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Originally posted by badmedia
Originally posted by Astyanax
If you knew all the necessary preconditions and forces involved, you'd be able to predict the outcome. Randomness would vanish.
And that is exactly what is being said. Things have been purposely limited from the infinite as a means of bringing about such an experience. Things are only random due to a lack of knowledge. That limitation from that which is all knowing, to that which is limited is the father/son relationship.
That which is all knowing(god), purposely limits it's knowledge in order to bring about the experience we have before us. Random is only 1 part of it, it's also what causes time, space and change(change being part of time). As when all is known, these things do not exist because there is nothing new or unknown which can happen.
Poker or looking at a deck of cards face down is a live example of us doing exactly that in order to gain the experience. If the cards were face up, and all was known then odds, probability and chance go out the window, and the experience itself could not exist. Chance being a part of random.
It is our ability to tap into that which is beyond this creation of causality, that breaks the bondage of causality. Otherwise known as creativity. To be more than automated robots and AI like. To be able to create logic, rather than be slave to it and so forth.
This has now been clearly explained to you numerous times. The errors and fallacies in your own arguments have also been made plain. Still you seem unable to understand. Good thing you've taken the trouble to keep us informed about how very clever you are, or some of us might by now be entertaining a very different opinion of your intelligence.
Compared to what? You constantly telling me otherwise, twice in just this response alone. Or how about the numerous posts calling me ignorant for even having any belief in god, or the title of this thread which also perpetrates that I am ignorant?
If you are going to call me ignorant, directly or indirectly I'm going to let you know you are wrong. If you want to pretend or put that up as arrogance because I dare to protest, then go right ahead. But it was this thread and it's contents which brought my intelligence into question, not me.
Funny how it's ok to call me ignorant, but it is not ok for me to say I am not.
[edit on 8/3/2009 by badmedia]
If you knew all the necessary preconditions and forces involved, you'd be able to predict the outcome. Randomness would vanish.
And that is exactly what is being said. Things have been purposely limited from the infinite as a means of bringing about such an experience. Things are only random due to a lack of knowledge. That limitation from that which is all knowing, to that which is limited is the father/son relationship.
That which is all knowing(god), purposely limits it's knowledge in order to bring about the experience we have before us. Random is only 1 part of it, it's also what causes time, space and change(change being part of time). As when all is known, these things do not exist because there is nothing new or unknown which can happen.
Poker or looking at a deck of cards face down is a live example of us doing exactly that in order to gain the experience. If the cards were face up, and all was known then odds, probability and chance go out the window, and the experience itself could not exist. Chance being a part of random.
It is our ability to tap into that which is beyond this creation of causality, that breaks the bondage of causality. Otherwise known as creativity. To be more than automated robots and AI like. To be able to create logic, rather than be slave to it and so forth.
This has now been clearly explained to you numerous times. The errors and fallacies in your own arguments have also been made plain. Still you seem unable to understand. Good thing you've taken the trouble to keep us informed about how very clever you are, or some of us might by now be entertaining a very different opinion of your intelligence.
Compared to what? You constantly telling me otherwise, twice in just this response alone. Or how about the numerous posts calling me ignorant for even having any belief in god, or the title of this thread which also perpetrates that I am ignorant?
If you are going to call me ignorant, directly or indirectly I'm going to let you know you are wrong. If you want to pretend or put that up as arrogance because I dare to protest, then go right ahead. But it was this thread and it's contents which brought my intelligence into question, not me.
Funny how it's ok to call me ignorant, but it is not ok for me to say I am not.
[edit on 8/3/2009 by badmedia]
Originally posted by makinho21
You are making faith claims, as always before. "Things have been purposely limited from the infinite"? That is your assumption. You can't know that for sure. Ofcourse you recognize this, so once again, the need to obfuscate things comes into play.
You are spouting theology without the label of Christian or Jew or Muslim.
Creativity now equals "[tapping] in that which is beyond...causality"? So if I go and paint or draw - I am harnessing the divine?
Creating logic as opposed to being a "slave to it" resembles something like "I make up my own understanding of the universe, regardless of what my environment indicates."
