Re: Who is the enemy?

2001-10-02 Thread Marchal
GLevy wrote: [...] I am fascinated by antiterrorism methods that expose the inconsistency of terrorists. The problem is that that no matter what rational argument you could come up with, they will find a way to rationalize their position. It may be that the root of the problem is emotional and

Re: Who is the enemy?

2001-09-30 Thread George Levy
Hi Charles Sorry, I am not responsible for these statements. I was only quoting Bruno Marchal's post or 09/19. However, I agree with Bruno very much. It seems that as in mathematics, any (religious) belief anchored by a rigid credo (set of axioms) is bound to be either incomplete or

RE: Who is the enemy?

2001-09-30 Thread Charles Goodwin
-Original Message- From: George Levy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 21 September 2001 8:18 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Who is the enemy? I just say this because I consider real atheist as very religious people, and, what is worth is that most of the time

Re: Who is the enemy?

2001-09-27 Thread Marchal
Hi John, You wrote (out-of-line) Bruno FYI here is a private message I submitted today including a copy of part of a post to a complexity-list yesterday. (No restriction in using any of it anywhere) John Mikes (jamikes). Thanks for your courageous post where you

Re: Who is the enemy?

2001-09-26 Thread George Levy
Marchal wrote: George Levy wrote This paradox can easily be solved by falling back on a relativistic approach. Each observer has his/her own frame of reference. All perceptions are relative to the observer. Period. After all, Einstein's Relativity does not use first person and third

Re: Who is the enemy?

2001-09-26 Thread Marchal
George Levy wrote [...] I guess I was talking mostly about the fanatics and the misled people. One could also argue that these people do not have a rigorous scientific upbringing and are very much driven by their emotions. Therefore, they may be classified as illogical. I think emotion are

Re: Who is the enemy?

2001-09-26 Thread George Levy
Marchal wrote: George Levy wrote This paradox can easily be solved by falling back on a relativistic approach. Each observer has his/her own frame of reference. All perceptions are relative to the observer. Period. After all, Einstein's Relativity does not use first person and third

Re: Who is the enemy?

2001-09-22 Thread George Levy
Who is the enemy? What is moral? What is not moral? What is morality in the context of the MWI? Is Quantum Suicide moral? Let me propose a conjecture and let us see how far we can go with it: Morality is the creation, protection and preservation of information. Immorality is the destruction

Re: Who is the enemy?

2001-09-21 Thread Marchal
Saibal Mitra wrote: Bruno, what did you expect? You should expect Jacques to be a typical American. The everything list is not a random sample. Unfortunately! Because frankly I appreciate the Americans here. I find them very sympa. You know how Americans on opposite sides of an issue

Re: Who is the enemy?

2001-09-20 Thread Jacques Mallah
with the destruction caused in NYC by the advocates of suicide and believers in immortality. I understand your concern with NYC. I share with you the concern of those terrible and crual 11 sept. events. Now a pecularity of this war consists in figuring out who is the enemy, exactly. It looks

Re: Who is the enemy?

2001-09-19 Thread Saibal Mitra
is behaving in a way you should expect from the MWI or your theory. Saibal - Original Message - From: Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 6:08 PM Subject: Who is the enemy? Jacques Mallah wrote: (I'm currently in North Dakota, but have

Who is the enemy?

2001-09-19 Thread Marchal
in NYC by the advocates of suicide and believers in immortality. I understand your concern with NYC. I share with you the concern of those terrible and crual 11 sept. events. Now a pecularity of this war consists in figuring out who is the enemy, exactly. It looks like you have solved that problem

Re: Who is the enemy?

2001-09-19 Thread George Levy
more concerned with the destruction caused in NYC by the advocates of suicide and believers in immortality. I understand your concern with NYC. I share with you the concern of those terrible and crual 11 sept. events. Now a pecularity of this war consists in figuring out who is the enemy