[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden? (Music of the Spheres)

2011-05-17 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: But in his 2010 book The Grand Design he said a deity no longer has any place in theories on the creation of the universe in the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden? (Music of the Spheres)

2011-05-17 Thread WillyTex
What I'm wondering is do MUM philosophy majors really study Indian philosophy. Apparently Curtis has read Hume and Kant, but not Kapila or Shankara. curtisdeltablues: My degree was in Western philosophy so I had to read Shankara on my own. Don't give up on your night job! That's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden? (Music of the Spheres)

2011-05-17 Thread John
Yifu, 3. Anyway, due to various limitations, pure math can often expand faster than experimental, leaving us with such hypotheses as BRANES; i.e. sheets of pre-existing matter/energy fields which collide, generating Big Bangs. This is a typical string-theory outcome that Hagelin might have

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden? (Music of the Spheres)

2011-05-17 Thread Yifu
...on the statement in the field of consciousness. Everything is already in the field of consciousness AS MEST (matter, energy, space, and time). If you mean by Consciousness, Being, this is not a field. The latter term in physics refers to something relative, pursuant to the discoveries of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-16 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Curtis, you seem to be suggesting that there's something wrong

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden? (Music of the Spheres)

2011-05-16 Thread curtisdeltablues
- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: Curtis and Judy, The latest results in cosmological research show that the universe may have started as quantum mechanical fluctuations at a very high temperature scale that can't be duplicated here on earth. But for discussion

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden? (Music of the Spheres)

2011-05-16 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: But in his 2010 book The Grand Design he said a deity no longer has any place in theories on the creation of the universe in the light of a series of developments in physics. Methinks that's a bit like one

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-16 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden? (Music of the Spheres)

2011-05-16 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: snip I think this guy's opinion should be considered:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden? (Music of the Spheres)

2011-05-16 Thread John
Curtis, I now understand that Hawking is a true scientist. He can only see what is shown by experiments conducted in the conditions of this universe. He cannot see anything else beyond or before the Big Bang. He is obviously not a philosopher and cannot answer the question, Who or what

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden? (Music of the Spheres)

2011-05-16 Thread Yifu
Right...but again you're embedding the premise caused into an enquiry. One limitation on scientific knowledge relating to cannot see anything else beyond or before the Big Bang is the expanding fabric of space-time, expanding faster than the speed of Light. As a result, the actual physical

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden? (Music of the Spheres)

2011-05-16 Thread John
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: snip I think this guy's opinion should be considered:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden? (Music of the Spheres)

2011-05-16 Thread WillyTex
The latest results in cosmological research show that the universe may have started as quantum mechanical fluctuations at a very high temperature scale that can't be duplicated here on earth... Curtis: I think this guy's opinion should be considered... Maybe so, but doesn't

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden? (Music of the Spheres)

2011-05-16 Thread WillyTex
And note that he appears to be taking issue with the anthropomorphic God-concept while at least allowing the possibility of one that's more abstract. John: Aside from my latest comment to Curtis, Hawking does not appear to believe in the existence of consciousness in the universe.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden? (Music of the Spheres)

2011-05-16 Thread John
Yifu, 1. Right...but again you're embedding the premise caused into an enquiry. One limitation on scientific knowledge relating to cannot see anything else beyond or before the Big Bang is the expanding fabric of space-time, expanding faster than the speed of Light. As a result, the actual

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden? (Music of the Spheres)

2011-05-16 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@... wrote: And note that he appears to be taking issue with the anthropomorphic God-concept while at least allowing the possibility of one that's more abstract. John: Aside from my latest comment to Curtis, Hawking does not

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden? (Music of the Spheres)

2011-05-16 Thread Yifu
thanks for that, most interesting!. Susskind is one of my favorites. He - like me, passed through Ft. Ord long ago (an Army base no longer in existence which is probably by now a lot of housing tracts in very expensive Monterrey territory). --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden? (Music of the Spheres)

2011-05-16 Thread John
Yifu, 2. Due to this and other limitations on what we can know scientifically, researchers in recent decades have resorted to pure mathematics to speculate on what's possible rather than what can be experimentally proven (although that's important also, for example in finding a possible Higgs

