Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 03 Dec 2013, at 19:29, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrot I have already insist that God cannot be part of the explanation. We agree on this. Then I repeat my question, why add useless wheels within wheels that explain nothing to

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: Measure is relative, Yes, so your current measure of next finding yourself in a Drelb

Re: Question for Bruno Regarding the question of whether information is physical.

2013-12-05 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I´m very interested in what you question. One of the wonders of life is how a living being select relevant information from the environment for their needs. I think that the aestetic sense is a heavy part of the activity of the mind at the unconscious level. Form recognition is computation

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 03 Dec 2013, at 01:42, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: Good question, and one which is repeatedly asked by many within and outside the faith. God, in His complete knowledge, knows each and every soul and who is worthy of

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Dec 2013, at 16:24, Telmo Menezes wrote: Hi Alberto, I agree with you that religion cannot be avoided in this sense. Here's a funny example: The Leipzig secular solstice celebration: http://lesswrong.com/meetups/u6 Here's a video of some guy who's trying to become a priest for

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Dec 2013, at 18:17, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Theory? I am betting neither Clarke the writer, nor Shermer, the Atheist, has put a lot of intellectual efforts in their perspectives/ statements. Clarke was aiming at human perspective. Shermer was trying to shoot down the attitudes of

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: Measure is relative, Yes, so your current

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Dec 2013, at 21:41, meekerdb wrote: On 12/4/2013 1:38 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 03 Dec 2013, at 21:53, meekerdb wrote: On 12/3/2013 10:09 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 02 Dec 2013, at 19:11, meekerdb wrote: On 12/2/2013 1:55 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: wants to be worshiped, judges

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Dec 2013, at 13:13, Alberto G. Corona wrote: I repeat the cult of men to men is the most primitive and dangerous religion. And RELIGION CAN NOT BE AVOIDED: you can not live without a form of religion or religions like you can not live alone. OK. Bruno

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Dec 2013, at 11:39, Alberto G. Corona wrote: You talk like if I was believing in comp, or defending that comp is true. I don't do that at all. So you think that your belief in COMP is product of a computation, At many levels. yes. if comp is assumed, that belief is generated by

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Dec 2013, at 08:03, LizR wrote: On 5 December 2013 19:59, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: Measure is relative, it doesn't drop while you approach death. Probabilities add up to one... And by no cul de dac you should not count where you 're dead. In fact you don't approach

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Dec 2013, at 09:53, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: Measure is relative, Yes, so your

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread LizR
On 5 December 2013 20:58, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/12/5 LizR lizj...@gmail.com Well all the possibilities ever experienced by an human beings anywhere in the multiverse add up to a vanishingly small measure compared to all the parts of the multiverse where we didn't

Re: Question for Bruno Regarding the question of whether information is physical.

2013-12-05 Thread LizR
On 5 December 2013 21:53, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: I´m very interested in what you question. One of the wonders of life is how a living being select relevant information from the environment for their needs. I think that the aestetic sense is a heavy part of the activity

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/12/5 LizR lizj...@gmail.com On 5 December 2013 20:58, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/12/5 LizR lizj...@gmail.com Well all the possibilities ever experienced by an human beings anywhere in the multiverse add up to a vanishingly small measure compared to all the parts of

Bertrand Russell's complete misunderstanding of Plato's theory of knowledge and perception

2013-12-05 Thread Roger Clough
Bertrand Russell's gross misunderstanding of Plato's theory of knowledge and perception In http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1EiQEwn1lc Plato believed that truth is a conceptual form of knowledge, which is a priori and so not obtained through the senses. Truth obtained through the senses, Plato

Re: Question for Bruno Regarding the question of whether information is physical.

2013-12-05 Thread Alberto G. Corona
As far as I remember, the entropy of the black hole is measured in absolute terms. that is, taking the information from the most fundamental level, at the Planck scale. But the entropy of a jar is relative to the jar broken state, not absolute. The example of a gas is more clear than the one of

Re: doesn't dark matter falsify general relativity?

