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|    someone to kazu    |
|    Re: A Koan for our atheist friends    |
|    11 Oct 24 06:47:28    |
      XPost: alt.support.depression, alt.support.schizophrenia, alt.bu       dha.short.fat.guy       XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.philosophy.zen       From: being@apolka.sign              kazu wrote:       >Creon wrote:       >> Venus as a boy wrote:       >>       >>> Nothing will come from nothing       >>       >> Where does that come from?       >> ... snip ...       >> Clearly, he doesn't understand quantum virtual particles...       >>       >> Do you?       >       >i wouldnt say they come out of nothing.              Some theists might insist their deity creates ad nihilo       while other theists may suggest creatio ad materia       is what is used in the beginning to generate what       gets generated generation after regeneration.              Koans could be used to stop an intellect       from doing what it does naturally.              A question may emerge in terms of words.              Does an abstract noun, e.g., everything,       Being, Existence or the Universe, exist       when not reified nor set in cement.              How nebulous was the world       before it formed as it formed       given a mind sigh sailing to see.              QFTs, using mathematical languages,       might be able to graph a wave as it functions       to produce what appears to be a point in particular.              When not doing an experiment to find       any points generated when doing       a thing experimentally could be       a non-starter thing not beginning       which reminds one of the Chuang-tzu.              Beyond Cartesian modes of thought,       when not thinking whether some body, any       body exists is probably not a question pertaining       to obtaining much traction sewing two speak.              - thanx! Cheers!              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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