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Especially before they post about it. You'd think Gary would google something before he posts about it. Yes. I know it's also called the "Higgs boson". :roll: That's not the problem with your unresearched post, it's this: And when science gets sloppy in its naming conventions If you read ...

phyllo wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 6:14 pm

Because it's a fascinating topic and I happen to be agnostic in regard to such things.

Then you seem to share an interest in religion with AJ

Sure. There's little doubt about that.

The actual name is the Higgs boson. You should google it. There's a good reason why it's referred to as the 'god particle'. Every human owes it to themselves to at least try to have an awareness and basic understanding of these things. Especially before they post about it. You'd think Gary would go...

Who knows? He and I seem to have different philosophical interests. I don't know why some turn to religion and others don't. It probably depends upon what sort of education a person is exposed to. I had a more skeptical education. Skepticism was also the direction the Academy in Athens took some ti...

My studies of traditional Catholic Christianity has opened my eyes to a religio-metaphysical method of seeing this reality and living in it with a very dedicated and fine-tuned focus. To fulfill the requirements — ethically, morally, toward your family, your community, your nation, and toward the i...

Byt what is implied by "no one"? Well, "no one" would be no beings that convert waves of air particles in motion into the sensation of sound. Surely the ground is travelled through by the sound. I'm sure it's traveled through by the vibration of particles. I just don't see how t...

OK. What are you rebelling against? Who are you rebelling on behalf of? By "human rebellion" do you mean you're rebelling against non-humans? My studies of traditional Catholic Christianity has opened my eyes to a religio-metaphysical method of seeing this reality and living in it with a ...

BY THE SAME TOKEN... If there is no one to hear it, then it never happened. I'm not a radical idealist. I assume something happened, even without a human being present, it just wasn't what we experience when that something happens. Byt what is implied by "no one"? Well, "no one"...

I don't doubt that there are some very fine and knowledgeable priests and theologians out there. What I am a "rebel" toward are the charlatans and phonies. Our rebellion, human rebellion, is far more extensive than you seem aware. OK. What are you rebelling against? Who are you rebelling ...

Hurray, we agree on something!! :D It’s a rebel’s position though. You could hold priests or officiants in contempt if that is your predilection, and you could also value those men for a host of good reasons. The project of the undermining of hierarchy … is also one of a civilizational termite. I d...

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it fall, does the tree make a sound? My answer is: "No" BY THE SAME TOKEN... If there is no one to hear it, then it never happened. I'm not a radical idealist. I assume something happened, even without a human being present, it ju...

Well, there's nothing at all "hardened" about deciding to obey God rather than men. (Acts 5:29) It's just good sense, good exegesis, and good morals. The Catholic argument that their version of "revelation" is "organic and progressive" has never much impressed me, nor ...

I'm pretty sure human beings aren't capable of "killing" God. Either there's a God or there is not. I wouldn't waste time with Nietzsche's literary flourishes. K: for Nietzsche, it wasn't a ''literary flourish'' it was a reality... so, how does one go about killing a god? let us go back i...

First off, is God a "particle"? Is that what some think? I mean, a particle is a particle is a particle but what sense does it make to say that God is a particle or a particle is God? Are particles sentient beings? If particles are sentient beings then is it moral to send them colliding in...

As a man who lives in a country where no presidential candidate who admitted to not believing in God would stand a remote chance of being elected, I am surprised to hear you announce that God is dead, Kropotkin. K: here in America, very few candidates for public office, will be elected.... but the ...