Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Feb 2013, at 17:52, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: If Bob is behind a door that will reveal Moscow and Bill is behind a door that will reveal Washington then the probability that Bob and Bill will open a door and see

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Feb 2013, at 20:12, meekerdb wrote: On 2/11/2013 8:52 AM, John Clark wrote: And you keep thinking there is such a thing as THE first person view, and that might be a OK approximation in a world without duplicating machines but not in a world that has them; there is only A first

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Feb 2013, at 18:54, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: All the probabilities need to add up to 100% or it's nonsense, making your W and M prediction into nonsense. If Bob is behind a door that will reveal Moscow and Bill is behind a

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-11 Thread meekerdb
On 2/11/2013 8:52 AM, John Clark wrote: And you keep thinking there is such a thing as THE first person view, and that might be a OK approximation in a world without duplicating machines but not in a world that has them; there is only A first person view and one view is every bit as legitimate

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Feb 2013, at 17:54, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: there is a single result in Bruno's experiment, John K Clark sees Washington and Moscow. But under MWI you agreed you see the photon hit the left or the right plate,

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Feb 2013, at 15:16, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 12:19 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/8/2013 12:04 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 1:23 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/7/2013 3:15 PM, Platonist

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Feb 2013, at 17:28, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: you agree that if I ask you the question in the MWI context, what is the probability that you see the photon hit the left plate, you'll say 50%, As I've said before

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-09 Thread meekerdb
On 2/9/2013 6:16 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: If you make evolution set the standard, then you have to buy the darker side of its theology: Good Tsunami, asteroid, CO2, mass extinctions of life forms; as these shocks will create a stronger forcing function on populations and individuals

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-09 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 9, 2013 5:03:58 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 2/9/2013 6:16 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: If you make evolution set the standard, then you have to buy the darker side of its theology: Good Tsunami, asteroid, CO2, mass extinctions of life forms; as these shocks

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-09 Thread meekerdb
On 2/9/2013 3:08 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: Evolution would have no need for generating values, since values are a subjective motivation. Subjective motivation is just a quantitative value seen from the inside. All evolution would have to do is simply impose a script that assigns a high

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-09 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 9, 2013 6:29:54 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 2/9/2013 3:08 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: Evolution would have no need for generating values, since values are a subjective motivation. Subjective motivation is just a quantitative value seen from the inside. Why would

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-09 Thread meekerdb
On 2/9/2013 3:39 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 9, 2013 6:29:54 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 2/9/2013 3:08 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: Evolution would have no need for generating values, since values are a subjective motivation. Subjective motivation is just a

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-09 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 9, 2013 6:52:46 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 2/9/2013 3:39 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 9, 2013 6:29:54 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 2/9/2013 3:08 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: Evolution would have no need for generating values, since values are a

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-09 Thread meekerdb
On 2/9/2013 4:39 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 9, 2013 6:52:46 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 2/9/2013 3:39 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 9, 2013 6:29:54 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 2/9/2013 3:08 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: Evolution

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-09 Thread meekerdb
On 2/9/2013 5:13 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: It's how I recognize intelligence - and so do you. No, I recognize intelligence by experiencing learning. If there were an Elvis impersonator who was so good that you could not tell the difference between a film of him performing and one of

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-09 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 9, 2013 9:07:50 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 2/9/2013 5:13 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: It's how I recognize intelligence - and so do you. No, I recognize intelligence by experiencing learning. If there were an Elvis impersonator who was so good that you could not

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-08 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/2/8 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: there is a single result in Bruno's experiment, John K Clark sees Washington and Moscow. But under MWI you agreed you see the photon hit the left or the right plate, not the

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-08 Thread meekerdb
On 2/8/2013 12:04 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 1:23 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/7/2013 3:15 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:53 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-07 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/2/7 Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/2/6 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 2/6/2013 1:25 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Feb 2013, at 04:00, meekerdb wrote: On 2/5/2013 11:02 AM,

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Feb 2013, at 20:06, meekerdb wrote: On 2/6/2013 1:25 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Feb 2013, at 04:00, meekerdb wrote: On 2/5/2013 11:02 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 1:14:07 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 PM, Craig Weinberg

