The Anthropic Coincidences, Evil and the Disconfirmation of Theism
Found : The Anthropic Coincidences, Evil and the Disconfirmation of Theism
The anthropic principle or the associated anthropic coincidences have been used by philosophers such as John Leslie (1989), William Lane Craig (1988) and Richard Swinburne (1990) to support the thesis that God exists. In this paper I shall examine Swinburne's argument from the anthropic coincidences. [...]
H.P. Lovecraft: Visionary of the Void
Found : H.P. Lovecraft: Visionary of the Void
The occult subgenres holds up a mirror to Consensual reality. Occultists readily sneer at Slave-God religions and then piss themselves in ecstasy buying a genuine set of Aleister Crowley socks. There is much talk of the magician as a dangerous rebel or anarch of the soul by people [...]
Body
"Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs." – Edmond and Jules De Goncourt, 1822-1896
"Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours [...]
Denial
"This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten." – D. H. Lawrence
"Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish." – Logan Pearsall Smith
Evil
"There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless." – W. Somerset Maugham
"Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed [...]
Fundamentalism
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction." – Pascal, Pensees, 1670
"Cruel men believe in a cruel God and use their belief to excuse their cruelty." – Bertrand Russell
"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities." [...]
Life
"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans." – John Lennon
"Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything [...]
Primitive
"If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it." – Stanley Garn
"Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams." – Mary Ellen Kelly
Self-deception
"The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it." – George Bernard Shaw
"No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself." – Greville
Unconscious
"The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions." – Italo Calvino
"The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark, but also light, not only [...]
