On Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 3:09:21 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 12:23 PM Philip Thrift <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > On Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 8:55:45 AM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 9:00 AM Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> >>> *I have no evidence that christianity was a fraud before 529. * >>>> >>> >>> >> So you believe Jesus was the son of God, that God sent His only son >>> to Earth so humans could torture him to death because that was the only way >>> God could forgive them for eating an apple? You believe Jesus could turn >>> water into wine and rose from the dead? I think Bigfoot and flying saucer >>> men in New Mexico is far more likely. >>> >>> *>>> I have no clue that judaism, has eve been a fraud,* >>>> >>> >>> >>So you believe in a talking snake, Noah's Ark, and God creating the >>> universe in 4004 BC in just 6 days? >>> John K Clark >>> >> >> *> What is written here:* >> >> "So according to "material-intrinsic semantics" the 4 that a vacuum tube >> computer produces when it adds 2+2 is not the same 4 that a transistor >> computer produces when it adds 2+2 ... So how can a serious person consider >> anything as monumentally silly as a computational theory involving >> "material-intrinsic semantics"?" >> John K Clark >> >> *> is just as anti-material (belief in immaterial things) as the stories >> above. So that's why you can't criticize Bruno's view.* >> > > It's true, just like Bruno I also believe in the existence of immaterial > things. I believe that adjectives exist and in fact I am one, I am the way > atoms behave when they are organized in a Johnkclarkian way. I disagree > with Bruno in that I maintain adjectives can not exist without nouns > existing first, but Bruno claims they can. > > I believe in other non-material things too. Adjectives describe what nouns > are, verbs describe what nouns do, and adverbs describe verbs. All of those > things exist, but it all starts with nouns, without them you've got nothing > not even time because time needs change and without nouns that obey the > laws of physics nothing would change. > > John K Clark >
I think these (adverbs, adjectives) are just inventions of language that we use to navigate and manipulate matter. We are bewitched by language into thinking linguistic things exist that don't exist. @philipthrift -- 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/1f2c11d4-383c-4daf-9a7d-6c2baf7ec3b2%40googlegroups.com.
