Posted on 01/07/2002 8:19:37 AM PST by dead
Pretty sad story. Sounds like an end-life crises: Mead brings everyone down (except Einstein) by not saying... really anything. And when he does --- such as when he speaks of the Schroedinger cat --- he does not show understanding of the issue. Statements like "generations of students were driven out of physics becasue they no longer could comprehend it" (to wit) are very revealing: plenty of students who wanted to be theorists "switch out" after the first year once the grades are in; he was probably one of them. I wonder whether he can even read modern theory work. Again, statements like "70 years of darkness" do not suggest he can or he has done so. I guess, he feels that ranting is his last chance to make a theory contribution.
That's an interesting point. Perhaps you've seen something. But what you're talking about here I would call the Holy Spirit. I believe God, the Father, is greater than our impression of reality and so is beyond it.
"The Timaeus takes the same view of the universe as St. Paul's observation that "we see things as through a mirror darkly," the argument Plato also makes in describing the images of visible space as like the shadows cast upon the wall of a dark cave. The problematic feature of Plato's argument (and St. Paul's) on this point, is that a rational comprehension of the fuller meaning of this was not available in any available written source until Riemann's 1854 habilitation dissertation, On The Hypotheses Which Underlie Geometry. In Riemannian physics, the real, unseen universe is a continuous manifold. The images seen in that real world, the continuous manifold, are "projected" as visible events of sense-perception into a distorted spherical mirror, such that we see the continuous manifold projected onto that "mirror" in the form of apparently discrete objects moving about in empty, Euclidean space. This "mirror", called the discrete manifold, is a subsumed feature of the continuous manifold, and exists as if it were a mirror everywhere embedded within the subsuming continuous manifold."
PP> 172-173.Will this man become president?
Lyndon LaRouche
New Benjamin Franklin House (1983)
I am a casual collector of crackpot books.
There are no problems in Gods universe. There are only flawed human perceptions. But thats no problem either, except for humans
Ah, Gnosticism. Christian Science?
It was cool to run across George Gilder again too. Thirty years ago his book, "Wealth and Poverty" changed me from a mush brained liberal to the rabid conservative I am today.
What do you accept in that regard?
I accept that God created the universe out of nothing: He said, "Let it be", and it was. That He exists totally apart from His Creation. That problems (sickness, poverty, injustice, war, etc.) are the result of man's disobedience. That God, being utterly apart from the problems is in a position to solve them (redemption). That (thank God) He has instituted a plan to do just that. Thanks for the question.
No doubt the product announcement will appear in The Onion.
I ain't.
A very brave statement, and one that I happen to agree with entirely.
This is somewhat puzzling. The Bible indicates that God fills all space, is ever present and created us in His image. If this is true, how (and why) would He be totally apart from us? And how could we (the image) be so different from our Source?
"Free will" is not the answer because God must have free will and God does not choose evil - if man is His image, man would not choose evil either.
His creation is material. He is Spirit. That sets Him apart from us.
He states point-blank that all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God, and that our sin has separated us from God. That, too, sets us apart.
The fact that we are in His image and likeness probably refers to the fact that we, too, are spiritual beings, individual, willful and able to "create" -- but these characteristics in us are measured, finite. Not so with God, who has all without limit or measure.
So, if you're right and I'm wrong, what's the upshot? My sin is that I'm God and didn't know it? On the other hand...
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