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Showing posts with label pragmatic competence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pragmatic competence. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

EINSTEIN: GOD IS NOT MALICiOUS?





10 comments 

 Gareth MacLean Orkney 
Yesterday 9:35 AM 
 Efficient enough... 

 Matt Cohen 
Yesterday 10:06 AM 
 That is not an Einstein quote. 

 Martin Polack 
Yesterday 10:28 AM 
 +Matt Cohen Agree. There are hundreds of quotes wrongly attributed to AE. 

 John Fullerton 
Yesterday 11:24 AM 
 He did not believe in god, and this site will muddle our understanding of what he actually thought, because so much of it is plainly bogus. 

 Sahar Khashayar 
Yesterday 11:29 AM
 Einstein was agnostic/atheist. He never said anything along these lines. 

 Graham Van Duvet 
Yesterday 12:08 PM 
 #unfollow  

 Lawrence Cooper 
Yesterday 5:08 PM 
 Sometimes God is as subtle as a Mack truck t/boning you in an intersection 

 Pete Bingel 
Yesterday 5:57 PM 
 It is an actual Einstein quote. When asked what he meant by it he said "Nature hides her secret because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse." His use of "God" in this quote is the same use that he used in the quote "God does not play dice"  

 Khaled El Sheikh 
3:39 AM 
 yes, it's einstein's as he believed in Spinoza's pantheism, the deification of the universe.. but one ca say that he tender to believe in some power holding the parts of the universe together above that of the natural laws.. 

Jim Ed Avery 
8:46 AM 

 If GOD is for US; then WHO can be against US? 

 WHY GOD CAN OF COURSE! For WE are TIMED! 

 GOD EITHER BE NOTHING MORE THAN THE ETERNAL (from which we are exempt) AND NOT TWO OR THREE; or nothing more than an abstract thought that dies along with the last of us when no longer observers left keeping this debate alive which will come to it's end no other way...? 

 U = Pragmatic Competence; not "US" that = Pragmatic Competence 

 As all language is assumption based, there is no such thing as 100% Pragmatic Competence between any two participants in a discussion. 

 What other word could Einstein use in it's place when trying to find a common ground with those who consider themselves people of "faith"? 

 And I can't help but feel, even Jesus, IN HIS OWN THOU ARTFUL DODGER WAY, was trying to accomplish the same effect as Einstein and Spinoza...? 

 And it's quite clear to me why they all failed in accomplishing their intent? 

Just look at how many "climate change deniers" we still have with us today! 

 Worldview shapes morality; but it's intent that determines the reality.

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Son of man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia












Son of man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Son of man" is the translation of various Hebrew and Greek phrases used in both the Tanakh and the New Testament. In Judaism it refers to normal human beings. In Christianity it is a title given to Jesus. Christians also believe that the Son of Man is a prophesied spiritual divine transcendental ruler who are referred to in the Old Testament; equivalent of the immanent Christ seed, Anthropos, referred to in the New Testament.

The expression "the Son of Man" occurs 81 times in the four Canonical gospels, and is used only in the sayings of Jesus. However, the use of the definite article in "the Son of Man" in the gospels is novel, and before its use there, there are no records of its use in any of the surviving Greek documents of antiquity.

For centuries, the Christological perspective on Son of Man has been a natural counterpart to that of Son of God and just as Son of God affirms the divinity of Jesus, in many cases Son of man affirms his humanity.

However, while the profession of Jesus as the Son of God has been an essential element of Christian creeds since the Apostolic age, such professions do not apply to Son of Man and the proclamation of Jesus as the Son of Man has never been an article of faith in Christianity.

Although Son of Man is distinct from Son of God, some gospel passages equate them in some cases, e.g. in Mark 14:61, during the Sanhedrin trial of Jesus when the high priest asked Jesus: "Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?" Jesus responded "I am: and you shall see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.".

James D. G. Dunn and separately Delbert Burkett state that the interpretation of the use of "the Son of Man" in the New Testament is a prime example of the limits of biblical interpretation in that after 150 years of debate no consensus on the issue has emerged.

Three contexts

According to the Synoptic Gospels, Jesus referred to himself as "Son of man" in three contexts, each with its own circle of fairly distinct meanings. He used this self-designation of (1) his earthly work and its (frequently) humble condition (e.g., Mark 2:10, 28 parr.; Matt 11:19=Luke 7:34; Matt 8:20=Luke 9:58); (2) his coming suffering, death, and resurrection (Mark 9:9,12; Mark 14:21 and, above all, Mark 8:31; 9:31; 10:33-34 parr.); (3) his future coming in heavenly glory to act with sovereign power at a final judgement (e.g., Mark 8:38; 13:26-27 parr.; Matt 24:27=Luke 17:24; Matt 25:31-32; see John 5:27). These classifications show how the "Son of man" served as a way of indicating Jesus' importance and even universal relevance. This was especially true of the class (3) sayings. In other words, "Son of man" was used to say what Jesus did rather than what he was. It was not and did not become a title in the normal sense — at least not on the lips of Jesus himself.

