On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 6:36 PM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 18 Jan 2015, at 20:42, meekerdb wrote: > > On 1/18/2015 6:26 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > With the definition you gave in a preceding post, and with which I agree, > everyone believe in some God. The question is always: which one? And where > it does come from, and why. > > > All philosophers and most scientists have some idea about what is > fundamental reality - but (unless they are theologians) they recognize it > is just a working hypothesis. I'd say most people don't even think about > it enough to have a definite opinion. > > > Well, it might be about time. Many people don't think to this, because we > abandonned the subject to professional brainwashers since a long time. > Most people are just not interested in fundamental science. Usually people > like to take things for granted, and dislike doubting everything, as > Descartes knew already we have to do if we search truth. > The more I think about it, the more I doubt that these subjects were simply "abandoned" in an innocent fashion. The problem is that beliefs about fundamental reality are at the foundations of political power, and the powerful know this, even if only intuitively. When atheist politicians say that we must respect the Vatican, they are agreeing on some border of power. They are saying, ok we can't have absolute power but we can negotiate peace with the Vatican. The subtlety is that there is now a very powerful religion which has no name but is profoundly materialistic. I think you intuit its existence, and were perhaps a victim of it, by the suppression of your thesis. Telmo. > > Bruno > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