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden? (Music of the Spheres)

2011-05-16 Thread Yifu
thx, excellent analysis and conclusions! I agree completely (on the higher dimensions), fwiw; but more important, the notion of higher or extra dimensions as hypothesized by string theorists seems to mesh well with extra-dimensional metaphysical systems which may included supposed realms of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-15 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: OK I guess we are all over it. The link I provide where Craig reveals his true epistemology is interesting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-fDyPU3wlQ That's it exactly. Start with faith in unproven and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden? (Music of the Spheres)

2011-05-15 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: Curtis and Judy, The latest results in cosmological research show that the universe may have started as quantum mechanical fluctuations at a very high temperature scale that can't be duplicated here on earth. John, are absolutely

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-15 Thread curtisdeltablues
Thanks for watching it Barry. It is an important insight into the guy. I feel such an affinity with him since I spent 4 years at MIU with this exact agenda. I believe he is sincere just as I was. He is obviously a smart guy. So he feels confident that he can take on any intellectual

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-15 Thread turquoiseb
Great rap, Curtis. I have nothing to add to it, because it pretty much covers the bases. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: Thanks for watching it Barry. It is an important insight into the guy. I feel such an affinity with him since I spent 4

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-15 Thread merudanda
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: but you have no clothes. We were wearing them on the INSIDE. that's the phrase of the week [:D] I'm so drawn up in your zone All the kids have always known That the emperor wears no clothes But they bow down to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-15 Thread curtisdeltablues
You are too kind. Thanks. Reminds me of the old Steve Martin routine. OK I'll admit it. I LIKE wearing men's underwear! And I wear them on the INSIDE of my pants so no one knows I have them on. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@... wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-15 Thread authfriend
Curtis, you seem to be suggesting that there's something wrong with attempting to construct a rational, logical argument for a premise that one has already accepted on faith or on the basis of personal experience, and that any such argument must necessarily be flawed because it's designed to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-15 Thread merudanda
and I thought you had the newest trend of the GIYFFR Guru in You fake foam routine in mind [:((] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: You are too kind. Thanks. Reminds me of the old Steve Martin routine. OK I'll admit it. I LIKE wearing men's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-15 Thread Buck
Hi just stopping by this morning on my way to Quaker Meeting. This is an excellent talk by this Craig guy about spiritual doubt. His starting first from context of experience or lack there of; got spiritual experience or you don't. And then differently that variability of reasoning without

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-15 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: Curtis, you seem to be suggesting that there's something wrong with attempting to construct a rational, logical argument for a premise that one has already accepted on faith or on the basis of personal experience, and that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-15 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Hi just stopping by this morning on my way to Quaker Meeting. This is an excellent talk by this Craig guy about spiritual doubt. His starting first from context of experience or lack there of; got spiritual experience or

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden? (Music of the Spheres)

2011-05-15 Thread John
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: Curtis and Judy, The latest results in cosmological research show that the universe may have started as quantum mechanical fluctuations at a very

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Curtis, you seem to be suggesting that there's something wrong with attempting to construct a rational, logical argument for a premise that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-15 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Curtis, you seem to be suggesting that there's something wrong with

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-15 Thread curtisdeltablues
Judy Being wrong about whether God exists? Or being wrong about the correctness of your logical reasoning? This section below should read their premises and reasoning not your which means I was directing it to you Judy. I am not. ME: Wrong about what ever premise you are proposing.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Curtis, you seem to be suggesting that there's something wrong with attempting to construct a rational, logical argument for a premise

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-14 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: I didn't make it clear in my intro to the last post, but it contains comments interspersed below if you are interested. No idea what you mean. Below you've quoted a post of mine, but you haven't added anything

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-14 Thread curtisdeltablues
I was trying to respond to John. Sorry for the confusion. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: I didn't make it clear in my intro to the last post, but it contains comments

