On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote: On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 Bruce Kellett <bhkell...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: >
>>> We are entering the realm of the Humpty-Dumpty dictionary -- words no >> longer have their ordinary, everyday meaning. >> > >> Yes. According to Bruno the words "atheist" and "Christian" mean almost >> the same thing with atheism being just a very minor variation of >> Christianity. > > > > They have the same notion of the creator, and the same notion of > creation. And they have the same belief in creation. > Yep Bruce was correct, we are entering the realm of the Humpty-Dumpty dictionary. > Only fundamentalist aristotelians have a problem with Plato's notion of > God And according to your Humpty-Dumpty dictionary a fundamentalist aristotelian is somebody who thinks that Aristotle was by far the WORST physicist who ever lived and even in the field of philosophy was vastly overrated, just like all Greek philosophers >> And the word "God" means a unintelligent non-conscious amorphous >> impersonal blob > > > > You attribute me things that I have never said. > OK you can clear this up right now right here by answering just one question: By the English word "God" do you mean a intelligent conscious being who created the universe and knows everything including what our prayers are or do you not? I think this question is very clear and does not require a paragraph of bafflegab to answer, a simple yes or no will do. > > Is God a blob or an intelligent person? Open problem with > computationalism. > No this has nothing to do with computationalism or mathematics or logic or science or even theology, this has to do with the meaning of a English word and nothing more. I already know what most people on this planet mean by the word "God" but I don't know what you mean, so all I need you to do is look up the word "God" in your Humpty-Dumpty dictionary and tell me what it says; I'd do it myself but I seem to have misplaced my copy. John K Clark -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
