Hi Stephen P. King The only two necessary requirements to be a conservative are that you are fiscally conservative and are ready to defend your country. Aggressive warfare is out.
Roger Clough, [email protected] 11/9/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-08, 08:34:19 Subject: Re: Communicability On 11/8/2012 6:23 AM, Roger Clough wrote: > Hi Stephen P. King > > Libertarians aren't weird. > They're essentially conservatives without a military. Many people that claim to be libertarian imagine that all disagreements can be settled w/o violence. That is where they fail to comprehend the real world. :_( > > > Roger Clough, [email protected] > 11/8/2012 > "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen > > > ----- Receiving the following content ----- > From: Stephen P. King > Receiver: everything-list > Time: 2012-11-07, 19:17:21 > Subject: Re: Communicability > > > On 11/7/2012 12:01 PM, Roger Clough wrote: >> Hi Stephen P. King >> >> Sounds reasonable. >> >> Being a conservative, however, I tend to adopt orthodox views >> such as that of Leibniz (to my mind at least) and the Bible. > Hi Roger, > > I am weird. I tend libertarian, but not archarchist. I see > orthodoxy as OK but only within limited domains. > >> >> Roger Clough, [email protected] >> 11/7/2012 >> "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen >> >> >> ----- Receiving the following content ----- >> From: Stephen P. King >> Receiver: everything-list >> Time: 2012-11-07, 11:02:01 >> Subject: Re: Communicability >> >> >> On 11/7/2012 9:31 AM, Roger Clough wrote: >> >> Hi Stephen P. King >> >> Your criticism might be valid, but I never made the claim that Berkeley >> is said to have made. Leibniz, possibly more like you, >> would never have made such a claim. Leibniz believed that God >> is purposeful (caused things to happen at least partially due >> to end causes). >> >> >> Dear Roger, >> >> My belief in God is anticipatory, in the sense that in the eternal struggle >> of Becoming, as I hold to be true that the beliefs of observers will almost >> always converge on mutually agreed upon facts and thus those observers will >> have physical worlds with lawful or nomic relations without assuming that >> avoid Plato? view that a universal can exist without being instantiated, as >> we see here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/052422q295335527/. These >> convergences are never a priori knowledge, they cannot be computed "ahead of >> time". >> >> >> >> >> Roger Clough, [email protected] >> 11/7/2012 >> "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen >> >> >> ----- Receiving the following content ----- >> From: Stephen P. King >> Receiver: everything-list >> Time: 2012-11-06, 18:12:43 >> Subject: Re: Communicability >> >> >> On 11/6/2012 11:01 AM, Roger Clough wrote: >> >> Hi Stephen P. King >> >> Even Berkeley had to admit that no forest, no whatever.. >> was foolishness and so said that in that case, God >> observed it. Get real. >> >> Hi Roger, >> >> Then you are explicitly admitting that God's only purpose is to be >> an Absolute observer in whose eye all truth is definite. The problem is >> that such ideas cannot explain how that definiteness is consistent with >> the experimental results that confirm the violation of Bell's theorem >> and other theorems (Gleason, Kochen-Specker). All I am claiming is that >> the totality of all observers act as the absolute observer, not some >> hypothetical entity that if examined carefully falls apart as >> self-contradictory. What is so blasphemous about claiming that We are God? >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Onward! >> >> Stephen >> > > -- > Onward! > > Stephen > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > -- Onward! Stephen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
