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[quote user="gusgusterson"]As I'm only buying things like stays at Ritzy Canine and groceries, Mrs. Gusterson purchased a Rick Owens top and Comme Repetto ballet flats with grommets this weekend. I tried to talk her into some super pointy Ann D elf shoes and thankfully talked her out of many new fall things. I did buy a 50 spf rash guard a few weeks ago!
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Good man [Y]</p>
Zam, are you taking a crash course in Western European intellectual heritage?</p>
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Faust,</p>
No not really,</p>
I have noticed that there is a Huge Connection between Modern ideas in Science, Politics, Religion, theology etc and the Ideas of the Ancient Philosophers............... It one sense one has to really ask if we have really progressed idea wise or we have only been able to better articulate and reinforce the original ideas of Antiquity</p>
As a Christian , and a modern progressive thinker (albeit a God Centered thinker) I am trying to understand how Mankind has moved from a universal (albeit varying) belief in God, or at least the divine, to the point where the West in particular has now become generally Atheistic in its outlook .</p>
I dont want to assume anything, nor misunderstand anyone (if thats even possible[:|]), so i am trying to understand the ideas and views of some of the Great (And Absurd[65]) thinkers to have come along, and how their views has helped (or hurt?) our current world collective outlook </p>
[quote user="gusgusterson"]As I'm only buying things like stays at Ritzy Canine and groceries, Mrs. Gusterson purchased a Rick Owens top and Comme Repetto ballet flats with grommets this weekend. I tried to talk her into some super pointy Ann D elf shoes and thankfully talked her out of many new fall things. I did buy a 50 spf rash guard a few weeks ago!
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Good man [Y]</p>
Zam, are you taking a crash course in Western European intellectual heritage?</p>
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</p>
Faust,</p>
No not really,</p>
I have noticed that there is a Huge Connection between Modern ideas in Science, Politics, Religion, theology etc and the Ideas of the Ancient Philosophers............... It one sense one has to really ask if we have really progressed idea wise or we have only been able to better articulate and reinforce the original ideas of Antiquity</p>
As a Christian , and a modern progressive thinker (albeit a God Centered thinker) I am trying to understand how Mankind has moved from a universal (albeit varying) belief in God, or at least the divine, to the point where the West in particular has now become generally Atheistic in its outlook .</p>
I dont want to assume anything, nor misunderstand anyone (if thats even possible[:|]), so i am trying to understand the ideas and views of some of the Great (And Absurd[65]) thinkers to have come along, and how their views has helped (or hurt?) our current world collective outlook </p>
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