Like what?

Gee, I thought this site was about hunting!

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I thought it was a christian site.

So why are you making a topic to discuss why other topics do not hold to the idea of philosophy, therein helping the problem continue?

Just a side note, I don't actually agree with the topic.

As a branch of philosophy, ethics deals with the massive things that our society faces and how one deals with them. Ethics is a smaller branch of philosophy, but one none the less..all the questions that have been raised I think, have mostly been a question of ethics..that is what I think --heather--

It has been written that Socrates called the activity he did alethia (truth) amidst those interested in discovering the truth about things, and the world 'philosophy' was given to outsiders so philosophers could tell who was interested in the truth meaningfully and who wasn't, as Socrates and Plato understood it perhaps.

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http://www.ephilosopher.com/phpBB_14-action-viewtopic-topic-1306-forum-12-start-0.html

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I wrote a brief comment on the subject of Muhammedism today, and will post it here, as an example of the pursuit of truth. I think few Christians understand the nature of the false prophet, and what a radical and simplistic cult lie Muhammed made up in his desert remoteness long ago. Is it a philosophical point? Well alethea is about uncovering the truth, and consider how many people of the west, and how many people within the dar al salaam labor under illusions about the verity of Muhammedist ideas?

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Ideas, the history of ideas, and the proliferration of ideas are subjects that need to be investigated without polemics or ad hominem attacks for reason and truth to be discovered where possible.

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No, this isn't pure philosophy, but Aristotle was involved in political instructions or dialogues with a pair of bright Athenians, and his advice was probably fairly good, so it is perhaps o.k. for 'philosophically' minded people today to consider political and social ideas now and then too...

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It is well known that the Romans stopped their northern advance when Julius Caesar had crossed the Rhine, and encountered a very tall woman that told him to go no farther.

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http://www.roman-empire.net/army/army.html

http://www.athenapub.com/caesar1.htm

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It is somewhat more interesting that Charles Martel stopped the Umayyad forces just 125 miles from Paris several hundred years later.

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The umma is what the subdued planet would be if it were all brought under Muhammedist rule.

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Muhammad was an interesting fellow, son of the keeper of the black stone and etc. Some have said that his elder wife told him what his experiences were after he recovered from epileptic seizures, yet I think the story that he merely became possessed perhaps by an Arab branch of Satanic forces and spliced together Bible stories from things Jews and Christians in town had told him before he beheaded them as if it was a new revelation instead of a bad attempt at plagiarizing the Bible.

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I was surprised to discover how far Muhammad had gone in corrupting the truth of the Bible, and of the Bible stories and so forth. Muhammad believed Jesus wasn't crucified, but instead had a last second substitute take his place. Muhammad depersonalized Yahweh or Jehovah of the Bible, who is well known essentially, and instead made of God a completely remote unknowable abstraction that only Muhammad himself might dimly perceive something about.

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Muhammad has so corrupted the Bible, and concepts of Christianity and Judaism that his unfortunate believers are conditioned a priori to believe certain things that are entirely untruthful about Judaism and Christianity. Muhammad’s bible scholarship was so absolutely false and incompetent that it basically requires illiterates or underdeveloped peoples to believe the syncretistic hodge podge of Muhammad’s autobiographical delusions.

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Muhammad actual was Satanic, and was the false prophet setting up some of the world, it is speculated for Armageddon. The etiology of Muhammad is quite understandable; the Roman Empire of the west had fallen, some Goths had made predacious swoops along North Africa, the Byzantine Empire was decadent and repressive-its version of Christianity bureaucratic and stale without much living spirituality and freedom, and Muhammad was in Mecca sight of 365 gods with his father--keeper of the Ka'aba lying recently dead. Muhammad’s military bent unifying the entire world so far as possible under his name and authority as a false prophet distilling Judaism and Christianity as he had imbibed it into a sour mash of falsehood to run roughshod over the world was brilliant. Muhammad’s destruction of the truth about God and incompetent bungling of the nature of the One that has appeared scripturally as Three was a useful simplification enabling a purely legalist-political religion to be proselytized at the point of a sword.

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Muhammad had no substantive awareness of sin or the context of sin, and obviously had no belief in salvation, and disbelieved that Jesus is God. It is astounding that Muhammad; the first successful Judeo-Christian cult-heresy of large scale has drawn so many into submission to a futile worldliness and penultimate damnation...astounding! It may be a consequence of decadent Roman rulers and their heritage (such as Caligula/Justinian and Theodora) that so many were willing to enlist in the armies of the demonic false prophet.