On 22 Jan 2017, at 02:33, John Clark wrote:
On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 3:55 AM, Bruno Marchal
wrote:
> In Plato-like theology [blah blah blah]
Plato was an imbecile and theology has no field of study.
That attitude is the one that the radicals and the
On 22 Jan 2017, at 04:20, John Clark wrote:
On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 9:05 PM, Brent Meeker
wrote:
> You shouldn't be so hard on Greek physics. It's Aristotle
and Plato's "physics" writings that happened to survive and could be
interpreted as compatible with
On 22 Jan 2017, at 03:05, Brent Meeker wrote:
On 1/21/2017 5:33 PM, John Clark wrote:
I respect Greek mathematics but Greek physics was a joke, a very
bad joke that was held as dogma and kept physics from advancing
for nearly two thousand years. And NOTHING comes from Greek
On 21 Jan 2017, at 01:16, Brent Meeker wrote:
The number machine Nu must be defined by some specific encoding.
The polynomials depend on X and Nu. So what is an X and Nu for
which they have a solution and what enumeration is phi_mu?
The specific encoding is given by the polynomial
On Sun., 22 Jan. 2017 at 12:33 pm, John Clark wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 3:55 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
>
>
> >
> In Plato-like theology
> [blah blah blah]
>
>
>
>
> It's unreasonable to call Plato an "imbecile". Have you read any of his
>
On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 9:05 PM, Brent Meeker wrote:
>
> You shouldn't be so hard on Greek physics. It's Aristotle and Plato's
> "physics" writings that happened to survive and could be interpreted as
> compatible with Christianity got adopted by the early Church.
>
On 1/21/2017 5:33 PM, John Clark wrote:
I respect Greek mathematics but Greek physics was a joke, a very bad
joke that was held as dogma and kept physics from advancing for
nearly two thousand years. And
*NOTHING* comes from Greek theology or anybody else's theology either
for that
On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 3:55 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
> >
> In Plato-like theology
> [blah blah blah]
>
Plato was an imbecile and theology has no field of study.
>
> It is the option God = Matter, and is basically the theological
> assumption of the
The number machine Nu must be defined by some specific encoding. The
polynomials depend on X and Nu. So what is an X and Nu for which they
have a solution and what enumeration is phi_mu?
Brent
P.S. I can believe statements are true without believing their referents
exist: "The Mad Hatter is
On 19 Jan 2017, at 18:27, Brent Meeker wrote:
On 1/19/2017 12:55 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Using God in the sense of whatever is needed to have a reality, and
maybe just that reality, helps to keep in mind that Primitive-
Matter existence needs an act of faith. Nobody can prove its
On 1/19/2017 12:55 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Using God in the sense of whatever is needed to have a reality, and
maybe just that reality, helps to keep in mind that Primitive-Matter
existence needs an act of faith. Nobody can prove its exoistence, and
a materialist assumes that such a
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Brent Meeker <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
I don't think it's obvious that we could detect that a probe hadbeen sent
to a
On 18 Jan 2017, at 19:04, John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 3:16 AM, Bruno Marchal
wrote:
> God is the creator (in a large sense of the word) of the
universe.
That's exactly the problem, the large sense of the word "creator"
is so large it becomes
I don't think it's obvious that we could detect that a probe had been
sent to a star. And in any case the observable universe is very much
bigger than our galaxy.
Brent
On 1/18/2017 9:25 AM, John Clark wrote:
Bruno Marchal wrote:
>>
Betters
pace
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 3:16 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
>
> God is the creator (in a large sense of the word) of the universe.
>
That's exactly the problem, the large sense of the word "creator" is so
large it becomes meaningless. Your God does not need to be a person,
Bruno Marchal wrote:
>>
>> Betters
>>
>> pace telescopes
>> would be great but they're not needed for that. If God or ET existed it
>> would be obvious to a blind man in a fog bank.
>>
>
> >
> Assuming a small universe, but nothing prevents the existence of Aliens in
> far away
On 17 Jan 2017, at 00:37, John Clark wrote:
On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 9:19 AM, Bruno Marchal
wrote:
> Aristotle God = Matter
Plato God = something else
People who say that theology does not exist are just taking
Aristotle theology for granted.
I have a dream that one
On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 9:19 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
>
> Aristotle God = Matter
> Plato God = something else
People who say that theology does not exist are just taking Aristotle
> theology for granted.
