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Thanks for a fun post.

Friday Philosophing, eh? OK, I'm open for some mental masturbation.

I like your post, especially:

"Variety is essential to the concept of beauty." I'd go so far as to say it's the veritable spice of life!

But I do take issue with a few minor points:

1) "...materialism, atheism, is the maximization of ugliness, the
climax of the finite antithesis of the beautiful."

I can't be an atheist and appreciate beauty? Aesthetic appreciation is the providence of faith, and faith alone?

I guess I'll have to claim to be part of that "variety," without which the beauty of faith cannot be appreciated.

2) "...Truth is the basis of science and philosophy..."

I would say the basis of science is the creation of harmonious metaphors. Science is descriptive, at its root. It only serve to give us metaphors to place observations in a context. Particles don't obey physics theories, they behave in such a way that theories are able to describe their behavior.

Science cannot know truth. It can only dance around it and suppose.

3) "...Goodness is the mental recognition of the relative values of the diverse levels of divine perfection. The recognition of goodness
implies a mind of moral status, a personal mind with ability to
discriminate between good and evil..."

Two things here. I like that goodness seems to also require variety in order to be appreciated, hence "relative values."

However, "relative values" also points out our inability to draw a universal border in the sand between the good and the not good. Where this line is drawn becomes relative, as well. For instance, I consider female genital mutilation to be not good, but believers in such consider it to be a right of passage into adult hood and to be of important spiritual value. Here, "goodness" must be left at some point as a relative phenomenon, not something that stands an unarguable evident truth.

The spectrum from beauty to ugliness or good to evil takes place on a spectrum, with every observer potentially having a different but valid reference point.

4) "...Every impulse of every electron, thought, or spirit is an acting unit in the whole universe..."

We should not anthropomorphize electrons. We cannot speak to their impulses or motivation. Electrons act, but do so without intention. The author confuses "acting" with "acting." :)

5) "...Only sin is isolated and evil gravity..."

Again, the variety thing, without sin we cannot know virtue. Sin is inclusive in our existence, not isolated from it.

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Just some Friday jabbering. Sometimes posts can't show friendly intention or good humored debate. I meant this to sound like we were drinking fine beer on tap somewhere and having friendly discourse.



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