Reg the Fronkey Farmer

@JodyLee….that was post rave chill album. There is a line in it that sounds like “Buy me an E, buy me an E”……

Just found one of my all time fav stoner albums which is no longer available. Sunday School may be a little late…

Trump fires Michael Atkinson for doing his sworn duty? That will take some forgiving. Oh wait, no remorse so it will never happen. That means “revenge” is on the cards.

You want a word revolution Jody? Count me in!! Not enough of them. Smash the system!!! 🙂

Most of these words only have a religious connotation because their meaning have been usurped into religious speak.

You can feel remorse even if your had no hand in causing the event, determined or otherwise. Repentance is the wrong word though for what I think you mean. We should try to make amends for our actions if we feel remorse.  It means…[Read more]

I suspect later writers, including Hitchens, would readily admit to having admired the view they found when standing on the shoulders of Hume. His was a wide vista.

@ Michael – But I must side with not makings images or statues contrary to Mother Church.

Ok, but I hope you don’t hold to all of Leviticus.

I was about to get Lev 19:28 done before the lockdown.

Maybe we only escape from one cave into another but at least I consider them all to be upgrades of the previous.  Yes, I dare disturb the Universe…[Read more]

That is true jakelafort, we do.  I do not turn so fast to Swift, whose Plato’s Cave I often pass but I have plenty of room in my head for Hume.

Unlike those that still think like cave captives he understood that knowledge comes from observation and experience. He destroyed the Design Argument that many cave dwelling theists still offer me as…[Read more]

I dreamt a dream!  What can it mean?

And that I was a maiden Queen

Guarded by an Angel mild:

Witless woe was ne’er beguiled!

And I wept both night and day,

And he wiped my tears away;

And I wept both day and night,

And hid from him my heart’s delight.

So he took his wings, and fled;

Then the morn blushed rosy red.

I dried my tear…[Read more]

I’ve always sided with the school of Copenhagen…..

That is my starting position too but I have moved on a bit from it. I have discarded the Jerusalem Interpretation entirely.

like light that vibrates in two perpendicular fields…

Imagine for a minute that there is only one field that “everything” existed in.

It’s a fascinating conjure that He exists in a realm not bound by time nor space….

He (your god) can only have  existed outside of Time and Space if He created Time and Space. With its several billion galaxies, each with billions of planets, you assert that He created all life on this tiny rock of ours?

Christians claim to be in co…[Read more]

@ Michael Ok, I won’t even pull a Schrödinger cat out of my hat. 🙂

I will accept on probability that you won’t but can you explain why you contend with certainty that the Christian God is the creative force behind the Quantum Universe we exist in.  I mean if you are certain in your belief that your God is behind it all then that is your ult…[Read more]

Maybe Unseen. I always had that association when I recalled the joke but I am not omnipotent in my recall as a girlfriend once said, which I found very impotent of her 🙂

A Quantum God? Stop it Michael. Just stop it while you are ahead.

If you try to measure him you will never know what position he is in.  Though when Quantum  Jesus was in the grave he was both alive and dead at the same time. No that is wrong. We should express it in terms of probability and express it as a wave function. Even Schrödinger wo…[Read more]

@Michael – then the conundrum is who or what put it there?

How is a conundrum for theists? Is it not a cornerstone of faith to claim that God is the Creator of all things, including the Universe and all than it contains? It is the first sentence in their Book.

It is the atheist that says “I do not know how it all started”. Yet we are constantly…[Read more]

It may be a Emo Philips routine.

I think I have it. It was in relation to a Multiverse debate.

A guy comes home to his apartment to discover that everything he owns has been stolen and replaced with identical copies of itself. Then his friend arrives home and stares at him in alarm. “Who are you and how did you get in here”, he demands to know.

@Unseen  -please recount that story about the guy who woke up to find everything he owned was replaced by identical copies of itself.  (from about 7 years ago on TA)