Tom Sarbeck
@tomsarbeck
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Tom Sarbeck replied to the topic Is belief toxic for your brain? in the forum Small Talk 8 years, 9 months ago
@simon, you don’t see why not?
You will see why when I tell you the cost of admission to the Voyeurs Gallery. -
Tom Sarbeck replied to the topic Is belief toxic for your brain? in the forum Small Talk 8 years, 9 months ago
Reg, rather than create a separate post, do what Catholics are told is a mortal sin: look outside the hypotheses you now use.
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History 8 years, 9 months agoPeople who know history are condemned to say, “People who don’t know history are condemned to repeat it.”
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Tom Sarbeck posted an update 8 years, 9 months ago
Reg, rather than create a separate post, do what Catholics are told is a mortal sin: look outside the hypotheses you now use.
Expanding or static? These terms are not relevant.
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Tom Sarbeck posted an update 8 years, 9 months ago
@Simon – I did four years of political battle with people who wanted to keep their taxpayer subsidies (as the Bangers have been doing since the 1960s) and the battle became ugly. It’s the kind of thing in which very few atheists will be interested. To see a bit of that story, go to Wikipedia and search on “Don Bolles”, the newspaper reporter.
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Tom Sarbeck replied to the topic Is belief toxic for your brain? in the forum Small Talk 8 years, 9 months ago
Again, Reg, Homepage/Forums/Small Talk is not the place for a book about cosmology.
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Tom Sarbeck replied to the topic Is belief toxic for your brain? in the forum Small Talk 8 years, 9 months ago
Reg, Hoyle and LeMaitre made the same mistake; they accepted that red shift measured distance.
LeMaitre’s math persuaded xians that Genesis was true. They rejoiced and Hubble’s doubt wasn’t heard. The astronomers who doubted LeMaitre didn’t want to do battle with xianity and ex nihilo became the default view. -
Tom Sarbeck replied to the topic Is belief toxic for your brain? in the forum Small Talk 8 years, 9 months ago
Reg, the Bangers are ok; the Bang is not.
Like religion, there are millions of words in its favor but no evidence. -
Tom Sarbeck replied to the topic Is belief toxic for your brain? in the forum Small Talk 8 years, 9 months ago
IQ and high school math and science (in Catholic schools).
In 8th grade I learned of my high IQ and went to a college prep hs. In 9th grade I didn’t understand algebra. In 10th I loved plane geometry. In 11th I survived trig. In 12th I loved physics.
Korean War naval combat gave me the GI Bill and I started college. I quit religion, earned a BA in…[Read more] -
Tom Sarbeck posted an update 8 years, 9 months ago
Cookies.
I visit the Zone from two laptops and an iPad. Joining a group leaves a cookie on the computer I’m using but not on the other two. So, inside the groups I joined, you may see up to three “join” notices. -
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Tom Sarbeck posted an update 8 years, 10 months ago
The worst thing about dying is leaving all that uneaten ice cream.
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Tom Sarbeck posted an update 8 years, 10 months ago
I’m wondering if Simon and Mcc1789 are revivifying philosophy.
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Tom Sarbeck replied to the topic Sunday School June 18th 2017 in the forum
Sunday School 8 years, 10 months ago@Simon – “Who said philosophy is dead?”
Google “is philosophy dead?” I did and the controversy’s size surprised me. Hawking remarked on its demise.
BTW – “dead” is metaphor. What say you to the hypothesis that every word in a language is metaphor?
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Tom Sarbeck replied to the topic Sunday School June 18th 2017 in the forum
Sunday School 8 years, 10 months agoIt seems Platonic that only the abstraction exists.
And in that context does the idea of existence exist?If philosophy is dead, philosophers killed it.
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Sunday School 8 years, 10 months ago@Simon: “Facts cannot be simultaneously one thing and another.”
Any fact can be understood or interpreted, differently by different people. it can also be understood or interpreted differently by any one person at different times.
Cats are not easily herded.
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Tom Sarbeck replied to the topic Who am I? in the forum Theism 8 years, 10 months ago
What is god?
1) A club used to beat weak-minded people into submission and then rob them.
2) A form of artificial selection whose effects strong-minded people can nullify. - Load More