... These are the kinds of questions that help demonstrate the crux of misunderstanding about the distinctions of existentialism. When someone asks me, in the...
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Jesus Christ
nescist@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jan 10, 2000 2:18 am
www.drink.to/alice ==
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other...
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T Brooks
thom_brooks@xxxxxxx.x...
Jan 10, 2000 9:21 pm
I apologize for missing most of the string, but isn't atheism a much harder position to defend than theism? If you don't see evidence for any god(s) why not...
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Jesus Christ
nescist@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jan 10, 2000 10:40 pm
rajiv, you do not know any of the things you mentioned "for a fact." you just believe that you know them. if someone else "knows for a fact" that something...
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Christopher Wynter
anunda@xxxxxx.xxxx
Jan 11, 2000 6:54 am
In the Beginning … Genesis Underneath the myths and legends ... … underneath the codings of religion, education and learned behaviour Coded deep within the...
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Rajiv Pande
VANAJA@...
Jan 11, 2000 2:39 pm
Dear JC - you said ... Justin, like I said, facts are temporary truths on which the wings of thought do rest. Constant flights will tire any philosophical...
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Charles Vermont
Funchoice@xxxxxxxxxx....
Jan 11, 2000 9:47 am
Picking up on what you wrote, Thom, why is it that we have to choose to be theist, atheist or agnostic? What about a fourth way? If I rely on my personal...
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Randy M. Zeitman
randzman@xxxxxx.xxxx
Jan 12, 2000 1:21 pm
... Yes, I'd like to comment. You cannot know whether you had/had not had a personal experience of god. How would you know any more than I can listen to the...
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Tom J
tjajones@xxx.xxxx
Jan 12, 2000 3:06 pm
... on ... Are you talking about reflex as distinct from conscious choice. Isn't the experience of this reflex immediate? Can't you experience your reaction?...
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T Brooks
thom_brooks@xxxxxxx.x...
Jan 13, 2000 2:01 pm
((I must admit: I haven't read a piece of fiction this imaginative since 'Gorky Park'. My comments will be in parentheses.)) From: Christopher Wynter...
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Randy M. Zeitman
randzman@xxxxxx.xxxx
Jan 13, 2000 2:32 pm
... Yes, exactly. My experience is the reaction to the reflex. "It tasted salty." is the experience (reaction) of salty. ... Why not...choices cause other...
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Christopher Wynter
anunda@xxxxxx.xxxx
Jan 13, 2000 2:38 pm
... Your comments are familiar ... and oft repeated by those who have not yet accepted the possibilities of genetic memory nor have allowed themselves to...
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Christopher Wynter
anunda@xxxxxx.xxxx
Jan 13, 2000 3:27 pm
... and yes .. I have also read the latest material from the researchers of the Human genome project .. and those involved in DNA ancestry tracing .. and the...
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BOURTON, SAM
SAM.BOURTON@xxxxxxxx....
Jan 13, 2000 4:23 pm
Tom Brooks wrote: ((I am going to stop here.....Otherwise, I think you're just babbling. As of now I have no reason to accept a phrase of what you have...
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Rajiv Pande
VANAJA@xx.xxx.xxxx
Jan 13, 2000 4:57 pm
Randy Think of you in a plane which is going through bad weather, then the pilot announces we are going to crash...would you or would you not think of God? ...
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Delia Friedberg
deliaf@xxxxxxxxx.xxx....
Jan 13, 2000 6:41 pm
Christophor, which exactly is "the latest material" in which you read that there are gene markers for jewish people? Blurring the borders between reality...
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Randy M. Zeitman
randzman@xxxxxx.xxxx
Jan 14, 2000 1:39 pm
... Though I don't think I've ever been close to death I can tell you with great certainly that when I was in my 'head-on' car accident I didn't think of god I...
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Rajiv Pande
VANAJA@xx.xxx.xxxx
Jan 14, 2000 2:12 pm
Dear Sam, Well said. I too was shocked at the way Christopher's valiant effort was ripped to shreds in such a demeaning and pointless way by T Brooks. Regards ...
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Rajiv Pande
VANAJA@xx.xxx.xxxx
Jan 14, 2000 2:12 pm
Dear Delia and Chris, I fully agree with Delia. Please, when making startling announcements, let us all be very soundly backed up. Moreover poetry should stick...
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Tom J
tjajones@...
Jan 14, 2000 4:54 pm
... I ... other ... factor ... I suppose being is the same thing as experience if taken on a metaphysical level but you could also argue that being consists of...
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Charles Vermont
Funchoice@...
Jan 15, 2000 11:13 am
... Just because you choose to see poetry this way, why should the rest of us 'have' to adopt this view. Are you trying to make your relationship with the list...
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Randy M. Zeitman
randzman@xxxxxx.xxxx
Jan 16, 2000 3:33 pm
... Right on...an example of this would be a recent visit I made to the Ayn Rand web site to learn about Objectivism. The description there of Objectivism is,...
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Delia Friedberg
deliaf@xxxxxxxxx.xxx....
Jan 16, 2000 4:33 pm
"Wisdom is not communicable.[....] Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one...
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Rajiv Pande
VANAJA@xx.xxx.xxxx
Jan 16, 2000 6:04 pm
Dear Charles, Your points taken. All I meant was that poetry gives us an opportunity to express ideas in a way that is in not expressible through prose. If it...
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Rajiv Pande
VANAJA@xx.xxx.xxxx
Jan 16, 2000 6:48 pm
Dear all, Randy you said' If you disagree then I'll tell you I'm going to pray to Santa Claus on my deathbed just for kicks. As long as you PRAY it doesn't...
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Charles Vermont
Funchoice@xxxxxxxxxx....
Jan 16, 2000 9:42 pm
Rajiv, Thank you very much for your qualification. I think I now have a better understanding of what you were saying. I also find there are, for me,...
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Randy M. Zeitman
randzman@...
Jan 17, 2000 2:20 pm
... There is no such force. But there certainly is the ability the decide there is and relinquish your life to that 'force' (just as the folks who recently ...
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Rajiv Pande
VANAJA@...
Jan 17, 2000 6:50 pm
Dear Delia, What a wonderful quote!! Now we're going to buy the book for us to keep for ever!! I loved the part, "And yet it also pleases me and seems right...
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shirya@...
Jan 20, 2000 3:55 pm
ANY IDEAS ON THE ORIGINS OF THE UNIVERSE ?...
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Delia Friedberg
deliaf@...
Jan 21, 2000 11:58 am
i hope i didn't ruin the list with my Siddhartha's fragments! ( just joking). I knew that at least Rajiv and Vanaja will love it and i am happy about it. But...
