Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-14 Thread John Mikes
Liz - again my whining about semantix: what would you call (to) - - - k n o w - - - ??? A fetus 'knows' to circualte blood, carry out growing processes, (I am not so sure about instincts) - what I referred to (and as I underwtand Samiya used a similar understanding) was MENTAL activity as

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-14 Thread John Mikes
Thank you, Samiya. I was afraid you wrote me off. John On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: Dear John, In our last exchange, you had mentioned that a fetus does not know anything, and I had wondered whether it was so. Just now I came across this verse

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-14 Thread Samiya Illias
Of course not, John. I am just as much a student as any of you, earnestly seeking to understand and evolve. Please keep discussing. Something I realized upon Liz' response was that the word translated as heart by Pickthall, has variously been translated as intelligence, feelings, and also mind

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-13 Thread LizR
A foetus knows various things, called instincts. -- 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

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-12 Thread Samiya Illias
Dear John, In our last exchange, you had mentioned that a fetus does not know anything, and I had wondered whether it was so. Just now I came across this verse (Quran 16:79) English-Pickthall translation __ And Allah brought you forth from the wombs of your mothers

RE: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-02 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Samiya Illias Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2014 8:54 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! On 02-Jul-2014, at 7:44 am, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-02 Thread Samiya Illias
@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: Pluto bounces back! On 02-Jul-2014, at 7:44 am, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [ mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com everything-list@googlegroups.com

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-02 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:14 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Religion does not stand on the same footing as science. Religion overarches and encompasses

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-02 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 12:46 AM, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Samiya: I don't argue with you (like PGC) I ask a question going back further than this entire discussion: you wrote: *I could say that

RE: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-02 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Samiya Illias Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2014 2:00 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:14 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-02 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: Pluto bounces back! On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:14 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: This invitation to parse the text for some written truth with a capital T does not rise to the same level

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-02 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
] On Behalf Of Samiya Illias Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2014 2:00 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back!       On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:14 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote:     This invitation to parse the text for some

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-02 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
You make statements where the difference between science and theology is a matter of degree: On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 7:32 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: You are being a purist. We all begin with the assumption that an external reality

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-02 Thread meekerdb
On 7/2/2014 9:46 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: Brent has said things sounding like doesn't matter, whatever works who cares how and why, to which my reply is: then we should completely ban all ethical/theological consideration from scientific inquiry. If you think I said science should

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-02 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2014 11:27 AM Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! You make statements where the difference between science and theology is a matter

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-02 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
*Subject:* Re: Pluto bounces back! You make statements where the difference between science and theology is a matter of degree: On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 7:32 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: You are being a purist. We all begin

RE: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-01 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Samiya Illias Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2014 8:04 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 1:31 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Samiya

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-01 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 5:03 AM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 1:31 AM,

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-01 Thread Samiya Illias
What is your definition of factual accuracy? Kindly explain with some examples. Samiya On 01-Jul-2014, at 5:46 pm, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-01 Thread Samiya Illias
: Saturday, June 28, 2014 8:04 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 1:31 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-01 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: What is your definition of factual accuracy? Kindly explain with some examples. You posted on this list bringing up factual accuracy regarding the Quran, if I remember correctly. This is why I posed the question in a

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-01 Thread Samiya Illias
Now I see why I am unable to answer you. Thanks for explaining! So, in principle, you are against any claims of factual accuracy from any person or religion, and therefore prejudiced against all scriptures? Given that I am convinced about the Quran being the truth from God, and you convinced that

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-01 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: Now I see why I am unable to answer you. Thanks for explaining! So, in principle, you are against any claims of factual accuracy from any person or religion, and therefore prejudiced against all scriptures? That

RE: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-01 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Samiya Illias Now I see why I am unable to answer you. Thanks for explaining! So, in principle, you are against any claims of factual accuracy from any person or religion, and therefore

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-01 Thread Samiya Illias
On 02-Jul-2014, at 7:44 am, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Samiya Illias Now I see why I am unable to answer you. Thanks for

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-01 Thread Samiya Illias
On 02-Jul-2014, at 7:31 am, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: Now I see why I am unable to answer you. Thanks for explaining! So, in principle, you are against any claims of factual

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-01 Thread LizR
Just a thought. If I was god, and I was in communication with the puny beings I had created, given free will, threatened with eternal damnation but then said they had a chance at salvation as long as they lick my metaphorical boots with regular prayers and so on, which I think is a perfectly

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-30 Thread Samiya Illias
] *On Behalf Of *Samiya Illias *Sent:* Saturday, June 28, 2014 8:04 PM *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: Pluto bounces back! On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 1:31 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Samiya Illias

