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What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
AFAIK, Einstein wasn't a literal believer in any God. He did muse on the idea of God in the pantheistic sense, but not beyond that. I think.
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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
Ah yes employing "higher planes ". Then trying to attach Supernatural mumbo jumbo to actual theoretical physics . How very predictable  Dodgy
Seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself.

Inuit Proverb

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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
(February 27, 2018 at 9:27 am)Mathilda Wrote: You see Huggy it's only you referring to them as higher dimensions. The concept itself is meaningless. How can a dimension be considered higher if there isn't another dimension on which it exists to be considered higher than other dimensions.

For example, take an X-Z plane, height is typically considered on the Y axis.  Yet nothing material exists that is restricted to just two dimensions. No matter how thin it is, it has a height. And persists over time.

Really Mathilda? I'm the ONLY one?

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science...imensions/

Quote:It's not easy to imagine dimensions higher than the three that we exist in, but in math, higher dimensions are used all the time. As pointed out in this video from 3Blue1Brown, there are some downsides to the fact that we can't visualize these dimensions. Putting math into geometric form helps us see how different mathematical ideas connect and discover novel ways to solve problems. How can we do that with higher dimensions that we can't imagine?
*emphasis mine*
http://www.askamathematician.com/2012/05...imensions/

Quote:Assuming light can exist in higher dimensions, it would behave very strangely.
*emphasis mine*

Dodgy
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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
(February 27, 2018 at 9:45 am)Tizheruk Wrote: Ah yes employing "higher planes " then trying to attach . Supernatural mumbo jumbo to actual theoretical physics . How very predictable  Dodgy

Followed by busting out a photograph of a penis-shaped light streak cumming all over the top of Billy Graham’s head.  And, Voila!  Yahweh.
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”

Wiser words were never spoken. 
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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
Yet you use the term 'higher dimension' and cannot explain how a dimension can be higher or why.

Those authors are just using the term to mean more than 4 dimensions.
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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
Quote:Followed by busting out a photograph of a penis-shaped light streak cumming all over the top of Billy Graham’s head.  And, Voila!  Yahweh.


There is not enough time in the day to go over Huggies crazy

(February 27, 2018 at 9:49 am)LadyForCamus Wrote:
(February 27, 2018 at 9:45 am)Tizheruk Wrote: Ah yes employing "higher planes " then trying to attach . Supernatural mumbo jumbo to actual theoretical physics . How very predictable  Dodgy

Followed by busting out a photograph of a penis-shaped light streak cumming all over the top of Billy Graham’s head.  And, Voila!  Yahweh.
Lol
Seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself.

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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
(February 27, 2018 at 9:52 am)Mathilda Wrote: Yet you use the term 'higher dimension' and cannot explain how a dimension can be higher or why.

Those authors are just using the term to mean more than 4 dimensions.
*emphasis mine*
Now all of the sudden the term 'higher dimension' makes sense.
Spit Coffee

(February 27, 2018 at 6:18 am)Huggy74 Wrote:
(February 27, 2018 at 3:33 am)Mathilda Wrote: What do you mean by higher dimensions?
I think it's pretty clear.

Do you believe the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th ect... dimensions exist?

(February 27, 2018 at 7:30 am)Huggy74 Wrote:
(February 27, 2018 at 7:11 am)Mathilda Wrote: Well no it's not pretty clear. The fact that you call them higher means that there has to be another dimension measuring height. Just labelling them 4th, 5th, 6th etc isn't enough. Are you saying that there is an order of dimensions so that the 5th dimension is higher than the 4th? Or are these just labels and we could have just as easily referred to the 5th dimension and the 4th and vice versa?

Are you referring to extra dimensions? Do things occupy all the dimensions at the same time or can things exist in some dimensions and not the others?

It seems like you're trying to avoid giving an answer...

Strange how Jenny knew exactly what I was talking about but somehow you're discombobulated.

Do you believe other dimensions (dimensions other than 1st 2nd and 3rd) exist? However you want to define a dimension is fine with me.

Are you seriously going to sit here and say I wasn't talking about the same thing?
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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
There may or may not be lots of dimensions beyond the ones I can perceive. Until a god manifests in the dimensions that I am aware of, I'm going to treat it as a figment of the human imagination.
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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
You can daydream ,magic ,super ,mega, ultra , unfathomably, uber , super special , hyper, super secret, dimensions that your magic sky fairy can hide in all day long . Unless you can show he lives in one of them. My STATE of atheism remains unchanged . Dodgy
Seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself.

Inuit Proverb

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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
(February 27, 2018 at 10:05 am)Tizheruk Wrote: You can daydream ,magic ,super ,mega, ultra , unfathomably, uber , super special , hyper, super secret, dimensions that your magic sky fairy can hide in all day long  . Unless you can show he lives in one of them. My STATE of atheism remains unchanged . Dodgy

Like the saying goes, you can't fix stupid...

(February 15, 2018 at 1:11 pm)Tizheruk Wrote: As i already pointed out a state religion that is voluntary is not much of a state religion . And considering the church does not seem to have any pragmatic power in Denmark . It's presence seems more cremonial then actual governing power . And again considering Denmark provides freedom of religion and by theory from religion which ultimately undermines a state religion . I again argue it's only a state religion in name not practice . Which might as well be a secular government .

The above clearly shows you can't be reasoned with.
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