The Isolated Blurt Thread XLI : The Day The Cat Came Back

[spacekowboy]

I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him for a burrito.

Again, i dont know how many times i can keep offering....

 

[adrina]

I guess I'm as extremist then because I've got no time for fairy tales.


Unless they are comic books or Star Wars flicks.

So not being a gullible idiot is "extreme"? LOL

I do not embrace dogma - in fact I heartily reject it, but I do not reject spirituality. The energy of things is a proven reality. Regardless of how one wishes to interpret it.

I do not believe that makes me a fool or a gullible idiot.

If, however, one is to choose between the realities of religious extremism and atheist extremism I believe atheism is the more rational choice. I stand... somewhere in between.

 

[Sean]

I do not embrace dogma - in fact I heartily reject it, but I do not reject spirituality. The energy of things is a proven reality. Regardless of how one wishes to interpret it.

Whut?

 

[pointless]

now that is clearly thunder.

though it is possible that thor just moved into the empty apartment next door.

 

[adrina]

A decapitaed whorefaced tick.

The best kind.

There are extremists in every group. I don't think there is any contest when it comes to extremists. Just look history.

I cannot disagree. Like I said, I believe it takes emotional and mental discipline to not embrace the extremes.

 

[adrina]

Whut?

I base my spiritual philosophies on science - physics, chemistry and biology.

 

[Sean]

I base my spiritual philosophies on science - physics, chemistry and biology.

You quite obviously don't.

 

[pointless]

i don't think that's what he was "whut?'ing. i'm pretty sure is the energy of things bit.

 

[adrina]

You quite obviously don't.

I'm quite sure it is quite arrogant to tell another person what they do and do not believe based on one's own beliefs. Or lack of them.

i don't think that's what he was "whut?'ing. i'm pretty sure is the energy of things bit.

I'm sure he was.

 

[Lancecastor]

I think there's a whole lot more going on than our senses can pick up.

My dog knows when Swiss Chalet is arriving way before me, for example.

 

[Sean]

i don't think that's what he was "whut?'ing. i'm pretty sure is the energy of things bit.

Give that man a cigar.

 

[pointless]

i'd prefer a blunt, thank you very much.

 

[adrina]

i'd prefer a blunt, thank you very much.

So would I. But not just yet. Sigh.

 

[Sean]

I'm quite sure it is quite arrogant to tell another person what they do and do not believe based on one's own beliefs. Or lack of them.

I'm not telling you what you believe, I'm objecting to the characterisation of those beliefs as being based on science.

 

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[adrina]

I'm not telling you what you believe, I'm objecting to the characterisation of those beliefs as being based on science.

You are absolutely free to reject it.

It changes nothing.

 

[adrina]

Doesn't e=mc2 imply that all things with mass do have potential energy - that mass converts to energy at a known ratio?

Give the man a cigar. Or blunt. Or glass of wine.

Whatever the vice of choice may be.

 

[Sean]

Doesn't e=mc2 imply that all things with mass do have potential energy - that mass converts to energy at a known ratio?

A rock on top of a hill has potential energy. Trying to claim that energy is evidence for some kind of spiritual mumbo jumboism is bollocks of the first water.

 

[Aglaopheme]

Spirituality and reside in the absence of religion.

ETA I maybe speaking for her, but I think that is what she meant.

 

[removed9556]

 

[Richard_P_Feynman]

Doesn't e=mc2 imply that all things with mass do have potential energy - that mass converts to energy at a known ratio?

A physicist is more likely to interpret energy as having the prior ontological commitment. Mass, then, is a measure of energy in its various forms.

 

[removed9556]

 

[adrina]

A rock on top of a hill has potential energy. Trying to claim that energy is evidence for some kind of spiritual mumbo jumboism is bollocks of the first water.

Spirituality and reside in the absence of religion.

ETA I maybe speaking for her, but I think that is what she meant.

Ah, I see. That sort of energy: pyramids and crystals. I must say, I didn't read it that way.

A physicist is more likely to interpret energy as having the prior ontological commitment. Mass, then, is a measure of energy in its various forms.

Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Everything in our existence, in our reality has it.

Whether you want to look to the NA beliefs of everything being interconnected with nature as its basis or to some kind of zen buddhism.

Mumbo jumbo withstanding. Or not.

 

[HarryHill]

No more religion talk

God is good,
god is great,
he lives in the burrito
on my plate

 

[adrina]

No more religion talk

God is good,
god is great,
he lives in the burrito
on my plate

You shouldn't eat god. Probably needs some pepper if you do.