I thought it was a HE.

I think you're TRYING too hard to be deep.

"She's a human being."

Yes, this is a marvelous fact, another fact is that there are 6.5+ billion human beings on this planet.

Yet they are dehumanized in every single instance, kept in demographic cages, corporate statistics, and the human being is being overly animalistic in every essence of the word "animal".

Infanticide, abortion, euthansia, the intrisic value of the whole man is being quantified.

Yes sir.

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"The arts and the sciences do have a place in the Christian life -- they are not peripheral. " - F.A Schaeffer

Tangent. That has no representation in your photograph, and it has nothing to do with the photo. This all may be true to a certain extent.

1. A multicellular organism with membranous cell walls of the kingdom Animalia, differing from plants in certain typical characteristics such as capacity for locomotion, nonphotosynthetic metabolism, pronounced response to stimuli, restricted growth, and fixed bodily structure.
2. An animal organism other than a human, especially a mammal.
3. A human considered with respect to his or her physical, as opposed to spiritual, nature.


Yet they[humans] are not[dehumanized in every single instance], your opinions are arbitrary. Humans create their own reality, and in that reality there is a level of humanity that in every instance changes it's own standards. Humans are corrupt, statistical, and merciless to it's own kind. Now- to have these traits, or to allow abortions or whatever your personal standards disallow IS to be human. The definition of human is ever changing because of the actions of humans themselves. It is only inhumane until society accepts that killing babies can be beneficial to one or more parties.

Besides, your personal opinions do not set the level of humanity. Morality, and the amount of existing "Intrinsic" human life is subject to nothing but society, not god, not the United States bill of rights.

If we live in a purely materialistic universe there are no philosophical means to justify free will, or individual signifigance.

secondly, there would be no logical reason to argue about it either.

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"The arts and the sciences do have a place in the Christian life -- they are not peripheral. " - F.A Schaeffer

this reminds me of one of ther series that was one of the selected special artworks out of all of NSW to go to Syndey and show there artwork. but with this artwork that i saw that is similar to yours but it was printed out on calico type fabric like pillows.like soft white fluffy clouds.. good stuff

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Ethicss, in your signature you have a quote. But how do the arts and sciences have a place in christian life? your justification for this is that they are not peripheral. The arts are not peripheral sure, but the christian life is extremely linear and peripheral. 1 god, 1 beginning, 1 creator, 1 reason for existence, 1 heaven, 1 hell, 1 dimension of reality. The christian shelters themself from the reality of the world by only watching certain movies and TV shows, and only reading the LEFT BEHIND series, while complaining about books like Harry Potter that ruin their children's minds by learning them about wizards and wizardry. Christians are linear minded, because the organized religion of christianity teaches them to be that way.

The arts do not belong in a christian life.

"The christian shelters themself from the reality of the world by only watching certain movies and TV shows, and only reading the LEFT BEHIND series, while complaining about books like Harry Potter that ruin their children's minds by learning them about wizards and wizardry. Christians are linear minded, because the organized religion of christianity teaches them to be that way."

I believe you are talking about platonically based ameican Evangelicalism NOT Holistical based protestantnism.


"Christianity is not just "dogmatically" true or "doctrinally" true. Rather, it is true to what is there, true in the whole area of the whole man in all of life.

The ancients were afraid that if they went to the end of the earth, they would fall off and be consumed by dragons. But once we understand that Christianity is true to what is there, including true to the ultimate environment -- the infinite, personal God who is really there -- then our minds are freed. We can pursue any question and can be sure that we will not fall off the end of the earth. Such an attitude will give our Christianity a strength that is often does not seem to have at the present time. "


We are free to explore any area, We are free to listen to any music.

I listen to Tool, Rage, Mono, Radiohead, Dj shadow, Every good music, and why? Because God delights in excellence.

Art is not judged on the basis of its religious platonic connection but on its excellence as a peice of atwork..


Christianity offers a cohesive worldview. We have reason for objective moral values, For ontology, unity within diversity.

If the universe is purely materialistic, there are no logical reason to produce art.

There is no aesthetical philosophcal backing for doing art.

Art, Came out of aesthetics, which came out of the display of beauty, not the purely materialistic universe.


As I said before, If the universe is purely materialistic, we have no free will, no individual signifigance, no "Ego" no "I, no choices, no beauty, no non-relativistic truth, no objective more values, and everything is pre-determined.

Therefor, Why are you arguing with me?

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"The arts and the sciences do have a place in the Christian life -- they are not peripheral. " - F.A Schaeffer

Because your thoughts all pertain to theory, not reality.

Thoughts are the statements and observations of a phenomenom we call "reality", we cannot truely exhaustively comprehend and understand the "in-of-itself" or "for what it is" reality called the "noumenon" we can only make perceptive thoughts on the objective reality, or the super-imposed reality.

So, Both of our thoughts, in some senses theories, but we are making statements concerning reality, otherwise they would have no meaningful belonging here.

As I said. If reality is simply materialistic, and there is no trancedent soul which can make self-deteremined decisions how can you justify free will, and the other things I postulated earlier?

If man is purely material is a conditioned being, in every sense of the word. The idea of "responsibility" is a mere illusion.

Once again, why are you arguing with me, if I am just a condition being? Do you argue with your computer when it messes up, or your dog, or a tree?

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"The arts and the sciences do have a place in the Christian life -- they are not peripheral. " - F.A Schaeffer