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-14 Thread John
Curtis, Ahem...you and Judy are doing just fine with your KCA discussion. I don't believe I have to add to anything to what you've discussed so far. JR --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: I was trying to respond to John. Sorry for the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-14 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: Curtis, Ahem...you and Judy are doing just fine with your KCA discussion. I don't believe I have to add to anything to what you've discussed so far. OK I guess we are all over it. The link I provide where Craig reveals his true

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden? (Music of the Spheres)

2011-05-14 Thread John
Curtis and Judy, The latest results in cosmological research show that the universe may have started as quantum mechanical fluctuations at a very high temperature scale that can't be duplicated here on earth. But for discussion of the KC, one can ask, what caused the fluctuations or waves to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-11 Thread John
The whole idea is about trying to know the meaning of human existence. With human reasoning and logic (consciousness), people can have a better basis for knowing and living. IOW, we are not biological robots mindlessly living our short lives here on earth. --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-11 Thread turquoiseb
OK, one last attempt to see whether there is any there there in JohnR to converse with: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: The whole idea is about trying to know the meaning of human existence. What leads you to believe that humans can know the meaning of human

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-11 Thread WillyTex
turquoiseb: That's a True Believer pastime, and IMO an ego- bound pastime. As Curtis pointed out, the argument proposed as some kind of proof is really nothing more than a set of beliefs, declared as truths... So, TB, this is your true set of beliefs.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-11 Thread John
Barry, 1. OK, one last attempt to see whether there is any there there in JohnR to converse with: As I recall, you weren't there when you bailed out of the KCA discussion. 2. The whole idea is about trying to know the meaning of human existence. What leads you to believe that humans

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-11 Thread WillyTex
curtisdeltablues: Sorry Richard, you brought this up before. I haven't picked up the habit of hard returns as I type because it looks fine to me on the Web. Is this formatting better? I'll give it a try and appreciate your reading anything I write here. But for the effort of creating a new

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-11 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: Barry, 1. OK, one last attempt to see whether there is any there there in JohnR to converse with: As I recall, you weren't there when you bailed out of the KCA discussion. YOU bailed from the discussion, declaring that you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-10 Thread tartbrain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@... wrote: On May 9, 2011, at 8:40 AM, tartbrain wrote: Well, at least FFL fits the bill. And did Rick create FFL? I mean did he create Yahoo? And the internet? And Turq, Curtis, Mark,LB, Rory, Peter, Marek, Phil, Vashti

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-10 Thread tartbrain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@... wrote: And then when you figure that out, maybe you can also tell us: Who let the dogs out? Who wrote the book of love? Who knows where the time goes? Who'll stop the rain? Who's got the pain? And who cares about any of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-10 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: snip You haven't advanced the idea any further beyond, I believe this. And you have every right. I know this isn't your argument, you

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-10 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of curtisdeltablues Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 4:44 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden? Sorry Richard, you brought this up before. I haven't picked up

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: snip You haven't advanced the idea any further beyond, I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: snip The essay at the link, as I noted before, is actually Craig versus four other guys. It covers three attempted rebuttals, Craig's counter-rebuttal, and then a counter- counter-rebuttal. Most likely Craig would have a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-10 Thread curtisdeltablues
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip *My* point was that at least one of the detailed supportive arguments for the syllogism starts with the same example John used about

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-10 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip *My* point was that at least one of the detailed supportive

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-10 Thread Yifu
From Wiki, Cosmological Argument: However as to whether inductive or deductive reasoning is more valuable still remains a matter of debate, with the general conclusion being that neither is prominent.[15] Even though causality applies to the known world, it does not necessarily apply to the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: snip 1. Whatever begins to exist has a CAUSE. Me: The tip-off for inductive logic was the use of the word Whatever. This is a universal statement and indicates that the single example given to support it

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-10 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@... wrote: From Wiki, Cosmological Argument: However as to whether inductive or deductive reasoning is more valuable still remains a matter of debate, The value to our practical lives is huge for both. We must be able to use inductive

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-10 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@... wrote: From Wiki, Cosmological Argument: However as to whether inductive or deductive reasoning is more valuable still remains a matter of debate, with the general conclusion being that neither is prominent. Even this seems to miss

