| Re: a comment on The Battle of Fort Bragg by Dovina |
9-Apr-06/7:22 PM |
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I didn't ask for things that happen for "A" reason. I asked for things that happen for "NO" reason. By the way there is a lot of things that science hasn't found a verifiable reason for, namely what I've been talking about, the great catalyst.
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| Re: a comment on The Battle of Fort Bragg by Dovina |
9-Apr-06/7:16 PM |
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Apperantly Occam was a psychologist hundreds of years before his time.
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| Re: a comment on The Battle of Fort Bragg by Dovina |
9-Apr-06/7:11 PM |
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It's funny. If I told an atheist or scientist that I just made an apple appear out of nothing from nowhere into my hand they'd laugh at me but that's what they want you to think the whole universe came from.
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| Re: a comment on The Battle of Fort Bragg by Dovina |
9-Apr-06/7:03 PM |
Name something that surely happens for no reason. Science is about finding reasons but apperantly that all goes out the window for you when one starts asking questions about things you don't have your own satisfying answer to. Do you think all that knowledge you've accumulated was always there? People had to go looking for it. They had to theorize and test theories. If everything else happens for a reason then why not the origin of the first thing. The whole idea that your theory is simpler than mine or someone elses is retarded. E=mc2 looks simple but it's not. I really would like to know what your theory is about what started it all and no whatchamacallit words are allowed this time.
Here's a better site for his theory:http://www.paul-almond.com/OccamsRazorPart01.htm
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| Re: a comment on The Battle of Fort Bragg by Dovina |
9-Apr-06/6:02 PM |
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So we and everything else are here for no good reason. I see. Considering the miserable places you've got yourself into in the last couple years, maybe you should start asking that question. The scorching desert and in subzero Alaska.
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| Re: a comment on A Fool's Errand by ALChemy |
9-Apr-06/3:57 PM |
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Some folks are stubborn donkeys that just stand there and don't care and others are kicking at the carrot dangler with their hind legs to spite him. I won't name names though.
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| Re: a comment on The Battle of Fort Bragg by Dovina |
9-Apr-06/2:28 PM |
I'm just saying that it's one thing to say we have no or very little concrete evidence that God exists and another to say well God just doesn't exist. Occam's Razor isn't really an argument against God's existence it's just an argument against making unjustifiable assumptions. There is a possibility that God exists, even more likely if he exists in a form beyond our comprehension. I like the idea of that. The idea that we aren't just here by accident and that things have a reason for being. Show me where science can truly answer the question "Why are we here?" and I'll eat YOUR hat. George Carlin had the best non-god answer: To make plastic. My only idea of what God is, is that God's the most satisfying answer to why are we here. Forget about all the collected myths around God, I'm talking about the basic concept of a being that might have created us and/or our universe. There may be a completely different set of physical laws in which that being might exist. I'm just saying what you think is imposible now me be child's play in the future. Don't be like the guy that said man will never fly and totally rule out the chance of God existing and I'll try not to preach any of my myths on people.
p.s. Yes I did read it. I just thought you'd find the magic bus line humorous. I've been dying to see Sarah Silverman's Jesus is Magic, haven't you?
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| Re: a comment on The Battle of Fort Bragg by Dovina |
9-Apr-06/1:38 PM |
Yes, she does seem to have gotten that backwards, But why give her such an upsetting "gift"?
#1 isn't really much of a theory. Some unknown entity of whatever allowed the universe to appear from nothing.
#2 is God allowed the universe to appear from nothing. Now that's more of a theory. #1 is basically saying I don't know.
Arguing against God's existence is as silly as arguing for God's existence. We don't know and probably never will. Your guess is he doesn't, my guess is he does. We're both just guessing. To assert anything more would be a load of crap. Believe it or not you can only ride the science bus for so far and then it runs out of gas. God's bus is powered by magic.
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| Re: a comment on The Battle of Fort Bragg by Dovina |
9-Apr-06/6:38 AM |
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| Re: a comment on The Battle of Fort Bragg by Dovina |
9-Apr-06/6:33 AM |
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There had to be a catalyst, a vagina of nothingness that gave birth to the universe. If not then let's stop using zeros. We seem to always think we're on the verge of finding out everything when the truth is we barely know anything and what the only thing we're on the verge of is, is the limits of our own comprehension. I think what Occam is saying is that saying I don't know to these things is better than guessing. You can't blame people for thinking that you're using Occam's Razor as an argument against God's existence considering it's one of the most popular arguments used by atheists around the world.
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| Re: a comment on The Battle of Fort Bragg by Dovina |
8-Apr-06/4:44 AM |
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I don't think he's really talking about God either. Maybe somebody's version of God but not mine. My version of God is the carrot that eternally dangles in front of the noses of us donkeys.
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| Re: a comment on The Battle of Fort Bragg by Dovina |
7-Apr-06/5:37 PM |
Most believers agree that God is something that exists beyond our comprehension. Are you to say that nothing exists beyond our comprehension. You may have a diffrent word for it, you may choose not to attach symbolism but I'm sure you haven't ruled out the possibility of such a thing as the incomprehensible.
Could there not be something greater that our universe exists in that we haven't found yet? Maybe there are beings that govern that greater than the universe place and maybe they like to be called God by the little people in the universes the beings have created.
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| Re: a comment on The Battle of Fort Bragg by Dovina |
7-Apr-06/5:12 PM |
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p.s. The simplest solution is not always the best one. You should know that.
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| Re: a comment on The Battle of Fort Bragg by Dovina |
7-Apr-06/5:07 PM |
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To a microscopic organism we are the world, the world is it's solar system, the solar system it's galaxy the galaxy it's universe, and the universe it's God.
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| Re: Inbetween Lovers/Blueprint by Ranger |
7-Apr-06/4:49 PM |
I sensed a tinge of angst in this but it wasn't corny like those teeny-bopper poems, it was just enough to make the reader feel the youthfulness in the love poem.
She'll like it I think. It's like a modern Romeo and Juliet minus the suicidal crazy love stuff.
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| Re: Good old days by amanda_dcosta |
7-Apr-06/6:59 AM |
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The second stanza is jolting because, as Dovina said, it doesn't fit with the rest of the poem. Lose the last stanza, it's not needed. Being vague sometimes can make your poem more applicable to other peoples situations and thus more easy for them to identify with it. The thought of the last line in the poem is already in the readers head before they actually see it. So if you take away the last line the sentiment will still be there without you having to actually say it. One of the best things about poetry is when somrthing is said without actually being said.
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| Re: Blackout, Amman, November, 2005 by zodiac |
6-Apr-06/5:55 PM |
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Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at 3 in the morning and cannot be cast out. -from Richard Hall's Sniglets: Words that don't appear in the dictionary, but should.
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| Re: a comment on Pastoral Care (Psalm 23 revisited) by Dovina |
4-Apr-06/7:25 AM |
Oh, I could live with the Yoda talk if it fit with the poem and was consistant. It's just the first and best half doesn't use The Force so to speak and so it's better to stay consistant with the begining.
Cute, your little Yoda rhyme is.
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| Re: a comment on Explorations Underground by ecargo |
3-Apr-06/2:41 PM |
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I didn't really take "woad" literally anyway. Maybe "azure", "cerulean" or "Royal blue" or even just "a royal warrior".
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| Re: a comment on Explorations Underground by ecargo |
3-Apr-06/2:27 PM |
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Or even "burrowed in the barrow".
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