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-30 Thread Samiya Illias
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 5:03 AM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 1:31 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: I respect a possible god's

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-30 Thread John Mikes
Dear Samiya: I don't argue with you (like PGC) I ask a question going back further than this entire discussion: you wrote: *I could say that as I studied and observed the beauty and the patterns in nature, the finest details, I became convinced that there had to be a Creator behind it, but that

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-29 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 5:03 AM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 1:31 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: I respect a possible god's creation more than thinking it somebody's job to convert people. This makes god's

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-28 Thread LizR
On 1 June 2014 10:15, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Dr. Marchal, you should ask about the Ahmadi sect of Islam who are hated by most of the Sunni and Shia Didn't they divorce in 1975? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-28 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: On 27-Jun-2014, at 3:50 pm, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, let’s leave aside whether this is a book

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-28 Thread Samiya Illias
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: On 27-Jun-2014, at 3:50 pm, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 9:34

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-28 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: Another example: does the Quran allow for possibility that it could be wrong etc? PGC No, it doesn't, as explained

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-28 Thread Samiya Illias
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 1:31 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: Another example: does

RE: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-28 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 1:31 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-27 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, let’s leave aside whether this is a book about God by humans, or a book from God about humans. Why? It makes a

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-27 Thread LizR
On 27 June 2014 23:07, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, let’s leave aside whether this is a book about God by humans, or a book from God about humans. Let’s discuss the factual accuracy part first.

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-27 Thread David Nyman
On 27 June 2014 12:24, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: I can call forth spirits from the vasty deep! Why, so can I, and so can any man; but do they come when you do call them? (Shakespeare, I'm not sure which play offhand, or who said it ... or if I quoted it accurately ... but I'm sure you

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-27 Thread meekerdb
On 6/27/2014 4:24 AM, LizR wrote: On 27 June 2014 23:07, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com mailto:yann...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com mailto:samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, let’s leave aside whether this is a book

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-27 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 1:45 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/27/2014 4:24 AM, LizR wrote: On 27 June 2014 23:07, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, let’s leave aside whether this is

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! On 23 Jun 2014, at 18:39, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Dear John, it is wasted time and effort to argue who is right in a question that raises 2 billion children in a 'faith

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 25 Jun 2014, at 06:46, meekerdb wrote: On 6/24/2014 12:39 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Google does not seem to know of its existence. The net does not know everything, and contains a lot of propaganda of many kinds. Bruno Have you read Scott Aaronson's latest blog in which he

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-26 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
ever will. Brent -Original Message- From: meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, Jun 25, 2014 12:58 pm Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! On 6/25/2014 4:34 AM, spudboy100 via Everything List

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 25 Jun 2014, at 18:34, meekerdb wrote: On 6/25/2014 12:59 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: What is a crime is often defined by religion That makes sense in primitive society, but religion might have nothing to say on the terrestrial plane. You confuse religion, and the

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 25 Jun 2014, at 03:57, meekerdb wrote: On 6/23/2014 7:47 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: There is a problem with radical islamism, but the real problem is in the exploitation of that problem by bandits to hide their lucrative criminal activities. This is naive. Bandits do lucrative criminal

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-25 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
used to come across them with monotonous regularity - the Organians and all that. -Original Message- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Jun 24, 2014 9:28 pm Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! On 25 June 2014 03:34, spudboy100

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-25 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
would not that I should reign overthem, bring hither, and slay them before me. --- Jesus, Luke 19:27 -Original Message- From: meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Jun 24, 2014 9:57 pm Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-25 Thread meekerdb
On 6/25/2014 12:59 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: What is a crime is often defined by religion That makes sense in primitive society, but religion might have nothing to say on the terrestrial plane. You confuse religion, and the institutionalization of religion. and it often includes

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-25 Thread meekerdb
bounces back! On 6/23/2014 7:47 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: There is a problem with radical islamism, but the real problem is in the exploitation of that problem by bandits to hide their lucrative criminal activities. This is naive. Bandits do lucrative criminal acts to get money which can purchase

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-25 Thread John Mikes
- From: meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Jun 24, 2014 9:57 pm Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! On 6/23/2014 7:47 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: There is a problem with radical islamism, but the real problem is in the exploitation

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-25 Thread LizR
-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Jun 24, 2014 9:28 pm Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! On 25 June 2014 03:34, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: What about this Irish Times article? It seems to be out of the box thinking. I don't know

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-25 Thread LizR
On 26 June 2014 04:58, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/25/2014 4:34 AM, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: Brent, Jesus people don't become murdering martyr's anymore, Well there are those who murder abortion doctors. But lucrative criminal acts includes a lot more than