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Feb 2013, at 20:11, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/2/6 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 2/6/2013 1:25 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Feb 2013, at 04:00, meekerdb wrote: On 2/5/2013 11:02 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 1:14:07 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: On

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-07 Thread meekerdb
On 2/7/2013 7:12 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com mailto:allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/2/6 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net On 2/6/2013 1:25 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-07 Thread meekerdb
On 2/7/2013 8:23 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com mailto:allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/2/7 Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com mailto:multiplecit...@gmail.com On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:11

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-07 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:34 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/7/2013 8:23 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/2/7 Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:11

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-07 Thread meekerdb
On 2/7/2013 12:01 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: There might be confusion between necessary and possible dangers. If there is, you haven't cleared it up. Necessary danger: It’s legal for your neighbor to walk on to your property and shoot you for emotional reasons or it’s legal to burn

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-07 Thread meekerdb
On 2/7/2013 3:15 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:53 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/7/2013 12:01 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: “A secular purpose” is a nice ruse, because it is “theology-free”, right?

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Feb 2013, at 18:53, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: After a experiment has been completed the Many World's Interpretation can give some people, including me, a intuitive feel of what just happened, The analogous experiment in the

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Feb 2013, at 03:42, meekerdb wrote: On 2/5/2013 9:53 AM, John Clark wrote: You've agreed there is a single definite result (even in MW) after making some measurement. Yes. You then say there is no single result in Bruno's experiment Not true, there is a single result in

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Feb 2013, at 04:00, meekerdb wrote: On 2/5/2013 11:02 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 1:14:07 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: Unpopular religions are denounced as cults. A religion is just a cult

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-06 Thread meekerdb
On 2/6/2013 1:25 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Feb 2013, at 04:00, meekerdb wrote: On 2/5/2013 11:02 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 1:14:07 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote:

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-06 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/2/6 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 2/6/2013 1:25 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Feb 2013, at 04:00, meekerdb wrote: On 2/5/2013 11:02 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 1:14:07 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 PM, Craig Weinberg

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-05 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/2/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:04 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/3/2013 7:20 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On 2/3/13, meekerdbmeeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/3/2013 8:28 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: It simpler to generalize the notion of God so

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 03 Feb 2013, at 19:58, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 01 Feb 2013, at 17:10, Jason Resch wrote: Very nice post Bruno. I found your points convincing and informative. Thanks Jason. I appreciate. I really don't know

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 03 Feb 2013, at 22:56, meekerdb wrote: On 2/3/2013 8:28 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: It simpler to generalize the notion of God so that indeed basically all correct machines believes in God, and in some theories question like is God a person can be an open problem. But you have a

Re: Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-05 Thread Roger Clough
A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS. On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:04 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/3/2013 7:20 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On 2/3/13, meekerdbmeeke...@verizon.net ?rote: On 2/3/2013 8:28 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: It simpler to generalize the notion of God so that indeed

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-05 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:01 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/2/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:04 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/3/2013 7:20 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On 2/3/13, meekerdbmeeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/3/2013

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Feb 2013, at 15:04, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:01 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: snip I do not believe in any *personified* gods, and in any *dogmas*, so in that settings I would call myself an atheist. I'm agnostic about what I could call an

Re: Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-05 Thread Craig Weinberg
: *Time:* 2013-02-05, 11:42:46 *Subject:* Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS. On 05 Feb 2013, at 15:04, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:01 AM, Quentin Anciaux allc...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: snip I do not believe in any *personified

Re: Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-05 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: Unpopular religions are denounced as cults. A religion is just a cult with good PR. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from

Re: Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-05 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 1:14:07 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript:wrote: Unpopular religions are denounced as cults. A religion is just a cult with good PR. It's interesting. I would be curious to know whether

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-05 Thread meekerdb
On 2/5/2013 6:04 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:01 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com mailto:allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/2/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com mailto:jasonre...@gmail.com On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:04 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-05 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:53 AM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: You then say there is no single result in Bruno's experiment Not true, there is a single result in Bruno's experiment, John K Clark sees Washington and

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-05 Thread meekerdb
On 2/5/2013 9:53 AM, John Clark wrote: You've agreed there is a single definite result (even in MW) after making some measurement. Yes. You then say there is no single result in Bruno's experiment Not true, there is a single result in Bruno's experiment, John K Clark sees

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-05 Thread meekerdb
On 2/5/2013 11:02 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 1:14:07 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Unpopular religions are denounced as cults. A religion is just a cult with good PR.

