tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post645141398398867485..comments2024-03-14T14:41:17.663-04:00Comments on Triablogue: Seneca gunsRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-61626208496227657292015-12-31T19:08:36.142-05:002015-12-31T19:08:36.142-05:00Well, given the nature of this blog my first thoug...Well, given the nature of this blog my first thought was it was an oblique reference to the Elder or Younger, but then the "guns" appellation seemed anachronistic, so I was like..."huh?"<br /><br />Anyway...I think the cause probably exploding meteorites in the upper atmosphere.CRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03231394164372721485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-66157057528709632272015-12-31T18:56:45.209-05:002015-12-31T18:56:45.209-05:00I'm pretty sure they're one of those fully...I'm pretty sure they're one of those fully-automatic armor piercing magazine clip-holding assault weapons that would have been banned except that Republicans want black people dead.Peter Pikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11792036365040378473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-18243248418315461002015-12-31T18:30:33.101-05:002015-12-31T18:30:33.101-05:00Full disclosure...I had to look up "Seneca gu...Full disclosure...I had to look up "Seneca guns". Learn something new every day.CRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03231394164372721485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-51923875355112972182015-12-31T03:40:14.984-05:002015-12-31T03:40:14.984-05:00When the elephant of naturalism once has his nose ...<i>When the <b>elephant of naturalism</b> once has his nose in the door, he will not be satisfied until he is all the way in.</i>- Cornelius Van Til, A Survey of Christian Epistemology, p. 77 <br /><br />Sean called Steve a "shapeshifter." He wrote:<br /><br /><i>Steve “Shapeshifter” Hays has responded in much the way I knew he would, which makes him a pretty predictable shapeshifter. </i><br /><br />AND<br /><br /><i>(Hays may actually be a shapeshifter as he seems to be a one trick pony):</i><br /><br />Sean also repeatedly referred to Van Tillian Monkey Men and magic lizard people. <b>In the spirit of fun, maybe we should start calling Sean The Elephant Man because of his functional atheism and the Van Til quote above.</b> Because of his empirical skepticism, Sean can't be sure he's a man. So he can't say <a href="https://youtu.be/sn7bEVnFlds" rel="nofollow">(as in the movie) <b>"I'm not an animal! I am a human being."</b></a> He can't look in the mirror and *KNOW* he's a human being. <b>He only <i>opines</i> it.</b> Since, Clarkians accept Aristotle's three cognitive states of 1. knowledge, 2. ignorance or 3. opinion and (as Clarkians) believe they can only know the explicit statements of Scripture or propositions validly deduced from Scripture via logically necessary inferences.<br /><br />Clarkians like to point out that Jude 1:10 refers to animals as "ἄλογα ζῷα." Aloga being a form of logos with the privative alpha as a prefix that negates the word logos. It means without word, without reason or irrational. But Jude 1:10 doesn't say all animals are aloga. We can only infer that some are. We know that at least one other created species besides humans possess reason, viz. angels. Given Clarkian disdain for induction, they don't know by empirical experience that there aren't any rational animals in existence. The Bible refers to a talking snake and donkey. So, for all Sean knows, maybe he actually is a naturalistic Elephant Man.<br /><br />[Note this is all told tongue-in-cheek. Anyone who gets offended because of this needs to purchase a sense of humor on eBay. I'm not disrespecting a fellow believer. I'm parodying Sean's silliness.]ANNOYED PINOYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00714774340084597206noreply@blogger.com