Go read GR, not an interpretation of GR. Read what Al himself said, not somebody else's figure of speech laden distillation.bahman wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 5:37 pmI am afraid to say that all your interpretations are classical. For example, light has zero mass so according to classical physics it should not bend close to a massive object.henry quirk wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 5:19 pm You need the energy/mass to cause it (time [or space]) to bend therefore it is a substance.
Space-time is an abstraction, a 'context' for the actions of real objects and forces. It, space-time, is not a substance or a dimension or dimensions. Space is not (like) a deformable latex sheet and time is not (like) a river. Objects and forces act on and interact with other objects and forces, not on space-time.
A massive object in space, for example, bends light, not space; massive enough, such an object can even affect the changes in matter that we measure, not the measurement itself. That is: the the measurable changes in objects and forces slow but the measuring itself, is unaffected.
Bluntly: space is emptiness, time is a measure of change.You can only fill emptiness and you can only record the passage of time (measure change). Neither can be altered or shaped or bent. Only real objects and forces can be altered, shaped or bent.
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Thats pretty cool. You have another translation in english. In my scandinavian language it simply "kunskapens träd"(the tree of knowledge). Showing you willie or pussy aint exactly good or bad, is it?Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 2:01 pmSorry, A.,...I have to correct your quotation: it's "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil". In other words, its' knowledge of the quality of evil in things (because "good" already existed, but was only not known because everything was good).Ansiktsburk wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 12:20 pm Remember the forbidden fruit in the garden of Eden. From the tree of knowledge.
You'll also find that knowledge of other things is nowhere forbidden, and was in fact, encouraged.
I agree that plumbing the depths of evil is a bad idea. But other than that, I disagree that knowledge is forbidden or dangerous.
That knowledge is dangerous doesnt sound all that far-fetched. I could live without anyone coming up with the concept of nuclear bomb. Few people would like to know their death date. And so on.
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Zero is a symbol for nothing. Nothing, however, is a state of affair that can be real.henry quirk wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 5:45 pmZero is placeholder/symbol for nothing, no-thing.bahman wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 4:05 pmZero, of course, is a point as 1 is as 2 is, etc.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 3:44 pm
It shows that Xeno was wrong. It suggests different ways of showing that, but over the matter of his wrongness, is of one mind. So it doesn't really help your case, because your argument that zero is a point is also wrong. Zero is a mathematical concept.
And you can see this very simply. I can ask you to give me one, two or three euros. But you can't give me zero euros...you can only not-give me any euros. "Zero" is a concept, not a number.
one, two, etc. are placeholders/symbols for sequence or quantity.
As for points: as they are being used in-thread, they're purely symbolic.
Zeno crafted clever hooey.
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I'm sincerely happy for you. But since terror is, as most feelings, subjective, for people made of less stern stuff than you I would not recomment those paths of thought.henry quirk wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 5:34 pmNo, there's no snakes, and no diamonds either (I'm throwin' off all them figures of speech for the duration): there are good ideas and bad ideas, truths and lies, facts and fictions. There are no gorgons or basilisks, and the Abyss is just a hole in the ground.Ansiktsburk wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 12:13 pmWhen you find the snakes among the diamonds they will bite you. And with a poison that cannot be sucked out. And in that area, therea are snakes.henry quirk wrote: ↑Wed Dec 25, 2019 4:20 pm
can't disagree more...lay 'em all on the table...examine 'em...find the diamonds, toss the dross
The Eldritch Abomination is ugly and wrong but not particularly mind-bending (Cthulhu might eat your body but he can't eat your soul).
Bottomline: there ain't no existential terror to confront, there's just ignorance to overcome.
And I'm gonna do that...as soon as I overcome my apathy.
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Nah, the less-stern need to ride the rollercoaster: confront the terror to master it.Ansiktsburk wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 6:02 pmI'm sincerely happy for you. But since terror is, as most feelings, subjective, for people made of less stern stuff than you I would not recomment those paths of thought.henry quirk wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 5:34 pmNo, there's no snakes, and no diamonds either (I'm throwin' off all them figures of speech for the duration): there are good ideas and bad ideas, truths and lies, facts and fictions. There are no gorgons or basilisks, and the Abyss is just a hole in the ground.Ansiktsburk wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 12:13 pm
When you find the snakes among the diamonds they will bite you. And with a poison that cannot be sucked out. And in that area, therea are snakes.
The Eldritch Abomination is ugly and wrong but not particularly mind-bending (Cthulhu might eat your body but he can't eat your soul).
Bottomline: there ain't no existential terror to confront, there's just ignorance to overcome.
And I'm gonna do that...as soon as I overcome my apathy.
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Well, nothing is real only as there's something to contrast against. It's like darkness, nothing is absence, not substance. So, yeah, as a state of affair or circumstance nothing can be real, I guess, but only real, mebbe, as an observer assesses, not real as the apple on the table.bahman wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 5:55 pmZero is a symbol for nothing. Nothing, however, is a state of affair that can be real.henry quirk wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 5:45 pmZero is placeholder/symbol for nothing, no-thing.
one, two, etc. are placeholders/symbols for sequence or quantity.
