Is Church of Reality a Cult?
Sounds like much other religion, engineered specifically for those either frightened or unable to think freely for themselves? Hope that helps?
Is genesis literal or figurative? (For everyone)?
1) Even if the Hebrew word for "day" didn't refer to 24-hour periods, the order of events in Genesis still wouldn't match up with reality. So either Genesis is to be taken more figuratively when it comes to creation, or God is deceitful and went out his way to make the world look different than he created it. I can forgive the Hebrews for not knowing much about the world, because there was barely any technology. But I can't forgive the person in the 21st century who still goes for the Hebrew story over what science has since discovered.
Only to people who know about schizoid personality disorder?
Is it possible that having no social life can lead to me having this schizoid personality disorder??? I was reading about different personality disorders, and when I came upon schizoid personality disorder, I found that I have many of those traits... Does that mean I actually have the disorder?? It was attributed to addicts, but although I'm not some alcoholic or drug addict, I still have several of the traits found in people with this disorder...!!! Is it possible that I have it, even though I'm not an addict? And they were also talking about what is called a "secret schizoid", where the person appears completely normal, but once they're asked to engage emotionally, they have great difficulties: "the schizoid individual is able to express quite a lot of feeling and to make what appear to be impressive social contacts but in reality giving nothing and losing nothing, because since he is only playing a part his own personality is not involved. According to Fairbairn, the person "...disowns the part which he is playing and thus the schizoid individual seeks to preserve his own personality intact and immune from compromise." [...] Further references to the secret schizoid describe that the individual actually "enjoys" regular public speaking engagements, but experiences great difficulty in the breaks when audience members would attempt to engage him emotionally." I feel like I can relate to this stuff, I don't know if it means that I have the disorder though. I personally haven't had any friends since I was around 16 (literally, zero friends), but once I entered university last september, I made some friends. None of them wanted to spend time with me out of school though, and I don't really know why. I'm quiet around people, and I'm constantly not very happy with my family, but I realized that I have a nice unifying influence on them nonetheless. I don't know, can someone who knows about this stuff tell me if I have this personality disorder?? I'm just wondering why people aren't interested in spending extra time with me, and why I find it so hard to just converse with people about anything?? Thanks in advance
If God is a product of the human imagination, how did he create the universe before we existed to imagine him?
Time, space, matter, and energy began to exist at the instant of creation, which scientists call the Big Bang and date at about 14 billion years ago. Since there was no time "before" the beginning of time, no natural event could have caused the universe to begin to exist. The only alternative is the personal creative action of a timeless intelligence of unimaginable power. Could God be an invention of creatures still 14 billion years into the future?
Aristotle's Golden Mean.?
I have writen an article on Aristotle's life, and his system of ethics, and i need to revise it, I need tell about how the 'Golden Mean' (Moral virtue is a mean between two vices, one of excess and the other of deficiency ,) is bad. This is how my teacher put it You need to tell how his system of ethics has polluted the minds of young Greek citizens. Instead of platonic ideals they strive for some nebulous 'Golden Mean' that changes constantly. Please rewrite and make this a less biased, pro Aristotle piece. I don't know what to putttt. :( help.