I have a dream that one
day
you will write an entire post
.be>
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Subject: Re: An invisible fuzzy amoral mindless blob, aka God
On 16 Jan 2017, at 03:17, John Clark wrote:
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On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 spudboy100 via Everything List
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Well, let us guess that whatever God is or was, exists as some kind
On 16 Jan 2017, at 03:17, John Clark wrote:
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 spudboy100 via Everything List wrote:
> Well, let us guess that whatever God is or was, exists as
some kind of super intelligent fellow,
It takes more than being smarter that a human
On 16 Jan 2017, at 00:10, John Clark wrote:
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 Bruno Marchal wrote:
> I use "God" in the sense of the basic reality from which all
the rest follows, or emerges, or emanates, or is created, whatever.
That's exactly the problem. You use the word
On 1/15/2017 6:17 PM, John Clark wrote:
If space aliens existed they should be easy to detect, the fact we
haven't heard a peep from them makes me think they don't exist.
Or they are very far away on the scale of the duration of high-tech
civilization times the speed of light. There's a
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 spudboy100 via Everything List <
everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
> Well, let us guess that whatever God is or was, exists as some kind of
> super intelligent fellow,
>
It takes more than being smarter that a human to be God, you've got to be
omnipotent and
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Subject: Re: An invisible fuzzy amoral mindless blob, aka God
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote:
>
I use "
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 Bruno Marchal wrote:
>
> I use "God" in the sense of the basic reality from which all the rest
> follows, or emerges, or emanates, or is created, whatever.
>
That's exactly the problem. Y
ou use the word "God" in such a ultra general unspecified
On 14 Jan 2017, at 18:10, John Mikes wrote:
Bruno,
You seem to know so much about that Artifact "GOD"
It is not so much a question of knowing, than sharing some
definitions, and then reason, or read reasoning made by others.
I use "God" in the sense of the basic reality from which all
Bruno,
You seem to know so much about that Artifact "GOD" and that other one: our
"subconscious". At least you say so about "HER".
Why do you assign the topic to our Solar system to time the 'full answer'
to at least 2 years (Solar, I suppose, otherwise "YEAR" has no meaning).
We talk in human
On 12 Jan 2017, at 02:41, John Clark wrote:
On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Bruno Marchal
wrote:
>>There is only one fundamental difference between your
example and mine, cats correspond with something in the PHYSICAL
world but dragons do not. Even in arithmetic
On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
>>
>> There is only one fundamental difference between your example and mine,
>> cats correspond with something in the PHYSICAL world but dragons do not.
>> Even in arithmetic a definition can't conjure something into
On 11 Jan 2017, at 01:03, John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 9:00 AM, Bruno Marchal
wrote:
> Coiunterexample. I define a glodlyrapicul by a cat. That
makes the glodlyrapiculs existing
>And I define a glodlyrapicul by a dragon. Did my
definition
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 9:00 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
>>> >
>>> Coiunterexample. I define a glodlyrapicul by a cat. That makes
>>> the glodlyrapiculs existing
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> And
>> I define a glodlyrapicul by a
>> dragon. Did my definition cause anything to come
On 10 Jan 2017, at 04:12, John Clark wrote:
On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Bruno Marchal
wrote:
>>A definition can't make something exist!
> Wrong.
Are you being serious?
> Coiunterexample. I define a glodlyrapicul by a cat. That
makes the glodlyrapiculs
On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
>>
>> A definition can't make something exist!
>
>
> >
> Wrong.
>
Are you being serious?
> >
> Coiunterexample. I define a glodlyrapicul by a cat. That makes
> the glodlyrapiculs existing
And
I define a
On 08 Jan 2017, at 03:16, John Clark wrote:
On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 5:23 AM, Bruno Marchal
wrote:
>> How can anything be "used" by anything if matter that obeys
the laws of physics is not involved somewhere along the line ?
> because with the standard definition
On 07 Jan 2017, at 20:27, Brent Meeker wrote:
On 1/7/2017 2:23 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 07 Jan 2017, at 02:42, John Clark wrote:
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 3:18 AM, Bruno Marchal
wrote:
>> It is insufficient to explain what a computation is,
what is needed is
On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 5:23 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
>>
>> How can anything be "used" by anything if matter that obeys the laws of
>> physics
>>
>> is not involved somewhere along the line ?
>
>
> >
> because with the standard definition of computation, they exist
>
On 1/7/2017 2:23 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 07 Jan 2017, at 02:42, John Clark wrote:
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 3:18 AM, Bruno Marchal >wrote:
>>
It is insufficient to explain what a computation is, what is
On 07 Jan 2017, at 02:42, John Clark wrote:
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 3:18 AM, Bruno Marchal
wrote:
>>It is insufficient to explain what a computation is, what
is needed is an explanation of how to perform a calculation. In
textbooks on arithmetic it will say
On 1/6/2017 5:42 PM, John Clark wrote:
How long do you suppose the
Catholic Church would last if the Pope said "There is no personal God.
