On Tue, May 28, 2019, at 13:56, John Clark wrote: > > > 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.
You should upgrade this quip to Unicode, nobody uses ASCII anymore... Telmo. > > >> *> 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 > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv08RbFOK9zEUChotc5xWGusxxJS32pDvaJ3oaVW7o0%3DsA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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/c8813d5f-62c5-46eb-b013-67e252421a54%40www.fastmail.com.
