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« Reply #165 on: December 13, 2005, 02:58:49 am »
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I don't care what your religion is. =)


Well, I dont really care what religion any ones is to tell you the truth. As long as that religion doesnt interrupt friendships, I truly dont give a damn who is in what religion!

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Odin, Zeus, Ra, Neptune, and so on and so forth are all parts of polytheistic religions which have been dormant for over a thousand years. At one time, I will add, although it's unrelatedm the 'Pagans' (non-christians) and polyteistic cultures of the past were the majority and christians were driven underground and hated, until of course the roman empire became christian.


Ah, so basically your saying that these Gods aren't even really related to God in the way that I said it in my last post?

EDIT: And the poll says do you believe in Supernatural Entity(s) not necessarily God, even if the title of this thread is.

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« Reply #166 on: December 13, 2005, 04:47:33 am »
I try to keep most debates in the current time unless the issue defines otherwise, any other way and they can sometimes be silly.
That's not my main motive really, though, mostly it is the fact that people are talking about the modern religions anyway. It's a bit weird to suddenly jump out of context and a thousand years into the past.
I'm not saying your views arent valid, im just saying that there wasnt sufficient build up to that point.
The contrast between our current 'god' and these others metioned is that the curent one is omnipotent and omniscient as well as being pure and heavenly.
These polytheistic ones has powers limited to thier place and representaion, as well as having flaws and vices.
Personally I think it is a far cry from what this debate is about and too far gone in the past to be of any relevance; does anybody believe in them to a point of worship anymore?

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EDIT: And the poll says do you believe in Supernatural Entity(s) not necessarily God, even if the title of this thread is.


I believe that is to cover any other being or beings that may or may not have created us that are not god, as such, becuase they are not related, slandered if you will, by religion or the consequences of said religion.
This is why oneof the main philosophical creation of the universe theories is called intelligent design instead of creationism (which is one relating to god, the other that I can remember is the bing bang/crunch theory.).

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« Reply #167 on: December 13, 2005, 06:03:06 am »
I've discovered I'm agnostic. Meaning I've declared myself a religious pin-cushion, I suppose ;)

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« Reply #168 on: December 13, 2005, 10:07:26 pm »
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This is why oneof the main philosophical creation of the universe theories is called intelligent design instead of creationism (which is one relating to god, the other that I can remember is the bing bang/crunch theory.).


Intelligent design is creationism. They both state that life was created by an outside force. Since the only outside force would need to be a divinity, intelligent design is just an attempt to give scientific legitamacy to creationism.

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« Reply #169 on: December 14, 2005, 01:59:29 am »
To a certain degree I agree with you, but there were people in the philosophical establishment who tried to differentiate it from religion. This is why it is called Intelligent design.

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« Reply #170 on: December 14, 2005, 08:07:14 pm »
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To a certain degree I agree with you, but there were people in the philosophical establishment who tried to differentiate it from religion. This is why it is called Intelligent design.


They are trying to differentiate it, but only to try to masquerade it as science. It's political, is the real heart of the matter. Creationists are upset that evolution is being taught in classrooms, so they come up with a way to make creationism more psuedo-scientific, and seperate it from a particular religion. That doesn't change the fact that there is no evidence to support it, and it still requires the beleif in a divinity to work, thus: religion.

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« Reply #171 on: December 14, 2005, 09:17:41 pm »
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To a certain degree I agree with you, but there were people in the philosophical establishment who tried to differentiate it from religion. This is why it is called Intelligent design.


They are trying to differentiate it, but only to try to masquerade it as science. It's political, is the real heart of the matter. Creationists are upset that evolution is being taught in classrooms, so they come up with a way to make creationism more psuedo-scientific, and seperate it from a particular religion. That doesn't change the fact that there is no evidence to support it, and it still requires the beleif in a divinity to work, thus: religion.


I don't think you understand the religion in its origin WAS science. Religion = science. Which is why all along History all major religious (since all religions come from the same source, Sumeria) civilisations were so advanced scientifically except for Europe which was ruled by illogic popes going against scientists and Logic (why? bc they were illogic in believing their own status is the incarnation of Logic itself, and belive thee logic in their own illogisms, its a spiral and all mankind is susceptible to it). If you see that science was hand in hand with ALL religions (Mayas, Buddhism, Islam, etc etc except those 'sects' which were elminiated by those big religions that bore fruit and converted so many people in those times for a reason, seeing is believing, when it works for real you follow that scientific way instead of callling on a 'fire god' that never comes), it means science was there in the beginning, to not say that what was in its origin WAS science. It's only ignorance of mankind with its own illogisms that made believe that religion and science is two different things and that its a solid fact when History itself proves that it's wrong.