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Jun 2014, at 18:39, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Dear John, it is wasted time and effort to argue who is right in a question that raises 2 billion children in a 'faith' they will live by - AND such 'faith'

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-24 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/what-if-god-were-part-of-the-natural-order-1.1836816 -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Jun 24, 2014 3:39 am Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! On 23 Jun 2014, at 18:39, Richard

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-24 Thread John Mikes
everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Jun 24, 2014 3:39 am Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! On 23 Jun 2014, at 18:39, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Dear John, it is wasted time and effort to argue who is right

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-24 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Jun 24, 2014 3:39 am Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! On 23 Jun 2014, at 18:39, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Dear John, it is wasted time

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-24 Thread LizR
On 25 June 2014 03:34, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: What about this Irish Times article? It seems to be out of the box thinking. I don't know, if true, that it has any value for the human species? But it might in my imagination. My imagination, plus

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-24 Thread meekerdb
On 6/23/2014 7:47 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: There is a problem with radical islamism, but the real problem is in the exploitation of that problem by bandits to hide their lucrative criminal activities. This is naive. Bandits do lucrative criminal acts to get money which can purchase goods,

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-24 Thread meekerdb
On 6/24/2014 12:39 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Google does not seem to know of its existence. The net does not know everything, and contains a lot of propaganda of many kinds. Bruno Have you read Scott Aaronson's latest blog in which he discusses the application of Google technology to

RE: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-24 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 9:46 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! On 6/24/2014 12:39 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Google does not seem to know

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
Dear John, it is wasted time and effort to argue who is right in a question that raises 2 billion children in a 'faith' they will live by - AND such 'faith' does include the killing of 'infidels' (meaning: who do not share their faith to the last comma) and many more peculiarities which

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
Samiya, On 21 Jun 2014, at 10:17, Samiya Illias wrote: Bruno, Thanks for the advise! I never intended to be not humble or not modest, but perhaps I've not been very clear in expressing myself and my beliefs. Thanks, I might have been a bit rude. Sorry. But at some point we will have to

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-23 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Dear John, it is wasted time and effort to argue who is right in a question that raises 2 billion children in a 'faith' they will live by - AND such 'faith' does include the killing of 'infidels' (meaning: who do not

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-22 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
The blasphemy problem concerning religious text that was brought up by Bruno in this thread, is present in Christianity/bible. What I have difficulty understanding is how people who know that their God has irreducible attributes that we cannot begin to comprehend, stick so close to a text, that

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-21 Thread Samiya Illias
Bruno, Thanks for the advise! I never intended to be not humble or not modest, but perhaps I've not been very clear in expressing myself and my beliefs. When I speak of faith being God's gift, it doesn't mean necessarily being a Muslim. In Quran, 2:62, we read: 'Lo! Those who believe (in that

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2014-06-21 Thread John Mikes
Dear Samiya: I was raised a 'believer' and studied several religions to end up as a scientific agnostic who does not know the 'why'-s and 'how'-s but asks questions about items other people believe in. Many yeas ago on a different list I engaged in a discussion when an irate 'believer' bursted

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-21 Thread Samiya Illias
Dear John, According to what I read in the Quran and my understanding of it, all of us humans, men and women, are in pledge for our beliefs and our deeds (Quran 52:21), and will benefit from our truthfulness (Quran 5:119). We are all being tested, and all those who pass this terrestrial exam and

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 May 2014, at 05:33, Samiya Illias wrote: On 28-May-2014, at 10:12 pm, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Ok, so let's talk some specifics. Islamists issued death sentences on people for artistic expression. Famously on Salman Rushdie for writing a book, and several

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-20 Thread John Mikes
Dear Bruno, it is wasted time and effort to argue who is right in a question that raises 2 billion children in a 'faith' they will live by - AND such 'faith' does include the killing of 'infidels' (meaning: who do not share their faith to the last comma) and many more peculiarities which our

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-20 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, June 20, 2014 2:11 PM Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! On 29 May 2014, at 05:33, Samiya Illias wrote: On 28-May-2014, at 10:12 pm, Telmo Menezes te

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2014-06-16 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
anyone going to war -Original Message- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sun, Jun 15, 2014 10:00 pm Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! On 16 June 2014 00:09, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote

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2014-06-16 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sun, Jun 15, 2014 10:07 pm Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! On 16 June 2014 14:00, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 June 2014 00:09, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: I style myself as informed about

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-16 Thread Richard Ruquist
, Jun 15, 2014 10:07 pm Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! On 16 June 2014 14:00, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 June 2014 00:09, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: I style myself as informed about the aggressor. The clash of civilizations

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2014-06-16 Thread ghibbsa
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2014-06-16 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, Jun 16, 2014 1:40 pm Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! Hitler supporters, at least the ones that actually gave financial support, were mainly rich conservatives like Prescott Bush. Richard On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 1:05 PM, spudboy100 via