You once again, already have assumed you know the divine and the 'that which is beyond this creation of causality' exists (and is within reach it seems).
That is pointless argumentation, you are not leaving open any possibility of being wrong (which is what you are saying we, non-religious people, should be doing - which we do in fact.)
This is why no one takes your posts seriously. You present your facts from a position of righteous arrogance, and yes you have been called it many times before, but for good reason. People agreeing that you are ignorant and arrogant should be a signal to you, not a badge of honor - to be thrown into conversation as a make-shift reason to back up your beliefs.
You have listed your superior intellect for us time and time again, as if that is to signify why you are right and we are mislead by not taking your religious fog as truth.
We are not wrong, no matter what you think - you have been shown and told why over and over again, but it doesn't seem to really make a difference to you.
As I said, it should be a signal or warning, that so many of us agree with the observation that you are blindly arrogant and ignorant when presenting your points.
However, like a misbehaved child, you simply ignore the sirens, and pretend not to listen.
Maybe you do have it wrong eh? Ofcourse you couldn't though - your IQ is way higher than everyone else's.
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So, how do you know I don't know such a thing and that it is just an assumption? Based only on the fact that you do not know it? So, does this mean that anything you don't know, or those who you think of as authority doesn't know that it is by default impossible to know.
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equals? Nah. Comes from? Yah. You are not harnessing the divine, it is the divine within you already that allows it. Logic can not create logic. See, I'm a programmer and I work with logic for a living. I create systems based on logic, and I just so happen to be pretty good at it. Programs do many wonderful things because we are able to put our logic into the program, and the problem carries out that logic. However, the program which is nothing but logic is unable to create it's own logic.
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What ever gave you the idea that my posts aren't taken seriously? I guess I forgot to mention that the majority of those in the past who have said that, no longer believe that and now share my opinions on the things they once disagreed with, and now come to me from time to time for advice and questions. That's the thing. I don't expect anyone to change their minds today. The only way that will happen is if they foolish just accept what I say. And if I thought that would happen, I wouldn't post. However, in time things will become clear and people start to understand. They are unable to ignore the arguments made, and it will be a constant reminder anytime a situation comes up when the question is purposed. Every man will think they are right, if they thought they were wrong they would change their mind. Time proves me right, and if I am wrong then time will also prove me wrong.
" - the first honest thing you have said this entire time.
if I am wrong, time will also prove me wrong
So, what would it take to make you believe that 4+9=302?
I would take 4 objects (we will use apples for this demonstration) so 4 apples and 9 apples and put them into one large pile and count the number of apples in that pile.
Honestly? I think you overcompensated a ton to promote your own bias. All that was needed, was - you would have to change my understanding. And there was somewhat of a personal lesson in that, because that is also what it would take for you to change. But no, instead you give me crap.
All the stuff about science this, reviews and such. That was nothing more than a bunch of you trying to promote your own views. And that you actually believed that I would not notice or let is slide is basically an insult, as you assume that I or others would not recognize it for what it is. By doing such, you imply that I'm too stupid to not see it.
It's not honest debate or discussion if you feel the need to put spin on your responses. You purposely avoided the meaning and point of the question, and I have no use or care for such things.
I would take 4 objects (we will use apples for this demonstration) so 4 apples and 9 apples and put them into one large pile and count the number of apples in that pile.
If the number of apples that exist in the pile when I put 4 apples and 9 apples together is 302 then I would question my own sanity.
I would seek to validate that 4 apples and 9 apples combined together suddenly now makes 302 apples.
This could be validated by performing experiments using the STRICT guidelines of the Scientific Method.
I could set up an experiment that used a DOUBLE BLIND to ensure that no Bias would corrupt the data from the experiment.
I would publish these findings and compare them to other published experiments using measurement and mathematics.
I would seek to see other Humans Scientific Experiments to validate that Mathematics had suddenly been altered.
I would be able to repeat the Experiments that other had performed and compare their results to my results.
How do you like DEM apples? errrr...bananas.