As for points: as they are being used in-thread, they're purely symbolic.
Zeno crafted clever hooey.
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Zero rest mass according to some versions of classical physics, such as GR.bahman wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 5:37 pmI am afraid to say that all your interpretations are classical. For example, light has zero mass so according to classical physics it should not bend close to a massive object.henry quirk wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 5:19 pm Bluntly: space is emptiness, time is a measure of change.You can only fill emptiness and you can only record the passage of time (measure change). Neither can be altered or shaped or bent. Only real objects and forces can be altered, shaped or bent.
Roughly the same proportion of people who bang on about what Einstein said have actually read Einstein, as the proportion of people who bend your ear about what the Bible says that have actually read it. If you read Einstein, here for instance: http://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Ex ... ether.html then you are bound to conclude that Einstein did not believe that space is emptiness.henry quirk wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 5:51 pmGo read GR, not an interpretation of GR. Read what Al himself said, not somebody else's figure of speech laden distillation.
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Because it places no prohibition on knowledge of any kind, except for one kind...the knowledge of evil.attofishpi wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 3:45 pm How is the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil...NOT a Tree of Knowledge?
The idea that God has something against people having other kinds of knowledge is simply wrong.
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Nothing is a state of affair.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 7:22 pmBut you can't give me zero. You can only not-give-me any other number of things. That's why zero's a concept -- it indicates the absence of an applicable numerical quantifier, not the presence of anything.
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Then I humbly submit that the Scandinavian translation you're using is wrong. To show that, here is original Hebrew upon which the manuscripts of all our translations, both English and Scandanavian, depends.Ansiktsburk wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 5:52 pm Thats pretty cool. You have another translation in english. In my scandinavian language it simply "kunskapens träd"(the tree of knowledge).
The original Hebrew reads:
but you must not
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no
eat
תֹאכַ֖ל (ṯō·ḵal)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 398: To eat
from
מִמֶּ֑נּוּ (mim·men·nū)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4480: A part of, from, out of
the tree
וּמֵעֵ֗ץ (ū·mê·‘êṣ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 6086: Tree, trees, wood
of the knowledge
הַדַּ֙עַת֙ (had·da·‘aṯ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1847: Knowledge
of good
ט֣וֹב (ṭō·wḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good
and evil;
וָרָ֔ע (wā·rā‘)
Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7451: Bad, evil
So you see that the phrase "of good and evil" is in the original. If any translation leaves it out, that's just not correct.
Perhaps. But it's not the Biblical idea.That knowledge is dangerous doesnt sound all that far-fetched. I could live without anyone coming up with the concept of nuclear bomb. Few people would like to know their death date. And so on.
So you would have to come to that conclusion on the sort of how-I-like-to-think-about-it basis you cite above. It's not in the Biblical record.
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"you are bound to conclude that Einstein did not believe that space is emptiness."
Best you can say is that he mebbe thought it possessed a nature: "...this ether may not be thought of as endowed with the quality characteristic of ponderable media, as consisting of parts which may be tracked through time."
Not quite the same as declaring it non-empty, or some thing.
As for the insinuation I haven't read Einstein's work... ( ︶︿︶)_╭∩╮
Didn't claim to understand it perfectly (*I may, in fact, be dead wrong on a nice chunk of what I think I understand), but I've read what Einstein published, and it seems to me a great many of the ideas attributed to him aren't actually his but are **popularizations of his thinkin'.
*so, call me idiot if you like, but don't call me liar
**latex rubber space supporting a bowling ball, that sort of thing
Best you can say is that he mebbe thought it possessed a nature: "...this ether may not be thought of as endowed with the quality characteristic of ponderable media, as consisting of parts which may be tracked through time."
Not quite the same as declaring it non-empty, or some thing.
As for the insinuation I haven't read Einstein's work... ( ︶︿︶)_╭∩╮
Didn't claim to understand it perfectly (*I may, in fact, be dead wrong on a nice chunk of what I think I understand), but I've read what Einstein published, and it seems to me a great many of the ideas attributed to him aren't actually his but are **popularizations of his thinkin'.
*so, call me idiot if you like, but don't call me liar
**latex rubber space supporting a bowling ball, that sort of thing
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Quite right.henry quirk wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 7:31 pm it seems to me a great many of the ideas attributed to him aren't actually his but are popularizations of his thinkin'.
I've run into misguided folks who cite Einstein's Relativity Theory as proof positive that moral values are all relative. The popularization of Einstein, in this case, isn't even close enough to truth to be called merely "wrong." It's something considerably worse, actually. Maybe "totally clueless" covers it better.
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No. Nothing is a state of affair that there is no thing.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 7:31 pmNo, it's not, actually. Nothing is the complete absence of any state of affairs.
I am afraid that that is not correct.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 7:31 pm When there's nothing, there's nothing to have any "affairs" about.