Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-19 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 6:26 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:19 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: thereby explaining a variety of scientific problems and refuting your absolute statement on what any god theory can/cannot

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-19 Thread LizR
On 20 October 2014 04:23, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, October 16, 2014, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: And to believe that something does not exist, you need a precise version of it. No, you just need a definite version. The god I don't believe

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-19 Thread Jason Resch
just need a definite version. The god I don't believe in is the god of theism, which, as I've written many times, is a person who created the universe and cares about how we behave and wants to be worshipped. So then do you believe in one that doesn't want to be worshipped? What about one

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-19 Thread meekerdb
On 10/19/2014 7:45 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I have read many of them. No serious theology would use God as an explanation of matter. Neither would any true Scotsman. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-19 Thread meekerdb
On 10/19/2014 8:12 AM, Jason Resch wrote: I don't recall Bruno ever csaying if you don't believe in something then you believe in it. What he's said is that atheists defend/support/reinforce the same idea/conception of god that the literalist or fundamentalist abrahamic religions use

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-19 Thread meekerdb
a grasp on some usual state of affairs. PGC I works with house and Brent too. What's curious is that failing to believe in anything implies that you do believe in it. Precisely: atheists does not fail to believe in God: they believe that the notion of God has no sense, but they use only

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-19 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: I will no longer respond to your queries on this Mr. Cowboy, I just asked for one clear specific example of something the God theory can explain, but all all got was more bafflegab; well I don't need you to find

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-19 Thread LizR
On 20 October 2014 03:33, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 18 Oct 2014, at 21:24, meekerdb wrote: On 10/17/2014 11:44 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: That's close to Plotinus outer God (that the called the ONE). I am OK. But that is false for the Inner God. For mystics and rationalist

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-19 Thread LizR
Hi Richard I'm only on page 2 of your paper, but already confused. You appear to be positing that a mathematical universe might have a physical underpinning. If so, this rather defangs the MUH, which obtains its importance from being logically prior to (the appearance of) a material universe.

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-19 Thread LizR
, and as I've attempted to do in my attempts to understand comp). PS If you've been on this forum very long you will already know my views on the God hypothesis. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-19 Thread LizR
On 20 October 2014 08:51, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/19/2014 7:45 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I have read many of them. No serious theology would use God as an explanation of matter. Neither would any true Scotsman. Do women count? I'm a MacDonald on my mother's side

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-19 Thread meekerdb
On 10/19/2014 4:32 PM, LizR wrote: On 20 October 2014 08:51, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/19/2014 7:45 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I have read many of them. No serious theology would use God as an explanation of matter. Neither would

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-19 Thread Richard Ruquist
Liz, I am not sure that you can call the underpinning physical. But you certainly have a good point. According to one string theory, what seems to exist before the creation of the universe are dimensions and flux, and symmetries and quantum theory. At the big-bang some of the dimensions inflate

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-19 Thread meekerdb
believe in it. What he's said is that atheists defend/support/reinforce the same idea/conception of god that the literalist or fundamentalist abrahamic religions use. Atheists can't say there is no God without defining what they mean by God, Yeah

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-19 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
of god that the literalist or fundamentalist abrahamic religions use. Atheists can't say there is no God without defining what they mean by God, Yeah, they tend to be rational like that. It's not raining so it never rains. There are no such things as sophisticated French subtleties like

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
Oct 2014, at 21:42, John Mikes wrote: I read Bruno's ID about theology some times - never really comprehended it. I got the notion that he sorts under such name the ideas of a 'startup of the World' no matter on what theory. About the GOD concept did ANYBODY EVER communicated about

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Oct 2014, at 07:46, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I ask myself who would INSIST on using the word God (and not some other word) Which one? I have suggested an other word, like the ONE, but you did not reply

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Oct 2014, at 18:36, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 3:45 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: If Russell is to be believed, why is there something rather than nothing? is a badly posed question, I don't think so, it may or may not have a answer, nobody knows, but it's a

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Oct 2014, at 22:18, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: I ask myself who would INSIST on using the word God (and not some other word) Which one? I have suggested an other word, like the ONE, but you did not reply

