Re: Temporary Reality

2009-05-08 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2009/5/7 : > People here keep thinking that I am trying to "convince" people that > God is a person and/or that there is a God.  Let me give you a hint > that that's not the kind of thing that I would think is worthwhile to > try to "convince" people about my wife.  ("convince" Wow, we > western

Re: Temporary Reality

2009-05-07 Thread Kim Jones
Fabulous post, Jason. Enthralling stuff. Kim On 08/05/2009, at 9:20 AM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > If we on this list believe that everything (or at least everything > with a self consistent definition) exists, then we must also believe > that all possible gods exist. Be they artificial intel

Re: Temporary Reality

2009-05-07 Thread Kim Jones
On 08/05/2009, at 2:30 AM, daddycay...@msn.com wrote: > People here keep thinking that I am trying to "convince" people that > God is a person and/or that there is a God. OK - "we" will stop it! I don't really think that, but if you are anything like me Tom, you have gone through periods in

Re: Temporary Reality

2009-05-07 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:30 AM, wrote: > > On May 7, 1:42 am, Kim Jones wrote: >> So - going back to God then, let's maybe do an OPV on him/her/it >> >> Hint: >> >> If I can't do an OPV on God, then I'm not convinced that: >> >> 1. God is a person (100% convinced) >> >> 2. There is a God (74%

Re: Temporary Reality

2009-05-07 Thread daddycaylor
On May 7, 1:42 am, Kim Jones wrote: > So - going back to God then, let's maybe do an OPV on him/her/it > > Hint: > > If I can't do an OPV on God, then I'm not convinced that: > > 1. God is a person (100% convinced) > > 2. There is a God (74% convinced) > People here keep thinking that I am tryin

Re: Temporary Reality

2009-05-07 Thread Kim Jones
On 07/05/2009, at 3:43 PM, daddycay...@msn.com wrote: > I think that knowing what a person is is sort of like knowing what > consciousness is. Good. Have you ever had the feeling/hunch/thought/intuition/ apprehension/revelation/vision (call it what you will) that you know a "person" to whom

Re: Temporary Reality

2009-05-06 Thread daddycaylor
On May 6, 12:47 pm, Jesse Mazer wrote: > > Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 11:33:52 -0700 > > Subject: Re: Temporary Reality > > From: daddycay...@msn.com > > To: everything-list@googlegroups.com > > > On May 4, 6:13 am, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > >> 2009/5/4  

Re: Temporary Reality

2009-05-06 Thread daddycaylor
; > OK - the only advantage I am suggesting is that atheism be seen as a   > "staging post" to a future, more "correct" theology. As such, atheism   > could be serving a strictly beneficial purpose at this time. Why I   > refer to it as temporary reality. It may actua

Re: Temporary Reality

2009-05-06 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2009/5/7 : > > On May 4, 6:13 am, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: >> 2009/5/4  : >> >> >> >> > I agree that religion, and a lot of other stuff, produces a lot of >> > fake certainty.  Not good.  So that implies that atheism is the way to >> > go? >> >> > But doesn't it make sense that if God were per

Re: Temporary Reality

2009-05-06 Thread Kim Jones
seen as a "staging post" to a future, more "correct" theology. As such, atheism could be serving a strictly beneficial purpose at this time. Why I refer to it as temporary reality. It may actually be necessary to be wrong about something to provoke the mind to jump of

RE: Temporary Reality

2009-05-06 Thread Jesse Mazer
> Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 11:33:52 -0700 > Subject: Re: Temporary Reality > From: daddycay...@msn.com > To: everything-list@googlegroups.com > > > On May 4, 6:13 am, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: >> 2009/5/4 : >> >> >> >>> I agree that

Re: Temporary Reality

2009-05-06 Thread daddycaylor
On May 4, 6:13 am, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > 2009/5/4  : > > > > > I agree that religion, and a lot of other stuff, produces a lot of > > fake certainty.  Not good.  So that implies that atheism is the way to > > go? > > > But doesn't it make sense that if God were personal, and a human > > pe

Re: Temporary Reality

2009-05-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 May 2009, at 18:19, daddycay...@msn.com wrote: > > The second question is in the form of, "Doesn't C imply D?": > >> But doesn't it make sense that if God were personal, and a human >> person like us could relate to him/her as a person, then that would >> result in expanding our consciou

Re: Temporary Reality

2009-05-05 Thread daddycaylor
On May 5, 1:27 am, Kim Jones wrote: > On 04/05/2009, at 12:57 PM, daddycay...@msn.com wrote: > > > But doesn't it make sense that if God were personal, and a human > > person like us could relate to him/her as a person, then that would > > result in expanding our consciousness? > > > Tom > > What

Re: Temporary Reality

2009-05-05 Thread Kim Jones
On 04/05/2009, at 12:57 PM, daddycay...@msn.com wrote: > But doesn't it make sense that if God were personal, and a human > person like us could relate to him/her as a person, then that would > result in expanding our consciousness? > > Tom What particular (and verifiable) personal interaction

Re: Temporary Reality

2009-05-04 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2009/5/4 : > > I agree that religion, and a lot of other stuff, produces a lot of > fake certainty.  Not good.  So that implies that atheism is the way to > go? > > But doesn't it make sense that if God were personal, and a human > person like us could relate to him/her as a person, then that wou

Re: Temporary Reality

2009-05-03 Thread daddycaylor
I agree that religion, and a lot of other stuff, produces a lot of fake certainty. Not good. So that implies that atheism is the way to go? But doesn't it make sense that if God were personal, and a human person like us could relate to him/her as a person, then that would result in expanding ou

Re: Temporary Reality

2009-05-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 May 2009, at 08:53, Kim Jones wrote: > > Perhaps atheism is necessary as a stepping stone to a more correct > theology? Ah ah, I see that you want to provoke me :) Hard to say, I am discovering that many atheist websites adopt a new definition of atheism, making it a form of agnostic

Temporary Reality

2009-04-30 Thread Kim Jones
Perhaps atheism is necessary as a stepping stone to a more correct theology? Materialistic atheism is not irrational, being on the side of reason, but it may be illogical, given the advanced view of reality we are adopting on this list that challenges the myth of a hard material substratum