Perhaps they have to lean more toward agnostic, but still unlikely toward God, but there is more to consider… Another believer comes along, one withou...
His 'The God Delusion' book would apply here. Although the Biblical, fundamentalist 'God' is an easy mark, he also includes evolution science and more...
Yes, and it is also that the whole of a woman's body needs to be covered, for modesty, I suppose, which is mostly so but varies by the local Islamic l...
OK, PurplePond, so far, we've given the believers their 'maybe', but will call them out as being dishonest for preaching the 'maybe' as if it were tru...
He's rather a grouch, but his books are great. Evidently, he doesn't realize that people have to do what they do. Yes, there can be learning, but ther...
She, Ruby Yacht, will be a character herein, at the club. It's interesting that she was named after a yacht instead of the usual naming of the boat af...
Blameless, Shameless, and Fameless Human nature’s ranges of inclinations Will, to no surprise, express themselves Far and wide, as such they ought, re...
The fixed will of a scientist all the more can consistently find connections and truth; the will doesn't just get skipped over. If there's bias and it...
What we feel may not be how it really is. In the block universe of eternalism, the future already exists and we are somehow traversing the 4D block. O...
It's basically true that existence has been a bitch for us and all creatures for the last umpteen million years. The heart, like tapers, takes at beau...
Well, as noted, each side has to give a little, in that invisibles can neither be shown nor not shown, and thus there remains a 'maybe' either way, no...
Well, at first it seemed say that higher beings would be in the future, which higher complexity there is more logical and natural than they being in t...
Where in the Woe is Purgatory’s bane? Purgatory’s on Venus, where sulfurs rain. Where in the Heck is that deep Hell of pain? Hell’s found in the sun’s...
Morning at the Omar Khayyam Club of America — The Living Book As I knock on the oaken door of the OKCA, the winds are brisk and the leaves of yesterda...
It's so hot everywhere due to global warming that the business man Trump finally gave in to the fact and was going to corner the market on ice, he to ...
Or that we pick up brain waves from other people or beings. 'Fixed will' is immune to all these notions, for they would just be another input, Yes, th...
Hello, fellow robot. We're free of fame and blame and shame. That there are so many differing kinds of robots out there obscures the fact that the wil...
Edward FitzGerald’s Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam stunned Victorian England soon after Darwin’s The Origin of the Species had shocked their sensibilities, ...
It would take forever to reach absolute zero and stop all energy/movement: https://www.sciencealert.com/after-a-century-of-debate-cooling-to-absolute-...
Plus also a wish to carry on beyond our expiration date, which can turn religious or zen… NOW AND ZEN Everything that is part of us— Our cells, tissue...
Proclaiming 'no God' as true for sure fails just as much as proclaiming 'God' as true for sure because neither can be shown to be fact; so, the full-b...
Human religious prophets say they can be trusted. God speaks through them. So you say, as a human. 'Just saying' isn't enough. The Bible is the Word o...
Blah, blah, blah. It says in the Bible …. Humans wrote the Bible. But they were divinely inspired by God. Humans say they were inspired by God. Religi...
Myth’s performance is now over its tasks; The artists have taken off their masks. The illusion is fading; it couldn’t last; The science behind is appe...
Thanks. Yes, I wrote it, and it's from my sequel to the Rubaiyat (called 'Rubaiyat II'). I've been putting the quatrains in the threads as appropriate...
And so they went on, deeper, since, well they had to : Upon all worlds our shadows are cast, From our inner musings that are so vast, While we savor t...
The FitzGerald Enigma—of Improving Omar’s Quatrains How is it that only Edward FitzGerald could write a superb Rubaiyat quatrain, even 115 of them (5 ...
Think not that I am existent as ‘I’, Or talk the talk and walk the walk of ‘I’, For all’s of the IS; the Cosmos is I; Where then, and what, who, and w...
As in this lost haunt of my imagination where philosophers gather: Back to the tavern we creep, its drinks calling, Where the inquisitive sit, ponderi...
The one who shocked the olden philosophic word to its foundations: Only a fragment of his 'On Nature' survived, but it was the best part. https://vime...
Through the Rubàiyàt, I sense enchantment, Essence distilled in the translator’s scent. Recomposed from Khayyàm’s dust and spirit, Potent elixirs esca...
I would surmise that the result in consciousness of the brain's prior analysis has a usage to the brain, else it wouldn't have evolved. Thus, the inte...
This is good. When other considered choices don't come in first, the no 'if' or could have' options didn't make it in actuality, and so they become a ...
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