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-05 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 10:00:05 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 2/5/2013 11:02 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 1:14:07 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: Unpopular religions are denounced as

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-04 Thread meekerdb
On 2/3/2013 7:20 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On 2/3/13, meekerdbmeeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/3/2013 8:28 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: It simpler to generalize the notion of God so that indeed basically all correct machines believes in God, and in some theories question like is God a person can be

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 02 Feb 2013, at 09:08, meekerdb wrote: On 2/1/2013 7:12 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: And here you come back with your vocabulary problem. You don't believe in the fairy tale version of christian God, and for some mysterious reason you want throw out all notion of gods like if it was the

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-04 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 12:39 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: What I find most surprising about John's position is that he can use I in the same sense you mean in the UDA when referring to many-worlds thought

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-04 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:04 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/3/2013 7:20 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On 2/3/13, meekerdbmeeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/3/2013 8:28 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: It simpler to generalize the notion of God so that indeed basically all correct machines

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-04 Thread meekerdb
On 2/4/2013 4:29 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 12:39 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com mailto:johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com mailto:jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: What I find most surprising about John's

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-04 Thread meekerdb
On 2/4/2013 7:12 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:04 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/3/2013 7:20 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On 2/3/13, meekerdbmeeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/3/2013

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 Feb 2013, at 19:48, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Well, I am not an atheist. Sorry to hear about your mind virus, but don't despair, even rabies can sometimes be cured. I am an agnostic. I think that a serious scientist has to be

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-03 Thread meekerdb
On 2/3/2013 8:28 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: It simpler to generalize the notion of God so that indeed basically all correct machines believes in God, and in some theories question like is God a person can be an open problem. But you have a vocabulary problem related to the fact that you cannot

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-03 Thread Jason Resch
On 2/3/13, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/3/2013 8:28 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: It simpler to generalize the notion of God so that indeed basically all correct machines believes in God, and in some theories question like is God a person can be an open problem. But you have a

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-02 Thread meekerdb
On 2/1/2013 7:12 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: And here you come back with your vocabulary problem. You don't believe in the fairy tale version of christian God, and for some mysterious reason you want throw out all notion of gods like if it was the only one. That's not accurate. I am happy to

Re: Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-02 Thread Roger Clough
) unless you think of the One as a person. - Receiving the following content - From: meekerdb Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-02-02, 03:08:08 Subject: Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS. On 2/1/2013 7:12 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: And here you come back with your

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 31 Jan 2013, at 19:42, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: i don't believe in the GOD in which you don't believe in. Then what are we arguing about? Are we arguing about science or mathematics or philosophy, or are we just arguing about first

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-01-31 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Jan 2013, at 22:14, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I am very glad with all your posts on religion, as they confirm my theory according to which (strong) atheists are (strong) Christians in disguise. Wow, calling a guy known for

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-01-31 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, January 31, 2013 1:42:20 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 Bruno Marchal mar...@ulb.ac.be javascript:wrote: i don't believe in the GOD in which you don't believe in. I admit there is a story (probably apocryphal) about Pythagoras killing a man for

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-01-31 Thread meekerdb
On 1/31/2013 6:18 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: you seem to believe that physics does solve the mind-body problem, The evidence very strongly indicates that mind is what the brain does if that's what you mean. So you do assume the existence of a primitive or primitively material brain?

