Re: The Next Twenty Years

2015-02-15 Thread Kim Jones
> On 16 Feb 2015, at 5:12 am, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > I am not sure if I fear more radical islamism or the political correctness > which has never stop to sustain the radical (pseudo--Islam), which is nazism > in disguised. In fact the nazis have disguised antisemitism into antizionism > sin

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-02-15 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Interesting John. In steinharts view the first initiator of reality may indeed not have been a super mind, except in power. Kind of like gnosticism, maybe. The succeeding universes and each cosm has a god will be succeedingly better. People get moved to better universes after croaking, akin to p

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-02-15 Thread meekerdb
On 2/15/2015 3:01 PM, John Mikes wrote: Any 'practical' advice why I should change my position? Anything I should *KNOW* about? Agnostically yours John M The practical advice would be to ask yourself how you know where your computer keyboard is and how it works. Then you may try applying th

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-02-15 Thread LizR
On 16 February 2015 at 12:01, John Mikes wrote: > Any 'practical' advice why I should change my position? Anything I should > *KNOW* > about? > Being in the same position as you, all I can say is ... I don't know. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "E

Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-15 Thread LizR
On 15 February 2015 at 07:00, spudboy100 via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Being a fool, I ask, Is it possible to do a theology (In the Marchal sense > of the word) from quantum potential? Just asking. > > Assuming quantum potential supports a universal computer, I i

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2015-02-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Feb 2015, at 17:08, Samiya Illias wrote: You can invoke God to tell to the others what is right and wrong. You apply such belief to yourself if you feel it, but it can only concern a relation that you have with God, and God can have other relations with other people. Yes, of course

Re: The Next Twenty Years

2015-02-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Feb 2015, at 00:40, Kim Jones wrote: Pretty much speaks for itself. The West appears culturally doomed. As I and Margaret Thatcher hold: there are only families (ie tribes). No other cultural divisions have any purchase on the human condition. Tribes are what homo sapiens is a

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-02-15 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 12:52 AM, spudboy100 via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > John, see if you can read this paper. Its a slideshow from Ars Disputandi > of an eric steinhart paper, on the theological implications of the > simulation argument. This is the only copy