2013-12-05 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:12 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: The earliest reference I can find is 1783 by John Michell, he called them dark stars, however it had very different properties from a modern Black Hole. If I was far from one of Michell's Newtonian dark stars I could not see it,

Re: Question for Bruno Regarding the question of whether information is physical.

2013-12-05 Thread Jesse Mazer
I think with black holes there's a physically natural coarse-graining defined by the no-hair theorem which says that in classical general relativity, the only distinguishing characteristics of black holes are mass, charge and angular momentum, they bear no other traces of the particular

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 3:25 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Quentin

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:15 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 05 Dec 2013, at 09:53, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Quentin Anciaux

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:36 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/12/5 LizR lizj...@gmail.com On 5 December 2013 20:58, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/12/5 LizR lizj...@gmail.com Well all the possibilities ever experienced by an human beings anywhere in the

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 3:25 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 3:25 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Quentin

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:15 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 05 Dec 2013, at 09:53, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:15 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 05 Dec 2013, at 09:53, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Quentin

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 3:25 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:15 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 05 Dec 2013, at 09:53, Jason Resch wrote:

Re: Bertrand Russell's complete misunderstanding of Plato's theory of knowledge and perception

2013-12-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Dec 2013, at 13:28, Roger Clough wrote: Bertrand Russell's gross misunderstanding of Plato's theory of knowledge and perception In http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1EiQEwn1lc Plato believed that truth is a conceptual form of knowledge, which is a priori and so not obtained through the

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 3:25 AM, Quentin

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Dec 2013, at 17:09, Jason Resch wrote: Everett said there is a non-denumerable number of copies, can you not apply relative measure to these? Really? Only in the case of classical QM, but did he pretend that to be really the case? He would favor string theory on any literal

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Quentin

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 05 Dec 2013, at 17:09, Jason Resch wrote: Everett said there is a non-denumerable number of copies, can you not apply relative measure to these? Really? Only in the case of classical QM, but did he pretend that

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Quentin

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-05 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I repeat my question, why add useless wheels within wheels that explain nothing to otherwise nice theories? To take into account the discovery already made by arithmetical machine that there is a transcendental truth

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-05 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.comwrote: you can not live without a form of religion Speak for yourself, I've been living without religion since i was 12. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-05 Thread Richard Ruquist
I believe in science. That is my religion. On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:35 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.comwrote: you can not live without a form of religion Speak for yourself, I've been living without

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-05 Thread Quentin Anciaux
A religion is based on dogma, science is not, hence science is not a religion. 2013/12/5 Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com I believe in science. That is my religion. On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:35 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Alberto G.

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-05 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:42 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 December 2013 04:24, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: One of the most perverse tricks that the system played on us, in my opinion, was in convincing people to accept that the state should raise the kids. Sure,

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-05 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: A religion is based on dogma, science is not, hence science is not a religion. Some religions may be, that doesn't mean they all are, however. How do you relate science to beliefs about the world and reality? Would

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-05 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 04 Dec 2013, at 16:24, Telmo Menezes wrote: Hi Alberto, I agree with you that religion cannot be avoided in this sense. Here's a funny example: The Leipzig secular solstice celebration:

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-05 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: A religion is based on dogma, science is not, hence science is not a religion. Some religions may be, that doesn't mean they all are, however. Could you give an

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-05 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: A religion is based on dogma, science is not, hence science is not a religion. Some religions may be, that doesn't mean they all are, however. How do you relate

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Dec 2013, at 17:20, Jason Resch wrote: So if you were to spend a day in the box with Schrodinger's cat (each hour having a 50% chance of poisoning you), what would you predict experience to be at the end of that day? I like to answer this by this: At the end of the day I feel well

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-05 Thread meekerdb
On 12/5/2013 1:43 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 04 Dec 2013, at 13:13, Alberto G. Corona wrote: I repeat the cult of men to men is the most primitive and dangerous religion. And RELIGION CAN NOT BE AVOIDED: you can not live without a form of religion or religions like you can not live alone.