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Oct 2014, at 02:19, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 2:12 AM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: Of course, the next distraction is to complain the world ain't

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Oct 2014, at 22:53, LizR wrote: On 16 October 2014 17:00, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: I suggest that believing and not believing in anything is consistent with MWI (and therefore comp) for if you believe something in one world, you will fail to believe in it in some

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-18 Thread Richard Ruquist
Bruno: Then by the ONE, I mean God, in the greek sense of whatever is needed to have a reality and consciousness. Richard: If MWI can be derived from comp and if the MWI is deterministic, then IMO there is no need for consciousness. I claim that a reality and consciousness , that is a single

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-18 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Glashow's Crazy idea, but is it crazy enough to be true? -Original Message- From: meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, Oct 18, 2014 1:22 am Subject: Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-18 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 18 Oct 2014, at 02:19, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 2:12 AM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-18 Thread meekerdb
On 10/17/2014 11:44 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: That's close to Plotinus outer God (that the called the ONE). I am OK. But that is false for the Inner God. For mystics and rationalist theologian, it is not completely false to believe that there might be only one person, and that the one

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-18 Thread meekerdb
On 10/18/2014 7:36 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: ... I question whether his arguments represent merely the other side of rather literal Christian cultural coin, where it is o.k. to be patronizing in using psychological trick like talking down to people about politeness and cultural

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-18 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Urge versus demi-Urge?? I didn't think Plotinus was a Gnostic? What if God was a, the, Great Mind? Would you, knowing that He was a space alien like to interview Him, or would you bow out, given this ridiculous, opportunity? -Original Message- From: meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-18 Thread John Clark
produce something even if the nothing doesn't even have the potential to produce something? Don't you think that may be just a tad unreasonable? And whatever misgivings you may have about science failing to fully explain some subtlety remember that the God theory can explain absolutely positively

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-18 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
explain some subtlety remember that the God theory can explain absolutely positively NOTHING, zero zilch nada goose egg. Whatever misgivings you may have...remember... = Whatever you say...I will have my canned spam message to place right here Being our humble scientific role model again? That's

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-18 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: Lebowski caricature in Hollywood flick quote above utters perhaps a stronger statement: Yeah, well... that's just like your uhmm.. opinion, man. Can anybody translate this for me? What on earth this man talking

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-18 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
, man. Can anybody translate this for me? What on earth this man talking about? Perhaps it's sort of machine's theological universal refutation statement. Concerning God theory can explain absolutely positively NOTHING, zero zilch nada goose egg. it could mean that somebody could believe

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-18 Thread LizR
The point that Krauss fails to address is precisely that - why there is something rather than nothing. Going from almost nothing (the quantum vacuum, say) to something is, simply, starting from something. That's fine from the viewpoint of the continuing saga of physics, which doesn't attempt to

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-17 Thread LizR
On 17 October 2014 18:46, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: Forget omniscient, if Cosmologists are even close to being correct God, the reason there is something rather than nothing, is not even as intelligent as a worm and has less memory than one; and I would maintain that virtually

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-17 Thread LizR
On 17 October 2014 03:54, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:44 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like doublethink to mewhich was of course a virtue and a necessity if you lived on Airstrip One. Yes but without doublethink how could we have

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-17 Thread LizR
On the subject of atheists and whether they have a definite concept of god, etc etc --- well, atheists are (in my experience) dogmatic that they are sure there is nothing to the universe(s) except something like matter, energy, space and time (or a quantum field, vectors in Hilbert space

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-17 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 7:46 AM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I ask myself who would INSIST on using the word God (and not some other word) Which one? I have suggested an other word, like the ONE, but you

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Oct 2014, at 16:39, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 8:44 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like doublethink to mewhich was of course a virtue and a necessity if you lived on Airstrip One. Right. If I remember correctly, peculiar machine is

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
: Hi Brent, I have had a couple of experiences that proved to me that there exists something like the theist God. Things that I can not explain otherwise are some kind of divine intervention that saved my life. Could there be an explanation that is completely secular? Could it be explained

