Don't take it personal, Agent! I just picked two arbitrary examples from the story sent to me last week. Stroll along well! — EugeneW
Religion and psychopathia are mixed frequently, by theists as well as atheists. Atheists, while meaning it well, use it as an excuse to stick to their unshakable belief. A diversion is easily get rid of by calling it an pathia, i.e, pathetic. Theists, not meaning anything at all, use it in their defense of their one OOOO-god. I have good proof for this assertion. — EugeneW
What does all that have to do with the mathematical pattern: many to one...to...zero? — Agent Smith
Plato's afterlife world is math-heaven. Only to be experienced in all splendor and pristine being after death. Math approximates. We can't imagine though. Xenophanes reduced the poly to mono. Plato continued. From 1 to zero. — EugeneW
An obvious metaphysical development after that is pure monotheism and then some type of universalism. It has practical advantages over the previous stages of religion because it overlaps more properly with reality — Shwah
Not cryptic enough! You're not yourself! — Agent Smith
Anyway, I didn't know Plato was the Christopher Hitchens of the Hellenistic world! Do you have any supporting documents, señorita?
How do you know math is "only to be experienced in all splendor and pristine being after death"? :chin: — Agent Smith
an unreachable unique reality to be approximated by science and math only, is compatible with a monotheism positing a unique OOOO-god, non-imaginable, and maybe approximately reached by meditation or prayer. — EugeneW
towards a monotheist conception of Hod — Shwah
Oops, soory! Omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent. — EugeneW
Must be because I'm married 10 years today! — EugeneW
It is an opinion based on research, studies, archaelogy, criticism, done by scholars all over the world.. As such, it helps for further research. What historical elements is your hypothesis based on? — Angelo Cannata
That's an opinion. What isn't, oui? — Agent Smith
It's not, as you suppose, a hypothesis. It's a mathematical pattern: from many to one to...zilch/nada/zip/sifr/zero/cipher! — Agent Smith
Why not go the whole nine yards and adopt atheism? — Agent Smith
People wanted to know what it was, this bright object in the sky. All this only to say that the sun - like all meaningful things - became more and more meaningful as people attributed more and more meaning to it. In short, we do this by drawing correlations between the sun and other things. At some point, we gave the star at the center of our solar system a name, and began using that name to pick it out to the exclusion of all else, all as a means to talk about it. Some worshipped the sun, which is not such a far stretch for a bunch of ignorant humans seeking to explain stuff.
Quantity has never meant a change in quality. Monotheism wasn't about getting rid of many gods, it was about having a single foundation. Plato and Aristotle required a single foundation. — Shwah
Come on AS, Angelo has presented convincing documentation for his position. You are being willfully argumentative and providing no evidence. As Stephen Hawking once said "Fax iz fax." — T Clark
To some, religion gives answers to some of life's most important questions. Some of these questions, atheism has no answer for. — creativesoul
Come on AS, Angelo has presented convincing documentation for his position. You are being willfully argumentative and providing no evidence. As Stephen Hawking once said "Fax iz fax."
— T Clark
@Angelo Cannata
Please read my reply to Shwah (vide supra). — Agent Smith
This is just about the most pitiful, lame argument I've seen since being on the forum, and that's saying a lot. You should be ashamed. You're lucky they don't ban people for dumbass arguments. — T Clark
so numbers aren't involved — Shwah
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