The biggest trick the Devil (Illogism) ever did was to make believe people he never existed. And on that same hit making people believe God (Logic) doesnt exist. People who are illogic, believe their own illogisms are logic like a spiral. All the 'divinities' the ancient people asked are founded since everything still holds together in Logic, it's a science in itself and based on real things. Just like the knowledge they knew about the stars (without telescopes, the 'gods' told them they affirm), all rules of society, all medicinal knowledge, EVERYTHING we use today in society is based off what the Sumerians knew, EVERYTHING (Mathematics, Science, Astronomy, they knew the earth was round,etc) and if they say that they didnt just make it up or discover it themselves but it was 'gods' that told them, then they probably mean something by that or else they wouldnt have said that. I don't see how youre in a position to refute them with your illogisms.

Most atheists who think God are bullshit are themselves caught in the same illogic dogmas many blind christians or fundamentalists believe, only atheists believe the opposite. When they think 'God' they imagine a boogyman just the same, only theyre on the opposite side, same old bullshit dogmas. haha The existence of a 'God' (higher entities) IS proven mathematically. Just check what all astrophysicians who changed our perception of the universe around us have in comon, they see the existence of a 'God' (higher plural entities) as being completely possible and all goes in that sense. Using Logic, following Nature, IS following God's path.

The 4th dimension being time and space and that is mathematically proven, higher entities having attained that level of technology can have an affect on 3D (us) without us really noticing their presence only from time to time. To travel in time you have to reach the speed of light (in other words BECOME energy), its mathematically proven (Logic holds together) just like teleportation (point A become point B instead point A to B) is also proven. The existence of anti-matter also, the whole principle of dualities, the ying and the yang, using anti-matter to bend gravity traveling through time becomes possible only you need an extreme amount of level of Logic and technology before its possible. Once you reach that level though (Logic decides you have reached it), you are then allowed to travel in space and time, in other words go from the 3rd dimension to the 4th.

Oh and God has always been a PLURAL term. Even in the Hebrew texts. For example in the creation of man, 'God' says 'Let US make man in OUR image'. God is an entity, but a plural one. Those who made up a monotheistic one are the illogic ones continuing to believe in something 'made up' of humans. The ten commandments say, you will only have one God, in other words you will only follow what Logic tells you when you reason things fully. But the 'God' of creation is a plural term, it has always been polytheism only of the same entity. The gods in Greek (themselves taken from Persian society, greek poets have written it that all greek society is based in ancient persian society) are all FOUNDED on something. There's no imaginary illogic bullshit here. It's for you to STUDY logically.

Once again I suggest you go read Zecharia Stichin's book 'The 12th Planet' after having deciphered sumerian tablets (the origins of all religions of mankind, the Deluge, all bible and all religion texts have their source there) and also Immanuel Velikovsky (he was a close friend of Einstein) who also affirmed similar things after researching ancient texts which logically show many things thet HOLD together.

http://www.knowledge.co.uk/velikovsky/
http://www.sitchin.com/
http://xfacts.com/planetx_search.html

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« Reply #172 on: December 15, 2005, 12:29:27 am »
Ow. That was painful to read. Do you have any idea what actually constitutes proof? Put simply, it works this way: A is proven to be true if an argument is established in which there is no way A can be false if it's supporting premises are true, and if all of these supporting premises are either also proven to be true, definitions, or trivially accepted hypotheses.

The interesting thing with this is that, outside of mathematics, there's absolutely no way to prove anything of any consequence. We can be extremely certain of certain things--for instance, I'm extremely certain that I'm sitting in front of a computer right now--but if you trace it back to all the supporting premises, you always hit a snag. In this case, a major snag is my perception. I can't know that I'm not hallucinating, and that I'm completely sane. It's possible--albeit unlikely--that I'm actually wearing a straight-jacket in some insane asylum, and this is all some wierd fantasy in my head.

Alright, so while it is impossible to prove that a god exists (hey, even if I "see" him appear with my own eyes, it's still possible that I'm hallucinating, so still not proof), you still might be able to give an argument to a high likelihood that a god should exist. Let's zoom in on your argument that a god exists:

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The existence of a 'God' (higher entities) IS proven mathematically. Just check what all astrophysicians who changed our perception of the universe around us have in comon, they see the existence of a 'God' (higher plural entities) as being completely possible and all goes in that sense.


To boil it down to argument form:

1. All "astrophysicians" (I think you mean pharmacists from space here) believe it is possible that a god or multiple gods exist.

Therefore,

2. The existence of God as being multiple entities is proven mathematically.

Frankly, this is one of the worst arguments I've ever seen. "It's possible, therefore it's true." Right. Just as it's possible that God doesn't exist, therefore that's true as well.

Now, let's go on to your argument that religion is science.

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I don't think you understand the religion in its origin WAS science. Religion = science. Which is why all along History all major religious (since all religions come from the same source, Sumeria) civilisations were so advanced scientifically.... If you see that science was hand in hand with ALL religions..., it means science was there in the beginning, to not say that what was in its origin WAS science. It's only ignorance of mankind with its own illogisms that made believe that religion and science is two different things and that its a solid fact when History itself proves that it's wrong.


Boiled down:

1. Many religious cultures were also scientifically advanced.

Therefore,

2. Science was hand in hand with all religions.

Therefore,

3. Science and religion are the same thing.

Simple counterproof here, via an argument ad absurdum.

