Why there almost certainly is No God!!

[Rook2135]

"The first is "faith in god" has killed thousands of hundreds of people and allows toautopoietically reproduce aworld enslaved by violence." See now your actually on topic and attempted to make a point that people can actually argue, well as before it was all verbal diahharea that was coming out of your gay mouth.

 

[ddp7]

@Rook2135

I take the trouble to write again because people who read this thread will get new knowledge and not the garbage that you argue. You no longer have arguments and you insult me explicitly. You are frankly pathetic.

 

[Rook2135]

@Rook2135

I take the trouble to write again because people who read this thread will get new knowledge and not the garbage that you argue. You no longer have arguments and you insult me explicitly. You are frankly pathetic.

Lol your a jack. You have not once added anything to the topic, how can I argue mad ramblings. Luckily for you there may be new alzhimers pills coming out. You should takem

 

[Michael Scally MD]

[Sean Carroll] Gifford Lectures on Natural Theology
Gifford Lectures on Natural Theology

In October I had the honor of visiting the University of Glasgow to give the Gifford Lectures on Natural Theology. These are a series of lectures that date back to 1888, and happen at different Scottish universities: Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and St. Andrews.

“Natural theology” is traditionally the discipline that attempts to learn about the nature of God via our experience of the world (in contrast to by revelation or contemplation).

The Gifford Lectures have always interpreted this regime rather broadly; many theologians have given the talks, but also people like Neils Bohr, Arthur Eddington, Hannah Arendt, Noam Chomsky, Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, and Steven Pinker.

Sometimes the speakers turn their lectures into short published books; in my case, I had just written a book that fit well into the topic, so I spoke about the ideas in The Big Picture. Unfortunately the first of the five lectures was not recorded, but the subsequent four were. Here are those recordings, along with a copy of my slides for the first talk.

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[So1970]

I believe in Jesus

 

[BBC3]

Me Too...!!!

 

[BBC3]

I've said it before in so many words so I will say it again SIMPLIFIED....

So - Did GOD really Damn us all to HELL....!??

-Or does HELL "Damn" us all to GOD....!!!

Some see "life as a cycle"... Could ETERNITY Cycle...?!

Bickering. Ahh - right of life... AND an unusual luxury these days..

INDEED...

 

[ddp7]

[Sean Carroll] Gifford Lectures on Natural Theology
Gifford Lectures on Natural Theology

In October I had the honor of visiting the University of Glasgow to give the Gifford Lectures on Natural Theology. These are a series of lectures that date back to 1888, and happen at different Scottish universities: Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and St. Andrews.

“Natural theology” is traditionally the discipline that attempts to learn about the nature of God via our experience of the world (in contrast to by revelation or contemplation).

The Gifford Lectures have always interpreted this regime rather broadly; many theologians have given the talks, but also people like Neils Bohr, Arthur Eddington, Hannah Arendt, Noam Chomsky, Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, and Steven Pinker.

Sometimes the speakers turn their lectures into short published books; in my case, I had just written a book that fit well into the topic, so I spoke about the ideas in The Big Picture. Unfortunately the first of the five lectures was not recorded, but the subsequent four were. Here are those recordings, along with a copy of my slides for the first talk.

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An honestly way,probably the only one.

I was a monk in the early youth.When I leave it and knew this stuff was a copernican turn and discover that these wasnt my way.

Thanks for the remember.

 

[BBC3]

Good STuff..!

http://www.polaris.iastate.edu/EveningStar/Unit2/unit2_sub2.htm (The Copernican Model)

I dont think I have EVER seen so much written on one man by WIKI.!
Nicolaus Copernicus - Wikipedia

And its AMAZING how much political power the Catholic Church has wielded...!

What's even more amazing is how much they do now.. More importantly, OFF THE RADAR BUT IN FULL CONTROL...!

That Pope "retiring"..!?!?!?!?!? FYI - Popes keep on Pope'N. Got no fukin clue.. Well.. Maybe...

An honestly way,probably the only one.

I was a monk in the early youth.When I leave it and knew this stuff was a copernican turn and discover that these wasnt my way.

Thanks for the remember.

 

[ddp7]

@BBC3:

For some time now I have not read someone as grotesque as you. It would seems that you have an extremely institutionalist view of knowledge and subjective experience.

Look for a book called "The Tibetan Book of the Dead." When you do some serious reading, you will be able to observe the incredible and selfish way that monks manifest in their way of living. The book's editorial in the preface warns that initially this book was not intended for a mass audience.

These were some of my reflections during my adolescence and were my motivation to escape.

I hope I do not receive another stupid response from you.

Thank you.

 

[ddp7]

BTW, to all "smart ass":

My argument of Buddhism, in essence, I espoused in both senses and this is not contradictory. Remove that word from your language. Seriously remove it. If you do not understand epistemology (and I am writing this for the whole forum) your understanding is limited because you can only think in terms of opposing notions and you will not be able to understand the meaning of the structure of an argument (again, epistemology it is necessary). Even if that argument is "contradictory" for you. The principle of non-contradiction arises from the war between Aristotle and the Presocratics ( "the owl of minerva" by Rafael Echeverria Phd).

If you feel strongly that something is contradictory you can present your personal experience as proof.