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-17 Thread zibbsey
On Monday, October 6, 2014 7:15:44 PM UTC+1, Brent wrote: Here's an interesting interview of a philosopher who is interested in the question of whether God exists. The interesting thing about it, for this list, is that God is implicitly the god of theism, and is not one's reason

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-17 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 16 Oct 2014, at 16:39, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 8:44 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like doublethink to mewhich was of course a virtue and a necessity if you lived on

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
do believe in Santa Claus. A curious inference for a logician. Brent, are you trying to compete with John Clark, in attributing me things I have never said. All what I said is that Atheists and Christian defend the same conception of God. The atheists defend that conception so

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-17 Thread Stephen Paul King
that proved to me that there exists something like the theist God. Things that I can not explain otherwise are some kind of divine intervention that saved my life. Could there be an explanation that is completely secular? Could it be explained by MWI + anthropic principle? You died in a large

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-17 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 3:45 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: If Russell is to be believed, why is there something rather than nothing? is a badly posed question, I don't think so, it may or may not have a answer, nobody knows, but it's a perfectly clear unambiguous question. And if not from

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
to believe in anything implies that you do believe in it. Precisely: atheists does not fail to believe in God: they believe that the notion of God has no sense, but they use only the christian God to make their point. And to believe that something does not exist, you need a precise version

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-17 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: I ask myself who would INSIST on using the word God (and not some other word) Which one? I have suggested an other word, like the ONE, but you did not reply. If the ONE is supposed to mean the reason

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-17 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:18 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: I ask myself who would INSIST on using the word God (and not some other word) Which one? I have suggested an other word, like the ONE

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-17 Thread meekerdb
On 10/17/2014 2:01 AM, LizR wrote: On the subject of atheists and whether they have a definite concept of god, etc etc --- well, atheists are (in my experience) dogmatic that they are sure there is nothing to the universe(s) except something like matter, energy, space and time (or a quantum

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-17 Thread meekerdb
On 10/17/2014 8:01 AM, zibb...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, October 6, 2014 7:15:44 PM UTC+1, Brent wrote: Here's an interesting interview of a philosopher who is interested in the question of whether God exists. The interesting thing about it, for this list, is that God

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-17 Thread LizR
On 18 October 2014 05:36, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 3:45 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: If Russell is to be believed, why is there something rather than nothing? is a badly posed question, I don't think so, it may or may not have a answer, nobody

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-17 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: Of course, the next distraction is to complain the world ain't murcan enough, Yeah, I've always said the world needs to be more murcan, in fact some of my best friends are reoflactacly murcan; and things

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-17 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 2:12 AM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: Of course, the next distraction is to complain the world ain't murcan enough, Yeah, I've always said the world needs to be

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-17 Thread meekerdb
On 10/16/2014 12:04 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 15 Oct 2014, at 13:23, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: Aha! Now what of Boltzmann Brains and how this topic is undervalued by the intellects here. The UD is more general than the Boltzman brain. It contains the web of all Boltzmann

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread LizR
Sounds like doublethink to mewhich was of course a virtue and a necessity if you lived on Airstrip One. On 16 October 2014 18:21, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:28 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I works with house and Brent

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Oct 2014, at 17:15, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: John, Instead of God, what do you propose as a substitute for all the awful suffering you have accurately, cited? Marx said that religion is an opiate for the people, so what do you offer as a pain reliever? Aspirin

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
Subject: Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore? On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I suggest to define God by either the physical universe OR what is at the origin of the physical universe, Then if modern

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Oct 2014, at 18:56, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I suggest to define God by either the physical universe OR what is at the origin of the physical universe, Then if modern cosmologists are even close to being

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
, as I know it, is a slight variant of christianism. Then why do you defend the idea that christians have the genuine notion of god. I know why. So you can utter how the notion of god is stupid, etc. But you would be a non-christian, you would not care about their definition, and open to quite

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
to compete with John Clark, in attributing me things I have never said. All what I said is that Atheists and Christian defend the same conception of God. The atheists defend that conception so that they can announce proudly to the world that there is NO god. And doing so, they share

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
to believe in God: they believe that the notion of God has no sense, but they use only the christian God to make their point. And to believe that something does not exist, you need a precise version of it. So atheits, like christian (the fundamentalist one) believe that they have the right