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-01-30 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: Your rhetoric may work in other places where you argue with religious people I wish it had but no. Such is the awesome virulence of the religious mind virus that there is nobody to my certain knowledge in which my

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-01-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Jan 2013, at 18:31, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Without religion, science is pseudo-religion That's OK with me. Religion is bullshit, We have discuss this. You confuse religion with clericalism. By saying gross statement like

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-01-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Jan 2013, at 15:57, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, January 27, 2013 8:09:06 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: I would like a semi-axiomatic definition of sensory, to make this more palatable. I try to get a theory of sense, and I can't take that notion for granted, even if I

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-01-29 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, January 29, 2013 8:48:32 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 27 Jan 2013, at 15:57, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, January 27, 2013 8:09:06 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: I would like a semi-axiomatic definition of sensory, to make this more palatable. I try to get a

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-01-29 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I am very glad with all your posts on religion, as they confirm my theory according to which (strong) atheists are (strong) Christians in disguise. Wow, calling a guy known for disliking religion religious, never heard that one

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-01-29 Thread Jason Resch
John, Your rhetoric may work in other places where you argue with religious people but I, and probably others on this list, find it rather unconvincing. Jason On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:14 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-01-29 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:14 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I am very glad with all your posts on religion, as they confirm my theory according to which (strong) atheists are (strong) Christians in disguise. Wow,

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-01-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 25 Jan 2013, at 20:52, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, January 25, 2013 2:16:02 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 24 Jan 2013, at 22:03, Jason Resch wrote: John, I agree with Craig. The concept of divine simplicity exists in several religions (

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-01-27 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Without religion, science is pseudo-religion That's OK with me. Religion is bullshit, so pseudo-bullshit is better than pure, triple distilled, extra virgin, investment grade bullshit. How would you define grand for a

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2013-01-26 Thread Jason Resch
Thanks. The below shows it would be impossible for us to have a rational discussion on the subject and therefore we need not waste any electrons on the subject. If in the future you change your mind and are interested in discussing the merits/properties/purpose of a possibly true and

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2013-01-25 Thread Roger Clough
Hi John Clark If you want to learn about science, study Darwin, etc. If you want to learn about God, read the Bible. - Receiving the following content - From: John Clark Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-24, 11:17:30 Subject: Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST

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2013-01-25 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: how do you define the word religion? re·li·gion [ri-lij-uhn] 1* n.* A theological fungus that thrives best in the dark and when fed by bullshit. 2 Believing what you know ain't so. 3 The boast of the man who is too lazy to

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2013-01-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Jan 2013, at 22:03, Jason Resch wrote: John, I agree with Craig. The concept of divine simplicity exists in several religions ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_simplicity ). The book by O'Meara on Plotinus makes clear the idea that Plotinus want the ONE to be simple. The ONE

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2013-01-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Jan 2013, at 22:19, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with Craig. The concept of divine simplicity exists in several religions And in those religions how did a simpleton God make life? Darwin provided the

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2013-01-25 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, January 25, 2013 2:16:02 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 24 Jan 2013, at 22:03, Jason Resch wrote: John, I agree with Craig. The concept of divine simplicity exists in several religions ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_simplicity ). Little numbers can develop

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2013-01-24 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: Genesis doesn't say anything about God being grand and complex as far as I know. It certainly says God is grand and if it didn't say that a omnipotent being was complex it certainly should have. And Darwin provided

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2013-01-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
:40 *Subject:* Re: Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS. On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 5:30:25 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: Hi Craig, What is a fundamentalist pathology ? And how does it apply to science ? A pathology here refers to a degenerative condition

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2013-01-24 Thread meekerdb
On 1/24/2013 8:17 AM, John Clark wrote: It's a three letter word and it is not explained at all, I know. That's the problem. Interestingly, in Aramaic the word was Elohim, and my jewish/anthropologist friend tells me that's a plural. So it should have been translated gods, except that

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2013-01-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
-list Time: 2013-01-22, 13:23:37 Subject: Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS. On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: The astronomer Giordano Bruno would not have been surprised to hear that the invention of science was a fight

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2013-01-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:17:30 AM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: Genesis doesn't say anything about God being grand and complex as far as I know. It certainly says God is grand and if it

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2013-01-24 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: It certainly says God is grand and if it didn't say that a omnipotent being was complex it certainly should have. Ah, so we are talking about what you think Genesis should have said rather than what it actually

