scientists in many cases.
The truth is that Christianity developed and extended with philosophic methods but the way the people attached their existence and their thinking in Bible was not related with the mental inquiry of the questions for the relation of the Human with his world and his position in it, the way that philosophy includes.
The same think stands and for Islam. You can't say that one fundamentalist Muslim who base his life and his existence in quaran apply the methods of philosophy.




P.S. The way you are talking reminds me Julio César.
 

Seven

In bocca al lupo, Fabio.
Jun 25, 2003
39,325
Again you're not making any sense and I think you might be forgetting about your original point. You set out to demonstrate that in Islam, unlike the situation with christianity, philosophers were respected. What I think you did just now (because as I said, your phrases are very open to interpretation), is demonstrate me how this is NOT the case.
 
Jul 5, 2005
2,653
I don't have problem with any religion and i wasn't set out to demonstrate anything to anywhere. I just believe in the dissociation of philosophy and religion. if philosophers were respected in Christianity then why the Emperor Claudius Julianus - who admired philosophers and classics - was named "the Apostate"?


Anyway I want this discussion to end because this thread is for other reason.
 

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