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-05 Thread meekerdb
On 12/5/2013 12:43 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 03 Dec 2013, at 19:29, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be wrot I have already insist that God cannot be part of the explanation. We agree on this. Then I repeat

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread meekerdb
On 12/5/2013 12:53 AM, Jason Resch wrote: Relative to what? Does not one's measure of being alive drop in half with each trigger pull, Wanna borrow my gun? It's a lot more reliable than that. :-) Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-05 Thread Richard Ruquist
Who can tell me that quantum immortality is not religion. BTW it is not dogma that I believe in. Richard On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Quentin Anciaux

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread meekerdb
On 12/5/2013 12:53 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com mailto:allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com mailto:jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Quentin Anciaux

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:40 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/5/2013 12:53 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Quentin Anciaux

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Dec 2013, at 17:13, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 3:25 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread meekerdb
On 12/5/2013 1:41 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: But what has happened is that science has taken away more and more of their domain, It was in the domain at the start. Science is only a lamp, not a truth. It is a way to look at any domain. And the way science looks at a domain is to make models

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread meekerdb
On 12/5/2013 2:15 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: In measure theory ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measure_(mathematics) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measure_%28mathematics%29 ) just because there are an infinite number does not mean they are equal. Your measure each time you pull the trigger in the

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 05 Dec 2013, at 17:20, Jason Resch wrote: So if you were to spend a day in the box with Schrodinger's cat (each hour having a 50% chance of poisoning you), what would you predict experience to be at the end of that

Re: Question for Bruno Regarding the question of whether information is physical.

2013-12-05 Thread meekerdb
On 12/5/2013 2:35 AM, LizR wrote: On 5 December 2013 21:53, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com mailto:agocor...@gmail.com wrote: I´m very interested in what you question. One of the wonders of life is how a living being select relevant information from the environment for their

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-05 Thread Quentin Anciaux
It isn't... QI is not worshipped, it is not a belief per se (you can entertain the idea for an argument or a theory that's all) and QI could in principle be proven false... A religion by being based on faith cannot. Quentin 2013/12/5 Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com Who can tell me that

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread meekerdb
On 12/5/2013 8:07 AM, Jason Resch wrote: How did you get to our current state to begin with? If we keep following it backwards it seems it leads to some primordial conscious state from which any future state might emerge. If the branch in which your are shot by the quantum gun kills you,

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-05 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: I believe in science. That is my religion. Yes, but only if the meaning of the sequential ASCII characters r-e-l-i-g-i-o-n is anything you think is important. Some people are far more interested in the sound of words

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread meekerdb
On 12/5/2013 8:09 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: No, because there is no absolute measure to decrease to begin with. The thing is, doing dangerous thing *increase* likeliness to experience being crippled, that's what is more likely. So what was your measure before you were born? Brent -- You

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-05 Thread spudboy100
They are proven false. People leave religions all the time. Often for another one. -Original Message- From: Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, Dec 5, 2013 2:23 pm Subject: Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ? It

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread meekerdb
On 12/5/2013 11:05 AM, Jason Resch wrote: The way I have for a time looked at is, is there are X instances that explain your current experience. Some may be ordinary while others might be, say a dream. If in your experience, you encounter something you are unlikely to survive ordinarily,

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-05 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: Who can tell me that quantum immortality is not religion. I can. The defining characteristic of religious people is being seldom correct but always certain, and so quantum immortality is not a religion because I'm far

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-05 Thread Richard Ruquist
Well John not you nor I are believers in QI but there seem to be plenty on this list. On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 3:51 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: Who can tell me that quantum immortality is not religion.

