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How psychics work - Uri Geller is a fraud
james randi
the scientific dandy
caught a psychic liar
But too bad for him
the spirits still grin
in his own bio-logic mire
Light=Matter=Light
Obama Civil Defense Plan - Mandatory Civil Service
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"There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population that "remembered" a wholly unreal past. There is no logically necessary connection between events at different times; therefore nothing that is happening now or will happen in the future can disprove the hypothesis that the world began five minutes ago."
Bertrand Russell
The Geek Rapture (Blog Entry by dag)
here:
http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/05/antisingularity.html
I'll try to summarize since it's a bit long.
"Let's call this the "weak Antisingularity hypothesis" - the idea that technical progress and social progress are uncorrelated, and may even run in opposite directions."
"Unfortunately, there's also a "strong Antisingularity hypothesis." The strong Antisingularity hypothesis suggests that the coincidence of technical progress and social decay is not, in fact, a coincidence. It's actually a case of cause and effect."
"If technical progress actually causes social and political decay, Mike Judge is an optimist. What happens when the Singularity really approaches, but it's not quite here yet? When the curve of technology is almost vertical, but not yet infinite? "Damn, yo." "
But basically, singularity or no singularity - the future isn't that bright.
Murakami: Hard Boiled Wonderland & The End of the World
*promote
A President who cares about the little guy
I spit on your humanitarian values.
Everything you people stand for is wrong, degenerate, and sad.
Christopher Hitchens on the Cosmos and the end of the world
Sam Harris makes a joke and a point
Knowledge is just a humanistic term for data... data points organized into patterns at a level of summary that's useful to the conscious mind.
Philosophy and introspection is fine, just so long as it's not claimed to trump science. Legislating its trumping of science is particularly going too far.
No, knowledge is word which we use to denote "state of mind" a psychological and mental faculty, which we do not fully understand.
I know that I exist, bu I don't knoew exactly how it is that this knowledge occurs
Data is something utterly different. YOu can say a magazine article has data but it doesn't have "knowledge"
Only when conscious (or semi-conscious) beings apply their mental faculties to "data" do we have knowledge.
Sam Harris makes a joke and a point
Is the Internet an Effective Forum for Public Debate?
Christopher Hitchens on Religion and Anti-theism
BAN ALL SIFTQUISITIONS!!! (Wtf Talk Post)
Hitchens: Christianity is not imposed?
>> ^bluecliff:
heres a metaphor for you
your walking down a path which leads over a cliff, do you go ahead across the cliff and then if you fall blame gravity?
Hell, in the christian world view, is a constant of the human condition, it is the nature of the world, not of God. He doesn't send you to hell, you send yourself to hell - essentially speaking (although crudely put)
Now this leads you theological and cosmological problems about who created the world etc. but thats not his current argument.
That interpretation is not consistent with the plain language of the New Testament. Damnation always presented as an act of condemnation by a divine Judge. A more poetic interpretation may serve to salve one's conscience, but probably isn't very sound doctrine by Scriptural standards. The prose of the Pauline epistles does not really admit of the looseness of poetic interpretation.
Hell is not merely the suffering one inflicts upon oneself, either here or in the afterlife, but suffering that is inflicted by another.
I have no idea what you mean with your rant about how "the world is purely parodic." Whatever logical connection it has with the argument at hand didn't make it out of your head and into the post.
I was trying to discombobulate the torrent of sociological shit that often ails most of the comments.
(anyway its a quote from a french guy)
I suppose it ended as a FAIL...
But
I really don't think hell being "inflicted by another" is accurate. The standard theology goes (as far as I know) - hell is the absence of God. And the choice, in christian terms, is between the search for God and a life of sin, which is inherent to the world. It's a much more naturalist world view, if you look at it from that perspective. The "act of condemnation" is there, but need not be, it's only because the judeo-christian God communicates with his people, in a sort of one on one, that this is possible. As far as I know christians take this communication to be an act of divine mercy
(You may be right about St. Paul.)