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par·a·dox /ˈpærəˌdɒks/ Show Spelled[par-uh-doks] Show IPA noun 1. a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Originally posted by MrHappyman989
I dig what you're saying but your post really hurts my brain.
Originally posted by Astyanax
reply to post by smithjustinb
Your account glosses over the transition from abstract to concrete, from metaphysical to physical. How on earth does a paradox cause ‘pressure’? Are you proposing a science of spiritual hydraulics?
Originally posted by akushla99
Well put, for sure.
Why has 'the big bang' and 'creation' become mutually exclusive in concept?
Akushla
Originally posted by smithjustinb
Originally posted by akushla99
Well put, for sure.
Why has 'the big bang' and 'creation' become mutually exclusive in concept?
Akushla
What do you mean?
Originally posted by akushla99
Originally posted by smithjustinb
Originally posted by akushla99
Well put, for sure.
Why has 'the big bang' and 'creation' become mutually exclusive in concept?
Akushla
What do you mean?
I like where you've gone.
Seems to me that, in discussing big bang/creation (whatever you want to call it), the tendency is to discount one for the other, and hence make them mutually exclusive.
Akushla
Originally posted by akushla99
Discussion boards are replete with the kind of rubbish dished out by armchair scientists, trying to convince all and sundry that they are 'au fe' with the mechanics of system that could appear from nowhere! Doesnt explain much at all, especially since these same people are relying on 'background noise' from an incident in our vastly remote past. The rest is speculation!
Akushla
Originally posted by smithjustinb
Originally posted by akushla99
Discussion boards are replete with the kind of rubbish dished out by armchair scientists, trying to convince all and sundry that they are 'au fe' with the mechanics of system that could appear from nowhere! Doesnt explain much at all, especially since these same people are relying on 'background noise' from an incident in our vastly remote past. The rest is speculation!
Akushla
Ultimately, I believe philosophy and science need each other.
Originally posted by akushla99
Originally posted by smithjustinb
Originally posted by akushla99
Discussion boards are replete with the kind of rubbish dished out by armchair scientists, trying to convince all and sundry that they are 'au fe' with the mechanics of system that could appear from nowhere! Doesnt explain much at all, especially since these same people are relying on 'background noise' from an incident in our vastly remote past. The rest is speculation!
Akushla
Ultimately, I believe philosophy and science need each other.
Agreed!
But most 'science' has an aversionary reaction to anything spiritual in nature.
Good to see where they meet.
Akushla
Originally posted by smithjustinb
par·a·dox /ˈpærəˌdɒks/ Show Spelled[par-uh-doks] Show IPA noun 1. a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Infinity is nothing. Nothing is infinity. If infinity were a measurable quantity, it would be finite. If nothing were a measurable quantity, it would be something. If infinity were something it would be finite, therefore infinity is nothing. Anything you say about infinity you can say about nothing, so if you want to doubt this logic and argue with me about it, first say something that holds true of infinity, and realize that it can also apply to nothingness.
Originally posted by smithjustinb
Originally posted by akushla99
Originally posted by smithjustinb
Originally posted by akushla99
Discussion boards are replete with the kind of rubbish dished out by armchair scientists, trying to convince all and sundry that they are 'au fe' with the mechanics of system that could appear from nowhere! Doesnt explain much at all, especially since these same people are relying on 'background noise' from an incident in our vastly remote past. The rest is speculation!
Akushla
Ultimately, I believe philosophy and science need each other.
Agreed!
But most 'science' has an aversionary reaction to anything spiritual in nature.
Good to see where they meet.
Akushla
You're right about that. This is due to the fact that knowledge and materialism are directly related. Materialism is the beginning of the forgetting of your true self thus knowledge is the beginning of the forgetting of your true self.
Wisdom is a different thing entirely.edit on 15-7-2011 by smithjustinb because: (no reason given)