Sentences with phrase «not on delusions»

We base our views on reality, not on delusions.

Not exact matches

«Hitler was not insane or deranged, or suffering from drug - induced delusions,» he writes, «or laboring under the effects of some chronic disease such as syphilis, or acting in an unresolved hypnotic trance: on the contrary, he was sane according to any reasonable definition of the term, and fully responsible for his actions.»

If they later educate themselves out of their insane delusions, then fine, but WE — the SANE ones, shouldn't rationalize WHY they're stupid — we should just acknowledge they are stupid and move on.

Delusions get people crazy and then they might kill or not depending on what sort of things they are thinking about.

You nutters can't help but massacre people based on your delusions.

Liberal Boomers, who seldom if ever seriously criticize the legions of conservative - demonizers in your midst, for this post I will mostly join Mr. Druckenmiller in accusing you outright, that is, I will act as if this was your premeditated plan motivated by selfish interest, and not a pattern of political self - delusion that you fell into, given the drip - drip - drip of Democrat talking points over the years, given your gleeful listening to those who dismissed conservatives as hateful dunces, so that you ceased to even consider the NUMBERS conservatives kept pointing to, and just kept on doggedly voting D.

Trust me, it's far more work trying to justify a delusion and rationalizing why what you believe isn't consistent with what you see in the real world than having one answer for all the questions you people flail about trying to answer and be able to rely on simple logic and facts to conclude there is no god.

That makes a difference to me, just as not living my life on drugs or under the influence of some other delusions.

Evan's father's faith was obviously not a «lazy man's» delusion as one poster said on this forum.

two other people arguing will need to work that out not you so if you stay out of it it usually works out... god is psychological security for those who need it... nothing wrong with that but reality will soon come calling... usually on a death bed when people for the first time really see they are alone... or you can beleieve a delusion... whatever makes you feel better.

Faith is a delusion and those operating under it are not immune to criticism any more than those who claim to have visited other planets and travel on alien space ships.

Those of us who are not sucked into the delusion of religion evaluate it on empirical evidence, not emotional evidence.

Thus the God takes pleasure in arraying the lily in a garb more glorious than that of Solomon; but if there could be any thought of an understanding here, would it not be a sorry delusion of the lily's, if when it looked upon its fine raiment it thought that it was on account of the raiment that the God loved it?

This does not allow anyone to reflect on illogical conclusions they hold, errors in thinking and possible delusion.

And should one run the risk of losing faith by examining its true foundations, he is certain to be chilled by the dictum, in Hebrews 6:4 - 6, that «It is impossible for those who were once enlightened... if they fall away, to renew them again...» Those who originated a religion based on deception and delusion clearly knew that if the conditioning broke down or wore off, it could not work again.

@End, True, I wouldn't claim to know that religion won't be classified as a mental illness on those grounds, but it would be so inconsistent were that to happen that, barring political agendas, I would imagine that the field would reel from such an obvious bias against one particular type of delusion while ignoring so many others.

I don't even know if I have a position, pro or con, on whether I think it's a good idea however it does seem to me to be fair to classify religious delusion like any other.

You just don't get to force your delusion on anyone else.

But Hell is not a creation, just a result — not a result of creative will, but of human choices, based on the delusion that we can do better than God.

When I reflect on the infinite pains to which the human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses of religious belief which stem from the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth of so much of what these critics of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique of the language of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a delusion?

I am an atheist... If this is the worst, I'll take it... What I will not take is the rest, the constant interference of religion in everyday lives, the less and less clear separation between Church and State, the bigoted right - wingers who look down on us (us who think that we have escaped the greatest delusion of all, us who believe that religion is a way to escape individual neurosis by adhering to a social neurosis...), the attempts at proselytism, the anti-Darwinian «oh - so - lame» criticism..

We can hope that it will not depend on self - deception and delusions.

Today, some scientists declare God to be a delusion based on equally dubious theology: on the proposition that God's existence can not be proven empirically and on the presumption that only scientific data count.

Seeking the truth is always a good endeavor, which is why the religious scream bloody murder and wish we wouldn't interrupt their delusions, myths, magic beliefs, con jobs, brainwashing, out right lies, and demands of belief based on punishment, threats, extortion, and blackmail if we don't...

Teaching a child to be unrealistic, illogical and irrational through religion is outright child abuse, and not much different from the physical abuse foisted on them by the costumed purveyors of these heinous delusions.

