And the democracy can derive into a totalitarian system very easily. There
is no magical formal trick that avoid to derive a rule of the majority into
a totalitatian dictatorship, as Godel demonstrated a few posts ago with the
US constitution.
That happened again and again. The nazi case is not
On 03 Jan 2015, at 06:28, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote:
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Neither the USSR was democratic neither democracy means freedom. I said to
you that democracy is a bad name, a wildcard that each one fill with
underserved and unjustified attirbuted, a symbol of freedom that does not
deserve it.
It is like If i insist to call alcoholism as the proper name for
On 02 Jan 2015, at 21:01, Alberto G. Corona wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_democracy
First, a reference to wikipedia is everything but an argument.
Second, it looks like the athenian democracy. I just said that this
is not democracy in the modern sense of the word.
From my
Logical positivism in the hard form has been abandoned in favor of a dozen
derivations, but it is a tactical withdrawal in order to protect the
central dogmas: the antimetaphysical standpoint, the acritical adoration of
science understood in the very narrow sense of today. The negation of
innate
On 02 Jan 2015, at 21:40, John Clark wrote:
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 6:31 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be
wrote:
Define telepathy, telekinesis, and remote viewing.
No. Buy a dictionary, if you're still confused after that I'll try
to help you out but first you'll need to define
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On Friday, January 2, 2015 9:30:24 PM UTC, Alberto G.Corona wrote:
Indeed. Popper had a very naive conception of human nature.
If error correction were the hallmark of democracy, then the keynessian
economic measures used now to fight the crisis, that are so convenient for
the ruling
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On 31 Dec 2014, at 20:12, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote:
On 03 Jan 2015, at 05:23, Jason Resch wrote:
The selective replies to my post tells me all I need to know.
Good point. John Clark systematically ignores the arguments, and his
strategy consists in mocking excerpts taken out of context.
Bruno
Jason
On Friday, January 2, 2015, John
Thanks Kim!
On 03 Jan 2015, at 01:14, Kim Jones wrote:
A brilliant passage by Bruno recently - may have been rendered a bit
more clearly by the following redaction:
Well, I have discussed this on FB in different groups. I got
confirmation that strong atheists always use insults, jokes
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On 31
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:23 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
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I thought Wikipedia was consistently wrong about everything and only used
by shallow people like me.
I go to Wikipedia quite a bit myself but
Oh yes, I knew there would be a
On 1/3/2015 7:47 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 03 Jan 2015, at 09:28, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote:
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Here's a mystic who knew the purpose of religion. I well remember the adulation of
Castaneda and how even otherwise sensible people thought his stories were true.
Brent
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On 4 Jan 2015, at 2:47 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
But this fearing of God is a mystery to me. God should be good. Only the
devil should be feared. (between us).
Is the devil not-God? Is it not that fear of the devil is the same as the
fear of God (in some sense)?
Who or
On Saturday, January 3, 2015 11:39:18 PM UTC+1, Brent wrote:
On 1/3/2015 7:47 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 03 Jan 2015, at 09:28, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote:
But that is how the word was used in the Hellenistic period; I was
referring to modern usage that
On 1/3/2015 9:30 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
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On Sunday, January 4, 2015 12:15:47 AM UTC, PGC wrote:
On Saturday, January 3, 2015 11:39:18 PM UTC+1, Brent wrote:
On 1/3/2015 7:47 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 03 Jan 2015, at 09:28, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote:
But that is how the word was used in the
In the first instance I'm posting this recently accepted paper (link is to
full paper), for Bruno and Brent reference a recent discussion between them
about the part of large scale religion in the emergence of ever-more
complex society. Brent has me on ignore...I'm not sure about
On Saturday, January 3, 2015 9:29:22 PM UTC, John Clark wrote:
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:23 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
everyth...@googlegroups.com javascript: wrote
I thought Wikipedia was consistently wrong about everything and only used
by shallow people like me.
On Sunday, December 28, 2014 7:33:16 AM UTC, zibble...@gmail.com wrote:
On Monday, December 22, 2014 6:59:25 PM UTC, John Clark wrote:
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 6:20 AM, zibble...@gmail.com wrote:
Something can be conscious but not intelligent, but if it's
intelligent then it's
On 1/3/2015 1:29 PM, John Clark wrote:
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:23 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
everything-list@googlegroups.com mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote
I thought Wikipedia was consistently wrong about everything and only
used by
On 1/3/2015 4:15 PM, PGC wrote:
On Saturday, January 3, 2015 11:39:18 PM UTC+1, Brent wrote:
On 1/3/2015 7:47 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 03 Jan 2015, at 09:28, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote:
But that is how the word was used in the Hellenistic period; I was
Why would you recommend others read something you have not? You don't see that
as being just a little strange?
Anyway I read the paper. The authors' conclusion? That pro-social religion
(which I understand to mean institutionalised religion is probably here to
stay. They kind of just
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I thought Wikipedia was consistently wrong about everything and
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On 1/3/2015 1:29 PM, John Clark wrote:
On Fri, Jan
Pretty cool piece of news.. kind of pushes the envelope of our grasp of living
systems. It adds yet one more layer (upon layers) to the decisional machinery
of cellular scale life. It is a pure protein executed process, occurring
within a ribosome… no RNA/DNA instructions involved!
From Ray
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
Are only nouns part of the physical universe or are adjectives and
adverbs part of it too?
It is not quite relevant.
Not quite relevant?! Is fast and a racing car both part of the physical
universe? Is a brain and a
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 9:46 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
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And the thought still cracks me up with laughter… imagine how wrong your
carefully laid plans could go…. You set up this one way ticket to eternity…
then, unfortunately you do not
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 8:31 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
If that is the correct way to calculate EROI, and assuming you think
the first law of thermodynamics is valid please explain how the EROI of
ANYTHING is EVER greater than 1. Perhaps I shouldn't have made that
assumption,
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 8:26 PM, zibblequib...@gmail.com wrote:
jeez...you two are ripping eachother's balls off verbally. How did things
get to this? Not I to caste stones in glass houses mind you. Then
againI never / have never called anyone names like you two to
oneanother here.
Yeah
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On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 9:46 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via
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On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 8:31 PM, meekerdb
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Here's a mystic who knew the purpose of religion. I well remember the
adulation of Castaneda and how even otherwise sensible people thought his
stories were true.
Then there is….
On 1/3/2015 9:50 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote:
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Here's a mystic who knew the purpose of religion. I well remember the adulation of
Castaneda and how even otherwise
In regard to:
If nothing existed; would it remain nothing?
This is exactly what I'm suggesting. It would not remain nothing. We
usually think of the situation when you get rid of all matter, energy,
space/volume, time, abstract concepts, minds, etc. as nothing. But, what
I'm saying is that
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