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HazzeSwede
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Dec 25, 2010 - 1:38am |
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Winston Churchill: "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."Why I'm dreaming of a white-noise Christmas By Simon Singh, CNN Contributor
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jadewahoo
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Dec 24, 2010 - 11:47pm |
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Lazy8 wrote: Things we can't quantify-that we can't fill jars with-cannot be said to be objectively "true". And when science can't explain something (and I hasten to add: yet) that doesn't imply any supernatural actor.
Just because something is non-objectifiable does not require the introduction of a supernatural actor. A dream, for example. You can't weigh it, can't measure it and it certainly won't fit in your scientific jar. We exist in an objective universe and live in a subjective reality. We can quantify the stuff around us, but how we respond and interact with that stuff is based upon our perceptions. It matters not that, in some unknown future, scientists may chart the analog pathways of perception, the perceptions themselves are still subjective. None of which require a supernatural actor or deity. The problem inherent within the supposed rational model you present is that it is an either/or didactic: something is either quantifiable, or it requires deity and is therefore not real. Perception is outside the bounds of the quantifiable and has no need of deity to explain nor sustain it as being a valid mode of apprehending our world. Perception is sufficient unto itself.
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Lazy8
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Dec 24, 2010 - 10:05pm |
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Proclivities wrote: I understand his points and generally agree with what he is saying; Nietzsche said all of it better about 125 years ago. However, one cannot apply the scientific method to everything. As I had mentioned in an earlier post, I am not at all anti-science; in fact, I am very much an advocate of Science, but Gervais is deifying "Science" - hailing it as some mystical, objective entity. Science - like religion - is practiced by subjective, opinionated, fallible human beings. Religion and/or Faith are personal and largely emotional subjects - I don't mean the organized religious view of "God", but rather one's personal sense of spirituality. Emotional matters can scarcely be solved by Science, despite what the true-believers of Science may place their faith in. Aesthetics cannot be satisfactorily defined or answered by Science either - despite centuries of attempts. Why does one person like a certain curry dish or a particular writer or musician? Why does one person find another person attractive? Why do people fall in love? Why do the numbers of packaged hot dogs and packaged hot dog buns never match? None of these questions can be fully answered by Science. Does he mean to presume that love, anger, happiness, or any sort of emotional and/or aesthetic values cannot really exist because there is "no scientific proof" to substantiate or quantify their existence? Is any one of those things nonexistent because no one can "present a jar of it"?
Things we can't quantify-that we can't fill jars with-cannot be said to be objectively "true". And when science can't explain something (and I hasten to add: yet) that doesn't imply any supernatural actor.
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kurtster
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Dec 24, 2010 - 8:18pm |
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Proclivities wrote: I understand his points and generally agree with what he is saying; Nietzsche said all of it better about 125 years ago. However, one cannot apply the scientific method to everything. As I had mentioned in an earlier post, I am not at all anti-science; in fact, I am very much an advocate of Science, but Gervais is deifying "Science" - hailing it as some mystical, objective entity. Science - like religion - is practiced by subjective, opinionated, fallible human beings. Religion and/or Faith are personal and largely emotional subjects - I don't mean the organized religious view of "God", but rather one's personal sense of spirituality. Emotional matters can scarcely be solved by Science, despite what the true-believers of Science may place their faith in. Aesthetics cannot be satisfactorily defined or answered by Science either - despite centuries of attempts. Why does one person like a certain curry dish or a particular writer or musician? Why does one person find another person attractive? Why do people fall in love? Why do the numbers of packaged hot dogs and packaged hot dog buns never match? None of these questions can be fully answered by Science. Does he mean to presume that love, anger, happiness, or any sort of emotional and/or aesthetic values cannot really exist because there is "no scientific proof" to substantiate or quantify their existence? Is any one of those things nonexistent because no one can "present a jar of it"?
Well said. Science can profess over rational, orderly, predictable and random things and even explain chaos, but it can offer nothing on the irrational. Or it will pronounce the irrational as non existent because there is no reason or logic for the existence of the irrational. Emotions can be rational and irrational all at once. On that thought, is behavioral science an oxymoron ?
