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by Thomas Knierim
Tue Feb 03, 2004 2:23 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: Pantheism
Replies: 60
Views: 70258

Re: Ooops

<t><span style="color:white;">David: You'd laugh uproariously at anything along these lines, no matter how tasteless or lame it is.</span> <br/> <br/> Well, you got me there. :-D<br/> <br/> <span style="color:white;">David: But it is interesting that it attempts to depict Kevin and myself engaging i...
by Thomas Knierim
Tue Feb 03, 2004 11:30 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Quantum mechanics and David's Ultimate Reality
Replies: 160
Views: 154278

Re: Quantum mechanics and David's Ultimate Reality

Hey, that sounds great! Just a few questions. Will ESPN cover it and when can we see it? Who is going to act as umpire? Standard ITF Tennis rules, I suppose?

Looking forward to it.

Thomas
by Thomas Knierim
Tue Feb 03, 2004 11:13 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Pantheism
Replies: 60
Views: 70258

Re: Ooops

<t><span style="color:white;">Lyrutan: David Quinn and Kevin Solway have developed a new version of pantheism, which they term "mantheism." Asked to comment on the essence of their religion, Quinn stated "it's raining men, hallelujah!" Worship rituals reportedly include a ceremony in which adherents...
by Thomas Knierim
Fri Jan 30, 2004 4:10 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: Quantum mechanics and David's Ultimate Reality
Replies: 160
Views: 154278

Re: clicks

<t><span style="color:white;">Kevin: Lots of things are random.</span> <br/> <br/> That's a funny thing to say for a determinist, don't you think?<br/> <br/> <span style="color:white;">It might be useful to know some of the causes of what makes a click exactly when it does, but it's not necessarily ...
by Thomas Knierim
Fri Jan 30, 2004 1:44 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: Quantum mechanics and David's Ultimate Reality
Replies: 160
Views: 154278

Re: mysterious clicks

<r>You don't have to get a real Geiger counter. The operating principle is explained here: <a href="<URL url="http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/wgeiger.html%22%3Ewww-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/Ed...eiger.html%3C/a"><LINK_TEXT text="http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education ... er.html</a">http://www-ist...
by Thomas Knierim
Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:23 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: Quantum mechanics and David's Ultimate Reality
Replies: 160
Views: 154278

Re: Quantum mechanics and David's Ultimate Reality

<t><span style="color:white;">Leo: Will you just stop a minute and look at what you're saying? How can these scientists possibly know that these so-called non-causal processes were in fact without cause?</span><br/> <br/> Leo, if you believe in causality, then please explain the clicks in a Geiger c...
by Thomas Knierim
Thu Jan 29, 2004 7:29 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Girl shortage in China?
Replies: 20
Views: 26103

Re: Yin-Yang-Meiosis-Alleles

<t><span style="color:white;">Jimhaz: If yin/yang were not merely observed coincidence then the ratio would be constant.</span><br/> <br/> Is it possible that you misunderstand the I Ching? The I Ching does not say that Yin and Yang must occur in perfect balance. It says that Yin and Yang struggle f...
by Thomas Knierim
Thu Jan 29, 2004 7:08 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Pantheism
Replies: 60
Views: 70258

Re: ---

<t><span style="color:white;">Anna: I do indeed think that the startup of new species is something we have no clue about...</span><br/> <br/> You don't think that adaptation (mutation, recombination, and selection being played out in evolutionary time) does account for it? Ah, but let me read Mr. We...
by Thomas Knierim
Thu Jan 29, 2004 6:51 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Girl shortage in China?
Replies: 20
Views: 26103

Re: I don't feel China have girl shortage.

<t><span style="color:white;">David: If a contageous virus were to suddenly strike everyone with XY chromosomes the world over, killing the victims within hours, then it is probable that the entire population of males would be wiped out.</span><br/> <br/> But has not yet been observed. It is a fabri...
by Thomas Knierim
Wed Jan 28, 2004 1:42 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: Modifying significant concepts to suit women
Replies: 40
Views: 48944

Re: Modifying significant concepts to suit women

<t><span style="color:white;">David: Sure, males have defined what greatness is. That goes without saying. It doesn't mean, though, that they deliberately defined greatness in a way that excluded women.</span><br/> <br/> Tell us another. It means precisely that.<br/> <br/> <span style="color:white;"...
by Thomas Knierim
Wed Jan 28, 2004 8:34 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Pantheism
Replies: 60
Views: 70258

Re: ---

<r><span style="color:white;">Naturyl: It is very rare to run into anyone who understands what animism is and refers to themselves as such. Since I'm sure you understand what the term means, I'm curious as to why you would adopt it.</span><br/> <br/> Yeah, that would interest me too. It seems that a...
by Thomas Knierim
Wed Jan 28, 2004 8:28 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Modifying significant concepts to suit women
Replies: 40
Views: 48944

Re: Modifying significant concepts to suit women

<t><span style="color:white;">David: Thomas, Do any these female artists possess the greatness of a Michelangelo or a Picasso?</span> <br/> <br/> Well, greatness is culturally construed, so there are few female artists who have been idealized as much as those artists you mentioned. It's a result of ...
by Thomas Knierim
Wed Jan 28, 2004 7:29 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Pantheism
Replies: 60
Views: 70258

