You weren't doing anything for the next few weekends, were you? ;)
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Posted on 03/03/2003 8:27:25 AM PST by general_re
I thought a new thread was a good idea, and here seems to be a good place to put it, so as not to clutter up "News". The only topic available was "heated discussion", though. ;)
If any clarification about the pictures is needed, just say so, and I will try to at least highlight the part that I am interested in for you. Remember that I'm interested in the objects or structures or artifacts being represented, so don't be thrown off if the illustrations seem abstract.
Well I don't take offense, balrog666, not at all. Just don't bolt for the door yet, okay?
Stick around here a little bit longer please. Unless you have mastered the fine art of self-insulation, such that all you are willing to go on is what you aready know, or think you know.
My happiness consists in you deciding that that is not a tenable strategy in the long run.
In any case, I'm glad to know ya, balrog666.
Are you for real?
CCWoody, in truth I did not catch your reference at all. I was using the "four-dimensional picture" in the more-or-less conventional, post-Einsteinian sense; which holds that human beings (and the rest of all creation) inhabit three dimensions of space plus one of time equals four dimensions.
You may be taking a different tack on this question. In which case, I would be more than glad to be enlightened by you. So please do feel free to write again.
Clearly designed..... but not by anything intelligent.
;-)
IMHO, that's a fact, cornelis. Without history -- cultural and personal -- we'd have no way of knowing who we are, or where we are.
That being the case, it is hardly surprising that the engines of progressive change -- historically -- have seen fit to propound any number of systems that depend on "the end of history" in order to make their case. To name names, Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx, Gramsci, and (to bring the matter up to date) Francis Fukuyama (et al.) have seemingly tried to mount their "bright ideas" of the new human civilizational order on the destruction of historical sense -- cultural and personal.
In both senses -- cultural and personal -- this exercise to my mind is akin to signing up for a full frontal lobotomy. The present makes no sense -- on either the global or personal level -- without reference to a larger context.
The personal aspect of this problem is of acute interest to me. History plays a major role (IMHO) in the development of personality. Present experience has no context absent reference to what we know of our past experience. Which can be recovered via the reliable technique of anamnesis -- recollection of memory.
Human memory is famous for its selectivity. However, a case can be made that the memory we can readily dredge up is probably the memory that helps us understand who we are as individual persons, and the kinds of contexts in which we try to find our way in existence. Anamnesis is a great well of truthful experience upon which we can draw, at will. The results that such extraordinarily luminous thinkers as Plato and Voegelin were able to achieve via the anamnetic route speak for themselves.
For some strange reason well beyond my ken, I am certain that God loves us humans -- His "sons". As improbable as that might sound. Perhaps a viable civilizational basis can be formed around this proposition. After the impending war is over, that is. If ever.
That will be the case - sometime, down the road. It is a prophecy.
Hugs!!!
There is NONE righteous, no, NOT ONE.
This verse about the state of fallen sinners is in BOTH Testaments. See if you can find it.
Well, general, my first impression was that it might be a representation of part of your bathroom remodeling project. But then I wondered why you would make your bathroom floor look like a patio.
PatrickHenry and I have both detected the apparent independent pattern. We did so independently.
Running #4 through the filter, crudely, without any mathematical calculations, it comes out as a product of intelligent agency.
There is contingency. The configuration of the "tiles" is irreducible to the natural laws governing the motion and placement of "tiles". The relative straightness of the vertical lines in comparison to the horizontal lines between the "tiles" is highly improbable, ie. too uniform to be attributed to chance, indicating a very low probability of occuring by chance. Finally, the independently given pattern match is PatrickHenry's neighbor's patio.
Designed.
Cordially,
I believe this is why super string theory asserts compactification of the extra dimensions. I do not however believe compactification is necessarily required: 5D Space-Time-Matter Consortium
Because the accelerating universe suggests a fluctuating (albeit over huge time intervals) ratio between dark energy and dark matter (cosmological constant (pdf)) - which significantly alters our concept of the age of the universe - I have become quite interested in yet another theory, the ekpyrotic model.
IMHO, the real quandary is why the dark energy we deduce from observation (astronomy) is not manifest in quantum mechanics!
Cordially,
It's the latest in bathroom design, called "turtle's back" pattern. Very stylish. And that yellow color can hide a multitude of sins, if you know what I mean.
Shhhh! DON'T say this outloud. My wife will hear it and then I'll find myself remodeling the bathroom.
Cordially,
You weren't doing anything for the next few weekends, were you? ;)
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