Superstition
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Christian Graus wrote:
no feelings that are different to feelings I have towards any other human religions that misread and misuse the Bible and claim to follow it.
Right, you're the sole arbitrator of what's right and wrong in that morass called the bible. Everyone else is wrong and you call atheists closed minded. :doh:
You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
Tim Craig wrote:
Right, you're the sole arbitrator of what's right and wrong in that morass called the bible.
No, God is. By definition, if I don't believe what church X believes, either they are right, or I am. I plainly believe that I am. I am also well able to discuss why I think so. It's entirely possible that in the resurrection, God will tell me the Catholics were right, in which case, I, by definition was wrong. But, only if God wrote the bible to get literate people to do the wrong thing, obviously.
Tim Craig wrote:
Everyone else is wrong and you call atheists closed minded.
You're closed minded because you're not interested in discussion, not because you think I am wrong. To think everyone is right is to assume you have no idea yourself. Being a Christian I have a belief system, right or wrong, I believe something, and my belief in X requires that I believe Y is wrong where it contradicts X.
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digital man wrote:
Christian Graus wrote: God is omniscient IMNSHO.
FTFY :laugh:
You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
Tim Craig wrote:
God is omniscient IMNSHO. FTFY
I'm pleased that you did. All the ways in which you attack me just show you for exactly what I say you are. I take no joy in that, but it's nice when you reinforce to onlookers who is being obtuse, it means I don't feel I need to defend myself from your accusations.
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When someone starts a thead here belitting someone for having crazy beliefs when they live in a glass house shows they deserve to be hoisted on their own petard. CG isn't interested in discussing, he's into pontificating on how his way is the only way and anyone who disagrees is irrational. Get over it.
RichardM1 wrote:
Jesus loves you enough to die for you.
Too bad the Romans made a martyr of him. Otherwise, he'd just be another religious nut case with barely a footnote in history.
You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
Tim Craig wrote:
anyone who disagrees is irrational. ... live in a glass house ... Get over it.
"From the mouths of babes"
Tim Craig wrote:
nut case
Did you hear the one about the communist calling the liberal 'Pinko'? I don't know if you pee in your own Wheaties, but calm down there, cupcake. You walk in, crapping and screaming about how much CG is pissing and moaning. Before you take the mote from your brother's eye, take the log from your own.
Opacity, the new Transparency.
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I took it to mean that he worked in a special education centre, not that he was on the recieving end of it. I assumed special ed meant education for people who are disabled.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Christian Graus wrote:
God is omniscient IMHO.
FTFY
Tychotics "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!" Larry Niven
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Ian Shlasko wrote:
because of certain "magic numbers," so to speak. The ratio between mass and gravitational attraction, the speed of light, and so on. If these fundamental constants were different, the universe would be a very different place.
There's some working going on in physics trying to determine whether these numbers, in fact, are constant. Not that they're wildly variable but whether their exact value is a local phenomena or whether they've slowly changed over time.
You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
Hmm, I'd love to see the results of that... I've thought for a while that there was something very fundamental about the universe that we hadn't discovered yet, and that things like "string theory" and "dark matter" are just our way of fitting the facts to the laws instead of fitting the laws to the facts. String theory, general relativity, time dilation... They may be correct, but to me, they seem too convoluted... The basic laws of nature are usually pretty simple... I think there's something really fundamental that we're just missing.
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Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel) -
Gee, there are passages in the bible that support my world view? You mean the irrational, inconistent, and contradictory ones?
You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
Tim Craig wrote:
Gee, there are passages in the bible that support my world view? You mean the irrational, inconistent, and contradictory ones?
[scratches head] Well, no. I meant your well thought out world view. But if all you have is an irrational, inconsistent and contradictory one, you should still work with what you got. Go forward. Move ahead. It's not too late. To whip it. Whip it good.
Opacity, the new Transparency.
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Tim Craig wrote:
Gee, there are passages in the bible that support my world view? You mean the irrational, inconistent, and contradictory ones?