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Welly
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Dec 24, 2010 - 4:48pm |
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hippiechick wrote: Brilliant - thanks for posting
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hippiechick
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Dec 24, 2010 - 12:47pm |
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Happy Festivus for the rest of us!
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Lazy8
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Dec 24, 2010 - 11:41am |
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miamizsun wrote:Is he related to the single cell Hammond Organism living beneath Frank's shoes?
It's all connected.
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miamizsun
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Dec 24, 2010 - 10:41am |
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Lazy8 wrote: islander wrote:God speaks through you?
I'm just made in his image. Which I think makes him a single-celled organism... Is he related to the single cell Hammond Organism living beneath Frank's shoes?
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Proclivities
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Dec 23, 2010 - 5:06pm |
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hippiechick wrote: I understand his points and generally agree with what he is saying; Nietzsche said all of it better about 125 years ago. However, one cannot apply the scientific method to everything. As I had mentioned in an earlier post, I am not at all anti-science; in fact, I am very much an advocate of Science, but Gervais is deifying "Science" - hailing it as some mystical, objective entity. Science - like religion - is practiced by subjective, opinionated, fallible human beings. Religion and/or Faith are personal and largely emotional subjects - I don't mean the organized religious view of "God", but rather one's personal sense of spirituality. Emotional matters can scarcely be solved by Science, despite what the true-believers of Science may place their faith in. Aesthetics cannot be satisfactorily defined or answered by Science either - despite centuries of attempts. Why does one person like a certain curry dish or a particular writer or musician? Why does one person find another person attractive? Why do people fall in love? Why do the numbers of packaged hot dogs and packaged hot dog buns never match? None of these questions can be fully answered by Science. Does he mean to presume that love, anger, happiness, or any sort of emotional and/or aesthetic values cannot really exist because there is "no scientific proof" to substantiate or quantify their existence? Is any one of those things nonexistent because no one can "present a jar of it"?
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hippiechick
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Dec 23, 2010 - 3:51pm |
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hippiechick
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Dec 23, 2010 - 3:10pm |
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justlistening wrote:
I believe it's "NO GOD!! oh, NO GOD!!"
However if the partner feels that way about their mate then they might very well yell out OH GOD.
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Lazy8
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Dec 23, 2010 - 3:10pm |
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islander wrote:God speaks through you?
I'm just made in his image. Which I think makes him a single-celled organism...
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HazzeSwede
Location: Hammerdal Gender:
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Dec 23, 2010 - 3:10pm |
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When my partner screams that,,I always say..No No it's me !
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justlistening
Location: So. California Gender:
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Dec 23, 2010 - 3:09pm |
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musik_knut wrote: (and hippiechick asked)
I think in the throes of an orgasm, an atheist yells out "I don't believe!'...
I believe it's "NO GOD!! oh, NO GOD!!" However if the partner feels that way about their mate then they might very well yell out OH GOD. edit (or You're God)
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hippiechick
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Dec 23, 2010 - 3:07pm |
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musik_knut wrote:
I think in the throes of an orgasm, an atheist yells out "I don't believe!'...
I've yelled Oh God! many a time
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islander
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Dec 23, 2010 - 3:07pm |
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Lazy8 wrote: musik_knut wrote:I think in the throes of an orgasm, an atheist yells out "I don't believe!'... I make the same noise god does. If he had any neighbors he would totally wake them up. God speaks through you?
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Lazy8
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Dec 23, 2010 - 3:06pm |
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musik_knut wrote:I think in the throes of an orgasm, an atheist yells out "I don't believe!'...
I make the same noise god does. If he had any neighbors he would totally wake them up.
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musik_knut
Location: Third Stone From The Sun Gender:
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Dec 23, 2010 - 3:04pm |
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hippiechick wrote: And sex? What about sex?
I think in the throes of an orgasm, an atheist yells out "I don't believe!'...
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hippiechick
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Dec 23, 2010 - 3:01pm |
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justlistening wrote:Hey, what's one of the problems with being an Atheist? No one to talk to when you hit your finger with a hammer! Hey, what did it say on the atheists tombstone? All dressed up with no place to go!
Ba da dum... And sex? What about sex?
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