On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 3:38 AM Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 27 May 2019, at 14:19, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 7:19 AM Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I see. So according to the (neo) platonic perspective a philosophy that > says there is no God is just a slight variant of a philosophy that says > Jesus is the son of a God who is omnipotent and omniscient and created > the universe and became furious with the entire human race because one if > its members ate an apple even after being specifically instructed not to > and even though He is omnipotent the only way He could forgive the humans > is if they slowly tortured His son to death. > > You need to use the word “god” in the sense of the neoplatonist, > If so then I can conclude with considerable confidence that the neoplatonist are as dumb as dog shit for thinking they have made a great philosophical discovery by abandoning the idea of God but not the ASCII sequence G-O-D. *> Neoplatonism has given all sciences. When it has been forbidden in > Occident after 529, it has escape in the Middle East, where the progress > has continued up to 1248, where Islam fell in the same trap than the > christians [...] I have discover that in all place and time when > neoplatonism was the mainstream metaphysics, the place were prosper, > peaceful and science made big progresses.* Before about 1248 dead Greek philosophers had a iron grip on the thoughts of European thinkers. This period is sometimes called the Dark Ages. About 1248 Roger Bacon made the first modest steps toward the scientific mething and slightly loosened the stranglehold on imagination and creativity that dead Greek Philosophers had held for a thousand years. This period is sometimes called the Renaissance. 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv08RbFOK9zEUChotc5xWGusxxJS32pDvaJ3oaVW7o0%3DsA%40mail.gmail.com.