[scratches head] Well, no. I meant your well thought out world view. But if all you have is an irrational, inconsistent and contradictory one, you should still work with what you got. Go forward. Move ahead. It's not too late. To whip it. Whip it good.
Opacity, the new Transparency.
*grabs a flower pot and dances around*
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I took it to mean that he worked in a special education centre, not that he was on the recieving end of it. I assumed special ed meant education for people who are disabled.
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He's 14, I doubt he works at all...
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Disabled - could be. More likely, in the case of Ravel, "gifted". You must look at both ends of this spectrum called "special education"
Yes, I believe he's referring to the gifted end of the spectrum, it's just that in Australia, referring to that as "Special Ed" is not the norm...
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Tim Craig wrote:
anyone who disagrees is irrational. ... live in a glass house ... Get over it.
"From the mouths of babes"
Tim Craig wrote:
nut case
Did you hear the one about the communist calling the liberal 'Pinko'? I don't know if you pee in your own Wheaties, but calm down there, cupcake. You walk in, crapping and screaming about how much CG is pissing and moaning. Before you take the mote from your brother's eye, take the log from your own.
Opacity, the new Transparency.
I think we have a new winner for the greatest percentage of platitudes in a single post!! :laugh:
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Christian Graus wrote:
The universe came to be, and exists, as a result of natural laws. I merely contend that God is behind them.
Now that's an interesting point... Let me come at this one from a different angle... We know these natural laws exist... That much is pretty much proven by science, though obviously we don't KNOW all of the laws yet (See string theory, general relativity, etc). The point is that the laws are there. Now, I don't know how much of a sci-fi reader you are, but in Fredrik Pohl's "Heechee" saga, he made a subtle but interesting point about how life exists the way it does because of certain "magic numbers," so to speak. The ratio between mass and gravitational attraction, the speed of light, and so on. If these fundamental constants were different, the universe would be a very different place. I won't go into the details, in case someone plans on reading the series, but one of the conflicts has to do with a certain entity trying to change these values to better suit them. So the reliance on these constants raises the all-too-familiar question... Why? Why are these numbers what they are? By your argument, I would assume (And correct me if I'm wrong) that you believe "god" set them that way. I would conjecture that we simply don't know, and have no way of knowing (yet?), so in this instance, attributing it to an omnipotent/omniscient/omnipresent being is just a way of filling in the blanks, not actually providing any answers. Kind of like saying "Well, we don't know what causes this, so let's just nickname it 'god' until we figure it out." Thoughts?
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Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)Ian Shlasko wrote:
By your argument, I would assume (And correct me if I'm wrong) that you believe "god" set them that way. I would conjecture that we simply don't know, and have no way of knowing (yet?), so in this instance, attributing it to an omnipotent/omniscient/omnipresent being is just a way of filling in the blanks, not actually providing any answers.
A problem with life is that there is no experimentation. Do all the different things you want, try them many different ways. Repeat until tired and old. Unfortunately, you have no control group, each datum is not independent of the others. Others may try to replicate your results, but they start out with their own histories, their data points interrelate differently from yours. The way my data points have arrived, the inter-dependencies, correlations and perceived causality lead me to a hypothesis that there is a god. The correlations with the Bible lead me to believe the god is The God. The Bible says that, in history, some saw proof and did not believe, and some didn't see, but believed. I believe we are in a phase where direct proof is not offered, so I can't prove to you that God exists, and I can't prove to you He does not. I can look at the data I've gathered, and extrapolate, hypothesize. I could give you a data dump, so you can analyze it yourself. Christians call that 'testimony'.
Opacity, the new Transparency.
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*grabs a flower pot and dances around*
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He's 14, I doubt he works at all...
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Well, I've never heard a school for the gifted referred to as 'special education', and I'm sure he doesn't have a disability. I knew he was 14, I was just struggling to piece it all together.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Tim Craig wrote:
anyone who disagrees is irrational. ... live in a glass house ... Get over it.
