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Saturday, June 23, 2007 01:42 PM
Original article: Opus

Nonsequitur logic

Tree Hugger? Tree Hugger???? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Where did you pick that one from? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You've got to be funnin' me. Talk about nonsequitur. And most of your "examples" of logic are actually types of arguments used in rhetorical and oratorical argument and have nothing to do with logic except nonsequitur. Which is what you using, BTW. So try looking up Aristotle.

Basically you're saying: Massive complexity of the universe = no god or fecund universes & black holes = no god and I know what I'm talking about because I went to a university that everyone whose famous in this field did = no god. Nonsequitur. Try explaining the "=" part just a teensy bit more fully.

I'm saying: Massive complexity and "fact" that we can never know everything because we can't be everywhere, can be everything, can't experience everything, can't know what's at the end of the universe, AND what we know and how we know will keep changing and evolving and is therefore an unknown variable that = we can never know. And unknown variable is equal to an unknown variable. What I'm saying is that "God" however anyone might conceive of him, her, it, whatever, may not fit into any rule book we can conceive. God may be in the morning, or the evening or the essence of every day experience. God may be the perfection of the moment or the randomness of the universe. Maybe God is joy. Maybe God isn't sentient, at least how we think of it. Maybe we haven't gotten to a "time" in our existence where we understand the complexity of the universe to the degree that we understand God.

And you didn't state any of what you said as just an "opinion". On the contrary, you stated it as a fact! An absolute. Now you're saying that it's simply an opinion is simply backtracking.

And just because something is "invisible, intangible, elusive (eternally or not) does not mean it doesn't exist. That at least you know well from quantum physics. I hope. And what I'm talking about is way beyond your "invisible gardener" parable. Think continuity of existence. Think of the impossibility of eternity, but it exists/the impossibility of an absolute end to everything. Think of the earth as just one cell of a grander consciousness. And you perhaps get the beginning of my meaning. Sentient doesn't even go there.

Tuesday, July 3, 2007 09:53 PM

Wow!

Watch the video. Just incredible. Finally! FINALLY someone says it out loud. OUT LOUD. You ROCK, Keith! Throw the bums out of office! All of them! BUSH AND CHENEY, RESIGN! NOW!

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