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Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 12 Mar 2000 15:13:09 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> That's not all. To even interpret the sum of your experiences, you must apply
> what rules you govern yourself by to them. Now, where did you get those
> rules? What events came together to make them? From an objective standpoint,
> there were no rules except the physical laws to begin with. We have yet to
> see how -- or even if -- these laws govern personality let alone society. I
This is interesting... In one of my college english classes, I wrote a term
paper that used chaos theory & fractal geometery to argue that "Free Will" is a
contradiction of terms because, following the theory of mathematical chaos,
because the universe is 100% deterministic, so is personality formation and
therefor descision making... :) Basically, my summation was "the only freedom
of the will is freedom from the will..." I essentially said that one cannot
have both willful action and action that is free of outside influences...
Got an A- on it because the teacher couldn't understand the math :)
--Karim
PS: If anyone would like to read it... I think I still have it here
somewhere...
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| (...) I have understood that chaos theory implied that the universe was holistic and non-deterministic. That is, certain behaviors can be modeled with some degree of accuracy, but the large number of outside influences would always prevent 100% (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I thought the anti-religion stance states that the last refuge of religion is to convert people by the sword. But again, quite sarcastically, I digress... (...) But that's still subjective, isn't it? The interpretation of this data is still (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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