Saturday, March 31, 2012
Section 9 Group 3
Our topic last class was on Spinoza. Spinoza was born into Judaism and in 1656 he was excommunicated because he began making claims that the Torah was not literally the word of God, that Jews were not God's chosen people, and that there is no immortal human soul. His reply of being excommunicated became one of his greatest works known as, Tractatus Theological-Politicus. He believed the universe was a self-caused substance with infinite attributes; human beings are "nodes" of that substance; and he called that substance "God or Nature." This later became known as pantheism. This theory kinda reminds me of the Matrix and it probably is only because of the node idea about human beings, but for me personally I find it extremely hard to believe that the universe was a self-caused substance, especially after taking astronomy a few semesters ago. Not only because of the size of the universe but because of how much beauty is found not only on our Earth but in the entire universe, I can not understand how it all just so happened to come together that way without there being a higher power. Here is a video my astronomy professor showed the class and it blew my mind, if you have time you should definitely check it out.
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I disagreed with the decision to excommunicate Spinoza, but I understand why they did. I just think that his open-mindedness scared a lot of the church officials. I agree with Alden about the idea that we came from nothing, I think that it is also preposterous.
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A: David Hume
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A: "Good works instead of long prayers"
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So you guys think that a "being's" imagination is more powerful then nature its self? The wonders that occur everyday on earth, does a higher power think them out and perform them everyday? If you believe that these things are only doable by the hand of a being, then you are discrediting all science. Biology and Chemistry have defined and explained the reasons for the existence of color, patterns, purpose and all life. And you want to say God did all this?
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