Bruno Marchal via googlegroups.com wrote:
> >> There is no "maybe" about it, when it comes to the meaning of words >> the majority is ALWAYS right, > > > > If you are right, then physicists are wrong on many word, as a i saw in > a BBC broadcasting where people were interviewed on many elementary notion > in physics, and have shown to have a pregalilean physics. What the hell does that have to do with the price of eggs? Physical ideas are objectively true or false, but the definition of words is subjective. Words mean whatever the most people say they mean, and the entire point of words is communication, so if you have your own private meaning of a word known by nobody but you then it is utterly useless. > Then you confuse the greek-indian notion of God, Confuse my ass! This has NOTHING to do with God, this has to do with the meaning of words and nothing more . Words have no intrinsic meaning, the only meaning word have is the meaning people decide to give them. and those meanings always change with time. In Shakespeare's day if you were "egregious" then you were distinguished, if you were "nice" then you were silly and if you were "silly" then you were blessed. It would be silly (and I don't mean blessed) to say we're right and Shakespeare was wrong, we were both right in our day because people have changed they mind about what words mean and the majority is ALWAYS right. > Yet, christians, like muslims and jews have kept alive their platonic > roots/tradition, and in that sense, > > can be said less wrong than some materialist theory. Why some atheists > are so inclined to forget all about a millenium of rational theology is > weird, This has NOTHING to do with Christians, Muslims, Jews, Plato, rationalists, materialists, theology or atheists; this has to do with vocabulary and the fact that words mean what the majority of people say they mean. And what the majority of people say a word means always changes; as of 2017 the English word "G-O-D" means a omnipotent omniscient intelligent conscious being who created the universe. T hat point is not even worth of debate, today that's just what people mean by that word, except of course for people who for whatever the reason are afraid to use the word "atheist" to describe themselves, so for them the English word "G-O-D" means a fuzzy grey blob that is non-intelligent and non-conscious and not a person, and that's just silly. And I don't mean blessed. John K Clark -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
