On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Roger Clough wrote:
> A Theology for Atheists
> There are two opposing forces in the universe, those which enhance
> life, which we call Good, and those which diminish life, which we call
> Evil.
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Yes, the particle accelerator physicists at CERN have just announ
On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 9:11:07 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote:
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>> That really has nothing to do with Evil though, except in sl
On 1/2/2013 5:24 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 6:21:27 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote:
On 1/2/2013 2:24 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
That really has nothing to do with Evil though, except in sloppy reasoning.
True
Evil is about intentionally initiating social harm.
On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 6:21:27 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote:
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> smallpox is not evil, it is just unf
Here is a lay description:
http://www.novaspivack.com/uncategorized/is-the-universe-a-computer-new-evidence-emerges
Is the Universe a Computer? New Evidence Emerges.
March 22nd, 2012
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On 1/2/2013 2:24 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
That really has nothing to do with Evil though, except in sloppy reasoning. True Evil is
about intentionally initiating social harm. Getting smallpox is not evil, it is just
unfortunate. Giving someone blankets known to be infected with smallp
On the
On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 8:13:20 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote:
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> Why bad things happen to good people--Leibniz's Theodicy
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> This is because things can't be good
> everywhere at the same time. Thus evil and catastrophes are
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Why not? If evil and catastrophes are probab
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> "Monism pays attention only to the unity and tries either to deny or to
> slur over the opposites, present though they are. Neither of these two
> points of view can satisfy us, for they do not do justice to the facts.
> Dualism sees in spirit (I) and matter (World) two fundamentally differ
On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 4:12:38 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote:
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On 1/2/2013 1:06 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 3:58:45 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote:
On 1/2/2013 12:46 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 3:05:10 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote:
On 1/2/2013 11:13 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Wednesd
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On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 7:08:41 AM UTC-5, telmo_menezes wrote:
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> In my opinion, good and evil are just names we attach to brain processes
> we all have in common. These brain processes make us pursue the best
> interest of society instead of our own self-interest. I believe they have
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On 1/2/2013 12:46 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 3:05:10 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote:
On 1/2/2013 11:13 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 12:57:34 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 02 Jan 2013, at 02:01, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 3:05:10 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote:
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Hello ! HNY and sorry if this has been posted again!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLvXaclRlHs
http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.0051
"Doubly-even self-dual linear binary error-correcting block code,"
first invented by Claude Shannon in the 1940's, has been discovered
embedded WITHIN the equations of s
On 1/2/2013 11:55 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
I am not so sure about that. Most humans would be more happier just knowing than more
humans can be happier (if it is not their neighbors).
I think that some problem comes from too much altruistic dreams, and few awkward real
practice, but they keep gro
On 1/2/2013 11:13 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 12:57:34 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 02 Jan 2013, at 02:01, Craig Weinberg wrote:
Chemotherapy Good or Evil?
Better than nothing for most people having some disease.
Worst than THC injection, p
On 1/2/2013 10:34 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
A nice quote from Galileo by John L. Heilbron that shows:
1) One could trace the falsifiability to Jesuits of Galileo's time.
2) It could be a link between falsifiability and theology.
p. 318 ‘However, false is not useless. The motion supposed by Co
On 02 Jan 2013, at 13:08, Telmo Menezes wrote:
In my opinion, good and evil are just names we attach to brain
processes we all have in common. These brain processes make us
pursue the best interest of society instead of our own self-
interest. I believe they have two main sources:
1) Biol
On 1/2/2013 5:21 AM, Roger Clough wrote:
Leibniz's view, in his theodicy , which I hold to also, is that
the world down here, that God created, is necessarily imperfect,
so, as they say "crap happens". This is because things can't be good
everywhere at the same time.
So there is no heaven.
Br
On 1/2/2013 4:08 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
In my opinion, good and evil are just names we attach to brain processes we all have in
common. These brain processes make us pursue the best interest of society instead of our
own self-interest. I believe they have two main sources:
1) Biological evol
On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 12:57:34 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote:
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> Worst than THC injection, plausibly for the same group of people.
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> Here th
On 1/2/2013 8:21 AM, Roger Clough wrote:
I forgot add that that's why Leibniz called this
"The best of all possible Worlds."
Why bad things happen to good people--Leibniz's Theodicy
As to tornadoes, there are various views, usually
part of "Theodicies". Here's the view I prefer, that of my
A nice quote from Galileo by John L. Heilbron that shows:
1) One could trace the falsifiability to Jesuits of Galileo's time.
2) It could be a link between falsifiability and theology.
p. 318 ‘However, false is not useless. The motion supposed by Copernicus
can be employed in calculations, an
On 02 Jan 2013, at 02:01, Craig Weinberg wrote:
Chemotherapy Good or Evil?
Better than nothing for most people having some disease.
Worst than THC injection, plausibly for the same group of people.
Here the Evil is only in the fact that minorities hides information
from the majority, and t
On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 6:39:17 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote:
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> ROGER: There are two opposing forces in the universe, those which enhance
> life, which we call Good, and those which diminish life, which we call
> Evil.
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> CRAIG: I can't relate to cut and dried ideas of Good and Evil or
On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 6:29:55 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote:
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> Hi Craig Weinberg
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> So what's good for one may be evil for another.
> No surprise there. That's why an overriding
> referee or judge (God) is necessary.
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Why would the relativity of value necessitate some kind of referee
Hi Telmo Menezes
Then we pretty much agree.
[Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net]
1/2/2013
"Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen
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I forgot add that that's why Leibniz called this
"The best of all possible Worlds."
Why bad things happen to good people--Leibniz's Theodicy
As to tornadoes, there are various views, usually
part of "Theodicies". Here's the view I prefer, that of my
mentor, Leibniz, explained in his "The
Why bad things happen to good people--Leibniz's Theodicy
As to tornadoes, there are various views, usually
part of "Theodicies". Here's the view I prefer, that of my
mentor, Leibniz, explained in his "Theodicy", which
Voltaire took up in his unfair and totally misinformed
criticism, the n
In my opinion, good and evil are just names we attach to brain processes we
all have in common. These brain processes make us pursue the best interest
of society instead of our own self-interest. I believe they have two main
sources:
1) Biological evolution. In the long term, the DNA of the specie
ROGER: There are two opposing forces in the universe, those which enhance
life, which we call Good, and those which diminish life, which we call Evil.
CRAIG: I can't relate to cut and dried ideas of Good and Evil or enhancing or
diminishing of life.
It seems completely disconnected from reali
Hi Craig Weinberg
So what's good for one may be evil for another.
No surprise there. That's why an overriding
referee or judge (God) is necessary.
[Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net]
1/2/2013
"Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen
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On 31 Dec 2012, at 19:52, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Monday, December 31, 2012 8:20:44 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 31 Dec 2012, at 14:05, Roger Clough wrote:
> Hi Bruno Marchal and Brian,
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> "Bigness" can only limit physical entities (those extended in
space),
> but is irrelevant wi
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