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- Sun Jul 31, 2016 2:14 am
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Poetic Naturalism
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11207
The physicists at Caltech were great teachers. When I was there one of the professors, Ricardo Gomez from Colombia, was called to jury duty. He sat through a case about drunken driving and an accident that was all here-say with poor evidence. When the lawyers finished there summations, Ricardo calle...
- Sat Jul 30, 2016 8:31 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Poetic Naturalism
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11207
Cosmic Gall John Updike Neutrinos they are very small. They have no charge and have no mass And do not interact at all. The earth is just a silly ball To them, through which they simply pass, Like dustmaids down a drafty hall Or photons through a sheet of glass. They snub the most exquisite gas, Ign...
- Sat Jul 30, 2016 8:26 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Poetic Naturalism
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11207
I know Feynman. We worked in the same building. He was a very human physicist. He didn't drink but he sometimes hung out in a topless bar. When the city closed the bar, the owner sued and Feynman was a witness for the bar. He said it was a great place to think. It didn't help. I love science, and do...
- Sat Jul 30, 2016 5:22 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Free Will
- Replies: 2783
- Views: 416028
- Fri Jul 29, 2016 6:09 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Free Will
- Replies: 2783
- Views: 416028
- Wed Jul 27, 2016 9:04 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Free Will
- Replies: 2783
- Views: 416028
I replied and had some fun with it. This free will argument is a religious argument. The conclusions follow from a persons religious beliefs about the nature of reality. I still believe that the most reasonable approach is the scientific approach of accepting human reality and then trying to develop...
- Wed Jul 27, 2016 5:11 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Free Will
- Replies: 2783
- Views: 416028
- Thu Jul 21, 2016 12:12 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Free Will
- Replies: 2783
- Views: 416028
- Thu Jul 21, 2016 12:07 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Free Will
- Replies: 2783
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Roncooper wrote: A deeply religious person with an intimate relationship with God may be aware that they are not in control of their life when it comes to the big picture, but God does not tell them which socks to wear. The reference is pointless. What? I was trying to speak from their perspective,...
- Thu Jul 21, 2016 2:40 am
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Free Will
- Replies: 2783
- Views: 416028
- Thu Jul 21, 2016 2:35 am
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: The Immaterial
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13407
OK but I am tired of the stalemate. These years of discussions are wearing me down to the point that I am beginning to accept Alan Watts' description that tt is more about plot development and not about progress. Here goes. I forgive. In my opinion I am what Jung called the Self, the whole person. S...
- Wed Jul 20, 2016 12:44 pm
- Forum: Follow Your Bliss
- Topic: Bliss, etc.
- Replies: 1390
- Views: 204416
- Wed Jul 20, 2016 1:31 am
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: The Immaterial
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13407
- Tue Jul 19, 2016 12:25 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: The Immaterial
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13407
- Tue Jul 19, 2016 3:05 am
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Free Will
- Replies: 2783
- Views: 416028
CarmelaBear wrote: There is the idea of the supernatural world that somehow interacts and intervenes in the natural world, and there is the notion that the world of the spirit is very much a part of the natural world. If there is an intersection then I would say it can be observed, and if it can be...