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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...
August 21, 2019 at 00:35
It's not much advertised, but drones this very day and everyday are assassinating terrorists, thus preventing many big and bad plans.
August 21, 2019 at 00:28
His 'The God Delusion' book would apply here. Although the Biblical, fundamentalist 'God' is an easy mark, he also includes evolution science and more...
August 20, 2019 at 23:38
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...
August 20, 2019 at 22:50
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...
August 20, 2019 at 22:33
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...
August 20, 2019 at 22:25
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...
August 20, 2019 at 22:18
Science results are provisional, not written in stone.
August 20, 2019 at 18:56
Blameless, Shameless, and Fameless Human nature’s ranges of inclinations Will, to no surprise, express themselves Far and wide, as such they ought, re...
August 20, 2019 at 18:53
All do as they must; there is no brain-separate 'I' with separate machinery to rule over the brain will.
August 20, 2019 at 18:25
The fabric of Existence is continuous, as field.
August 20, 2019 at 18:22
Or the Ground of Determination (G.O.D.).
August 20, 2019 at 17:10
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...
August 20, 2019 at 01:55
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...
August 20, 2019 at 01:45
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...
August 20, 2019 at 01:24
I’m the All and the One, omnipresent, For I’m eternal and can neither be Created nor destroyed, being my own cause And the Ground of All—I am Energy.
August 20, 2019 at 01:14
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...
August 20, 2019 at 00:10
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...
August 19, 2019 at 22:00
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...
August 19, 2019 at 21:49
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...
August 19, 2019 at 21:29
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 ...
August 19, 2019 at 20:51
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...
August 19, 2019 at 20:47
We want the judge to protect society by taking the offender out of circulation.
August 19, 2019 at 20:39
. There is currently no way to tell presentism apart from eternalism.
August 19, 2019 at 18:00
The whole poem is excellent, both as to the forest nature description and to the winding refinement of values upon human nature.
August 19, 2019 at 17:27
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...
August 19, 2019 at 04:32
Edward FitzGerald’s Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam stunned Victorian England soon after Darwin’s The Origin of the Species had shocked their sensibilities, ...
August 19, 2019 at 04:24
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-...
August 19, 2019 at 00:02
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...
August 18, 2019 at 23:59
Well, there is no "duration-less" because time is an interval; also, the hare beats the Together Turtle in another paradox.
August 18, 2019 at 23:45
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...
August 18, 2019 at 23:37
Sure, you can use it and anything I put; all for the cause.
August 18, 2019 at 23:21
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...
August 18, 2019 at 22:35
Stillness is impossible, at least so far, since hasn't happened. Ask me again at the end of the universe.
August 18, 2019 at 21:56
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...
August 18, 2019 at 21:49
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...
August 18, 2019 at 21:43
It only matters for those thinking that decisions/thoughts are made in/by consciousness, for that's how it seems.
August 18, 2019 at 21:27
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...
August 18, 2019 at 00:02
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...
August 17, 2019 at 23:30
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 ...
August 17, 2019 at 23:23
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...
August 17, 2019 at 23:12
Bless your soul with tongues of fire; Holy Spirit burn; Leave no trace of man’s desire; Holy Spirit turn. Oh, man, why detest thy constitution; Doth t...
August 17, 2019 at 22:30
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...
August 17, 2019 at 22:14
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...
August 17, 2019 at 20:33
Through the Rubàiyàt, I sense enchantment, Essence distilled in the translator’s scent. Recomposed from Khayyàm’s dust and spirit, Potent elixirs esca...
August 17, 2019 at 20:28
"Do something about it" is the Cosmos doing us. Either we attend to existence or die as our 'attendance'.
August 17, 2019 at 20:26
Reality would be wholly rolling as the One Thing continuing/transitioning/transforming.
August 17, 2019 at 20:23
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...
August 17, 2019 at 20:19
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 ...
August 17, 2019 at 20:04
Well, there goes integrity, imitating a Bad Role Model.
August 17, 2019 at 19:54