God exists but He's an
invisible fuzzy amoral mindless blob
.
"
?
I would estimate about .9 seconds.
No, that's how long the Pope would
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 3:18 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
>> >>
>> It is insufficient to explain what a computation is, what is needed is an
>> explanation of how to perform a calculation. In textbooks on arithmetic it
>> will say something like "take this number and place it
On 04 Jan 2017, at 18:59, John Clark wrote:
On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Bruno Marchal
wrote:
>> I say matter is always needed to make a calculation
you keep pointing out this textbook or that textbook in an effort to
prove me wrong.
> because those
On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
>> >>
>> I say matter is always needed to make a calculation you keep pointing
>> out this textbook or that textbook in an effort to prove me wrong.
>
>
> >
> because those textbook explain what is a computation,
On 03 Jan 2017, at 21:52, John Clark wrote:
I agree, and yet bizarrely whenever I say matter is always needed
to make a calculation you keep pointing out this textbook or that
textbook in an effort to prove me wrong.
because those textbook explain what is a computation, without
On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
>
>>
>> I said it before I'll say it again, Aristotle was the worse physicists
>> who ever lived. Full stop.
>
>
> >
> It was wrong,
>
Aristotle's physics was more than just wrong, it was stupid, and could
have
On 03 Jan 2017, at 02:01, John Clark wrote:
On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Bruno Marchal
wrote:
>> The primary cause may be attached to the word
"God", but we both know that is not the only attachment, so is "a
being who can think".
> That is exactly what
On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
>>
>> The
>>
>> primary cause
>> may be attached to the word "God", but we both know that is not the
>> only attachment, so is "a being who can think".
>>
>
> >
> That is exactly what the greeks put in
On 27 Dec 2016, at 21:36, John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Bruno Marchal
wrote:
> My God, as you call it, is a testable theory, since physics
is derived from a internal modal variant of self-reference. I
derived formally a quantum logic, and
On 29 Dec 2016, at 08:09, Torgny Tholerus wrote:
On 2016-12-28 23:56, John Mikes wrote:
I do not intend to participate in the discussion of this topic fpr
more than one reason:
1. I am agnostic, so I just DO NOT KNOW what (who?) that "GOD" may
be.
You just have to ask God what she is.
On 2016-12-28 23:56, John Mikes wrote:
I do not intend to participate in the discussion of this topic fpr
more than one reason:
1. I am agnostic, so I just DO NOT KNOW what (who?) that "GOD" may be.
*You just have to ask God what she is. Then she will answer. But it
may take two years to
Brent I do not intend to participate in the discussion of this topic fpr
more than one reason:
1. I am agnostic, so I just DO NOT KNOW what (who?) that "GOD" may be.
1,A: is God a PERSON? (Or: many persons?)
1.B a Force - a Complexity - a System (etc.) or the like?
1,C Did He/She/It
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On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be>
wrote:
> My God, as you call it, is a testable theory, since physics
is derived from a internal mod
On 27 Dec 2016, at 20:31, Brent Meeker wrote:
On 12/27/2016 10:42 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 26 Dec 2016, at 20:18, John Clark wrote:
On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 7:39 AM, Bruno Marchal
wrote:
>> Well... at least atheists have some notation in mind when
they use
On 27 Dec 2016, at 20:11, Brent Meeker wrote:
On 12/27/2016 6:55 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 26 Dec 2016, at 18:08, Brent Meeker wrote:
On 12/26/2016 4:39 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
I have made it clear in posts and papers that the God of the
machine is Arithmetical Truth...
..
And
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On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 7:18 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List
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>
John, isn't there a Buddhist
On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 7:18 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List <
everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
>
> John, isn't there a Buddhist saying by the Buddha, "If the Buddha stands
> in your path (spiritual) strike him down"?
>
I don't know about the Buddha but I do know
Jack Handy
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Subject: Re: An invisible fuzzy amoral mindless blob, aka God
On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote:
>
My God, as you call it, is a testable theory, since physics is derived from a
internal modal variant of self-reference. I derived formally
On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
>
> My God, as you call it, is a testable theory, since physics is derived
> from a internal modal variant of self-reference. I derived formally a
> quantum logic, and explained informally how we get the statistical
>
On 12/27/2016 10:42 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 26 Dec 2016, at 20:18, John Clark wrote:
On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 7:39 AM, Bruno Marchal >wrote:
>>
Well... at least atheists have some notation in mind when
they use the
On 12/27/2016 6:55 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 26 Dec 2016, at 18:08, Brent Meeker wrote:
On 12/26/2016 4:39 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
I have made it clear in posts and papers that the God of the machine
is Arithmetical Truth...
