Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Jan 2013, at 08:26, meekerdb wrote: On 1/11/2013 10:19 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Jan 2013, at 19:59, meekerdb wrote: Since most of these people were theists, I found it easier to just say, "I'm an atheist", because that succinctly conveys (to those who respect the meaning o

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-14 Thread meekerdb
On 1/11/2013 10:19 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Jan 2013, at 19:59, meekerdb wrote: On 1/10/2013 8:02 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 Jan 2013, at 20:17, meekerdb wrote: On 1/9/2013 2:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 Jan 2013, at 01:01, meekerdb wrote: On 1/8/2013 12:25 PM, Alberto G

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jan 2013, at 19:59, meekerdb wrote: On 1/10/2013 8:02 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 Jan 2013, at 20:17, meekerdb wrote: On 1/9/2013 2:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 Jan 2013, at 01:01, meekerdb wrote: On 1/8/2013 12:25 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Le me add some meat here N

Re: Re: Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-12 Thread Roger Clough
ct: Re: Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism. Hi Rog, Crystals are not gases- req'd for Charles law to apply. Rich On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Roger Clough wrote: > Hi Richard Ruquist > > Physicists often do experiemnts on crystals at 0 oK or near th

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jan 2013, at 21:42, meekerdb wrote: On 1/11/2013 10:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Jan 2013, at 20:02, meekerdb wrote: On 1/10/2013 8:06 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Empirical proofs can be ostensive. But I prefer not using "proof" for that. It can only be misleading when we do

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jan 2013, at 17:37, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 Roger Clough wrote: > I don't believe that you can explain perception without God And how do you explain perception WITH God except by saying "God just did it"? If the God theory could actually explain something and not ju

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-11 Thread meekerdb
On 1/11/2013 10:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Jan 2013, at 20:02, meekerdb wrote: On 1/10/2013 8:06 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Empirical proofs can be ostensive. But I prefer not using "proof" for that. It can only be misleading when we do applied logic. I prefer to call that "empiric

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-11 Thread meekerdb
On 1/11/2013 8:37 AM, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 Roger Clough mailto:rclo...@verizon.net>> wrote: > I don't believe that you can explain perception without God And how do you explain perception WITH God except by saying "God just did it"? If the God theory could actually ex

Re: Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-11 Thread Richard Ruquist
/11/2013 > "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen > - Receiving the following content - > From: Richard Ruquist > Receiver: everything-list > Time: 2013-01-10, 12:22:44 > Subject: Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented athe

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jan 2013, at 20:02, meekerdb wrote: On 1/10/2013 8:06 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Empirical proofs can be ostensive. But I prefer not using "proof" for that. It can only be misleading when we do applied logic. I prefer to call that "empirical evidences". So I think the two ki

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-11 Thread socra...@bezeqint.net
What is vacuum? =. " The problem of the exact description of vacuum, in my opinion, is the basic problem now before physics. Really, if you can’t correctly describe the vacuum, how it is possible to expect a correct description of something more complex? " / Paul Dirac ./ # The most fundamental

Re: Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-11 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Roger Clough wrote: > Physicists often do experiemnts on crystals at 0 oK or near there. > There is no such thing as nearly zero just as there is no such thing as nearly infinite or nearly pregnant; the Third law of Thermodynamics says that you can never reach z

Re: Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-11 Thread Roger Clough
Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-10, 12:22:44 Subject: Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism. wiki- Charles' law (also known as the law of volumes) is an experimental gas law which describes how gases tend to expand when heated. Richard- Thermodynamics

Re: Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-11 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 Roger Clough wrote: > I don't believe that you can explain perception without God And how do you explain perception WITH God except by saying "God just did it"? If the God theory could actually explain something and not just chant "God did it" I'd go to church with you nex

Re: Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-11 Thread Roger Clough
- Receiving the following content - From: socra...@bezeqint.net Receiver: Everything List Time: 2013-01-11, 06:22:23 Subject: Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism. The Universe ( as a whole) is a Double World: next to Matter World ( a few % of whole mass

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-11 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 1:21 AM, socra...@bezeqint.net wrote: > Charles Law is appropriate at or near absolute zero , > because this law belongs to the particles of ' ideal gas' , > it means that these particles can exist in the absolute vacuum: > T=0K. no, not OK -- You received this message