The spate of bad books on philosophy and religion by prominent scientists — Dawkins» The God Delusion, Hawking and Mlodinow's The Grand Design, and Atkins» On Being, among others — is notable not only for the sophomoric philosophical and theological errors they contain but also for their sheer repetitiveneson philosophy and religion by prominent scientists — Dawkins» The God Delusion, Hawking and Mlodinow's The Grand Design, and Atkins» On Being, among others — is notable not only for the sophomoric philosophical and theological errors they contain but also for their sheer repetitivenesOn Being, among others — is notable not only for the sophomoric philosophical and theological errors they contain but also for their sheer repetitiveness.

you'd think if god was truly the god spoken of then faith would be unneeded and belief a thing of the past — yet — people will believe whatever they wish no matter the proof or lack there of and its truly sad to consider that this delusion type mass brainwashing is going on right now and has been for over 2000 years... please don't let the time in which this sm.ut has been around make you think its worth its wieght in salt — i bid Lot's wife its not — in ALL early man stories from around the globe people have created GRAND stories about the start and end of times — its that simple.

Nope, don't let reality wee wee on your delusions.

Come on, Topher, you don't see how that statement exposes a healthy dose of persecutory delusion and bias?

At a time when delegates from all over the world are coming together in a variety of bodies for the purpose of attempting to sketch a first outline of future society, it seems to me essential to set forth the main constructive axes without which it is mere self - delusion to suppose that we can conceive or undertake any re-ordering or development of the Earth: general tendencies of advance and growth, that is to say, which in certain conditions — despite our freedom of choice, or better still, because of it — Mankind can not in any circumstances ignore, and must heed more and more as time goes on.

I'm not going to comment on delusions as an acceptable excuse for a crime, because that's a separate issue.

I'm not commenting on the Rick Perry issue b / c as a Canadian citizen it is fortunately not my country that will go up in the burning flames of delusions and oppression if Perry gets elected.

Obviously if he's doing that then it's on purpose not an accident not a delusion and certainly not faith.

Yeah, Christians are so nice (other than wishing everlasting torture on other human beings who don't take part in their delusion and bullying gay people... Oh and the crusades... and the Armenian Genocide... and... well... the millions of people they've murdered)

We have nothing to fear and your delusions don't work on us.

I do sympathize as the choice is to follow logic to the conclusion that god most likely does not exist, and by so doing break your heart by learning that those you love and care for have lied to you, and the other choice being turning your back on logic and choosing self delusions.

@AVGPAGUY... we are not angry, but TIRED of the church making ridiculous claims on a daily basis, We really don't care what delusion you choose, we simply want a reasonable show of evidence, since it is put under our noses continuously.

From the comments, I would conclude that anyone in their spiritual journey that has chosen to believe in God as in God of the bible has not «misunderstood» or is suffering from a «delusion» or mental illness (at least not any more than anyone who has chosen to have the view on weighing up the «evidence» that such «god» does not exist).

why, you wouldn't like to be oppressed based on interpretations of works of fantasy, legends and myths, and from various people's delusions?

Based on the theorys of Science (which do change at times) how do you know that your not living in Delusions of Granduer?

As a christian apologist, Chad, has 2000 years of «facts and testimony» to draw on to defend the delusion, not to the degree of proof or evidence; only to the point that a whole lot of people bought into the scam, therefore the scam is true based on the bible, why, because a 2000 year old book, that very same bible says so, which completes the circle.

That doesn't sound like a delusion, unless you are doing something unwise, like placing your life saving's on the Falcons to win the Super Bowl this year.

oops thing after the just spewin» should have read thinking... damn my injury (and please you delusional wastes of oxygen, don't go thinking your wasted voices on prayer will help... medical technology has already resolved this or have at least started that process without the use of a god delusion to help them along)

The Democratic candidate isn't running on a platform that aims to codify the immoral religious delusions on the society as a whole.

I am (a) A victim of child molestation (b) A r.ape victim trying to recover (c) A mental patient with paranoid delusions (d) A Christian The only discipline known to often cause people to kill others they have never met and / or to commit suicide in its furtherance is: (a) Architecture; (b) Philosophy; (c) Archeology; or (d) Religion What is it that most differentiates science and all other intellectual disciplines from religion: (a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the above.

In Eastern Maryland and Virginia its pulled pork mixed with a slightly tangy, slightly sweet tomato based sauce, in Kansas its pulled pork drenched in a super sweet, dark colored molasses based sauce, in North Carolina its pulled pork in a shockingly sour vinegar based sauce, and in Alabama... well in Alabama they live under the delusion that the best BBQ in the world comes in the form of a flat, dry, piece of plain pork on a bun paired with a mystery sauce in a squeeze bottle... I kid you not, they really think its great.

But when Princeton takes on one of the service academies, not even the die - hards can operate under any such delusion.

I will not succumb to any form of delusion that spreads on this site.

More easily pleased does not translate to delusion, your judgement on them falls closer I must admit.

@Konstantin, Thank you 4 your honest an frank articles, we don't get alot of sense in the articles on here but you a starting to counter balance alot of the delusion