..
And speaking of a
sack full of doorknobs, how can one
On 26 Dec 2016, at 20:18, John Clark wrote:
On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 7:39 AM, Bruno Marchal
wrote:
>> Well... at least atheists have some notation in mind when
they use the word [God].
> But why chosing the notion from a theory they claim to
disbelieve.
On 26 Dec 2016, at 18:08, Brent Meeker wrote:
On 12/26/2016 4:39 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
I have made it clear in posts and papers that the God of the
machine is Arithmetical Truth...
..
And speaking of a sack full of doorknobs, how can one tell the
difference between a serious
On 26 Dec 2016, at 17:54, Brent Meeker wrote:
On 12/26/2016 12:06 AM, Torgny Tholerus wrote:
On 2016-12-26 00:09, Brent Meeker wrote:
On 12/25/2016 12:40 AM, Torgny Tholerus wrote:
I have found that God is exactly the same as my subconscious. And
my subconscious is connected to other
ject: Re: An invisible fuzzy amoral mindless blob, aka God
On 2016-12-26 00:09, Brent Meeker wrote:
> On 12/25/2016 12:40 AM, Torgny Tholerus wrote:
>>
>> I have found that God is exactly the same as my subconscious. And my
>> subconscious is connected to other peoples subconsc
On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 7:39 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
>>
>> Well... at least atheists have some notation in mind when they use the
>> word
>>
>> [God]
>> .
>>
>
> >
> But why chosing the notion from a theory they claim to disbelieve.
>
Because the meaning
On 12/26/2016 4:39 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
I have made it clear in posts and papers that the God of the machine
is Arithmetical Truth...
..
And speaking of a
sack full of doorknobs, how can one tell the difference between a
serious theologian and a buffoon theologian?
The first one
On 12/26/2016 2:24 AM, Torgny Tholerus wrote:
On 2016-12-26 10:52, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On 25 December 2016 at 19:40, Torgny Tholerus > wrote:
I have found that God is exactly the same as my subconscious. And
my subconscious is
On 12/26/2016 12:06 AM, Torgny Tholerus wrote:
On 2016-12-26 00:09, Brent Meeker wrote:
On 12/25/2016 12:40 AM, Torgny Tholerus wrote:
I have found that God is exactly the same as my subconscious. And my
subconscious is connected to other peoples subconsciouses.
When I pray, I talk to
On 26 Dec 2016, at 09:06, Torgny Tholerus wrote:
On 2016-12-26 00:09, Brent Meeker wrote:
On 12/25/2016 12:40 AM, Torgny Tholerus wrote:
I have found that God is exactly the same as my subconscious. And
my subconscious is connected to other peoples subconsciouses.
When I pray, I talk
On 25 Dec 2016, at 03:07, John Clark wrote:
First I want to say Merry Newton's birthday!
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Bruno Marchal
wrote:
>> usage says that "God" means an immortal person with
supernatural power who wants, and deserves, to be worshipped.
On 2016-12-26 10:52, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On 25 December 2016 at 19:40, Torgny Tholerus > wrote:
I have found that God is exactly the same as my subconscious. And
my subconscious is connected to other peoples subconsciouses.
When I
On 25 December 2016 at 19:40, Torgny Tholerus wrote:
> 2016-12-25 03:07 skrev John Clark:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Bruno Marchal
>> wrote:
>>
>> >> usage says that "God" means an immortal person with
supernatural power who wants, and
On 2016-12-26 00:09, Brent Meeker wrote:
On 12/25/2016 12:40 AM, Torgny Tholerus wrote:
I have found that God is exactly the same as my subconscious. And my
subconscious is connected to other peoples subconsciouses.
When I pray, I talk to my own subconscious. Then my subconscious
talks
On 12/25/2016 12:40 AM, Torgny Tholerus wrote:
2016-12-25 03:07 skrev John Clark:
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Bruno Marchal
wrote:
>> usage says that "God" means an immortal person with
supernatural power who wants, and deserves, to be worshipped.
>
ith your unconscious.
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2016-12-25 03:07 skrev John Clark:
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Bruno Marchal
wrote:
>> usage says that "God" means an immortal person with
supernatural power who wants, and deserves, to be worshipped.
> That's the Christian use
. Why do atheists insist so
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