"All religions are complete systems. Some people consider them useful,
but I'm not sure it classifies as "the real world".
:-)"

I've wondered about that...I suspect that if God exists, then He is true but unprovable in any useful system!

-TD

PS: According to Godel's biographer, Godel at one point passed around a proof of the existence of God! (But towards the end of his life he also started wearing a surgical mask everywhere and became intensely germaphobic...)



From: Mike Rosing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 08:26:02 -0800 (PST)

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Tyler Durden wrote:

> Damn what a pack of geeks! (Looks like I might end up liking this list!)

It's full of nut cases too :-)

> I have not, however, heretofore considered that there could exist systems
> that had some form of completeness built in. My intuition (which is easily
> wrong) tells me that no such system could ever be useful in the real world,
> but who the heck knows?

All religions are complete systems. Some people consider them useful,
but I'm not sure it classifies as "the real world".
:-)

Patience, persistence, truth,
Dr. mike

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