1. Many cultures that had lots of men also had lots of women.

Therefore,

2. Men went hand in hand with women.

Therefore,

3. Men and women are the same thing.

Nope, sorry. Just because two things often exist simultaneously does not mean they are the same thing. In the case of religion vs. science, they in fact have existed at odds in many cases. If you look closer at the history of these religious cultures, you will see a period of scientific development, but after that, you will see a period of scientific stagnation. It is at this point that religion and science are at odds. Religion either starts to contradict scientific findings, causing those who pursue science to be condemned as heretics, or religious rules prevent certain experiments that would advance science (such as the current ban on stem-cell research).

I could go on, but it's not worth my energy. It's much easier to utter bullshit than it is to debunk it, and most of your statements aren't worth the effort of thoroughly debunking. If you wish to gain my regard as a serious intellectual contributor here rather than some wacko, please attempt to defend these points you've made here.

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« Reply #173 on: December 15, 2005, 01:21:05 am »
Nice counter Leebot. I'm glad I'm not convinced I'm the same as a woman. ;) j/k

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« Reply #174 on: December 15, 2005, 04:01:57 am »
Another example is Galileo Galilei, who was excommunicated i think for his heretical practises.

I do believe, though, that what he (Capo) is trying to say with the point of 'It's possible, therefore it's true' is that it is so overwhelmingly probably that it's nearly impossible; a few examples would have helped him along his way in this respect.
For instance, according to someone's theory (I cant remember who) the amount of things to store information in on a chip would double approximately every eight months, and thus the power of our chipsets would follow this trend. So far this prediction has been accurate. The next part of my example, based on the above theory, goes that in the future, we would have computers so powerful, that they could completely recreate worlds, universes even, down to the subatomic scale, and people would make them to experiment and simply because such computers would only be made for simulations of this calibre anyway (unless Peter molyneux got his hands on it, and made a completely true to life computer game that would force people to buy these computers). Anyway ,because of civilisations within computers making such computers themselves, and other dimensions being taken into account etc. There would be such a large amount of these computer civilisations compared to 'real' ones, that we are almost definately in one of the computer universes.
Thus, the 'plural gods' are the technicians that created the computer simulation (Iin whatever simulation or universe. Multiple per insance).
I think that is how the theory basically goes, but dont trust me on that; I haven't exactly researched it.

Also, I have decided to kind of backflip.
First, I was thinking about religion and how alot of the whole theory of 'God' is to explain the unexplainable, the misunderstood or the unknown.
It was then that I realised that that is exactly what philosophers are trying to do: explain all that. Therefore philosophy is a religion of sorts, not a dogmatic and impractical organisation of 'believers', but a group of people trying to comprehend how exactly the world works, how it got here, and how we got on it.
I now believe that it is silly and misguided to differentiate the two, religion and philosophy, to the extent that I did. I think that it is just another scripture, albeit an altogether more analytical one. So basically, alot of my previous comments are discredited.
I am sorry for taking up posting space. ;)

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What are you talking about? You ARE a woman. And a man too. Or since there is no differentiation, I should say you are a person. Aha! He has freed women and given equal rights to everybody, as well as making the world bland and (un) pleasurable.

AFTEREDIT: I just realised, and I dont know why it came to me, that capo is officer in latin. and it's one letter away from caupo which means innkeeper. So I will be calling him by the name official innkeeper.
That was one of those weird bits of stuff that just pop out and wont go away. The sort that you dont know why they happen.

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« Reply #175 on: December 15, 2005, 09:20:17 am »
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I do believe, though, that what he (Capo) is trying to say with the point of 'It's possible, therefore it's true' is that it is so overwhelmingly probably that it's nearly impossible; a few examples would have helped him along his way in this respect.


Yes, I see what you're getting at here, and how that interpretation could be inferred from what Capo said (see the drawback to bad grammar here: hard to know what you mean sometimes, but I'm guessing he's not a native English speaker, so I'll let it slide). But the problem with this is, as you mentioned, a complete lack of evidence. Especially since what I've heard from astrophysicists is nothing of the sort, and since the strong anthropic principle works just as well as any creationism argument.

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« Reply #176 on: December 15, 2005, 07:35:08 pm »
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Ow. That was painful to read. Do you have any idea what actually constitutes proof? Put simply, it works this way: A is proven to be true if an argument is established in which there is no way A can be false if it's supporting premises are true, and if all of these supporting premises are either also proven to be true, definitions, or trivially accepted hypotheses.


