Samuel Dravis
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say cookie and mean cracker!
If you fail, then I'm afraid you're in the OUT CROWD.
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Hey Ender! I just haven't been around much lately, been doing other stuff. I started some Tai Chi classes and have been spending less time on the computer overall. I'm sure I'll be on Skype sometime this week though, so I'm not exactly leaving just yet! ^_^
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w doesn't say anything about me because he's DEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD, literally "sodding" off
also music from my town
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w says that asking such a question is a category error so sod off
btw reporting
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it has gotten to the high 20's during the night a couple of times but not too bad, only have had to wear jeans and a light jacket otherwise. Christmas day was in the near-80s, woo
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tk you will approve of this answer of the koan
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IG, if you're interested in playing Left 4 Dead sometime my Steam name is samueldravis. Usually on lateish CST.
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get on skype again you villain!
I'll vote for someone else if it makes you feel better.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7720979.stm
Here is an additional lesson on physics, Darathy. Don't shake her hand too hard!
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http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ETERQUES.html
An attempt to answer some of the usual "big questions" using a purely physicalist viewpoint. What is most interesting about it is that some of the questions do not get answered - at least not in the spirit that someone would actually mean them. For example:
What is the purpose of it all?
What is good and what is evil?
What is truth?
How should we act?
What is the meaning of life?
Additionally, the one on free will doesn't even answer the question at all. It merely says that quantum mumbo-jumbo gives people free will, because it is 'unpredictable'. Merely because something is unpredictable doesn't mean it was chosen - which is what we're really interested in, after all. A slave to determinism or a slave to chaos - I don't know which one is a more depressing view.
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Been reading some of Kierkegaard's journals recently, Darathy. They're interesting, you should try them sometime:
"A strict predestinarianism traces the origin of evil to God, which makes it less consistent than even the Manicheans, in that the latter system posits two beings. The former unites these two opposites into one being."
"As a counterpart to predestinarianism as a doctrine the very upholding of which involves self-contradiction, one could adduce the following: if one were to imagine someone doing everything out of egoism, one would be constantly falling into a contradiction; one would be aware that something was a case of noble sacrifice, but according to one's theory one would have to say it was egoism."
"It seems to me that Christian dogmatics must be an explanation of Christ's activity, the more so since Christ established no teaching but was active. He didn't teach that there was redemption for man, he redeemed men. A Muhammadan dogmatics would be an explication of Muhammad's teaching, but a Christian dogmatics is an explication of Christ's activity."
"More and more I understand that Christianity is really too blessed for us humans. Just think what it means to dare to believe that God has come into the world for my sake too. Indeed, it sounds almost like the most blasphemous presumption for a human being to dare to believe such a thing. If it were not God himself who had said it - if a human being had hit on it to show the importance a human being has for God, then indeed, of all blasphemies this would be the most terrible. But that is why it was not invented to show how important a human being is for God, but to show what an infinite love God's is."
"There are metaphysicians of a certain kind who, when unable to make further progress, like Munchaunsen take themselves by the scruff of the neck and thereby get something a priori."
