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Originally Posted by Professor S
To say that the group destroys individuality is absurd because the individual would not exist without the group, in both physical and phychological terms.
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Sorry I didn't mean seperation from others as in literally locking yourself in a room, I just meant the fact that you are you and aren't someone else is what defines you. I probably could have worded that better.
That's basically what I said, the individual cannot exist without something to define itself against. That can be other people, or the world at large. And yes your personality is derived from nature and nurture, but that just proves you are separate from them to begin with. In order to be changed by something it has to be something in its own right.
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I agree that the purpose of life is joy, but its how we reach that purpose that tells the story of our lives and determines our ultimate happiness. Mass Murderers find joy through murdering people.
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That's true, and I would have to say the purpose of life being the experience of joy is an overall arc. Mass murders may increase their own levels of joy but they do great damage to the levels of others. And you can probably question how real this joy is when you consider underlying feelings of guilt. For those who do not have the mental capacity to experience guilt their behaviors are still destructive to their long-term abilities to experience joy, in this life or any other.
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Well what kaind of Christianity are you talking about? Lutheran? Methodist? Baptist? Evangelical? Catholicism? Orthodox? Mormons? Protestant (Church of England)? There are whole lot of very different versions which you have lumped together.
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Well they all have similar ideas when it comes to personifying God. They all talk about what God wants, thinks, and feels. They differ on the details but I don't believe the differences between them are that significant.