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obscurejude
...I'm open to your criticism, I just fail to see where I came across in any way that wasn't proper. ...
Well, now, we're about to get neurotic. No criticism intended. No need for us to continue to apologize for having apologized. I think it's fine.
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obscurejude
...I think the old philosopher's view of the pursuit of virtue demands conviction and the tools to argue it convincingly. ...
I respect that, very much.
I also like the fact that there are many, very diverse people participating in this discussion. Do ya?
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obscurejude
...I don't know what you mean by cop out. I don't think Eliot or any other early modernist was copping out of anything. God was dead, and their pursuit of something morally cogent in the wake of that remains one of the most inspiring things for me personally that I've ever come across. My reading of Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, Frost etc... is religious and spiritual. Feel free to expand if you'd like.
And to date, I hate Kevin Smith movies, so I really had no clue what you were trying to say. Went completely over my head... sorry.
Pointing out only that the promiscuous lifestyle is unpleasant, using discomfort as the basis of your argument, rather than meaningful reasoning,
that is kind of a cop out. Maybe that's why you don't like Silent Bob. But, to repeat my point, it still does state that there are better options than mere surrender to chaos.