(January 8, 2016 at 5:55 pm)drfuzzy Wrote:

(January 8, 2016 at 2:41 pm)Kingpin Wrote: Drfuzzy, question about that phrase in your signature.  "All legitimate knowledge must be provable"

Can you prove that?

   


LOL Kingpin!   Let's call it a personal opinion.    Actually, scientific method folks, help me out here . . .      I would call a theory that has quite a bit of reliable data behind it valuable.  Not unlike a wealth of circumstantial evidence in a court case.  I would give quite a bit of credit to the possibility of the theory - but not claim that it has been proven.

That's kind of like my thoughts on the existence or non-existence of deities, Kingpin.  And it's why I put it down as my signature.  Give me proof, or yeah, it's just a theory.  If it's a theory, how much data do you have behind it?   I get to examine the data before deciding.

Now that was my usual ramble, but . . . did I make any sense, folks?

Lol, I know I had to do it though.  Just poking some fun at you

Anything from Einstein, but especially;

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding - Albert Einstein

'What about the reality where Hitler cured cancer, Morty? The answer is don't think about it.'

(January 11, 2016 at 6:23 pm)Helio Nimbus Wrote: Anything from Einstein, but especially;

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding - Albert Einstein

Hehe  ... Like understanding how to weaponise a nuclear reaction?

Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.

~anon

(January 11, 2016 at 12:28 am)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: Man staring at the stars needs new ceiling.
-Confucius

Interesting, what does this mean, exactly?

(January 11, 2016 at 6:52 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.

~anon

lol

(January 11, 2016 at 6:23 pm)Helio Nimbus Wrote: Anything from Einstein, but especially;

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding - Albert Einstein

Love your sig pic. 

Steven Wilson Wrote:I guess I am in some ways your archetypal atheist. I think the whole myth of religion is absolutely absurd. I say this with the caveat that I understand it brings happiness to people who would otherwise be unhappy. There is comfort in it for people who would otherwise be tortured by their own existence and all that stuff. I appreciate those reasons and arguments, but at the end of the day, I’m afraid it’s just a silly fairy tale that mankind has dreamed up because of our fear of death. It’s as simple as that. It seems so obvious to me that’s why we created this myth. Religion, lest we forget, is a relatively new thing. You can go back as far as the Stone Age to see that man has always worshiped something, such as the sun. But the contemporary idea of religion has been around for less than 2,000 years. I’m speaking as someone that grew up with the idea that if you’re going to be religious, you’re gong to be Christian. Well, the Bible was written 200-300 years after the events it supposedly depicts. That’s certainly true for the New Testament and The Gospels. People were employed by politicians and leaders of the church to write it and that says it all to me. I’ve done a lot of reading and research about religion, because it’s something that fascinates me. What fascinates me is the compulsion or need for many to believe in this nonsense. A great deal of us seem to have this need to fall back on this crutch of faith and belief. People say to me “Well, it’s all a matter of faith. You don’t need proof.” Well, faith for me in that sense becomes a synonym for believing a lie and that’s no explanation at all.

Source: http://www.innerviews.org/inner/wilson.html

It's this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcTyhWdq5XI

'If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.' - Bertrand Russell

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