Proof is shown to you by Logic. Where does Logic come from? If you know the answer to that you'll be more logical than Socrates/Descartes/Einstein/Hawkins/etcetcetc (even Nietzche haha what did he follow to build up his own theory trying to prove God doesnt exist, he tried using Logic, the same damn thing, God = source of Logic) who in the end has to come to the logical conclusion and very live possibility (more so than the opposite where there is no 'higher entities') that Logic itself is not IN us but of a higher origin. It is was IN us we would know where it comes from, since we don't know and we don't FULLY posess it, it either means its origins are exterior and having an effect on us or that we are PART of Logic. I know what proof is. It's the principle of Zenon, to build down anothers arguments down to being laughable. Like if I say water is not watery, and you show me dead on that water is watery than it FULLY contradicts what I said. The same thing most 'atheists' say as a supposedly proof to why God doesn't exist. Can you prove me God does exist? I can ask the same equivalent question, Can you prove me in full contradiction that God doesn't exist? No? Therefore the possibility is still very much alive. What we then have to see are the facts that are in our face to demistify the reality of the world surrounding us ans using what as a guide? Logic, mathematics, which is why EVERYTHING around us is mathematical, everything, including the planets which were discovered first of all mathematically and not VISUALLY. Logic is the 3rd eye in a sense. Seeing is believing (acknowledging it's true) for the idiots who haven't used their Logic.


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The interesting thing with this is that, outside of mathematics, there's absolutely no way to prove anything of any consequence. We can be extremely certain of certain things--for instance, I'm extremely certain that I'm sitting in front of a computer right now--but if you trace it back to all the supporting premises, you always hit a snag. In this case, a major snag is my perception. I can't know that I'm not hallucinating, and that I'm completely sane. It's possible--albeit unlikely--that I'm actually wearing a straight-jacket in some insane asylum, and this is all some wierd fantasy in my head.


The interesting thing is that outside of mathematics blablabla. You just fucked up. EVERYTHING is mathematical which is why there are SCIENCES. Are you the one believing in magic out of nowhere now? EVERYTHING is proven mathematically therefore there is absolutely no way outside of mathematically you can prove whatsoever. As for your 'possibilites', you're right about that, everything being mathematical around us each 'discovery' is statistical, just like 'intuitions'. 'Intuitions' are your Logic finding a lot of statistics around you and like whispering to your ear, hey look here, somethings strange there are many 'coincidences' around here, there's MAY (having more chances than elsewhere) be something interesting to be discovered here. That is science, and using Logic you find a path, slowly but surely. If you think yourself it's a whole fantasy in your head without continuing to be logical and asking Logic for answers, that's your own problem and it's a mental sickness in our world.

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Alright, so while it is impossible to prove that a god exists (hey, even if I "see" him appear with my own eyes, it's still possible that I'm hallucinating, so still not proof), you still might be able to give an argument to a high likelihood that a god should exist. Let's zoom in on your argument that a god exists:


Your own eyes are a perception of the world around you, period. Just like years ago they didnt believe atoms existed, it was discovered ('fully seen') using mathematics and then telescopes with technology (using mathematics also). Just the same with quantum maths or the whole theory of relativity of Einstein, it revolutioned how we 'perceive' (with our eyes) the world us because the Logic still holds together therefore now our eyes can see atoms and things ages ago with less Logic we didn't 'know'. To know if something is TRUE, you use Logic, in other words mathematics, sciences, etc. That's no proof in itself that a God doesn't exist. In no way have you fully contradicted what I stated up to now. And even by debating wiht me, you also are using Logic to try and understand. And again I ask you so you remember, from where does that Logic come from? Ok, let's zoom in.

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The existence of a 'God' (higher entities) IS proven mathematically. Just check what all astrophysicians who changed our perception of the universe around us have in comon, they see the existence of a 'God' (higher plural entities) as being completely possible and all goes in that sense.


Yes, I said that, but it's not a proof in itself, it's more like an advice like hey, why don't you look at what THEYRE saying that goes in the sense that a God (plural superior entities) DO exist. It's an advice for the wise who want to really research and not sit on their ass and in other words saying theyre the own representation of Logic therefore you don't need to research using Logic? When the wiseman points to the moon, the idiot looks at the finger.

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To boil it down to argument form:

1. All "astrophysicians" (I think you mean pharmacists from space here) believe it is possible that a god or multiple gods exist.

Therefore,

2. The existence of God as being multiple entities is proven mathematically.

Frankly, this is one of the worst arguments I've ever seen. "It's possible, therefore it's true." Right. Just as it's possible that God doesn't exist, therefore that's true as well.

Now, let's go on to your argument that religion is science.


First off that's false, your first pont. I said astrophysicians, NOT pharmacists form space so you have no logical reason to tihnk that, I said what I said. Like I said, the astrophysicians who work with Logic night and day to advance what WE (as a humanity) perceive of the world around us all say that the possibility of something existing is very much alive even that with each astrophysical discovery it goes in that sense. It's for YOU to read what they're saying about it and use your own Logic to see what they mean. If they're logic in their maths, I dont see how theyre a nutcase in what they say as well. You think therefore you are. Like I said again, always research, that's what the scriptures say, always ask 'God' (in other words the origin of Logic) for your logical answers. Something you seem to be not ready to do? Before knowledge comes acceptance, always.