Thinking in terms of contradictions is essentially an obsolete thought. If you do not understand anything of what I am writing you should, in your right mind, just ask. In this paper it can be observed how the subject of Buddhism is only a sub-theme within a major theme called Neurosciences.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.405.918

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[ddp7]

Looks like me after the ketogenic diet... it seems to be funny, trying to hearing.

 

[BBC3]

Well I am curious...

So WHERE is it that you "escaped" from.

And "WHERE" is it that you escaped to...?

Plz Enlighten us all....

?????

@BBC3:

For some time now I have not read someone as grotesque as you. It would seems that you have an extremely institutionalist view of knowledge and subjective experience.

Look for a book called "The Tibetan Book of the Dead." When you do some serious reading, you will be able to observe the incredible and selfish way that monks manifest in their way of living. The book's editorial in the preface warns that initially this book was not intended for a mass audience.

These were some of my reflections during my adolescence and were my motivation to escape.

I hope I do not receive another stupid response from you.

Thank you.

 

[ddp7]

Well I am curious...

So WHERE is it that you "escaped" from.

And "WHERE" is it that you escaped to...?

Plz Enlighten us all....

?????

Kid,kid,kid you never learn.

Better go to the weights.

 

[ergomaniac]

"this is your brain on god: spiritual experiences activate brain reward circuits."

sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161129085014.htm

"religious and spiritual experiences activate the brain reward circuit in much the same way as love, sex, gambling, drugs and music, report researchers."

so, I thought to myself, can drugs, by changing the chemistry of the brain, elicit a spiritual experience.
I would say yes based on my personal experience.
feeling as though "you" were an intimate part of the universe is an awesome feeling.

of course drug aren't the only way. just the quickest.

 

[ddp7]

"this is your brain on god: spiritual experiences activate brain reward circuits."

sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161129085014.htm

"religious and spiritual experiences activate the brain reward circuit in much the same way as love, sex, gambling, drugs and music, report researchers."

so, I thought to myself, can drugs, by changing the chemistry of the brain, elicit a spiritual experience.
I would say yes based on my personal experience.
feeling as though "you" were an intimate part of the universe is an awesome feeling.

of course drug aren't the only way. just the quickest.

In my personal world (which is different from my legal opinion) I do not oppose or defend drugs.

"Drugs" do not exist for me because I live a logic (or that I try) to establish the awareness of observation, as I like to call it. But I have no attachment to my ideas, as spiritual gurus say. Then I am clear that if I wanted to use "drugs", as you tell them, the reason would be that my ability to establish consciousness, then, will have diminished. The secret seems to be, as I have researched for years, on the level of attachment to the mental aspect in relation to attachment to the bodily aspect. It is a ratio, such as the biological proportions you read when you read a study and that kind of things(somehow this is the underlying idea in westernized ayurveda that you listen to deepak chopra and those newage guys, although of course there are people more serious than others certainly).

That ratio is what some traditions call spiritual paths. Now if you ask me about whether I have an institutionalist view of these issues, I would say not because I know the dark side, you know, "macgregor mathers", The magic of chaos, and all those bad guys who say they believe Pharmacology is the key to getting to heaven (but my tools were some yogic strategies of hyperventilation, or I was what literature points out as a serious seeker, you know, with method and systematicity, never used any "drugs").

For me a relevant question today is one that relates to the emotionality of the world, or the psyche of the universe, as francisco varela said.

BTW,There is a miami coach, it seems to me, brett contreras, suddenly I get his bulletin, he says he gets up, does yoga and promotes the use of some steroids, I like his position. He also has a very nice wife to look at hehe.

https://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.ed...c-medicine/what-philosophy-ayurvedic-medicine

My .2 cents

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Can evolution have a higher purpose? No.
Can evolution have a higher purpose? No.

Robert Wright, the author of https://www.amazon.com/Moral-Animal-Science-Evolutionary-Psychology/dp/0679763996/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1482008524&sr=8-1&keywords=Wright+moral+animal (The Moral Animal) and a visiting professor of science and religion at Union Theological Seminary, has written a provocative article recently in the New York Times’ Stone column, entitled “Can evolution have a higher purpose?” His answer is a qualified and rather nuanced yes.

Mine, as we shall see, is a decided no. But my no also comes with some qualifications. Our differences might be useful to those who want to think about the nature of science (the subject matter of philosophy of science) and the nature of the world (the subject matter of metaphysics).

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[ddp7]

Can evolution have a higher purpose? No.
Can evolution have a higher purpose? No.

Robert Wright, the author of https://www.amazon.com/Moral-Animal-Science-Evolutionary-Psychology/dp/0679763996/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1482008524&sr=8-1&keywords=Wright+moral+animal (The Moral Animal) and a visiting professor of science and religion at Union Theological Seminary, has written a provocative article recently in the New York Times’ Stone column, entitled “Can evolution have a higher purpose?” His answer is a qualified and rather nuanced yes.

Mine, as we shall see, is a decided no. But my no also comes with some qualifications. Our differences might be useful to those who want to think about the nature of science (the subject matter of philosophy of science) and the nature of the world (the subject matter of metaphysics).

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Awesome.

I will be back in mid January, tomorrow my vacation starts.

Without having read the article which looks very interesting man and seeing the name of the blog, I have the impression that wright is in the aquino line or probably in the teilhard de chardin line. It is like a kind of libertarianism opus dei, with which I sincerely agree in many points, if that were the case. A non-metaphysical vision of duty, I mean.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Some crazy talk ...