Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-25-2005, 09:29 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 640
Re: The Bible
If you read a written work it will have an effect on you in the region of thought, feeling and will. Being aware that a work can affect you would be the first observation.
The bible,...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-20-2005, 12:03 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 243
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-17-2005, 04:20 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 50
Re: can any religion gurus help me?
As I understand Gnosticism, these were individuals who through training entered into a spiritual understanding of the living. Gnostic="to know".
A Gnostic understanding of the approach of the...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-17-2005, 03:58 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 76
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-14-2005, 12:41 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 314
Re: A Refutation of Determinism
Are you saying that in a deterministic state(not talking about beliefs here) one can say "the devil made me do it" and that's that? This concept of determinism sounds like the sprockets on the...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-13-2005, 04:39 PM
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Replies: 32
Views: 314
Re: A Refutation of Determinism
You are born into life, and immediately breathe "air". So much for "free will": how is it that we are related in "free will" to our earthly state?
The difficulty is that in static thought it...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-12-2005, 03:25 PM
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Replies: 102
Views: 700
Re: A Question for Christians
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It's an equivocation to think there is any connection between the truth that science seeks and the truth that religion seeks. Besides, most religions are about salvation or variations of...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-12-2005, 02:51 PM
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Replies: 102
Views: 700
Re: A Question for Christians
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Science and religion belong to two different domains. I don't really care much about what quaint religious beliefs peope have, as long as they don't force them on me or limit my behaviour...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-11-2005, 06:09 PM
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Replies: 102
Views: 700
Re: A Question for Christians
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Hi Carlo
I like the angle that you're coming from.
However, I think we need to consider that this is a "Science, Math and Philosophy" rather than "Metaphysics and Religion" forum;...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-11-2005, 02:33 PM
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Replies: 102
Views: 700
Re: A Question for Christians
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Carlo,
This seems like pontificating to me. You are making all sorts of fantastic explanations and claims of reasons by way of supposedly facts without quoting any reference or...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-10-2005, 05:54 PM
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Replies: 102
Views: 700
Re: A Question for Christians
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Are you talking about how scientists have caused people to think, feel, or "will", by stimulating certain parts of the brain? I don't think you are, because that would support my...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-10-2005, 05:11 PM
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Replies: 102
Views: 700
Re: A Question for Christians
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Would you agree that the soul must be confined to the physical body (at least until one dies)? If so, what exactly is confining it?
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Consider that the soul/spirit is...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-10-2005, 02:39 AM
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Replies: 102
Views: 700
Re: A Question for Christians
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only that having a heart transplant wouldn't change your memories, your emotions/feelings, your knowledge/intelligence, or your personality/temperment; but having a brain transplant would...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-09-2005, 08:05 PM
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Replies: 102
Views: 700
Re: A Question for Christians
Came in too late on this but gathered there's a dog fight in many of the replies.
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Suppose we take George's brain and put it in Harry's body; and Harry's brain and put...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-05-2005, 03:44 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 255
Re: Thoughts on this?
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All similarities between things are merely concepts
- All concepts about things are merely constructs from our mind, despite whether or not they correlate with the reality of particulars...
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Forum: Internet Gambling
12-03-2005, 04:45 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 90
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Forum: Internet Gambling
12-01-2005, 03:30 PM
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Replies: 46
Views: 195
Re: Bots - quote from a chessmaster to discuss
I believe the computer that beat Kasparov was programmed by apprx. 8 computer/chess experts but what was telling was the ability to load in a wealth of previous games in which the computer was able...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-27-2005, 02:48 AM
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Replies: 147
Views: 1,318
Re: de asini umbra disceptare
Baptism, what is it in reality? The baptism performed by John the Baptist, what was it's reality?
The "baptism by water" was the "old" way of an experience of spiritual sight. At the time of...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-24-2005, 11:44 AM
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Replies: 147
Views: 1,318
Re: de asini umbra disceptare
The German poet and philosopher Schiller, when asked,"To which of the existing religions do you confess?" said "To none." And when he was asked why, he replied-"For religious reasons!"...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-21-2005, 06:06 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 330
Re: Free Will (again)
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what in the world is "the moral tonality of man"?...........b
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Come out of yourself. Consider that morality and morals is not just the "thou shalt not" paradigm....
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-21-2005, 05:27 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 330
Re: Free Will (again)
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I'm not sure why this matters? Sometimes murder is commited with free-will, we calll this premeditated murder, other times it's not, we hold the person responsible regardless
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-21-2005, 02:52 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 330
Re: Free Will (again)
I believe you are stating that free will is the ability to choose but this too is an abstraction. There is no moral activity in this concept of free will. One can state that a criminal who performs a...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-21-2005, 02:30 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 330
Re: Free Will (again)
Free will should be considered from the two aspects, freedom and will.
That we are "will full" is apparent from our earthly life and in fact is that which describes(manifests) our...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-13-2005, 02:47 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 86
Re: Reason and Faith
Faith is a way of knowing and includes reason in its activity.
The difficulty with some is the mixing up of "faith" with "desire". To have "faith" that a future event will occur(good...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-13-2005, 02:59 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 152
Re: Defining \"good.\"
There is only the ONE GOOD and all men seek HIM. All intermediate states are the process of attaining Man's destiny which is the realization of this state.
The hindrances in this process are...
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