As for your other point, just look at all the religions (mainly logical way of lives including dieties, or in other word superior beings in the origins and now, omniscient, out of time affecting the 3D) of the world up to now, including the first of which all come from that we know of. It was polytheist, just because you call for example a grape a grape, doesn't mean a grape holds one raisin. A grape is a WHOLE, a concept of multiple things. Just like there is one God, there are also 'gods'. But that's not the only example, like I said I don't want to rewrite the whole books I suggested here. The book is there for you to read and you use your Logic to sort what is true from false. I myself am not the incarnation of Logic, everyone has that gift.

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Boiled down:

1. Many religious cultures were also scientifically advanced.

Therefore,

2. Science was hand in hand with all religions.

Therefore,

3. Science and religion are the same thing.


Maybe I got misunderstood here. Look, if during all History, if in almost all religions (except the illogic ones which are themselves even following illogically what is written in the scriptures), science went hand in hand in their socities. Those societies venered their scientists and they were greatly admired and encouraged, opposite from the Vatican for example who claimed to be themselves the incarnation of Logic and forbade writing and reading for 1200 years among many other 'stupid' (illogical) things. If in a big majority of the religions science went hand in hand ( and thats INCLUDING the origin of religions as we know it today, Sumeria), that means science must've been there at the origin of what we call religion today. If you follow a way of life with a way of thought outside of science (Logic), I see NO WAY how during History science then becomes part of religion (your way of life). If you're illogic you stay illogic and even get worst just like the retarded Middle Ages in Europe. Which is why most major religions (Logical ones with real 'out of this world and time for that time' founders) then converted plenty of other people in their days seeing that calling a fire god 5 times doesnt cure sickness but a certain plant does. What makes sense (logically) always makes sense (logically) and people naturally (logically) go towards Logic (source of goodness). Which is why so many converted, if it works, IT WORKS. Therefore science was there at the beginning of religion, which is also why the medicinal knowledge, mathematics, architecture, ALL comes from those ancient days and that is was even more advanced than ours today (pyramids from America to China, Mayan Calendar for their time, Babylonian battery with electrolites, the list goes on, it's 'out of their time' but still logical to use today but still not completely). And if those Logical (in every aspect of their society) people (Sumerians, origin of all modern religion and oldest and origin of society we know of as today) themselves claimed that that knowledge they were given came from real live Gods and not themselves, I don't see how 'logically' they could of been lying.

Just for example, the zodiac constellations in space come from Sumeria which then emrged into Babylon after 6000 years. When you KNOW the Logic of the zodiac constellation (which really exist), first off you have to know that the Earth is round and not flat. To know that the Earth is round you have to fully understand the Logic (mathematics) of why the Earth is really round and is a planet in space with stars. Therefore, how can you logically explain that after several thousand years, people started believing that the Earth was flat but still kept the zodiac signs as being very 'real' if they were supposed to have themselves discovered ('fully understood') that the Earth was round in the past. What I see as a STRONG possibility, is that they were told but not fully explained bc they just simply didnt have enough Logic at that time which is why they wrote down what 'somebody' (somebodies) told them but didn't understood WHY and HOW they exist.

The same thing if for example I tell a 'magic believing' (illogical) person, don't eat that poisonous plant it'll kill you. You fully understand that that plant has toxins etc, you know all of its composition (with science) to be sure of yourself that that plant is poisonous. That other ignorant person doesnt fully understood though but trusts you nevertheless. If that same person sees someone around them go eat that plant and die. Without knowing the full Logic of the toxins inside that plant, it's still going to realize that what I had told him is true (plant is poisonous and can kill you) but by not having yourself fully understoof the Logic of the fact and discovered it yourself, it's always (and a very STRONG one too) possible for you to go into 'illogical' reasons ('God's malediction, the boogieman caught you blablabla =  which just really scientifcally means a logic error occrued and killed you) added to what I said to try and explain why that plant is possible. What I said is still true, but the 'theories' (coating) surrounding WHY what I said is true can still be false. Nevertheless, if you follow Logic, with time you'll discover why what I said back then was really true. Back to the zodiac constellations for example (which is a SMALL example of what logic and smart archeologists know of the precision of their knowledge of Space including the existence of another 'inhabited' planet in our solar system with loud and clear (AND ALWAYS POSSIBLE) explanations which go in the sense that what science is discovering today.  Planet X.). If the discoveries were made by those people themselves, there would be no reason as to why they (we as humanity) later fell into illogisms but still keept the 'reality' of the facts (zodiac constellations in space and seen from a round Earth).

As for the counterproof, I read it. it's bullshit. Maybe because I got misunderstood or that you yourself are illogic ut I agree that it's bullshit what you wrote in your counterprood. That's not what I'm saying at all.

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Nope, sorry. Just because two things often exist simultaneously does not mean they are the same thing. In the case of religion vs. science, they in fact have existed at odds in many cases. If you look closer at the history of these religious cultures, you will see a period of scientific development, but after that, you will see a period of scientific stagnation. It is at this point that religion and science are at odds. Religion either starts to contradict scientific findings, causing those who pursue science to be condemned as heretics, or religious rules prevent certain experiments that would advance science (such as the current ban on stem-cell research).


