I'll add Steven King, too. He's done pleny of sci-fi with supernatural overtones. Also, I can think of a few Chuck Palanhiuk novels(my favorite right now), like Lullaby or Survivor.
I think a distinction should be made between mainstream religions and "disciplines" like Taoism/Daoism, Buddhism etc. Sure they can be called religions, but I like the term discipline because they don't perpetuate folklore and all-powerful deities. They do involve mystical ideas of life and the...
Don't sweat it, I think arguing the other side is an excersize in logic. :soccer:Plus im stubborn...
Yeah, I have to acknowledge that the theory of realtivity does not imply that anything is absolute. I definitely should have been more specific. Looking back I was dealing more directly with...
These types of expirements, that display the "uncertainty" of a particle, that particle/wave aspect, is what has believers hunting for this "God" particle. That and the crude notion that the particles pop in and out of empty space.
I'd like to see an expirement with the Hadron collider that...
Thus the superposition state of a photon. In fact, all particles are represented by a wave when you do the math. That should not be confused with the particle "not actually being there" though. I think it's interesting when they slow that expirement down, and when single photons are emitted at a...
I think, rather than the way my teacher put it, "God" is the erronous equation for the correct value we want. while 1 + 1 (God) does not equal 24, 12 + 12 does. So does 3(8) or 4 * 6, and we can "prove" all of these to be true. Equations that give us the correct value, we deem knowledge...
I found God. Here's the proof right here:
YouTube - Jesus's father was not God, it was a Thetan
Turns out it was scientology this whole time.
Well, at least since 1950.
So would it be fair to say you believe God is synonomous with energy, assuming energy manifests itself as the material universe? And would you say that "self" is a way for this material manifestation to be "realized" or "experienced" or even "observed"?
Know of any good modern sci-fi authors that incorporate some ideas of religion, or "God"? I know a few: Ray Bradbury, H.P. Lovecraft (I know they aren't recent, but they're still great) Peter Hamilton, Olaf Stapledon, Dan Simmons, Kim Stanley Robinson, William Hope Hodgson (Though I never liked...
The elementary particles are quite different from each other, as far as we know. They "MIGHT" be the same elemetary particle, in different levels of "vibration" or "energy" however you choose to imagine it, but we don't really know. We do know their mass is different, and they have unique...
So you are speaking in a very "real" sense, that he exists, just independent of the physical universe?
As in the universe only exists as a product or effect of his own existence?
also, at what level does an organism have a "sense of self"? Consciousness, which is required in order to have a...
lol what? they didn't hear you :ignore:
I try to tell my boss the same thing. If he doesn't want me to call Jesus a ****** then don't tell me to find him anymore. I don't generally even have a problem with conversations about God with people that do believe, but occasionally you meet the guy...
This is one of my favorite short stories, as I loved the "punchline". The surprise ending, whether you were actually surprised or not, I thought was very inventive and clever. If you've never read the story, I suggest you get the book, Nine Tommorows by Asimov.
If you don't feel like...
I'm looking for him because he stole a bag of weed from me. If you see Religion, you tell him I'm looking for him, and I'm going to put the fear of GOD in that $&@ hole. And tell him I want my Tool CD back too.
Yes yes :) "uncertain"
but I think this just means we need to find better ways to examine particles. Fifty years from now, even 10 years from now, maybe tomorrow, we could very well have a way to overcome the "uncertainty" principle, by using other methods of measurement. The "uncertainty" of...
I think too much meaning is given to the idea of "uncertainty". It's uncertain because our expirements effect the particle itslef. We can't observe anything without affecting it. By measuring one aspect of the particle, we change another. We can say, "There's an electron," but we can't know what...