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khalou replied to the Christian Fools board. 1:33 AM

Re: Quantum Physics and God

khalou,

If meaning comes from the material- if the material is the engine that produces meaning- it meaning any less meaningful?

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The very point here is that [more]

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khalou replied to the Christian Fools board. 2:46 AM

Re: Quantum Physics and God

Not to throw Plato under the bus, but lots of what really smart guys believed back then was really impressive inductive reasoning.

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Yes, but much of it was based on deductive [more]

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khalou replied to the Atheist Fools board. 1:53 AM

Re: Fresh Start?

Poor education, laziness, fear, and greed (and combinations of those 4 factors) are the main drivers.

Add cowardice and stupidity to that list.

Poor education, stupidity, laziness, fear, cowardice, and greed (and various [more]

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khalou replied to the Atheist Fools board. 3:13 AM

Re: a bit of fun

Very cool.
Not only did the kid find his own tool to use, but his own way to wear his hat.

k

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khalou posted to the Atheist Fools board. 3:03 AM

Fresh Start?

I'm going to try really hard to take the advice I've gotten here to re-word what I'm actually trying to say. It is unfortunately scrolly but simple-

"I have been learning about the different ways that people decide things. Two people [more]

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khalou replied to the Atheist Fools board. 3:54 AM

Re: Repeat from somewhere else

You are correct- Clear, concise communication is a talent unto itself. One that currently eludes me, but I keep trying.

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I used to edit for a living. One rule of good editing [more]

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khalou replied to the Atheist Fools board. 3:30 AM

Re: Repeat from somewhere else

might be fun watching you rassel with the neoPlatonist at XF

I'm game. What's XF?

k

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khalou replied to the Atheist Fools board. 3:28 AM

Re: Repeat from somewhere else

I stated that one commonality that atheists share is probably that they aren't comfortable with the assembly of evidence in support of a belief in order to lend it credibility, but the active pursuit of a more skeptical [more]

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khalou replied to the Atheist Fools board. 3:08 AM

Re: Repeat from somewhere else

I've never found khalou the least bit pompous but communicating clearly and concisely is a skill that not a lot of people have.

I was writing an article on leadership with all of the correct concepts and attributes that academia [more]

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khalou replied to the Atheist Fools board. 2:44 AM

Re: Repeat from somewhere else

... even though we know petty much everything, k
isn't quite willing to accept that fact

:)

k ("we" is also me or why would I even be asking?)

thanks for understanding

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khalou replied to the Atheist Fools board. 2:37 AM

Re: Repeat from somewhere else

I vote semi-troll; doesn't accept the answers, beats dead horse.

To wit: he says he just 'doesn't accept' our individual answers to this question he asked of us as to why 'we' are atheists. There is no one reason atheists reject [more]

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khalou replied to the Atheist Fools board. 1:59 AM

Re: Repeat from somewhere else

Oops- I left this part out-

Why he's a troll:

He doesn't think it's deeply complicated, or that it requires extensive study and examination.

If I didn't think it were deeply complicated, or require extensive study [more]

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khalou replied to the Atheist Fools board. 1:26 AM

Re: Repeat from somewhere else

Personally, I find Khalou has (as the saying used to go) come a long ways, baby. Still occasionally pompous (but, hey, I have been known to do pompous), but much more readable.

Pompous-

1: excessively elevated or ornate [more]

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khalou replied to the Atheist Fools board. 1:13 AM

Re: Repeat from somewhere else

1. Common sense.
2. Courage.

I believe with all my heart that both of these are absolutely correct in a lot of cases- perhaps the majority, I couldn't say.

But I have read many authors who spend their substantial [more]

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khalou replied to the Atheist Fools board. 12:22 AM

Re: Repeat from somewhere else

He has some negative quality that he's ascribed to you (to the people on this board) and he's written up some mangled faux-question to try and manipulate you into affirming his suspicions. That's why when you give a real answer, he's wholly [more]

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khalou replied to the Christian Fools board. 12:14 AM

Re: Quantum Physics and God

Rather, living tissue cannot exist without what Plato called a psyche to give it life, and death is the separation of the psyche from the tissue. Thoughts and ideas are also the product of such a psyche.

Excuse me for butting in, but [more]

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khalou replied to the Christian Fools board. 11:55 PM

Re: Quantum Physics and God

That said, however, the implications of all forms of Determinism, including Materialism, actually exclude any kind of meaningful thought and any sort of meaningful expression of ideas. Rather, what we perceive to be thoughts and ideas are simply [more]

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khalou replied to the Atheist Fools board. 2:46 AM

Re: Repeat from somewhere else

You're spending an inordinate amount of time studying both sides of the coin?

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No, he's just trolling the board.


Trolling-

In Internet slang, a troll (pron.: [more]

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khalou replied to the Christian Fools board. 1:18 AM

Re: Quantum Physics and God

If, on the other hand, we accept the more traditional understanding of quantum mechanics that goes back to von Neumann, one is led by its logic (as Wigner and Peierls were) to the conclusion that not everything is just matter in motion, and that [more]

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khalou replied to the Christian Fools board. 12:37 AM

Re: The Atheist's Dilemma

http://boards.fool.com/in-summation-reason-as-a-quotthingquo...

Once again-

If you could show how reason exists without animal activity, [more]