From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2025-06-06, Ed Cryer  wrote:   
   > x wrote:   
   >> On 5/27/25 02:35, Ed Cryer wrote:   
   >>> qbwdp wrote:   
   >>>> On Fri, 23 May 2025 10:45:00 +0100, Ed Cryer wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> https://parade.com/1185047/marynliles/philosophical-questions/   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I was surprised, thumbing through this list, to accept how many of them   
   >>>>> seem philosophical rather than scientific. In fact I got beyond thirty   
   >>>>> before I found something that I'd call scientific.   
   >>>>> 34 38 and 40 strike me as scientific.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Ed   
   >>>>   
   >>>> That is an ecumenical matter.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> -qbwdp   
   >>>   
   >>> God help us with theological, liturgical and ecumenical matters!   
   >>>   
   >>> Ed   
   >>   
   >> The Devil will lie and say that he is God.   
   >>   
   >> Then scientists will lie and say that their false ideas   
   >> are true ideas.   
   >>   
   >> The net result will be that no one will obtain benefit   
   >> from having 'true' ideas because 'true' ideas will in   
   >> fact be false.   
   >>   
   >> Then people will make up more false stuff because the   
   >> new false stuff will be as untrue as the old false   
   >> stuff.   
   >>   
   >> Then people will stop listening.  This would be   
   >> based upon the idea that the lies are not worth   
   >> knowing.   
   >>   
   >   
   > You could try and apply scientific method to theology.   
   > 1. Make a list of all major religions.   
   > 2. Pray to their supreme divinity, one by one, one per day.   
   > 3. When your life suddenly takes a turn for the best, shout yippee and   
   > thank you.   
   > 4. Stick with that one.   
   >   
   > Ed   
      
      
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