Like I said before, the whole counterproof you wrote is bullshit (but you already know that too I supposed, it's sarcasm). Throughout history religion and science were at odds because illogic people for an illogical reason perceived both to be two separate things when in its origin science WAS religion (way of life) and the religion (way of life) WAS science (using Logic and mathematics). You know, the greatest trick the devil (source ofIllogism) ever pulled was making people believe he didn't exist and at the same time making people believe at the same time God (source of Logic) didn't exist. Why? Because it's illogic and people who are illogic truly believe (thinking it's logic) that their own illogisms are logic. You see it everyday, people who believe they are the very incarnation of Logic and that others know nothing, that is true close mindedness. I never said in History there were PERFECT religions, but almost all religions followed Logic in how they could and the scientific advances were made until they reached a certain stagnation. Just like it was before Einstein came and revolutionez everything (still Logically) and science continued to advance. Just like at how much we have advanced in the last 50 years and we are barely touching the 4th dimension (time and space, gravity, quantum maths, teleportation is very real) already. There is NOTHING perfect INSIDE Logic i in our 3D world. The perfection is ABOVE the 3rd dimension but affecting our world which is why Nature for example is all in harmony and only man (who can either go logically or illogically) can fuck up or better that balance. Religions who contradict scientific discoveries with 'magic' are wrong (the scriptures forbid magic), but just like many scientists today believe in dogmas ('magic', cemented proofs without Logic proofs) themselves. Just look at how many 'scientists' thought Copernic was a nutcase and had him burnt. Just look at Immanuel Velikovsky (who was a cloes friend of Einstein), who not only was treated like a loony also but years after his death science found out that his mathematical theories about the planet Venus WERE right. In this case, Velikovsky WAS Logic and as for the 'scientists' who judged him illogically remain illogicaly and they'll be forgotten in time. He also wrote theories almost exatcly like Stichin found separate about another planet existing but (for an unkown reason) THAT is still called loony even in all his other theories he was proven right. As for the stem-cell research, you're right, 'fundamentalism' was NEVER right (just look at how Jesus, son of 'God', in other words 'out of his time' literally, was harsh with the fundementalist that followed the Torah to the letter without using their own Logic which is where the scriptures themselves come from). But on the same note, being that we are not the origin of our origin nor of what is around you, like I said, it is ILLOGICAL to think you yourself are source of Logic therefore you are allowed to play with Nature (harmony also part of higher Logic). You have no right. You can USE Nature to your benefit and technology is just the Logical expansion for the body to perfect itself, but playing 'God' and CHANGING things in Nature is sure to fuck you up since you are part of the same world on which you play with your 'experiments'. But most people today really believe they are the source of Logic, which is why the world is getting more and more fucked up. No, it's not a coincidence. It's logical because people ARE becoming illogical.

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I could go on, but it's not worth my energy. It's much easier to utter bullshit than it is to debunk it, and most of your statements aren't worth the effort of thoroughly debunking. If you wish to gain my regard as a serious intellectual contributor here rather than some wacko, please attempt to defend these points you've made here.


Oh ok, so now you also know the worth of everything and you have no time to 'waste'. Hahaha I'm sorry for you that time doesn't bend itself to you also. I am trying to defend these points, but I'm also suggesting scientific reads where their 'writers' who have (logical) credibility you can learn more. I think you're seeing me as an opponent more than anything. The one in front of you is not 'necessarily' an opponent. Remember that. There is ONE Logic, if it is good for you logically, it is good for everyone. Anyways, I pointed in the direction of where I can suggest to look for interesting scientific reads, after that, it's up to YOU to use that same Logic to see what is logically true or false. I'm not 'God' (incarnation of Logivc) even if you subconsciously may think that I am. :P It's so easy falling for illogism and raising yourself your own 'Gold Calf' today and either venering it blindly or being against it blindly thinking the gold calf is the real explanation. Everybody seems to be doing, it's the newest trend in town..

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« Reply #177 on: December 15, 2005, 09:24:46 pm »
I believe you should be using "astrophysicist" instead of "astrophysician", Capo. A physician practices medicine, while a physicist practices physics. (Can't pass up a chance to poke fun at physicists. :P )

I can't respond to most of your arguments because I can't get past all the rhetoric, and to me that is usually a sign that the argument is a poor one.

From the little I understand, you seem to think very highly of logic. However, pure logic alone is very unlikely to bring us to the absolute truth you speak of because of the bias inherent from each individual's perspective. The assumptions I have made based on my experience and learning are obviously quite different from yours, as we have come to two very different conclusions about things.

This probably won't be as good as Leebot's, but here's my attempt at an example ad absurdum:

- Girls require time and money.
- Time is money.
- Money is the root of all evil.
- Therefore, by logic and mathematics, girls are :twisted: .

