Re: Who is the enemy?

GLevy wrote: [...] I am fascinated by antiterrorism methods that expose the inconsistency of terrorists. The problem is that that no matter what rational argument you could come up with, they will find a way to rationalize their position. It may be that the root of the problem is emotional and

Re: Who is the enemy?

Hi Charles Sorry, I am not responsible for these statements. I was only quoting Bruno Marchal's post or 09/19. However, I agree with Bruno very much. It seems that as in mathematics, any (religious) belief anchored by a rigid credo (set of axioms) is bound to be either incomplete or

RE: Who is the enemy?

-Original Message- From: George Levy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 21 September 2001 8:18 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Who is the enemy? I just say this because I consider real atheist as very religious people, and, what is worth is that most of the time

Re: Who is the enemy?

Hi John, You wrote (out-of-line) Bruno FYI here is a private message I submitted today including a copy of part of a post to a complexity-list yesterday. (No restriction in using any of it anywhere) John Mikes (jamikes). Thanks for your courageous post where you

Re: Who is the enemy?

Marchal wrote: George Levy wrote This paradox can easily be solved by falling back on a relativistic approach. Each observer has his/her own frame of reference. All perceptions are relative to the observer. Period. After all, Einstein's Relativity does not use first person and third

Re: Who is the enemy?

George Levy wrote [...] I guess I was talking mostly about the fanatics and the misled people. One could also argue that these people do not have a rigorous scientific upbringing and are very much driven by their emotions. Therefore, they may be classified as illogical. I think emotion are

Re: Who is the enemy?

Marchal wrote: George Levy wrote This paradox can easily be solved by falling back on a relativistic approach. Each observer has his/her own frame of reference. All perceptions are relative to the observer. Period. After all, Einstein's Relativity does not use first person and third

Re: Who is the enemy?

Who is the enemy? What is moral? What is not moral? What is morality in the context of the MWI? Is Quantum Suicide moral? Let me propose a conjecture and let us see how far we can go with it: Morality is the creation, protection and preservation of information. Immorality is the destruction

Re: Who is the enemy?

Saibal Mitra wrote: Bruno, what did you expect? You should expect Jacques to be a typical American. The everything list is not a random sample. Unfortunately! Because frankly I appreciate the Americans here. I find them very sympa. You know how Americans on opposite sides of an issue

Re: Who is the enemy?

From: Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jacques Mallah wrote: (I'm currently in North Dakota, but have lived in NYC most of my life. I did not know anyone who was in the WTC.) I told you my relief, but I begin to doubt ! What do you mean by that? Recently, of course, I have been more concerned

Re: Who is the enemy?

Bruno, what did you expect? You should expect Jacques to be a typical American. You know how Americans on opposite sides of an issue tend to behave. E.g. recounting of votes in Florida, pro life versus pro choice... Unthinkable here in Europe! Anyway, there is nothing wrong with Jacques, he is

Re: Who is the enemy?

Wonderful post Bruno! I agree with you 100%. It reminds me of a great book with the title One by Richard Bach the author of Jonathan Linvingston Seagull, There Is No Such Place As Far Away and The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah. In One Richard Bach asks the questions--what if we could meet