Harrow: You didn't have to wound that man. Mal: Yeah, I know, it was just funny.

'Shindig'


Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Lee - Mar 29, 2006 12:05:04 pm PST #7097 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

My "world view" might include the belief that "It's best not to be mean to people, if possible," but that I might have come to that belief independent of any consideration whether there's a God or not....
checks world view file

Mine definitely does include both those beliefs.


Gudanov - Mar 29, 2006 12:05:19 pm PST #7098 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

Describe to me how a person's world view does not affect his moral judgments.

But supernatural belief or non-belief is only a subset of world view. In 2006 the thought that slavery is immoral is pretty much universal in the U.S.. In 1806 it wouldn't be hard to find theists and atheists who would believe that slavery is morally okay.

Edit: Again I am too slow to post.


Nutty - Mar 29, 2006 12:06:27 pm PST #7099 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Mostly, operationally, my lack of a belief in the divine is irrelevant to my daily life. I take a shower whether or not gods like how I smell, you know?

I think that you are leaping out of the Abyss.

Shrift, the Flying Squirrel of Escapedom!


tommyrot - Mar 29, 2006 12:06:32 pm PST #7100 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

But you said, "Everyone in the world bases moral judgments on beliefs about the supernatural" - belief (or not) in the supernatural is a subset of one's world view.

way-xposty....


§ ita § - Mar 29, 2006 12:09:47 pm PST #7101 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Thinking it's sad when languages die is part of my world view. Doesn't affect my morals in the least.

Do your utility closets have room numbers?

Yes. Shouldn't they?


shrift - Mar 29, 2006 12:12:46 pm PST #7102 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Shrift, the Flying Squirrel of Escapedom!

Are you saying I need a sidekick who looks like a very unusual chandelier?


Jessica - Mar 29, 2006 12:12:51 pm PST #7103 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

How could it not include that, Jessica?

Very easily, actually -- I know pently of people for whom the question of God's existance is completely irrelevant.

But your original statement, and the modification of "belief in God" to mean "world view" seems not to imply that the one is contained within the other, but that they are one and the same.


tommyrot - Mar 29, 2006 12:14:19 pm PST #7104 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Yes. Shouldn't they?

Well then, it would simplify things if you just scheduled that guy's meeting there....


Nutty - Mar 29, 2006 12:14:31 pm PST #7105 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Are you saying I need a sidekick who looks like a very unusual chandelier?

Dana, do you have any really interesting hats you'd like to tell us about?


Gudanov - Mar 29, 2006 12:15:48 pm PST #7106 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

Thinking it's sad when languages die is part of my world view. Doesn't affect my morals in the least.

So you don't think it's morally wrong to not learn latin?