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"Phred" <ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> In article <46877456@news.comindico.com.au>, Cyborg 0901
<jjbruce@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Don H wrote:
> [snip]
> >>   Or, does Space have a limit, and Time, likewise?  And how would we
know
> >> when / if we reached that limit?
> >>    I suppose it is our human experience that "everything has a
beginning and
> >> an end" - but does it? in a constant chain of causal consequences; or
it
> >> only seems that way?
> >>    "I" might be born, and die, but "my" matter-energy is part of the
causal
> >> chain.  My "ego" is merely a reflection of this.  Even as I type this
> >> posting, all such actions are a case of cause-and-effect.
> >>     Thus, our demarcations are somewhat arbitrary.
> [...]
> >The answer to your questions is in the phycological book of kaos.
> >Its known as the bible,or book to live by.
> >
> >One of a kind,for some reason held onto it for years by one gneration
> >after another,why,we don't know?,maybe cause it ment something to almost
> >every one that read it.
>
> Well I dunno about the earlier editions, but the King James version
> was pure poetry in prose, so it's no wonder people were happy with it.
>
> Now that they've stuffed it up with these awful "modern" versions
> people have moved on to something more appealing, even if that just
> means country and western music and bush poetry.
>
> That bloke on ABC radio this evening seemed to be saying that while
> there has been a reduction in "belief", it's not a collapse. ROTFLOL.
> I guess he missed the past few decades.  From the present perspective,
> it's hard to see how something with bugger all substance left can
> have much scope to even reduce, much less collapse!
>
> Cheers, Phred.
>
> -- 
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>
# All religions rely on indoctrination of sacred (not to be questioned)
texts, from one generation to another - hence the necessity for Religious
Instruction in public schools, and State Aid to "independent" ones.
   We are all fortunate to have be born into the One True Faith, whether we
be Christian, Jew, or Muslim.  Of course, all rivals in other faiths are mad
or bad or both; only we, the Faithful will be saved.
   Humans are unique among animals in being obsessed with "words", and will
slaughter each other for no apparent reason, except that their "holy book"
is different to that of others.
   Our enlarged cerebral cortex is thus a possible evolutionary defect, and,
coupled with primitive instincts, makes us extrapolated self-preservation
into desire for "eternal life".
   The various Eternal Life Insurance companies (ELI), to put religion into
business terms, would be prosecuted for fraud, if they tried to register on
the Stock Exchange, as such.
    All traditional religions are obsolete, having been rendered so when The
Enlightenment occurred back in the 18th century - and humans decided to go
by empirical fact rather than clerical dogma.  The advent of Induction,
supplementing Deduction, created a revolution in human thought, at least in
Natural Philosophy.  The difficulty is, in transferring such technique into
other realms of human activity, eg. politics, economics, and not least,
religion.
   The Theory of Biological Evolution dealt another blow to religion, with
discovery of the fossil record.  Genetics is the latest.  "Miracles" occur
only in science nowadays, and the best religion can do is decide if Limbo
exists, and whether the reintroduction of the Latin mass is beneficial.
   A Big Bang theory does mesh in with Creation, but both pose the question
of - what happened prior?
   But,, what's it all matter?  Homo Sapiens is probably headed for
extinction within the next few decades - only doesn't know it yet.