From: oldernow@dev.null
On 2025-06-08, oldernow wrote:
> 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
Ooopsie... quit a followup, but managed to answer 'y' to
"Post?"....
AND IT'S TRUMP'S FAULT, DAMMIT!!!
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