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Oct 2014, at 05:32, LizR wrote: Is this a fair comment, Bruno? No. See my answer to Brent. Tell me if you see the point. I have never said that atheists believe in God, only that they share the same concept of God than the (fundamentalist) christians. I only say that atheists

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Oct 2014, at 05:40, LizR wrote: I don't believe that's what Bruno means Thanks God! Bruno (which if I'm wrong means I DO believe that's what he means.cleardot[1].gif..) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
with MWI (and therefore comp) for if you believe something in one world, you will fail to believe in it in some other world. Not in the normal (Gaussian) worlds. There is no world in which I believe in the christian God, or in 2+2=5, except in the world I am not bruno, or in the worlds I have

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
The key point is that atheist don't believe in God, but believe that God deos not exist. But to have such a belief you need to believe that you have the right notion of God, and this is what they share with the christian: the same conception of God, even if it is to assert its non

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
it before I was 12. Then explain me why you defend the idea that God means only what the Christians or Muslims mean by it. explains me why you never look at theologies different from the christians and the muslims, despite there are many, as Jason made clear in a long post to you. Why

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Oct 2014, at 21:42, John Mikes wrote: I read Bruno's ID about theology some times - never really comprehended it. I got the notion that he sorts under such name the ideas of a 'startup of the World' no matter on what theory. About the GOD concept did ANYBODY EVER communicated

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
that Bruno did not invent the term, nor did he imbue it with some special interpretation. He mostly uses it in the common sense of rational study of concept of god/nature of truth, which btw is implied by the word Theology and its etymology itself. I got the notion that he sorts under

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Telmo Menezes
: Hi Brent, I have had a couple of experiences that proved to me that there exists something like the theist God. Things that I can not explain otherwise are some kind of divine intervention that saved my life. Could there be an explanation that is completely secular? Could

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
to old articles that indicate personality, and consciousness. Mitch div -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, Oct 16, 2014 02:04 AM Subject: Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Hi Stephen, On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@charter.net wrote: Hi Brent, I have had a couple of experiences that proved to me that there exists something like the theist God. Things that I can not explain otherwise are some kind of divine

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 8:44 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like doublethink to mewhich was of course a virtue and a necessity if you lived on Airstrip One. Right. If I remember correctly, peculiar machine is inaccurate but not necessarily inconsistent. So you have to

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-16 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 3:46 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: explain me why you defend the idea that God means only what the Christians or Muslims mean by it. I don't care what Christians and Muslims mean by it but I ask myself who would INSIST on using the word God (and not some

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Telmo Menezes
Stephen, On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@charter.net wrote: Hi Brent, I have had a couple of experiences that proved to me that there exists something like the theist God. Things that I can not explain otherwise are some kind of divine intervention that saved

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:44 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like doublethink to mewhich was of course a virtue and a necessity if you lived on Airstrip One. Yes but without doublethink how could we have religion? And how could a logician say Atheism, as I know it, is a slight

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-16 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 1:12 AM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 Platonist Guitar Cowboy For example, say you state after some mystical experience, that you met a god that told you to write down his message. If your god insists in the text that he/she

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 3:11 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Educate yourself by reading the excellent book by Lawrence M Krauss A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing. It assumes still enough physicalism so that he put still some magic in the brain.

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Hi Stephen, On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@charter.net wrote: Hi Brent, I have had a couple of experiences that proved to me that there exists something like the theist God. Things that I can not explain otherwise

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-16 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: Lol, why is somebody, that prides themselves spamming, in the driver's seat of posing questions now? You should have put a on before spamming and put a be rather than a comma between spamming and in the

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread meekerdb
inference for a logician. Brent, are you trying to compete with John Clark, in attributing me things I have never said. All what I said is that Atheists and Christian defend the same conception of God. The atheists defend that conception so that they can announce proudly to the world

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread meekerdb
implies that you do believe in it. Precisely: atheists does not fail to believe in God: they believe that the notion of God has no sense, but they use only the christian God to make their point. And to believe that something does not exist, you need a precise version of it. No, you just need

