Re: Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-04 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg IMHO Sheldrake is one of the very few who have had the courage to prove and call materialism bad science. I think he is the vanguard of good science, which is not blinded by materialism's dogmas. A necessary revolution is in the making, for one thing because materialism

Re: Re: Re: What Hell is like

2013-01-04 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg You're right, I was thinking as a jew might, but if orgot that jesus introduced the concept of thought crimes (intentions). [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/4/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content

Re: Re: Re: Why bad things happen to good people--Leibniz's Theodicy

2013-01-04 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg According to my belief in orthodox Lutheranism (in contrast to Billy Graham), we cannot decide for Christ, He decides for us. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/4/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content

Re: Re: a Sheldrake computer:: the universe as a random + mechanism---habit computer

2013-01-04 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg Richard rejects the concept of inextended space. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/4/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-03,

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The two basic theologies

2013-01-04 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg Yes, there is no calculus for the quality of life. But we still have to make decisions about it. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/4/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Craig

Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-04 Thread meekerdb
On 1/3/2013 11:47 PM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Russell Standish Most scientific publications are based on the 19th century religious cult of materialism, which dogmatically rejects mind and spirit for atheistic purposes (not reasons, there are none). Do you have any citations showing where

Re: Re: Rupert Sheldrake - The Morphogenetic Universe

2013-01-04 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg You're welcom to your views, which seem socially based, but my views are no different than those of many modern physicists. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/4/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following

Re: The best of all possible Worlds.

2013-01-04 Thread meekerdb
On 1/3/2013 11:58 PM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi meekerb, Heaven is not part of contingent creation, so your statement that there is no heaven is illogical or irrelevant. It was an inference from your statement, This is because things can't be good everywhere at the same time. After the second

Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-04 Thread meekerdb
On 1/4/2013 12:05 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Craig Weinberg IMHO Sheldrake is one of the very few who have had the courage to prove and call materialism bad science. You don't know how to count. The world is full of mystics and the superstitious who don't even know what materialism means.

Re: Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-04 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Telmo Menezes Sheldrake, as you might surmise, is totally empirical, which is the irrefutable tactic to disprove materialism. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/4/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content -

Re: Re: The evolution of good and evil

2013-01-04 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb That's so sad. I'm so sorry for your friend. My personal belief is that prayers are more effective when the cancer isn't so advanced, because you are fighting good against evil. Life against death. Lem needs tio read Leibniz's theodicy. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net]

Re: The evolution of good and evil

2013-01-04 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.netwrote: On 1/3/2013 10:13 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi meekerdb Although a brilliant logician, Russell was far left (no doubt a communist and so

Re: Re: What Hell is like

2013-01-04 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb Personally, I find that Leibniz has given me the most satisfactory explanations for God's actions in this world in his theodicy. Also, his monadology can be used to develop your own logical solutions to just about anything. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/4/2013

Re: Re: What Hell is like

2013-01-04 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb Presumably they have no remorse. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/4/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: meekerdb Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-03, 13:07:26 Subject: Re: What Hell

Re: Rupert Sheldrake - The Morphogenetic Universe

2013-01-04 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi Roger, On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Rupert Sheldrake - The Morphogenetic Universe What is space ? There is no such thing as space, there are only fields, which are mathematical structures. Fine. What is matter ? There is no such

Re: Re: The evolution of good and evil

2013-01-04 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb I found this on wikipedia: Russell begins by defining what he means by the term Christian and sets out to explain why he does not believe in God and in immortality and why he does not think that Christ was the best and wisest of men, the two things he identifies as essential

Re: Re: Monads and Sheldrake

2013-01-04 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb If there is empirical evidence for the truth of those, I'll accept them. Sheldrake's work is totally empirical. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/4/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: meekerdb

Re: Fwd: [FOM] Preprint: Topological Galois Theory

2013-01-04 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/3/2013 8:34 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 1/3/2013 5:06 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi Bruno, You might be interested in this! How about giving us a 500 word summary including an example of it's application. Hi Brent, I guess that you can't be bothered to read it for yourself. OK,

Re: The evolution of good and evil

2013-01-04 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/4/2013 2:54 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King The only miracle that the holy spirit can work with is life, for it, like God, is life, or represents life. We do not disagree. ;-) [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/4/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the

Re: The best of all possible Worlds.