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-11 Thread socra...@bezeqint.net
The Universe ( as a whole) is a Double World: next to Matter World ( a few % of whole mass of Universe) exist Vacuum World ( with more than 90% of whole mass of Universe). Question: How can the more than 90% of Vacuum Mass in the Universe (dark mass, dark energy, quantum virtual particles, particl

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-11 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Dear Bruno: - As I tried to show in robotic Truth, religion is a neccesity for the operation of social beings. For all machines, actually. Even when isolated. the "robotic truth" can be > approached by introspection when the machine complexity is above the Löbian > threshold. > > > That´s absolu

Re: Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-11 Thread Roger Clough
ist Time: 2013-01-10, 13:27:52 Subject: Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism. On 1/10/2013 6:20 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: I have never understood what it means to be atheist. Sometimes it appears to mean existentialist "not Christian god", anothe

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-10 Thread socra...@bezeqint.net
On Jan 10, 6:22 pm, Richard Ruquist wrote: > wiki- Charles' law (also known as the law of volumes) is an > experimental gas law which describes how gases tend to expand when > heated. > > Richard- Thermodynamics of gases breaks down near absolute where most > materials have already changed phase

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-10 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 8:41 PM, meekerdb wrote: > On 1/10/2013 11:31 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 7:27 PM, meekerdb wrote: > >> On 1/10/2013 6:20 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: >> >> I have never understood what it means to be atheist. Sometimes it ap

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-10 Thread meekerdb
On 1/10/2013 11:31 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 7:27 PM, meekerdb > wrote: On 1/10/2013 6:20 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: I have never understood what it means to be atheist. Sometimes it appears to mean existentia

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-10 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 7:27 PM, meekerdb wrote: > On 1/10/2013 6:20 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: > > I have never understood what it means to be atheist. Sometimes it appears > to mean existentialist "not Christian god", another appearance is "not > organized religion", which both appear

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-10 Thread meekerdb
On 1/10/2013 8:06 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Empirical proofs can be ostensive. But I prefer not using "proof" for that. It can only be misleading when we do applied logic. I prefer to call that "empirical evidences". So I think the two kinds of 'proof' have little in common. Almost

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-10 Thread meekerdb
On 1/10/2013 8:02 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 Jan 2013, at 20:17, meekerdb wrote: On 1/9/2013 2:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 Jan 2013, at 01:01, meekerdb wrote: On 1/8/2013 12:25 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Le me add some meat here Nah. It's just your wishful thinking that eve

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-10 Thread meekerdb
On 1/10/2013 6:20 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: I have never understood what it means to be atheist. Sometimes it appears to mean existentialist "not Christian god", another appearance is "not organized religion", which both appear reasonable. Intuitively however, I've always asked myself

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-10 Thread Richard Ruquist
wiki- Charles' law (also known as the law of volumes) is an experimental gas law which describes how gases tend to expand when heated. Richard- Thermodynamics of gases breaks down near absolute where most materials have already changed phase to liquid (usually BEC) or solid. Charles Law is inappro

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Jan 2013, at 21:55, meekerdb wrote: On 1/9/2013 7:05 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 Jan 2013, at 12:35, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 08 Jan 2013, at 15:59, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal Whoever invented the word &quo

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Jan 2013, at 20:17, meekerdb wrote: On 1/9/2013 2:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 Jan 2013, at 01:01, meekerdb wrote: On 1/8/2013 12:25 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Le me add some meat here Nah. It's just your wishful thinking that everybody has to believe in God. All correc

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 08 Jan 2013, at 15:59, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism. Not necessarily. The modern notion of God comes with the platonist, and was almost a synonym with "truth". There

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-10 Thread socra...@bezeqint.net
On Jan 10, 12:12 pm, Richard Ruquist wrote: > > > > Particles in the vacuum ( T=0K ) have no volumes > > ( according to the laws of thermodynamics ) > > Wrong > According to Charle’s law and the consequence of the third law of thermodynamics as the thermodynamic temperature of a system approac

Re: Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-10 Thread Roger Clough
ly near the end." - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: meekerdb Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-09, 15:55:18 Subject: Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism. On 1/9/2013 7:05 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 09 Jan 2

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-10 Thread Richard Ruquist
soc, "that truth" referring to what Bruno said. may or may not be true. You did not read the thread. Richard On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:00 AM, socra...@bezeqint.net wrote: >> >> Agreed, and I hope that truth is true . >> Richard >> > Truth is true !!! > / Richard / > Very good proof. . . > . .