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread meekerdb
On 10/16/2014 12:36 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The key point is that atheist don't believe in God, but believe that God deos not exist. But to have such a belief you need to believe that you have the right notion of God, and this is what they share with the christian: the same conception of God

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Oct 2014, at 16:44, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 3:46 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: explain me why you defend the idea that God means only what the Christians or Muslims mean by it. I don't care what Christians and Muslims mean by it but I ask myself

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Oct 2014, at 17:20, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 3:11 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Educate yourself by reading the excellent book by Lawrence M Krauss A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing. It assumes still enough

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread LizR
On 16 October 2014 17:00, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: I suggest that believing and not believing in anything is consistent with MWI (and therefore comp) for if you believe something in one world, you will fail to believe in it in some other world. That's equivalent to extending

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-16 Thread John Mikes
2014, at 21:42, John Mikes wrote: I read Bruno's ID about* theology* some times - never really comprehended it. I got the notion that he sorts under such name the ideas of a 'startup of the World' no matter on what theory. About the GOD concept did *ANYBODY EVER *communicated about

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-16 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
Jesus, and the many forms in many universes that this figure can take, is no easy task. No worries: I'm here to help, on topic with generalizations of Jesus- God and Matter, an example of which can be beheld at the very end of this short sequence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZR58d77a4A Valid

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-16 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I ask myself who would INSIST on using the word God (and not some other word) Which one? I have suggested an other word, like the ONE, but you did not reply. If the ONE is supposed to mean the reason

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-15 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi Stephen, On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@charter.net wrote: Hi Brent, I have had a couple of experiences that proved to me that there exists something like the theist God. Things that I can not explain otherwise are some kind of divine intervention

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-15 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
about the existence of God anymore? On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I suggest to define God by either the physical universe OR what is at the origin of the physical universe, Then if modern cosmologists are even close to being correct God

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Oct 2014, at 03:00, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: John has never had a decent reply to the proposition, that by entertaining negation of Christian dogma, he is in fact enforcing it. Wow, calling a guy known for

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Oct 2014, at 01:30, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I suggest to define God by either the physical universe OR what is at the origin of the physical universe, Then if modern cosmologists are even close to being correct

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
:53 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@charter.net wrote: Hi Brent, I have had a couple of experiences that proved to me that there exists something like the theist God. Things that I can not explain otherwise are some kind of divine intervention that saved my life. Could

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
. -Original Message- From: John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Oct 14, 2014 7:30 pm Subject: Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore? On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Bruno Marchal marc

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-15 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: your dislike of religions hides a defense of a religion. Wow, calling a guy known for disliking religion religious, never heard that one before, at least I never heard it before I was 12. John K Clark -- You received

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-15 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I suggest to define God by either the physical universe OR what is at the origin of the physical universe, Then if modern cosmologists are even close to being correct God is not omniscient, God isn't even very smart

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-15 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 6:56 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: which again confirm my point (you know the one which trigger your bot-like answer). If you don't like my bot-like answer then stop making the exact same bot-like accusation; I give the stupidity prize to Atheism,

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-15 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
article on ARXIV I'd Rather See One Than Be One.). -Original Message- From: Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, Oct 15, 2014 11:30 am Subject: Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-15 Thread John Mikes
I read Bruno's ID about* theology* some times - never really comprehended it. I got the notion that he sorts under such name the ideas of a 'startup of the World' no matter on what theory. About the GOD concept did *ANYBODY EVER *communicated about it on a basis NOT hearsay, NOT dreaming

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-15 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
it with some special interpretation. He mostly uses it in the common sense of rational study of concept of god/nature of truth, which btw is implied by the word Theology and its etymology itself. I got the notion that he sorts under such name the ideas of a 'startup of the World' no matter on what

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-15 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 Platonist Guitar Cowboy For example, say you state after some mystical experience, that you met a god that told you to write down his message. If your god insists in the text that he/she/it is infallible, in the literal sense of the term, in all possible universes

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-15 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: The stupidity prize you made up is clearly yours to claim, Oh I've said plenty of stupid thinks in my time, but I don't think I can compete with Bruno's Atheism, as I know it, is a slight variant of christianism.

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