At the same time, the evangelists (and/or their sources) do not always seem to distinguish "Son of man" sharply from "Christ/Messiah" or "Son of God". For Mark, the Davidic Messiah and Daniel's Son of man are one and same person, and their name is Jesus. In Mark 14:61-62, the reply that Jesus makes to the high priest's question ("Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?") conveys some glorious connotations of "the Son of God" as a figure who will come in triumph on the clouds of heaven to judge his enemies: "I am; and you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of the Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven". In John's Gospel the expression gains a very significant element, not to be found in the Synoptic Gospels under any of the three meanings listed above: the "Son of man" is a personally pre-existent figure (e.g., John 3:13; John 6:62).

Jesus' ministry

As regards Jesus himself, much debate originated in deciding whether   any or all of the three classes of self-referential sayings derived from what he said in his ministry. A few scholars have even attempted to prove that none of the "Son of man" sayings came from Jesus himself.

However, there remain good and convergent reasons for maintaining that, while there was some editorial reworking, Jesus did speak of himself as "Son of man", filled the term with his own meanings, and was responsible for the three classes of "Son of man" sayings listed above. Along with the way he used the image of the kingdom of God and that of God as Father, here a third classic example is supplied of Jesus taking an inherited expression and using it massively but in his own way.

 


Thursday, February 13, 2014

WANTED DEAD and ALIVE: SCHRODINGERS CAT

Urban Dictionary

Boner Shock
Expressions or actions performed that causes your boner to go into "shock" or go back into the flaccid stage.
That girl gave me boner shock when right before sex she said "I always forgets to take my birth control."
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"How come you never find cats playing poker in the jungle?
Too many cheetahs!"

"Ha ha.
Ha ha ha."
~(Simply Jim)~

"Well...
technically, 
cheetahs aren't jungle animals. 
They are range animals."
~(Jewish Relief Veterinarian)~

"... ah."
(Simple?Jim)

My 
Mother always said,
if you gotta explain a joke, 
it's 
just not funny anymore. 
She would have been
ROF/LHAO
(rolling on floor/laughing her ass off) 
that day had she heard
this Jewish veterinarian doing to me
what
I've been doing to her
all... MY... life!

But that was just me being the blue of a Democrat growing up as a child; didn't realize until now?   

But what about this statement/correction made 
by 
this other relief veterinarian I just happened to be working with that day?  

I saw it as a joke about...

an·thro·po·mor·phism

  
[an-thruh-puh-mawr-fiz-uhm]

noun
an anthropomorphic conception or representation, as of a deity.
Origin: 

1745–55; anthropo- + -morphism


an·thro·po·mor·phist, noun

World English Dictionary

anthropomorphism

-n
the attribution of human form or bhavior to a deity, animal, etc

anthropo'morphist
-n

Example sentences
Accusations of anthropomorphism  will fly, and we'll be urged to be parsimonious   in our explanations.
One of the first things primatology students are taught is to avoid   anthropomorphism .
Some have challenged this conclusion, calling it anthropomorphism .
Doing so borders on the scientific heresy of anthropomorphism .
In some nagging way the notion of anthropomorphism  went against biology.
Most people are scared of showing that kind of anthropomorphism .
These days artists can take a literally hands-on approach to preservation and anthropomorphism .
Adults will marvel at a witty script and utterly brilliant anthropomorphism .
Anthropomorphism  is irresistible when contemplating twin towers, as the term itself suggests.
The fact that such anthropomorphism  looks easy when it's done this well should not minimize the achievement.

mmm

Medical Dictionary
anthropomorphism  an·thro·po·mor·phism (ān'thrə-pə-môr'fĭz'əm) 

n. 
The attribution of human motivation, characteristics, or behavior to nonhuman organisms
or inanimate objects.


mmm

Did I box myself in with this particular joke?

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If you look very closely, you will see (I hope) a yellow spot at the left nare of metal door knocker my front door.

Interesting. 

Very interesting.

Well...
in addition to my frogs, do have a lion motif collection going on around my home as well.  Didn't realize this until a friend pointed it out to me. 

The lions were completely by accident.

~(Aslan!  That you?!)~


Anyway...don't see no 8-ball here; but, in the distance, my ~(6!9)~ see a two other balls looking as if they are teaming up against me.

Sure is making me paranoid! 

lol! 
he he!

Oh hell! 
Why stop there?  
Let's see...my talent supposed to be spinning concurring facts into a single narrative.

Well that person's 6th sense is made of two balls both stripe, while my is made up of one stripe and one solid. 

That's...
 CHEATING!


That would be like two conservatives ganging up unfairly against a liberal paired with a conservative.  That would be like Angel Wise and Sarah Palin paired up against me and my mother.  My mother wanting to believe she's a Democrat (maybe even a liberal); but she's not, not when compared relatively to me.  My support of their rights to be equal with men just gets turned around and used against me!