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-10 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:06 AM, socra...@bezeqint.net wrote: > >> >> > Can we say that physical particles are often localised volumes >> > that are full of "infinities of discrete number relations" >> >> Sounds to much physicalist for me (or comp). > --> > > Particles in the vacuum ( T=0K

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-09 Thread socra...@bezeqint.net
> > > Can we say that physical particles are often localised volumes > > that are full of "infinities of discrete number relations" > > Sounds to much physicalist for me (or comp). --> Particles in the vacuum ( T=0K ) have no volumes ( according to the laws of thermodynamics ) therefore w

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-09 Thread socra...@bezeqint.net
> > Agreed, and I hope that truth is true . > Richard > Truth is true !!! / Richard / Very good proof. . . . . . . and . . ‘. . by Beauty that beautiful things are beautiful . . . by largeness that large things are large and larger things larger, and by smallness that smaller things ate smalle

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-09 Thread meekerdb
On 1/9/2013 7:05 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 Jan 2013, at 12:35, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 08 Jan 2013, at 15:59, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism. Not necessarily.

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-09 Thread meekerdb
On 1/9/2013 2:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 Jan 2013, at 01:01, meekerdb wrote: On 1/8/2013 12:25 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Le me add some meat here Nah. It's just your wishful thinking that everybody has to believe in God. All correct and self-introspective machine will believe i

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-09 Thread Richard Ruquist
t;>> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 08 Jan 2013, at 15:59, Roger Clough wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi Bruno Marchal >>>>>> >>>>>&g

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
invented the word "God" invented atheism. Not necessarily. The modern notion of God comes with the platonist, and was almost a synonym with "truth". There was an implicit, but reasonable assumption, that humans search truth. Atheism has arised by reaction to *imposed

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-09 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 09 Jan 2013, at 12:35, Richard Ruquist wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 08 Jan 2013, at 15:59, Roger Clough wrote: >>> >>>

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Jan 2013, at 12:35, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 08 Jan 2013, at 15:59, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism. Not necessarily. The modern notion of God comes with the

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
rever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-09, 05:37:48 Subject: Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism. On 08 Jan 2013, at 21:25, Alberto G. Corona wro

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-09 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 08 Jan 2013, at 15:59, Roger Clough wrote: > >> Hi Bruno Marchal >> >> Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism. > > > Not necessarily. The modern notion of God comes with the pla

Re: Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-09 Thread Roger Clough
2013 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-09, 05:37:48 Subject: Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism. On 08 Jan 2013

Re: Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-09 Thread Roger Clough
ng content - From: Richard Ruquist Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-08, 11:37:47 Subject: Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism. that reminds me that we do not really know what a word means until we understand what the opposite stands for. a sorta duality th

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Jan 2013, at 01:01, meekerdb wrote: On 1/8/2013 12:25 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Le me add some meat here Nah. It's just your wishful thinking that everybody has to believe in God. All correct and self-introspective machine will believe in (some) "God". Keep in mind that athei

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
Clark On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Roger Clough wrote: >Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism. Yes, I agree with that, one clearly had to come before the other. Before some human invented God there was no need for another human to invent atheism. John K Cla

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Jan 2013, at 15:59, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism. Not necessarily. The modern notion of God comes with the platonist, and was almost a synonym with "truth". There was an implicit, but reasonable ass

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-08 Thread meekerdb
On 1/8/2013 4:42 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: 2013/1/9 meekerdb mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> On 1/8/2013 12:25 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Le me add some meat here Nah. It's just your wishful thinking that everybody has to believe in God. We can not reduce the

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-08 Thread meekerdb
On 1/8/2013 12:25 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Le me add some meat here Nah. It's just your wishful thinking that everybody has to believe in God. We can not reduce the concept of God to a boring principle that we need to put somewhere. Like a ugly furniture inherited from the grand-parent

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-08 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Roger Clough wrote: >Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism. > Yes, I agree with that, one clearly had to come before the other. Before some human invented God there was no need for another human to invent atheism. John K Clark -- Y

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-08 Thread Richard Ruquist
wrote: > Hi Bruno Marchal > > Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism. > > [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] > 1/8/2013 > "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen > - Receiving the following content - >

Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-08 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/8/2013 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-