On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 8:29 PM, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 5:04 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> O'Brien knew that who controls language controls thought. So peace is >>> war. Atheism is Christianity. And "God" is whatever you want it to mean. >>> >> >> > Bruno has a specific definition of God, >> > > He says he does, but when you probe a little deeper you find that he does > not. In fact he has specifically said and I quote " This is useful to > realize that the question "is god a person or a thing" is an open > problem.". So when Bruno talks about "God" he quite literately and by his > own admission doesn't know what he's talking about. > > So I take it number theorists have no idea what they're talking about either, because the Goldbach conjecture is still an open problem in their field. > Specific definition my ass. > > >> > which is separate from all other definitions. He could have called it >> something else > > > He could have but he won't. Why? Because he is in love with 3 little > letters, O and G and D, although not necessarily in that order. > > >> > maybe "The One" would be clearer, >> > > It wouldn't matter if he did because Bruno still couldn't not say "I > don't believe in God I am a atheist", the words would stick in his throat, > I find that a lot of religious people are like that. > What does "atheist" mean to you? That you reject the God of every religion or only that you reject the Abrahamic conception of God? At least answer this: Do you think there can be more than one possible definition for god? Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