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2014-06-16 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Message- From: ghibbsa ghib...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, Jun 16, 2014 2:05 pm Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! On Monday, June 16, 2014 1:49:08 AM UTC+great feat saying that one is anti-war, when they claimed is merely, anti-American military

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2014-06-16 Thread ghibbsa
On Monday, June 16, 2014 7:53:07 PM UTC+1, spudb...@aol.com wrote: 1. 9-11 in the US answered all questions regarding the Islamists as fair as I am concerned. 2. The applied standard for patriotism is doing actions that help the US survive long enough until the genuine AI is achieved,

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-16 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, Jun 16, 2014 3:41 pm Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! On Monday, June 16, 2014 7:53:07 PM UTC+1, spudb...@aol.com wrote: 1. 9-11 in the US answered all questions regarding the Islamists as fair as I am concerned. 2. The applied standard

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-15 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 1:27 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 June 2014 03:37, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: Spudboy (whatever that may mean) I was 22 when burried under bombing ruins during WWII - and dug out by the enemy due to my good fluency in their language. I was also

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-15 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
: RE: Pluto bounces back! From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2014 5:41 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! I submit that with the official religion of Afghanistan

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Jun 2014, at 01:27, LizR wrote: On 15 June 2014 03:37, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: Spudboy (whatever that may mean) I was 22 when burried under bombing ruins during WWII - and dug out by the enemy due to my good fluency in their language. I was also arrested by a Gestapo-like

RE: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-15 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
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Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-15 Thread LizR
On 16 June 2014 00:09, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: I style myself as informed about the aggressor. The clash of civilizations is already here, and has been here, off and on for a few decades, in its contemporary form. I do point out that many of the

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-15 Thread LizR
On 16 June 2014 14:00, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 June 2014 00:09, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: I style myself as informed about the aggressor. The clash of civilizations is already here, and has been here, off and on for a few decades, in

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-14 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
it that is. -Original Message- From: 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, Jun 13, 2014 3:38 pm Subject: RE: Pluto bounces back! From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-14 Thread John Mikes
: 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, Jun 13, 2014 3:38 pm Subject: RE: Pluto bounces back! *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [ mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com everything-list

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-14 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
am Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! Spudboy (whatever that may mean) I was 22 when burried under bombing ruins during WWII - and dug out by the enemy due to my good fluency in their language. I was also arrested by a Gestapo-like facility (talked out myself) and later by the commis

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-14 Thread LizR
Afghanistan – which I have lived in before the Russians – has suffered war imposed on it by the great powers (of the era) since the British Raj. It is easy to blame these victims of a forty year state of war – counting from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; it is a little bit harder to

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-14 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, Jun 14, 2014 5:54 pm Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! Afghanistan – which I have lived in before the Russians – has suffered war imposed on it by the great powers (of the era) since the British Raj. It is easy

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-14 Thread LizR
On 15 June 2014 03:37, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: Spudboy (whatever that may mean) I was 22 when burried under bombing ruins during WWII - and dug out by the enemy due to my good fluency in their language. I was also arrested by a Gestapo-like facility (talked out myself) and later

RE: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-14 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2014 5:41 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! I submit that with the official religion of Afghanistan, and with the enablement of Sharia

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-13 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 12 Jun 2014, at 13:39, Telmo Menezes wrote: The inconceivable freedom is in your heart, but give time to time, You are right and I'll shut up now :) Please don't shut up! As long as we stay polite the fun is in

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Jun 2014, at 15:41, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 12 Jun 2014, at 13:39, Telmo Menezes wrote: The inconceivable freedom is in your heart, but give time to time, You are right and I'll shut up now :) Please

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-13 Thread meekerdb
On 6/13/2014 6:41 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 12 Jun 2014, at 13:39, Telmo Menezes wrote: The inconceivable freedom is in your heart, but give time to time, You are right

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-13 Thread John Mikes
Telmo: I am a multilinguist (similar to you I suppose) and consider the word 'democracy' as the rule Cratos of DEMOS. the totality of people. You (and probably others, too) mean It as a practical political format based on expression of desire by MANY (majority - called) 'voters'. Although it

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-13 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 13 Jun 2014, at 15:41, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 12 Jun 2014, at 13:39, Telmo Menezes wrote: The inconceivable freedom is in your heart, but

RE: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-13 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 10:06 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! Yes, cycles absolutely can be broken, last things first, but first, people have to see

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-13 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 8:26 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/13/2014 6:41 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 12 Jun 2014, at 13:39, Telmo Menezes wrote: The inconceivable freedom is in your heart, but

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