Of course, the direct evidence to support my hypothesis that girls are evil is at best incomplete. Perhaps only the girls I've met are evil, or that the girls I've met are neither evil nor good. And that's just assuming "evil" is an absolute concept, which is unlikely. Something I think is evil might be good to someone else. And if I know from observation that girls are, in fact, NOT evil, well then I've really got problems.

So you see, logical deductions mean nothing without empirical observations to back them up. Indeed, observation with an open mind may be the best way to learn. That said, Capo, you have yet to provide empirical evidence that places your argument as the only possibility, or even the most likely one. Without that, your logic means very little.

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« Reply #178 on: December 15, 2005, 10:16:33 pm »
What are you talking about. There are not two Logics, there is only ONE Logic. One Truth, there are not many truths, what is all this bullshit. 1+1 = 2. In what fucking (illogic) world are you living to think 1+1 can also = 4,5,6. And about my rhetoric, if you want to really argument back, you have to fully understand what I mean because if you don't fully understand what I'm saying in the first place, with who are you 'debating' with. If there's anything you don't understand in what I said, you know, asking questions to what you dont understand about what I said is still possible and even strongly suggested in a logical society. :roll: Before knowledge must come acceptance.

As for that counter argument once again you're off track to what I'm saying.

The proof is written in the existence itself of History (including OURS at the present time since we are still part of History, the flow of time still has an effect on us last time I checked my watch) that religious societies closest to what the the original scriptures said (the 'originals' being in Sumeria and all the other 'religions', way of lives, evolving from there) held science in high regards. Most of the sciences (THE basis for all our science, maths, alphabet, pi, medicines, whatever which still holds society together) we even have today are there because we 'took' from religious societies (and then to claim it as our own 'out of nowhere??' no, it came from THOSE societies for a reason). If religious societies revered sciences (Logic and mathematics) it means from the origin Logic was part of religion, if not that IN the beginning of religion, science WAS religion. But the reason it became distorted is because that knowledge was TOLD and NOT discovered my mankind itself because if it had discovered all that knowledge itself there would've been NO REASONS for mankind to then fall in the Middle Ages or make up dogmas and magic (example of keeping the zodiac constellations as truth but believing in a flat Earth, complete contradiction if you really fully discovered the concept by yourself).

Man, what is it you don't understand to what I'm saying? You think somebody who's stupid (illogic) from the beginning is all of a sudden out of nowhere in time adopt an intelligent (logic) explanation for things? By working with illogisms (2+2=7, 2x3=220, whatever the fuck thats illogic), one day, by your explanation youre gonna find a way to understand that 1+1=2 and that's the only truth. What the fuck? Ok, let's say if I program a program filled with bugs and glitches (illogisms), by your explanation it's still somehow gonna work and hold together without thousands of error messages popping up and the program crashing. No, for somebody to be Logic, he has to stay Logic, Logic (Pure Knowledge) has to survive through time to still be existent in the present. Take away all knowledge (Logic), burn down the libraries, stop ALL the people from going to schools to learn using Logic, eliminate ALL sciences (have all the world believe in magic and calling voodoo boogiemans to heal all our sicknesses instead of real medicine), and welcome to the Middle Ages, even WORST because at least in the Middle Ages they had the least bit of knowledge of what to eat and not to eat and social structure, etc all talked about in the scriptures (which are logical since we are still here even though the Middle Ages was hell of rough for a reason = big illogisms that were present but Logic helped us survive).

All during history, sciences evolved FROM (sciences had their birth from religious societies, you cant change that fact in the past, you can only redefine the present how you want to, and that includes fucking it up now with illogisms if thats what people want also) real religious societies who had as their basis of way of life scriptures of the past. Just because we 'took' that knowledge and then claimed it came from wherever other than these socities doesn't prove that they weren't following Logic in the first place (it's WRITTEN in History, IN the past itself! Think! Man your whole ad absurdum as you call it is completely off track to what I'm saying. Anyway, I (in my own person) don't OWN all the answers to your questions. Maybe some of you here even think that but I'nm not saying I know ALL because I don't. I only know I know nothing Socrates said. Why? Because the fact that I'm speaking now with words doesn't mean I created the alphabet myself and the Logic of building sentences. The reason I'm alive right now is because I know what to eat but it doesn't mean I myself found what to eat and what not to eat myself. ALL THE KNOWLEDGE we presently are using COME from religious societies, you come up with your own conclusions (still using teh same Logic) to why that is so.

You have to follow Logic (same logic as everyone, same ONE Nature, 1+1=2 because it is TRUE for all) to come to your own conclusions. Which is why I suggested you these books. If you want to blind your own 'perceptions' from possibilities of knowledge from great 'astrophysicists' of our time INCLUDING the great Einstein (if you judge he's not credible for an illogic reason and deserve NOT to be read, i don't even wanna know about it), that's not MY problem, it's YOURS. Immanuel Velikovsky, Zecharia Stichin (who in the past has met with NASA astronomers who confirmed that effectively NOTHING that we know today contradicts the knowledge that the sumerians knew (they themselves said, they were TOLD of that knowledge, think what you want) of space, NOTHING contradicts up to now. Even more interesting is that in 2003 an italian astronomer in France calculated judging from gravtitational pulls he noticed in space the VERY REAL possibility of such a planet existing in our solar system. It's in the Science & Vie february 2003 version.