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2013-01-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, January 24, 2013 1:45:55 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: It certainly says God is grand and if it didn't say that a omnipotent being was complex it certainly should have. Ah, so we are

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2013-01-24 Thread Jason Resch
John, I agree with Craig. The concept of divine simplicity exists in several religions ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_simplicity ). The concept is also not dissimilar to the Neti Neti (Not this, not that) explanation of Brahman in Hindusim ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neti_neti ) or the

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2013-01-24 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with Craig. The concept of divine simplicity exists in several religions And in those religions how did a simpleton God make life? Darwin provided the mechanism by which Evolution did it, so those religions

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2013-01-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, January 24, 2013 3:54:03 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript:wrote: A two year old can understand what God is supposed to be. A two year old can't understand how something simple can know everything and neither

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2013-01-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:08:14 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript:wrote: evolution is complex and counter-intuitive. The basic idea behind Evolution is not complex but it is counter-intuitive because the human mind

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2013-01-24 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/24/2013 11:59 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:08:14 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: evolution is complex and counter-intuitive. The basic idea behind Evolution is not

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2013-01-23 Thread Roger Clough
A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS. On 21 Jan 2013, at 22:08, meekerdb wrote: On 1/21/2013 8:53 AM, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: You confuse theology and post 500 occidental use of the field. There is no such field of study

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2013-01-23 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig, What is a fundamentalist pathology ? And how does it apply to science ? - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-22, 11:00:27 Subject: Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS. On 21 Jan 2013

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2013-01-23 Thread Roger Clough
Hi John Clark From his hostile postings, Craig seems to have been very very badly hurt by the Christian Church sometime in the past. - Receiving the following content - From: John Clark Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-22, 13:23:37 Subject: Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL

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2013-01-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
:* Bruno Marchal javascript: *Receiver:* everything-list javascript: *Time:* 2013-01-22, 11:00:27 *Subject:* Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS. On 21 Jan 2013, at 22:20, meekerdb wrote: On 1/21/2013 9:11 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: It is only recently

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2013-01-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
many exceptional people who have seen the course of their lives derailed by crystal. Craig - Receiving the following content - *From:* John Clark javascript: *Receiver:* everything-list javascript: *Time:* 2013-01-22, 13:23:37 *Subject:* Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL

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2013-01-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Jan 2013, at 20:27, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 1:15:00 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Jan 2013, at 18:26, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:14:45 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Jan 2013, at 18:48, Craig Weinberg wrote:

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2013-01-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Jan 2013, at 22:10, meekerdb wrote: On 1/22/2013 8:00 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Jan 2013, at 22:20, meekerdb wrote: On 1/21/2013 9:11 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: It is only recently, as the limitations of the narrow Western approach are being revealed on a global scale, that

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2013-01-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 10:26:56 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Jan 2013, at 20:27, Craig Weinberg wrote: Then why would comp be primitive and not the mystical truth through which comp comes to our attention? Because the mystical truth is what we want to explain, or

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2013-01-23 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: The astronomer Giordano Bruno would not have been surprised to hear that the invention of science was a fight against theology, he was burned alive by the church for suggesting that the bright points of light you see

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2013-01-23 Thread meekerdb
On 1/23/2013 7:55 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: Belief and question are inseparable. Science and theology are converging to be what they always were before their artificial separation by political interests: agile, adaptive partners in our dealings with the final questions of real. These

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2013-01-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 1:50:57 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: The astronomer Giordano Bruno would not have been surprised to hear that the invention of science was a fight against theology, he

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2013-01-22 Thread Roger Clough
Hi John Clark Materialism is a religious cult who main tenet is contempt prioor to investigation. - Receiving the following content - From: John Clark Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-21, 11:53:07 Subject: Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS. On Mon

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2013-01-22 Thread Telmo Menezes
this is a bit funny coming from you... - Receiving the following content - *From:* John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com *Receiver:* everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com *Time:* 2013-01-21, 12:32:38 *Subject:* Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS. On Mon, Jan

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