"From the mouths of babes"
Tim Craig wrote:
nut case
Did you hear the one about the communist calling the liberal 'Pinko'? I don't know if you pee in your own Wheaties, but calm down there, cupcake. You walk in, crapping and screaming about how much CG is pissing and moaning. Before you take the mote from your brother's eye, take the log from your own.
Opacity, the new Transparency.
To be fair, he's responding the way he is because of a past history. Although, I must admit that it's a history mostly of him acting exactly the same as he has in this thread. The difference is now that I expect it.....
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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I think we have a new winner for the greatest percentage of platitudes in a single post!! :laugh:
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To be fair, he's responding the way he is because of a past history. Although, I must admit that it's a history mostly of him acting exactly the same as he has in this thread. The difference is now that I expect it.....
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Well, I've never heard a school for the gifted referred to as 'special education', and I'm sure he doesn't have a disability. I knew he was 14, I was just struggling to piece it all together.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Yes, I agree with that (the special ed bit). That's the point I made in the other post...
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Ian Shlasko wrote:
By your argument, I would assume (And correct me if I'm wrong) that you believe "god" set them that way. I would conjecture that we simply don't know, and have no way of knowing (yet?), so in this instance, attributing it to an omnipotent/omniscient/omnipresent being is just a way of filling in the blanks, not actually providing any answers.
A problem with life is that there is no experimentation. Do all the different things you want, try them many different ways. Repeat until tired and old. Unfortunately, you have no control group, each datum is not independent of the others. Others may try to replicate your results, but they start out with their own histories, their data points interrelate differently from yours. The way my data points have arrived, the inter-dependencies, correlations and perceived causality lead me to a hypothesis that there is a god. The correlations with the Bible lead me to believe the god is The God. The Bible says that, in history, some saw proof and did not believe, and some didn't see, but believed. I believe we are in a phase where direct proof is not offered, so I can't prove to you that God exists, and I can't prove to you He does not. I can look at the data I've gathered, and extrapolate, hypothesize. I could give you a data dump, so you can analyze it yourself. Christians call that 'testimony'.
Opacity, the new Transparency.
RichardM1 wrote:
I could give you a data dump, so you can analyze it yourself. Christians call that 'testimony'.
Well see, that's what separates religion from science. With a scientific theory, a valid "data dump" can be used to duplicate an experiment and verify the theory (Or alternatively, can be used to disprove a flawed theory). With religion, all you have is hearsay and 2000-year-old literature... No evidence. But it's true... There's no way to prove or disprove the existence of a deity, since you're trying to make up rules about something that, by definition, ignores all rules. Even if a theory about it is disproved, you can just change the rules to invalidate the opposing theory.
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Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel) -
Christian Graus wrote:
The universe came to be, and exists, as a result of natural laws. I merely contend that God is behind them.
Now that's an interesting point... Let me come at this one from a different angle... We know these natural laws exist... That much is pretty much proven by science, though obviously we don't KNOW all of the laws yet (See string theory, general relativity, etc). The point is that the laws are there. Now, I don't know how much of a sci-fi reader you are, but in Fredrik Pohl's "Heechee" saga, he made a subtle but interesting point about how life exists the way it does because of certain "magic numbers," so to speak. The ratio between mass and gravitational attraction, the speed of light, and so on. If these fundamental constants were different, the universe would be a very different place. I won't go into the details, in case someone plans on reading the series, but one of the conflicts has to do with a certain entity trying to change these values to better suit them. So the reliance on these constants raises the all-too-familiar question... Why? Why are these numbers what they are? By your argument, I would assume (And correct me if I'm wrong) that you believe "god" set them that way. I would conjecture that we simply don't know, and have no way of knowing (yet?), so in this instance, attributing it to an omnipotent/omniscient/omnipresent being is just a way of filling in the blanks, not actually providing any answers. Kind of like saying "Well, we don't know what causes this, so let's just nickname it 'god' until we figure it out." Thoughts?
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)Ian Shlasko wrote:
Kind of like saying "Well, we don't know what causes this, so let's just nickname it 'god' until we figure it out." Thoughts?
And there you have the history of superstition / religion. As more things became known people needed less gods. We're so close, only got one to go!