Brent, please acknowledge that aside from the divine right of kings, the Atheist-Marxists did exactly the identical badness under the leaderships of Stalin,Mao, Pol Pot, the Kim Dynasty in North Korean, slaughtered tens of millions, tortured, deprived women of rights, slave labor, and specialized, in torture. All these scientific socialsts, all athesists. Just a way of putting things into perspective.
Mitch "Peasent: Hey! That's a good idea! God: Of course it's a good idea, you idiot!" ----Monty Python and the Holy Grail Of course this ethic requiredness supported slavery, ethnic cleansing, divine ight of ings, faith over inquiry, ignorance over knowledge, oppression of women, and nfinite orture for unbelievers. Brent Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of is Reason." --- Martin Luther -----Original Message----- From: meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Thu, Jul 4, 2013 8:19 pm Subject: Re: John Leslie's 'Infinite Minds: A Philosophical Cosmology' On 7/4/2013 5:02 PM, freqflyer07281972 wrote: Hey List! (and in particular Bruno) I have started re-reading the book I mention in the subject line -- after anguishing in my bookshelf for a number of years, I pulled it out and began noticing the ncanny parallels it had with Bruno's UDA, although it reaches the same conclusions by ome rather different means, notably; it postulates God as the thinker of all houghts, envisioning god in a Spinozistic/Platonic light, and (something that from what have read seems absent from the UDA) postulates the 'ethical requiredness' of God s being of enough force to bring him into being, thus short-circuiting the old " If God xists, what caused him to exist?" type of argument. Yeah, "postulating" is a good way to short circuit arguments (and burn out ational wiring). > I guess my general question is if any of you are familiar with Leslie's work nd if so, to what degree, and also if so, to what degree do you find it plausible? Myself, I seem to be going through a kind of metaphysical conversion of sorts, ne where, despite the multiplicity of minds/universes, there nevertheless seems o be an unspeakable and seemingly permanent unity to all things. I'm almost leaning owards Christianity, for the simple reason that it seems peculiar and particular nough to just be right and suitable to reality. (Reading CS Lewis' 'Mere Christianity' has wayed me in this way -- check it out, it's online). Of course this ethic requiredness supported slavery, ethnic cleansing, divine ight of ings, faith over inquiry, ignorance over knowledge, oppression of women, and nfinite orture for unbelievers. Brent Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of is Reason." --- Martin Luther -- ou received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List" group. o unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email o everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. o post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. isit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. or more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.