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-05 Thread John Mikes
Quentin wrote: *A religion is based on dogma, science is not, hence science is not a religion.* *(*addressed to Richard's:I believe in science.That is my religion.) It is a questionable semantic situation what one can call an 'axiom', or even a math-groundrule (like: primes are primes ) what (I

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-05 Thread Richard Ruquist
John, I learned my physics dogma at Harvard Grad School. Before that I was a mechanical engineer. Richard On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:14 PM, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: Quentin wrote: *A religion is based on dogma, science is not, hence science is not a religion.* *(*addressed to

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/12/5 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 12/5/2013 8:09 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: No, because there is no absolute measure to decrease to begin with. The thing is, doing dangerous thing *increase* likeliness to experience being crippled, that's what is more likely. So what was your

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-05 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/12/5 spudboy...@aol.com They are proven false. People leave religions all the time. Often for another one. If they were proven false, what's your explanation of why the catholic church still exists and has followers ? (or take your pick at any current religion here on earth) Quentin

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread meekerdb
On 12/5/2013 1:30 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/12/5 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net On 12/5/2013 8:09 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: No, because there is no absolute measure to decrease to begin with. The thing is, doing dangerous thing *increase*

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-05 Thread meekerdb
On 12/5/2013 1:33 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/12/5 spudboy...@aol.com mailto:spudboy...@aol.com They are proven false. People leave religions all the time. Often for another one. If they were proven false, what's your explanation of why the catholic church still exists and has

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-05 Thread Richard Ruquist
But despite fundamentalism, like what killed Islamic science, it is here for good. (Any interpretation of the ambiguity will do) Rich On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 5:12 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/5/2013 1:33 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/12/5 spudboy...@aol.com They

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-05 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 03 Dec 2013, at 01:42, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: Good question, and one which is repeatedly asked by many within and outside the faith. God, in

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-05 Thread meekerdb
On 12/5/2013 8:53 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: I don't know how you count but for me the chance to be in a Dreb world after 24h is 1%^24 == infinitesimal. Each choice are independent... That would be the probability that you went to Dreb independently each hour. So you died the first hour,

Re: doesn't dark matter falsify general relativity?

2013-12-05 Thread LizR
On 6 December 2013 03:00, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:12 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: The earliest reference I can find is 1783 by John Michell, he called them dark stars, however it had very different properties from a modern Black Hole. If I was

Reality is not matter, it's Heidegger's dasein, which is Leibniz's monad

2013-12-05 Thread Roger Clough
Reality is not matter, it's Heidegger's dasein, which is Leibniz's monad Materialists spend much effort on trying to show that reality is simply physics. But the philosophy of Plato, Leibniz, Kant, and now Heidegger shows that materialism and analytic philosophy is incomplete, since it omits

Re: Question for Bruno Regarding the question of whether information is physical.

2013-12-05 Thread LizR
On 6 December 2013 08:08, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: The hypothesis is that BHs have entropy the same way as everything else, except that the microscopic degrees of freedom are in spacetime - which isn't understood. So are you saying that black holes have emergent entropy, and that

Re: Reality is not matter, it's Heidegger's dasein, which is Leibniz's monad

2013-12-05 Thread LizR
On 6 December 2013 14:15, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Reality is not matter, it's Heidegger's dasein, which is Leibniz's monad Materialists spend much effort on trying to show that reality is simply physics. But the philosophy of Plato, Leibniz, Kant, and now Heidegger shows

Re: Question for Bruno Regarding the question of whether information is physical.

2013-12-05 Thread meekerdb
On 12/5/2013 5:18 PM, LizR wrote: On 6 December 2013 08:08, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: The hypothesis is that BHs have entropy the same way as everything else, except that the microscopic degrees of freedom are in spacetime - which isn't

Re: Question for Bruno Regarding the question of whether information is physical.

2013-12-05 Thread LizR
On 6 December 2013 14:35, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Yeah, that's Susskinds firewall idea. Just above the event horizon, within a few Planck lengths, the strings corresponding to stuff that fell in are spread over the surface and their degrees of freedom account for the entropy.