2013-01-04 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/4/2013 3:18 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 1/3/2013 11:58 PM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi meekerb, Heaven is not part of contingent creation, so your statement that there is no heaven is illogical or irrelevant. It was an inference from your statement, This is because things can't be good

Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-04 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/4/2013 3:24 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 1/4/2013 12:05 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Craig Weinberg IMHO Sheldrake is one of the very few who have had the courage to prove and call materialism bad science. You don't know how to count. The world is full of mystics and the superstitious who

Re: The evolution of good and evil

2013-01-04 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/4/2013 3:32 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net mailto:stephe...@charter.net wrote: On 1/3/2013 10:13 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net

Science is a religion by itself.

2013-01-04 Thread socra...@bezeqint.net
Science is a religion by itself. Why? Becouse the God can create and govern the Universe only using physical laws, formulas, equations. Here is the scheme of His plane. =. God : Ten Scientific Commandments. § 1. Vacuum: T=0K, E= ∞ ,p= 0, t=∞ . § 2. Particles: C/D=pi=3,14, R/N=k, E/M=c^2, h=0,

Re: On morphic telepathy

2013-01-04 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/4/2013 1:54 AM, Roger Clough wrote: On morphic telepathy Note that Leibniz for good reasons (similar to Kant) did not consider time and space to be substances, so the monads all exist as a dust of points in an inextended domain (to use Descartes' concepts) which is by definition outside of

Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-04 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 4:24 AM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net wrote: On 1/4/2013 3:24 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 1/4/2013 12:05 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Craig Weinberg IMHO Sheldrake is one of the very few who have had the courage to prove and call materialism bad science. You

Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-04 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/4/2013 7:07 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: I wrote a review paper for the Quantum Mind 2003 Tuscan, AZ Conference a decade ago that upon rereading could have well been about morphic fields. The morphic field would be the non-local consciousness that I and others then claimed to be a property of

Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-04 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/4/2013 7:26 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 1/4/2013 7:07 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: I wrote a review paper for the Quantum Mind 2003 Tuscan, AZ Conference a decade ago that upon rereading could have well been about morphic fields. The morphic field would be the non-local consciousness that

Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-04 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/4/2013 7:26 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 1/4/2013 7:07 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: I wrote a review paper for the Quantum Mind 2003 Tuscan, AZ Conference a decade ago that upon rereading could have well been about morphic fields. The morphic field would be the non-local consciousness that

Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-04 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net wrote: On 1/4/2013 7:26 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 1/4/2013 7:07 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: I wrote a review paper for the Quantum Mind 2003 Tuscan, AZ Conference a decade ago that upon rereading could have well been

Re: Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-04 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King very few scientists Sheldrake has done many successful experiments to empirically prove what he claims. The results are in his books. Some have been published in New Scientist. See http://www.sheldrake.org/Research/overview/ [Roger Clough],

Re: The evolution of good and evil

2013-01-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 03 Jan 2013, at 10:17, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 02 Jan 2013, at 13:08, Telmo Menezes wrote: In my opinion, good and evil are just names we attach to brain processes we all have in common. These brain processes

Re: Re: On morphic telepathy

2013-01-04 Thread Roger Clough
STEPHAN: Is it necessary that monads are a substance? Could we think of them as pure process the product of which is the content of experience of the monad? Is this formulation antithetical to the definition that Leibniz gives monads? ROGER: Keep in mind that Leibniz formulated his ideas

Re: Re: Re: What Hell is like

2013-01-04 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, January 4, 2013 3:09:11 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: Hi Craig Weinberg You're right, I was thinking as a jew might, but if orgot that jesus introduced the concept of thought crimes (intentions). I was thinking as a jew might, lol [Roger Clough], [rcl...@verizon.net]

Re: Re: Re: Monads and Sheldrake

2013-01-04 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist No, morphic fields are not God, they are the tools of God. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/4/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Richard Ruquist Receiver: everything-list Time:

Re: Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-04 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist New Scientist has published work by Sheldrake. But we'll have to wait for the materialist trolls which decide what can be published die off. Materialism cannot be justified scientifically. That journal will be an obsolete curiosity. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net]

Re: Re: The evolution of good and evil

2013-01-04 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal Religion cannot save you, it cannot even make you a better person. Only God can do that. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/4/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal

Re: Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-04 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King L states that all substances are alive, that's how they can communicate. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/4/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver:

Re: Re: Rupert Sheldrake - The Morphogenetic Universe

2013-01-04 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Telmo Menezes All I can find on the web is that DNA only contains instructions to make various biomolecules such as proteins, RNA, etc. It only works on the molecular scale; the morphic fields are needed for larger macrostructrures. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/4/2013

Re: What Hell is like

2013-01-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 03 Jan 2013, at 14:47, Craig Weinberg wrote (to Roger Clough): Personally I believe that Hell and Heaven are metaphors which extrapolate the ordinary high and low moods of human consciousness to a super-significance. God is a metaphor in the exact same way - an algebraic concept of X =

Re: Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-04 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb 1) Materialists don't have any dogmas. Just ask one of them. 2) quanta are not materials. 3) materialism cannot accept empty space, since it isn't a material. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/4/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen -

Re: Science is a religion by itself.

