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  1. John D. Brey

    That sounds real to real is real. Rest all is illusion.

    Col. R.B. Thieme, Jr.'s Bible sermons used to come on real-to-real tape (before the invention of eight-track or cassette). I really liked them because real-to-real or not, they sounded really-real to me. The Colonel's teaching was really real. Most of the rest was all illusion. John
  2. John D. Brey

    "Judaism Has Been Hijacked."

    These comments from Rabbi Neusner aren't posted to start a debate on politics, left or right. On the contrary, they came up in the context of a number of essays on the exponential stock market rise of shares of Nvidia (the world's premier AI chip manufacturer). In various articles on Nvidia, and...
  3. John D. Brey

    "Judaism Has Been Hijacked."

    In other word: In other words, what we have here is not the organized Jewish community addressing its particular and legitimate concerns, but the circumcised sector of the Democratic Party, reviewing the party's current policy and endorsing it. . . so [that] the organized Jewish community...
  4. John D. Brey

    "Judaism Has Been Hijacked."

    Rabbi Neusner follows up his pronouncement like this: To understand what I mean, try to imagine an organization that adopts the following resolutions, and ask yourself, What kind of an organization is this? The organization resolves to actively oppose state and local referenda and statues...
  5. John D. Brey

    "Judaism Has Been Hijacked."

    . . . So says the most prolific rabbi our our time (Rabbi Jacob Neusner). John
  6. John D. Brey

    What is God's highest priority?

    Your statement implies that you are yourself omniscient since you seem to posit your statement dogmatically as though you know it for an absolute certainty. How on earth could I argue with a master-debater who feigns omniscience as one of his debaters tools. :cool: Once you pull out your ornery...
  7. John D. Brey

    What is God's highest priority?

    . . . There is if you're a happy rapist, cancer, someone who doesn't want a relationship with an omnipotent Creator, and or, who doesn't want to believe in a Creator. Are you saying there are no atheists, cancers, rapists? Or are you saying that if there are, an omnipotent God should stealthily...
  8. John D. Brey

    What is God's highest priority?

    I suspect you might be confusing "omnipotence" with "ultimate-tyranny," or "all-powerful tyrant." Which is to say I suspect that the imperfection of your six priorities is that they leave out the perfection of a seventh. Which is to say that we can suspect all six of your priorities are a top...
  9. John D. Brey

    Abrahamic Time-Asymmetry.

    This is to point out the strange situation of the travelers on the road to Emmaus: the risen Jesus of Nazareth walks and talks with them and yet they know him not? How can they not suspect what's so obvious? -----Because, as Marion points out (as does Jean-Paul Sartre before him) we can only see...
  10. John D. Brey

    Abrahamic Time-Asymmetry.

    Yes. I thought about that for a second when I composed the message. Nevertheless, in my opinion, what Missler claims as the symmetry between all 66 of these books, and the same is likely true to some degree for the Catholic 73, and the Orthodox 81, I find to be correct. And fwiw, the Jewish...
  11. John D. Brey

    Abrahamic Time-Asymmetry.

    They do not recognize him because they cannot even imagine that this is really him, He, who has rejoined them, so far do their poor, cobbled-together, honest-to-goodness concepts find themselves outstripped by “events” that leave them petrified within a matrix of irrefutable prejudices. Not that...
  12. John D. Brey

    Abrahamic Time-Asymmetry.

    The philosopher Georg Lichtenberg once stated that he wished there were a language where a falsehood, or an error against truth shown up in the grammar of the language such that there could be no gross falsehoods and errors spoken into existence. Wittgenstein's logic as found in his...
  13. John D. Brey

    Abrahamic Time-Asymmetry.

    Combining Benjamin Whorf's theory of language relativity with Ludwik Fleck's explanation for how "thought-collectives" guard their clique-oriented and hyper-subjective confirmation bias, and or or cognitive dissonance, lends itself to some extremely valuable revelations concerning the most...
  14. John D. Brey

    Abrahamic Time-Asymmetry.

    The quotations from Rabbi Hirsch and Richard Dawkins set up a duality between two kinds of cognition. In his most famous book, Dawkins goes so far as to imply that "we" can rebel against the selfish elements of biological necessity (biological evolution) and even cultural...
  15. John D. Brey

    Abrahamic Time-Asymmetry.

    We are in possession of this collection of 66 books which we call The Bible, written by more than 40 authors over several thousands of years, yet we now discover it is an integrated message from outside our time domain. It repeatedly authenticates this uniqueness by describing history before it...
  16. John D. Brey

    Did You Choose Your Truth?

    William James', The Varieties of Religious Experience, gives some really eye-opening accounts of famous conversion-experiences. The gist of the ones he narrates is that it's a painful and psychologically taxing event to convert from one fundamental worldview to another (just look at Saul of...
  17. John D. Brey

    The SelfishdeGenerate.

    We agree on so many fundamental levels. Yes, evolution is a fact. And yes arguing against facts is a recipe for falsehood. Which is why I quoted Popper. He points out an undeniable fact that's hard to fit into traditional asymmetrical theories of time and evolution. In a materialistic...
  18. John D. Brey

    The SelfishdeGenerate.

    Touche. Nice, concise, and accurate summary. Nevertheless, the idea that you can deduce from the future to the past has been the under-girding of Judeo/Christian thought from the beginning. The entire apparatus of Judeo/Christian theology both posits, and has posited for thousands of years, the...
  19. John D. Brey

    The SelfishdeGenerate.

    Since Professor Yuval Harari uses the phrase "intelligent design" throughout his discussions of evolution, I'll use our slight detour as the launching pad into the primary idea I wanted to pursue in this thread: The implication has been that, no matter what their efforts and achievements...
  20. John D. Brey

    The SelfishdeGenerate.

    John
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