Re: ---

<t>Though the word 'pantheism' is an oxymoron, I am very sympathetic to the cause of pantheism. It runs in the family. My granddad was a pantheist. At the age of 20, when I read the classics, I would not have hesitated to accept the label. By now it seems too Greek to me. The 'theism' part is somewh...
by Thomas Knierim
Wed Jan 28, 2004 6:54 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Modifying significant concepts to suit women
Replies: 40
Views: 48944

Re: Modifying significant concepts to suit women

<r><span style="color:white;">David: Of interest to me is the way society's traditional notions of what constitutes great art have either been modified or abandoned in order to create the illusion that woman are as good at art as men are.</span><br/> <br/> This is a fairly idiotic conclusion, since ...
by Thomas Knierim
Wed Jan 28, 2004 6:15 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Quantum mechanics and David's Ultimate Reality
Replies: 160
Views: 154278

Re: Quantum mechanics and David's Ultimate Reality

<t><span style="color:white;">Anna: And for the home team: What is this notion of understanding causality in a spiritual way?</span><br/> <br/> That is a good question to ask. Since I feel that this thread has detriorated quite a bit, perhaps we could start a new thread called "Spiritual Causality" ...
by Thomas Knierim
Tue Jan 27, 2004 5:12 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: Quantum mechanics and David's Ultimate Reality
Replies: 160
Views: 154278

Re: Quantum mechanics and David's Ultimate Reality

<t><span style="color:white;">Kevin: Presumably you think that some accessory circumstances are not causes, but I can't for the life of me imagine why.</span><br/> <br/> Accessory circumstances seem to be the pillars of David's argument. Why don't they count as causes? - The answer is simple. - Beca...
by Thomas Knierim
Tue Jan 27, 2004 1:19 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: Quantum mechanics and David's Ultimate Reality
Replies: 160
Views: 154278

Re: Quantum mechanics and David's Ultimate Reality

<t><span style="color:white;">David: You don't understand causality with your own mind in a spiritual sense.</span><br/> <br/> Aha, now we are coming closer to the core of your argument, which is -how could it be otherwise- spiritual. You seem to maintain a spiritual attachment to the idea of causal...
by Thomas Knierim
Tue Jan 27, 2004 11:18 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Quantum mechanics and David's Ultimate Reality
Replies: 160
Views: 154278

Re: Quantum mechanics and David's Ultimate Reality

<t><span style="color:white;">David: They don't help a person understand the soul of causality, which is where you are lacking, Thomas.</span><br/> <br/> The soul of causality? Oh well. I think now it is YOU who sounds like a bible-banging parish priest. Let's call it the church of cause.<br/> <br/>...
by Thomas Knierim
Tue Jan 27, 2004 9:41 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Quantum mechanics and David's Ultimate Reality
Replies: 160
Views: 154278

Re: Quantum mechanics and David's Ultimate Reality

<t><span style="color:white;">Krussel: I find it most astounding that scientists of all people would think that particles or matter of any kind would exist or occur without cause.</span><br/> <br/> Well, QM is admittedly counterintuitive. Every scientist would agree with that. There is no way to und...
by Thomas Knierim
Mon Jan 26, 2004 4:15 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: hell is other people: fate or farce?
Replies: 19
Views: 22864

Re: hell is other people: fate or farce?

<t><span style="color:white;">David: That a particle cannot possibly arise if the process of causality deploys a sufficiently destructive force at the moment of its birth is necessarily true from a logical point of view. End of story.</span><br/> <br/> Yes, but what does this prove? It proves nothin...
by Thomas Knierim
Mon Jan 26, 2004 9:27 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Ne Plus Ultra
Replies: 60
Views: 67268

Re: The closed system

<t><span style="color:white;">Kevin: It is a very serious thing to accuse someone of misogyny.</span><br/> <br/> I don't make accusations; I am only stating the obvious, and that's hardly libel. It seems that most participants and observers here seem to agree with my description.<br/> <br/> <span st...
by Thomas Knierim
Mon Jan 26, 2004 9:13 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Ne Plus Ultra
Replies: 60
Views: 67268

Re: ----

<t><span style="color:white;">Naturyl: If QRS thinking regarding women had widespread influence, it would only be a matter of time before some misguided but 'well-meaning' leader or government initiated a "final solution to the female problem." It is defintely not safe to promote such ideas, and Bir...
by Thomas Knierim
Sat Jan 24, 2004 12:54 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: Ne Plus Ultra
Replies: 60
Views: 67268

Re: The closed system

<t><span style="color:white;">David: As some of you may have heard, I was recently expelled from the Ne Plus Ultra forum. Unfortunately, the owner closed the forum from the view of outsiders on the same day as kicking me off, and so very few people have had a chance to see what had happened. I have ...
by Thomas Knierim
Sat Jan 24, 2004 7:07 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Re: staff
Replies: 19
Views: 19424

Re: staff

<t><span style="color:white;">Rhett: The deluded mind perceives things as being inherently finite, and upon this develops all manner of additional false notions.<br/> <br/> The enlightened mind is wholly undeluded.<br/> <br/> I've gone wholly beyond such thoughts because they're riddled with faulty ...
by Thomas Knierim
Wed Jan 21, 2004 8:48 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: hell is other people: fate or farce?
Replies: 19
Views: 22864

Re: hell is other people: fate or farce?

<t><span style="color:white;">David: Science constantly engages in hypothesizing.</span><br/> <br/> This is really getting quite silly. Science does engage in hypothesizing, okay, but an unsubstantiated hypothesis cannot be used to prove another hypothesis, since it doesn't offer any support. A (phy...