And this is Stichin schematic he had drawn after deciphering the sumerian tablets and that he included in his book in 1976




Coincidence? AGAIN another coincidence? Damn, keep on believing in dogmas just like past scientists who rejected what logical people such as Copernic discovered with mathematics just because he seemed loony or whatever illogic bullshit they based themselves on. If you don't judge that there just might be more than a simple 'coincidence' in all this, fine by YOUR 'logic' (2 logics not being possible = illogic).

Any aspect of sciences today are discovering EXACTLY what the sumerians had already written down. DId you know the human body has 223 genes that somehow appeared during evolution but cannot be attributed solely to evolution? This means, YES, evolution did exist, but in ours and only OUR evolution, 'something' or 'somebodies' messed up and 'unnaturally' made us acquire 223 genes which again (coincidence? again!) are being discovered to have high psychological traits which would explain why we're so different from other 'animals', because we are NOT solely animals, we can THINK, we can SEE Logic if you follow and use it.

http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/articles/05_01/Gene_transfer.shtml
http://whyfiles.org/shorties/079bact_gene/
Stichin's (according what the sumerian tablets speak about the 'creation of man' with more details than in the Bible): http://www.sitchin.com/adam.htm

It's not ONLY called Intelligent Design by some of you dogmatics that like to build your own close mindedness. Evolution (the following of a Logic) DOES exist, but in OUR Evolution, there is something 'strange' that scientists ARE discovering. The missing link still exists as to what I know. And that's just the tip of the iceberg, go inform yourselves on what science is discovering. It's only PROVING (since it's from the same Logic) that what the ancients knew, WAS TRUE and is STILL TRUE. Go inform yourselves instead of being so close minded. Once again, before knowledge (understanding using Logic) must come acceptance (benefit of doubt for no reason but for solely the 'just maybe'). Which is exactly why Jesus (son of Light (beings in the light form after having reached the 4th dimension, something we are barely starting to do wiht quantum maths), Light being the speed of light, energy, traveling in time, just one of the many 'out of time' guides that affected humanity in the past with messages that STILL hold together completely) once said, all men have already sinned (committed logical errors) in the past to the eyes of God (source of Logic, time & space having an effect on us too, in the 4th dimension). To follow Logic in our 3D material dimension which is affected from things in the higher 4th dimension (time & space), you first off have to give the benefit of doubt for no reason but for the 'just maybe' (illogism) to then right after acquiring what the other person said whoever that person is you can switch your Logic back on immediately and analyse it to check using Logic what that guy said is TRUE from the FALSE. But before that's possible, ALL people have to fall into an illogism for even less than 1 second, but it's still there. Before knowledge must come acceptance.

Somebody can give a fish (knowledge) to an ignorant (without knowledge) person all his life, but if that 'Somebody' stops giving you a fish (knowledge) and you don't know HOW to fish or have a way to discover how to fish, too bad for you. Law of survival and natural evolution in itself.

Another book I strongly suggest is Howard Bloom's (called the 'next' Stephen Hawking) book called The Lucifer Principle. It's being praised in all astrophysicist circles and once goes in the same direction of superior entities existing. Real good food for the brain.

http://www.howardbloom.net/

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« Reply #179 on: December 16, 2005, 12:02:19 am »
You have made a poor assumption, Capo. You see, the first time you posted - a few weeks ago, I believe - I made an effort to investigate this Mr. Sitchin of yours, because I wanted to understand your perspective. In an effort to get the whole story, I visited both his website and several less biased ones. Unfortunately, I discovered his ideas to be problematic. The link below summarizes my opinion quite nicely I think.

As counterprogramming to Capo's pro-Sitchin links, I suggest the Skeptic's Dictionary, which has an entry on Sitchin that I found kind of amusing. And for a (hopefully) more neutral source, try Wikipedia.

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Man, what is it you don't understand to what I'm saying? You think somebody who's stupid (illogic) from the beginning is all of a sudden out of nowhere in time adopt an intelligent (logic) explanation for things?

Of course not. I think that intelligence could have evolved over time due to natural selection favoring smarter individuals, with possibly a little help from genetic drift, gene flow, and a mutation here or there. You think that intelligence could not have evolved, and so believe that intelligence was given to humans by some exterior event. From my vantage point, there is far more evidence for the former than for the latter.

You are right in saying that science is making strange and amazing discoveries every day, and has been for the last 500 years. That's what's so great about science! And the best part is that the scientific method allows good scientists to maintain an open mind, and consider the illogical. But an open mind isn't good enough; you must also have a critical mind in order to distinguish truth from fantasy. I assure you that I make an effort to consider the validity of everything I come across, so please don't suggest otherwise.