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: snip You haven't advanced the idea any further beyond, I believe this. And you have every right. I know this isn't your argument, you didn't create this syllogism but whoever did was not being as clever as

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-09 Thread Sal Sunshine
On May 9, 2011, at 8:40 AM, tartbrain wrote: Well, at least FFL fits the bill. And did Rick create FFL? I mean did he create Yahoo? And the internet? And Turq, Curtis, Mark,LB, Rory, Peter, Marek, Phil, Vashti and all the people who made FFL what it is today? Yes, Rick did all that. He's

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-09 Thread Sal Sunshine
And then when you figure that out, maybe you can also tell us: Who let the dogs out? Who wrote the book of love? Who knows where the time goes? Who'll stop the rain? Who's got the pain? And who cares about any of this crap? On May 9, 2011, at 9:14 AM, tartbrain wrote: Who put the bomp In the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-09 Thread Yifu
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H94S44pMb0Y/TWhz1oS32AI/AEw/GRGPf9jF2Ok/s1600/creation%2B2.jpg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@... wrote: On May 9, 2011, at 8:40 AM, tartbrain wrote: Well, at least FFL fits the bill. And did Rick create FFL? I mean did he

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-08 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: Curtis, 1. Your statements above states that you disagree with the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-07 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: Curtis, 1. Your statements above states that you disagree with the first premise. If you're not disagreeing, what then is your position. I don't think you can straddle the fence on this one. No, I do not accept the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-07 Thread Duveyoung
Curtis, In light of the concept quantum foam it's become difficult for me to believe in nothing. Every where, every time we look, we find some THING.even if it's not there long enough to say it was here with our timing apparatus that's limited by the uncertainty principle. A particle

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-07 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@... wrote: That is really interesting Edg. But I don't really get the need for a God? Unless he is being used as metaphor for the deepest level of matter. I am inclined just to give a primacy to matter itself and drop the God idea as

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-07 Thread Duveyoung
Curtis, I don't really get my need for God either. I'm pretty sure it was how I was raised and that I'm just working it. A theory. I'm convinced that there's the divine dichotomy -- the transcendent and the manifest. It's my everyday experience that there's something and that there's also

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-07 Thread John
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: Curtis, 1. Your statements above states that you disagree with the first premise. If you're not disagreeing, what then is your

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-06 Thread tartbrain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-06 Thread tartbrain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@... wrote: The question is dude, have you ever been to the Anza-Borrego Desert WITHOUT Rama? If you have the answers to questions, you are not there or here or now. (You are only at level 48,765 of the grand heirarchy of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-06 Thread curtisdeltablues
Me: snip I don't accept the first assertion so I don't see how moving on helps. But I am willing to hang if you can answer my objections to the first assertion. It sounds like you disagree with the first premise: Whatever begins to exist has a cause.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-06 Thread WillyTex
1. Whatever begins to exist has a cause. Do you agree with this premise or not? turquoiseb: I'm going back to play catch up after traveling for the last couple of days, but I'll answer. The first premise has the same problem as the second. The problem is not with the word cause

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-06 Thread WillyTex
You're jumping ahead of the game. tartbrain: I hear Curtis hears that a lot on Saturday nights. Maybe so, but when Curtis's finger strums the guitar, sound comes out, and when he opens his mouth, a tune comes out - not out of nowhere do the sounds come. This is a fact requiring no proof.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-06 Thread curtisdeltablues
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@... wrote: You're jumping ahead of the game. tartbrain: I hear Curtis hears that a lot on Saturday nights. Maybe so, but when Curtis's finger strums the guitar, sound comes out, and when he opens his mouth, a tune comes

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-06 Thread John
Curtis, 1. Your statements above states that you disagree with the first premise. If you're not disagreeing, what then is your position. I don't think you can straddle the fence on this one. No, I do not accept the first premise. Thank you. Now we know where you stand. 2. B.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-05 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-05 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote: Interesting stuff - Why must there be an incompatibility