"I do believe you're  living a decadent lifestyle."
~(My Mother)~
 
"When did you start believing that, Mother?  
Immediatley before I told you about the crystal meths addiction or immediately after I told you about the crystal meths addiction?  That's not helping!"
~(Simply Jim:  One Pearl, Total Pig, Anti-Christ.)~


"I eat, therefore I hunt!"
~(Sarah Palin)~

"While's she hunting, maybe someone needs to fuck her husband good! He's certainly cute enough. Then there is Trig?  Maybe that's God's cue, they have more than enough mouths to feed.  They can quit now!  The fucking that is!"
~(Simply Jim)~

Do like that name, "Trig!"  And he's wearing a shirt with our missing(?)number...08.

"Man up !"
~(Sharron Angle)~ 
  

  

    
"Never wise one-half of two equals taking advantage the upper hand; the other able although fair, not always raising two objections."
~(Simply Jim)~



And I've learned the hard way, by accident just living in the shadows of EMORY UNIVERSITY, two liberals teamed up are not going to have much sympathy/a sense of play fair with a METHODIST FAG handicapped by his relationship with his supposedly METHODIST MOTHER, who all her life has claimed herself 2/3 Catholic and 1/3 Atheist.   And I'm beginning to believe that was just to me! She's only Methodist by marriage, and I'm Methodist by birth.  Plus, I'm also fifth generation Arkansan, at least until I purchased my home here in Decatur, descended from a Methodist minister, Rev. Alexander William Avery.

Oh how it pissed me off learning the next day, Janet Gary had beat me to my mother, calling my mother herself and telling her I had been put in jail for violating their restraining order with an email. 
Not only did the police that night mislead me into believing I could post bail myself using a credit card 1:00 AM on a Friday morning before putting me handcuffed into the back of a police car because of an email not only nothing but words but words to be true,  it's had been hours before I even had my first chance making a collect call to anyone.  And my mother's phone number was the only one I had memorized.  

Well, she already knew. Far as I'm concerned, if no one representing me from my family had a right contacting them, they had no rights contacting my mother.  The same as Bob Gary should have jerked that useless cunt of his back on her short leashed the second he realized she had gotten off it and crossed over to my side of the street that day years ago; he should have prevented her from calling my mother that night and informing her of my arrest.  But he a GOD DAMN PRIEST (MDiv.) with an understanding of HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY(ThD).  They knew exactly what they were doing.  Taking advantage of my mother's "LEARNED HELPLESSNESS."

Those conniving, 
"CUNTS!" 
 Loyal to nothing but their very own children and the "DICKS" that fucks them up! 

Well, all those years I've known Bob and Janet Gary, Bob has said nothing to make him appear two-faced.  We have said very little between the two of us.  But it is his behavior, that is making Janet and the words she has spoken to me through e-mails over the years to be nothing but hollow words that prove nothing about their faith/conviction in God.  They behaviour has done nothing but confirm even more what I began believing long ago:  Churches were nothing but GOD DAMN BLACK HOLES with every moments so scripted, 
it's nothing but living a lie.    

No wonder I have an 8-ball problem!

Poor Bert, Jr.  He may not be a  Doctor of Theology like his Father, but he did major in psychology. I suppose in reality, that make the two of them same as six and half a dozen.  

How funny.  
Didn't realize the full extent of what I was saying when I said,
"AND MOST DEFINITELY NO THD,"  
when reaching out to Bert through his blog, 
INFINITY NOW/ETERNITY IN THE PRESENT,
wanting to discuss 
SPACE-TIME-THOUGHT- THEORY.  

The 8 ball is frequently used iconically in Western, especially American, culture. It can often be found as an element of T-shirt designs, album covers and names, tattoos, household goods like paperweights and cigarette lighters, belt buckles, etc. A classic toy is the Magic 8-Ball "oracle". A wrestler, a rapper, and a rock band have all independently adopted the name. The term "8 ball" is also slang both for 18 oz. of cocaine or crystal meth, and for a bottle of Olde English 800 malt liquor. It has also been used to refer to African-Americans, particularly those of darker skin tones, as in the film Full Metal Jacket. The expression "behind the eight (ball)" is used to indicate a dilemma from which it is difficult to extricate oneself. The term derives from the game kelly pool.

Because the collisions between billiard balls are nearly elastic, and the balls roll on a surface that produces low rolling friction, their behavior is often used to illustrate Newton's laws of motion. Idealized, frictionless billiard balls are a staple of mathematical theorems and physics models, and figure in dynamical billiards, scattering theory, Lissajous knots, billiard ball computing and reversible cellular automata, Polchinski's paradox, contact dynamics, collision detection, the illumination problem, atomic ultracooling, quantum mirages and elsewhere in these fields.




















Interesting.

pink(?)ears, white(?)hair, and a black(?)nose

Very interesting.




















How come you always find the cat the last place you look?


Once you find it, you stop looking.


Dead(?)cat(?)easy(?)find!
Wouldn't take long!


 
or 
one(?)with(?)infected(?)ear!


James E. Avery, DVM