2013-01-04 Thread Roger Clough
Hi socra...@bezeqint.net Spirit, like life, like God, like faith, like love, and like mind, is not extended in space Those objects you mention are extended in space. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/4/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen -

Re: The evolution of good and evil

2013-01-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 03 Jan 2013, at 16:13, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi meekerdb Although a brilliant logician, Russell was far left (no doubt a communist and so anti-christian). His diatribe against Christianity is a prime example.

Re: Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-04 Thread Richard Ruquist
New Scientist has very little credibility in the scientific world. They are in business to make money and paranormal material sells. On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Richard Ruquist New Scientist has published work by Sheldrake. But we'll have to

Re: A paranormal prediction for the next year

2013-01-04 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net wrote: So how ever many years ago you there confident that CERN would discover the Higgs? About 15, and in not one of those 15 years would I have confidently predicted that nothing new about the Higgs would be discovered in the next

Re: Physarum machine

2013-01-04 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 26.12.2012 13:45 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 26 Dec 2012, at 12:45, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: I have recently seen a paper on a Physarum machine A Adamatzky Physarum machine: implementation of a Kolmogorov-Uspensky machine on a biological substrate http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0703128

Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-04 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/4/2013 9:54 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King very few scientists Sheldrake has done many successful experiments to empirically prove what he claims. The results are in his books. Some have been published in New Scientist. Seehttp://www.sheldrake.org/Research/overview/

Re: The best of all possible Worlds.

2013-01-04 Thread meekerdb
On 1/4/2013 1:23 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 1/4/2013 3:18 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 1/3/2013 11:58 PM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi meekerb, Heaven is not part of contingent creation, so your statement that there is no heaven is illogical or irrelevant. It was an inference from your statement,

Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-04 Thread meekerdb
On 1/4/2013 1:24 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 1/4/2013 3:24 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 1/4/2013 12:05 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Craig Weinberg IMHO Sheldrake is one of the very few who have had the courage to prove and call materialism bad science. You don't know how to count. The world is

Re: The evolution of good and evil

2013-01-04 Thread meekerdb
On 1/4/2013 7:37 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Don't take this too much literally. I have never believed in any notion like charity, or distribution of wealth. It *looks* nice, but it generates poverty. Oops, too late! I already gave my kids several hundred thousand dollars in services and

Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-04 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/4/2013 8:31 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: Hi Richard, I will take a look, but I confess to being a bit skeptical of any substantist theory... How can substances communicate with each other representationally? Sorry but I do not understand what this last sentence means. BECs certainly

Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-04 Thread meekerdb
On 1/4/2013 8:38 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi meekerdb 1) Materialists don't have any dogmas. Just ask one of them. Theists have nothing but dogmas and you don't have to ask them, they tell you, e.g. one of their dogmas is that materialism is wrong, humans have immortal souls, and God will

Re: Re: Rupert Sheldrake - The Morphogenetic Universe

2013-01-04 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi Roger, On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Telmo Menezes All I can find on the web is that DNA only contains instructions to make various biomolecules such as proteins, RNA, etc. That's enough. Proteins fold into complex 3D structures with very

Re: A paranormal prediction for the next year

2013-01-04 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, January 4, 2013 12:48:19 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 Stephen P. King step...@charter.net javascript:wrote: So how ever many years ago you there confident that CERN would discover the Higgs? About 15, and in not one of those 15 years would I have

Re: The evolution of good and evil

2013-01-04 Thread meekerdb
On 1/4/2013 1:24 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:49 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/4/2013 7:37 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Don't take this too much literally. I have never believed in any notion like charity, or

Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-04 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net wrote: On 1/4/2013 8:31 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: Hi Richard, I will take a look, but I confess to being a bit skeptical of any substantist theory... How can substances communicate with each other

Re: On morphic telepathy

2013-01-04 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/4/2013 10:41 AM, Roger Clough wrote: STEPHEN: Is it necessary that monads are a substance? Could we think of them as pure process the product of which is the content of experience of the monad? Is this formulation antithetical to the definition that Leibniz gives monads? ROGER: Keep in