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Re: Why God keeps people in uncertainty of His existence (JP)
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Author: V
Date: Sep 16, 2008 07:43

... a God such as the monotheists claim. ....my discussion of this topic from an earlier post. http://jesusneverexisted.org/jne/forum/index.php?topic=504.0 Take care, V (Male) Agnostic Freethinker Practical Philosopher Futurist Urban Homesteader Agnostic minister of secular humanism to the mind manacled, spiritually sick, defiance based atheist. AA#2 http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk187/fookisan/victorygarden.jpg
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Re: What if: the Church had NOT condemned Galileo
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Author: spudnik
Date: Sep 7, 2008 13:24

... very evenhanded, instead of the usual dyss of Catholicism. Society was already destabilizing with the Reformation, which put many freethinkers like Galileo out of range of the Inquisition.... Francis Bacon, the greatest futurist of all time, predated Galileo. Before Galileo, Francis Bacon was already telling his king that "Scientific knowledge is national power." thus: an aether simply provides a prealistical model of the ...
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Re: What if: the Church had NOT condemned Galileo
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Author: tadamsmar
Date: Sep 7, 2008 05:07

...explanation of the Universe?  Would society have been destabilized by lack of faith in the Church and conventional social order? Society was already destabilizing with the Reformation, which put many freethinkers like Galileo out of range of the Inquisition. Francis Bacon, the greatest futurist of all time, predated Galileo. Before Galileo, Francis Bacon was already telling his king that "Scientific knowledge is national power."
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Re: Enlightenment - Instantaneous vs. Path
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Author: Janine Starscream
Date: Aug 8, 2008 10:23

... misuse of any actual powers involved but accrues bad kharma in the sense of selfishness and poor treatment of others. Increasing innate mentat abilities, or even bene gesserit capabilities (and I do enjoy the complex futuristic flavors of the dune categorizations of future humans, for practical purposes, although you could substitute any other terms if that's your game), is a great means of making actual majikal practice more effective ...
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Re: *SPOILER*: Trek XI Command Uniforms
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Author: GeneK
Date: Aug 5, 2008 18:09

... without flicker, it's still obvious to the movie audience that they are looking at a CRT, with its curved screen and 4x3 aspect ratio. That always has the feeling of quaint falseness when it's depicting the supposedly futuristic panel of some future spaceship. That was the problem with a couple of the Star Trek movies, like ST VI. They used CRTs to implement the bridge displays. No flicker, but they still *looked* ...
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Re: *SPOILER*: Trek XI Command Uniforms
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Author: Anybody
Date: Aug 5, 2008 18:04

... without flicker, it's still obvious to the movie audience that they are looking at a CRT, with its curved screen and 4x3 aspect ratio. That always has the feeling of quaint falseness when it's depicting the supposedly futuristic panel of some future spaceship. That was the problem with a couple of the Star Trek movies, like ST VI. They used CRTs to implement the bridge displays. No flicker, but they still *looked* ...
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Re: *SPOILER*: Trek XI Command Uniforms
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Author: Steven L.
Date: Aug 5, 2008 16:43

... without flicker, it's still obvious to the movie audience that they are looking at a CRT, with its curved screen and 4x3 aspect ratio. That always has the feeling of quaint falseness when it's depicting the supposedly futuristic panel of some future spaceship. That was the problem with a couple of the Star Trek movies, like ST VI. They used CRTs to implement the bridge displays. No flicker, but they still *looked* like CRTs. ...
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Author: Domino.News
Date: Aug 4, 2008 20:58

... space tourism mothership unveiled - Google's translation center: Language lessons for the Googlebot? - Futuristic 'smart clothes' fight flus, cancer - Numbers adding up for 64-bit Windows - ... information page. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10005605-93.html?tag=nefd.lede ------------------------------------------------------------------- Futuristic 'smart clothes' fight flus, cancer | CNN Tech From sensors in workout gear that ...
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Re: Emacs's M-
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Author: xahlee
Date: Aug 4, 2008 01:05

..., refreshing google group every minute. And, one day, i'll dive into the machine, the net, a digital becoming, and merge together with information as one. Further readings: Futuristic Calamity http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/20030909calamity.html Population Under The Firmament http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/20030911_populous.html Industrial Society and its Future http://xahlee.org/p/um/um.html http://en.wikipedia...
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Re: Robotopia - Tax the Robots, live free.
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Author: Immortalist
Date: Jul 30, 2008 16:17

... the truth or falsity of the claim. This is made quite clear by the following example: "Bill claims that 1+1=2. But he is a Republican, so his claim is false." It is most often referenced by futurists and science fiction writers Wankers, actually. I take it that means you concede to my point, saying that I am right and you are wrong, but you just don't like what is right? when discussing hypothetical projects of...
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