tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post5036158279433496090..comments2024-03-28T19:27:59.772+00:00Comments on A K Haart: Fake phobias IIA K Haarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-11667933716503387982016-07-17T20:22:07.152+01:002016-07-17T20:22:07.152+01:00James - a sneer is as much as they deserve.
Sam -...James - a sneer is as much as they deserve.<br /><br />Sam - I ought to get round to reading the Quran too. I downloaded a sample onto my Kindle but didn't pursue it. The trouble is I already know I'll agree with Schopenhauer and I've no wish to become a Quran critic. Life is too short.<br /><br />Demetrius - and that is an important point, the term becomes so debased it ceases to mean anything worthwhile. A K Haarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-10447431482232043182016-07-17T10:40:05.007+01:002016-07-17T10:40:05.007+01:00Once one might say, "I don't like..."...Once one might say, "I don't like..." or "I am not sure about...". Nowadays it is simpler and easier to say "I have a phobia.....".Demetriushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17198549581667363991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-59412135245765342222016-07-16T21:33:18.026+01:002016-07-16T21:33:18.026+01:00Not just politically primitive, either. I ought t...Not just politically primitive, either. I ought to get round to reading the Quran, but then again I keep saying that about the Bible. Here's Schopenhauer engaging in a brief course in comparative religions:<br /><br /><i>Temples and churches, pagodas and mosques, in all countries and ages, in their splendour and spaciousness, testify to man's need for metaphysics, a need strong and ineradicable, which follows close on the physical. The man of a satirical frame of mind could of course add that this need for metaphysics is a modest fellow content with meagre fare. Sometimes it lets itself be satisfied with clumsy fables and absurd fairy-tales. If only they are imprinted early enough, they are for man adequate explanations of his existence and supports for his morality.<br /><br />Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need for countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. In this book we find the saddest and poorest form of theism. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value. Such things show that the capacity for metaphysics does not go hand in hand with the need for it . . . .</i>Sam Vegahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05978971199859845931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-55664631445704939402016-07-16T21:12:39.908+01:002016-07-16T21:12:39.908+01:00Now we just have to say that each time someone acc...Now we just have to say that each time someone accuses us of it.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.com