>>>>>>>Personally speaking, If I distrusted a little that the promissed showed on the bible it isn't true.. Well my only logic goal would be to take the best from this few years.. No rules.. Only to take the best advantage of everything.. Married for what? 5 womans at least! Little Money? No, all the one available! Friendship? Love? Partners? Work? No.. yes for Mariruana! Cocaine! 12y scotch always!
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>>>>>>Why is that your only logical goal?????
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>>>>>Hmmmm. What would another logical goal be?
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>>>>I will leave that as your choice. Somehow I feel that, should belief in the Bible not be one of the cornerstones of your world outlook, you would still be able to come with something better than those.
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>>>Better than having the best possible life?
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>>>You've rationalized away your individualism.
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>>>Wierd.
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>>So your definition of the best possible life is to care for nobody but yourself, do whatever feels good at the moment, be stoned/drunk all the time, and steal whatever you need to support your habits. And it's only the Bible that keeps you from living this ideal life?
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>>Wierd is not the word I would apply to this attitude.
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>I frequently disagree with Mike but would not describe him in those words at all.

So do I (disagree with Mike) and neither would I (describe him in those words).
OTOH...........

Look at the first paragraph.

Read his response to my comment about comming up with better goals.

Is it unfair to interpret his response as saying that those goals represent the best possible life?

Except insofar as the Bible is the source of Mike's not leading that life (I probably should have omitted that line), is my restatement of those goals that far off the mark?

But in the "reduce to absurdity" that I find rife in many of the threads throughout the UT, and with Mike, at least as I view him, one of the best at that form of arguement, I decided to pay him the ultimate compliment and "be like Mike."