[Zon]

Perpetual motion? The philosopher's stone? The Fifth Dimension? Or the perpetual orgasm?

"Individual conscious life means eternal prosperity.  Such is nature’s quintessential secret -- a secret unknown throughout Earth’s three millennia of recorded history. …Neo-Tech discovered that secret." -- PAX NEO-TECH

An excellent start at understanding the wide-scope implications of that -- as sure of your beliefs as you seem to be you should have no problem having your beliefs remain intact reading Chapter 6, A Cosmology of Infinite Riches. It's about a one hour read. But perhaps some of your beliefs don't hold up, then what? It may scare the heck out of you to read literature that is so powerful. Maybe you shouldn't read it and perhaps dismiss it out of hand so that you can ensure that you maintain your beliefs even if they are harming you.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

I don't have any problem (really) discussing elaborate philosophical or ideological systems. I just sort of wanted to try to keep things a little closer to the American Catholic milieu around which the central topic of this thread revolves. And, while musing here whimsically on a few quaffs of Guinness, I don't have a problem with the fact that many people embrace varieties of secular humanism, 18th-century Enlightenment naturalism, mixtures of Stoic, Epicurean, and Sophistic relativism, mechanistic scientism, emotional atheism, post-Cartesian alienated neo-primitivist romantic vitalism or the like, since we all know that is a main current in modern ideological cultures. I just think that it is the sign of the mature intellectual to recognize some courtesy for those of us who are theists and find something of value in the spiritual interpretation of reality found in traditional Christianity. It also does expand civility in public discourse. And sometimes we pass on good ideas, useful insights, and fascinating reading material in the mutual quest for understanding and appreciating the richness of reality.