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-05 Thread WillyTex
Ah ha!. You've done it Curtis. You have proved John's point with Barry's own words. It is a small bang that creates human life, but it is the big bang that creates the universe. Case closed! turquoiseb: Not at all. I'm frankly surprised that you're so simplistic. What if the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-05 Thread WillyTex
Besides, as stated, even if one could conclude that a Deity created the Universe, which One... John: IMO, the Supreme Being is not limited to any human religions. So, now it's a metaphysical argument? In physics, causation is the relationship between any single event and a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-05 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-05 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: Hey John, Well I guess I'll have to show the guts to engage in a friendly discussion with you having been challenged! I was pointing out

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-05 Thread Yifu
By the Supreme Being you mean Brahman. An eternal Brahman both both aspects: relative and Absolute; requires no cause other than Itself. It's self-caused. To repeat - refer to the Wiki on Cosmological arguments, specificically rebuttals to the major flaws of causation. All aspects have been

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-05 Thread John
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@... wrote: Besides, as stated, even if one could conclude that a Deity created the Universe, which One... John: IMO, the Supreme Being is not limited to any human religions. So, now it's a metaphysical argument?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-05 Thread John
Barry, 1. Whatever begins to exist has a cause. Do you agree with this premise or not? I'm going back to play catch up after traveling for the last couple of days, but I'll answer. The first premise has the same problem as the second. The problem is not with the word cause but

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-05 Thread John
Curtis, 1. So far, we have not gotten a definite answer from you if you agree with the first premise or not. I'm gunna go with a no on this one because the universe itself is the most obvious example of something that we don't know if it has a cause. It also seems to be in contradiction

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-05 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: Barry, 1. Whatever begins to exist has a cause. Do you agree with this premise or not? I'm going back to play catch up after traveling for the last couple of days, but I'll answer. The first premise has the same

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-05 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: Barry, 1. Whatever begins to exist has a cause. Do you agree with this premise or not? I'm going back to play catch up after traveling

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-05 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@ wrote: Besides, as stated, even if one could conclude that a Deity created the Universe, which One... John: IMO, the Supreme Being is not limited

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-05 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: Curtis, 1. So far, we have not gotten a definite answer from you if you agree with the first premise or not. I'm gunna go with a no on this one because the universe itself is the most obvious example of something that we

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-05 Thread whynotnow7
The question is dude, have you ever been to the Anza-Borrego Desert WITHOUT Rama? and if that is the case, and you continue to see a portal with beings of light walking around in it on a rock face, I suggest you empty the bottle, put out the roach and find a nearby motel to sleep it off...:-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-05 Thread John
Barry, 1. Can you give us a specific example that presents your case and does not follow the statement under the first premise? I'm out in the Anza-Borrego desert, at night, in a certain canyon I know of. Sometimes, when I go there, there is a certain rock face in the side of a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-05 Thread John
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: Curtis, 1. So far, we have not gotten a definite answer from you if you agree with the first premise or not. I'm gunna go with a no

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-04 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, pranamoocher no_reply@... wrote: One less Rakshasa to deal with... for now. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Osama bin Laden has been killed, according to the NYTimes. President Obama will make an announcement

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-04 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, pranamoocher no_reply@ wrote: One less Rakshasa to deal with... for now. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Osama bin Laden has been

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-04 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: ..Atheists have no I told you so fantasies. There will be no in your face believers for us. There will just be the same non existence that existed for us before our birth about which Mark Twain wryly wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-04 Thread Duveyoung
Curtis, Another nice piece. Your talent is wasted here. When ya gunna blog? Edg curtisdeltablues@... wrote: Actually he died a martyr and would be rewarded if his imaginary afterlife was any more real than the other ones. Far from having a melancholy day, he was all Godded up and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-04 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: ..Atheists have no I told you so fantasies. There will be no in your face believers for us. There will just be the same non existence

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-04 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: Actually he [OBM] died a martyr and would be rewarded if his imaginary afterlife was any more real than the other ones. Far from having a melancholy day, he was all Godded up and probably as idiotically

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-04 Thread emptybill
Your views of Heaven and Hell are much too truncated. Don't you realize that neither Heaven nor Hell is a simple projection of human desires and fears? Heaven is whatever good you can imagine. Hell, though, is not that place of torment you might visualize from past artwork or cinema. For

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